Tip: To disable acceleration with SteerMouse, set the Tracking Speed to 0 and use the Sensitivity setting to change cursor speed. SteerMouse costs $20 and there is a 30-day trial period for new installations.
Steermouse animation software#
I was able to fully utilize all the buttons on my Logitech G5 gaming mouse using SteerMouse, which I could not do before as Logitech’s Mac software does not support this mouse. After installation, it adds an entry into the control panel to configure settings including tracking speed and button mappings with application profile support. SteerMouse by Plentycom Systems is my personal favorite in this list. If iMouseFix doesn’t do it for you, give MouseFix 1.1 or 1.2 a try if you aren’t afraid of running console programs.
IMouseFix is based on an older version (1.0) of the MouseFix core code, though, and two updates (1.1 and 1.2) are also available that improve linear response and provides a feeling more similar to Windows XP, respectively. I’ve found that iMouseFix does make the mouse somewhat better, but the movement is still not as desirable as the other programs offer.
It is actually a GUI version of MouseFix by Richard Bentley. IMouseFix by Lavacat Software is an extremely simple program that allows you change or disable the acceleration speed. There are 1 (or 2) free and 3 paid solutions covered in this guide. Luckily, there are some 3rd-party solutions that can correct the problem, though not all of them are free. Unfortunately, OS X (as of 10.5 Leopard anyway) provides no built-in mechanism to allow users to easily change the acceleration amount or even to turn it off. This is because the default acceleration curve is S-shaped and far too steep.
The pointer moves too slowly when you move the mouse a little and too quickly when you try to speed it up. Using a mouse under OS X feels very unnatural if you’ve ever used another operating system. OS X has many great design wins, but the mouse acceleration curve is not one of them.
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