Mouse going mental in UrbanTerror

[spadewarrior]

Hey there,

I'm having an odd problem with my mouse when I play first person shooters. In UrbanTerror, every five to ten minutes my mouse goes mad and causes my player to shoot/change weapons/look around like a maniac. It only lasts about three seconds and I get control back again afterwards but it comes seemingly at random and is seriously annoying, not to mention causing me to occasionally shoot at team mates!

Its a Ps2 optical wired five-button mouse. It doesn't say who it is made by, just a serial number and 'Made in China' written on it.

I have no idea why this should happen. It happened in Counter Strike: Source in Wine as well. I have no issues anywhere else; it works fine in all other applications so far.

Has anyone got any suggestions to fix this? :)

[spadewarrior]

Anyone? :)

[acoustibop]

Have you tried a different mouse to see whether it's your mouse or the game/something on your system, spadewarrior?

[Jaubsmat]

I've had problems like this before with optical mice. Try another mouse and see if it behaves.

[michaelzap]

Do you turn off Compiz before launching UT (Alt+F2 then metacity --replace)?

[Istonian]

Do you turn off Compiz before launching UT (Alt+F2 then metacity --replace)?

That is what I had to do in order to fix this same problem. I just got fusion icon and changed to metacity when i played a game like UrT.

[spadewarrior]

Doh! I didn't think of trying a different mouse. I'll borrow one off a friend or something and report back.

I'm not using compiz. I turned it off, or at least I think I did. I have selected 'None' under 'Visual Effects'. Is this what you mean?