- Feb 16, 2014
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I am on my 3rd Steelseries mouse, and every single one has had problems with its mousewheel. I tried two of the Warcraft MMO mouse, and now I have the Cataclysm mouse.
Both warcraft ones were identical in problem: When scrolling the wheel at a semi fast pace or higher, some or all of the rotations wouldn't register, resulting in the screen barely moving or not at all.
The cataclysm mouse is worse. When scrolling down, no matter what speed, will randomly skip upwards. Not just one space though, it will sometimes skip as many as 5 whole clicks upward from a single down scroll.
I have tried all 3 mouses with and without their drivers from the Steelseries website, and nothing changed in the slightest. I even opened up the Cataclysm mouse to try and find the issue. There was only tiny bits of dust, no noticeable problem at all.
What is going on!? Is Steelseries just that bad at making mouse wheels? Is there something else that could be causing this? I've been able to get the these mouses from 80% off, to free, but I can't stand the glitchyness and would really like to fix this Cataclysm mouse.
(Update: There is consistency to the Cataclysm's glitch. Every 19th downward scroll causes it to jump upwards. However, it jumps upwards 3 separate times in a row, with one click inbetween being fine. In other words, the 19th, 21st, and 23 click cause it to jump upward, and then it repeats.)
Both warcraft ones were identical in problem: When scrolling the wheel at a semi fast pace or higher, some or all of the rotations wouldn't register, resulting in the screen barely moving or not at all.
The cataclysm mouse is worse. When scrolling down, no matter what speed, will randomly skip upwards. Not just one space though, it will sometimes skip as many as 5 whole clicks upward from a single down scroll.
I have tried all 3 mouses with and without their drivers from the Steelseries website, and nothing changed in the slightest. I even opened up the Cataclysm mouse to try and find the issue. There was only tiny bits of dust, no noticeable problem at all.
What is going on!? Is Steelseries just that bad at making mouse wheels? Is there something else that could be causing this? I've been able to get the these mouses from 80% off, to free, but I can't stand the glitchyness and would really like to fix this Cataclysm mouse.
(Update: There is consistency to the Cataclysm's glitch. Every 19th downward scroll causes it to jump upwards. However, it jumps upwards 3 separate times in a row, with one click inbetween being fine. In other words, the 19th, 21st, and 23 click cause it to jump upward, and then it repeats.)
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