2 mouse in one PC

[ecperez]

I'm planning to buy a wireless mouse, but as we know optical wireless mouse is not recommended when playing FPS games, so I was thinking using 2 mouse at the same time, most likely a USB mouse or PS/2. So my question is, Is it possible to install 2 mouse at a time. when I want to play games I want to Use the PS/2 mouse or USB mouse, but working ordinary software I want to use wireless mouse...

Please don't advise me to just swap mouse everytime I want to used it. all I want to know if it is possible.

Thanks.

[Dave]

Should be no problem.
I prefer using a trackball and also have a mouse installed for my wife.
Dave

[ecperez]

Thanks DaveH for the replay so its good to go to buy another mouse.

[HamsterX]

I was able to connect a serial plus a PS/2 mouse. I had to use the Add Hardware Wizard for Windows to detect the serial mouse.

But if one of the mice is USB, it should be very, very easy to have 2 mice working together.

[war59312]

i have a ps/2 mouse and a usb 2.0 mouse working right now as i speak

cya later,
will

ps: mostly for two player games

[ecperez]

ok thanks for all the info.

[redkitty]

No problem having more than one USB mouse connected but you could have conflicts between the drivers or the control panel software. That happened to me when I tried to install both Microsoft Intellimouse software and Kensington Mouseworks software. I had better luck with Logitech Mouseman + Microsoft, but basically it seems that only one control panel package can be operative at a time. You can, however, install the drivers only or even just use the Microsoft drivers. See my post in this forum:

That pesky Logitech Mouse button #4

I currently have three different brands of mouse installed on a Win98se system:
Microsoft Optical - USB
Logitech Dual Optical - USB
Kensington Trackball - PS/2

The full Microsoft drivers and software package were installed. The Logitech mouse was installed with just the Logitech drivers. The Kensington trackball was just plugged into the PS/2 port and recognized as a "Microsoft PS/2 port mouse". It works just fine with the Microsoft drivers.

I recommend you have a full system backup or at least some kind of rollback software running before you start experimenting with these multiple device configurations.

[war59312]

I just pluged both of mine in and they worked fine. No software needed.

[~*McoreD*~]

i wanna have two mouse pointers by the both mouses. is it possible?
cos i want that for DJing stuff



Last edited by McoreD at Sep 26 2002, 08:05 PM

[daMANiack]

Hi,

Optical mouses pose no problem with games, my son uses a M$ optical and loves it with his gaming.

Cheerz