New MouseWare

So unfair that I can't use any of these cool nifty new mice, all because I need 3 full buttons Wingman/Mouseman96 style. If only Logitech would make just ONE 3-button damnit :( Thumb buttons or side buttons don't count. The whole world is using 2-button, except I need 3-button for FPS games. I am in envy of these new devices.

Logitech Gaming Compatibility

What is it?
We have found that the Logitech assignments in MouseWare are not generally
accepted in games. Therefor we no longer provide MouseWare functionality,
(button assignments) when you are playing a game, (em_exec is disabled),
then we fully re-enable it
when you go back to non-gaming applications. This is done by detecting which components are used by the application. The main components we look for are Direct Input and OpenGL, which should cover about 80% of the games. Please note that only 5 buttons on the MX700 or MX500 can be used in games. Buttons 6, 7, and 8, can not be programmed. Look for added support on these buttons in MouseWare 9.80 (Due to the nature of software development a date is not available).

We do have the flexibility to list other components in case some very popular games don't use these libraries.

How do I support a new game?
By adding a string value with the name of the games executable file name (exe file) in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Logitech\MouseWare\
CurrentVersion\GamingCompatibility
For example: NotePad=Notepad.exe
You can try the example above using NotePad by adding this to the registry.
Then either quit em_exec by going to the run line and enter (or you can just cut and paste the line below):

"C:\Program Files\Logitech\MouseWare\System\EM_EXEC.EXE" /q

or restart the system. Then go to the control panel and restart em_exec by double clicking the mouse icon, then run notepad and you will find the you just get the native buttons, all button assignments are now disabled in NotePad. Other apps will still receive button assignments.
As new games are released, entries can be added if the game does not use one of the standard libraries or is not listed in the "GamingCompatibility" key.
We hope in the future to either offer a .REG file you can download and double click on to update the list of game entries in the "GamingCompatibility" or a easy to use utility. MouseWare 9.80 will further improve this system and will add additional button support for the MX mice.

So to recap, MouseWare will be disabled in a game if one of following things happen:
1. The game uses one of the libraries listed below.
2. There is an entry for that games exe file in the "GamingCompatibility" key in the registry.

How do I turn this scheme off?
If you are using the button assignments and did not want em_exec to be disabled while playing the game, you could do this by adding the following entry in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Logitech\MouseWare\CurrentVersion\Technical
UseLGGameScheme="Off"

You will need to quit em_exec or restart the system as described above for this to take effect.

found this quoted on HOCP: Until Logitech releases a driver that works properly, the best fix for the MX700 seems to be to set scrolling to zero lines in Mouseware, then enable mouse wheel scrolling in TweakUI. Not only does that fix the problem with games not recognizing the wheel, it also fixes the skippy scrolling that many people have complained about.

Jesus Christ.

I just spent a good hour downloading older drivers trying to undo these, looking for the last version that had the vertical scrollbar lock option. The drivers from 9.60 and up don't have that feature anymore apparently, and I use it all the time (it's nifty as hell). Too bad it doesn't work in IE or Mozilla, but it works in most applications, and is more useful than the wheel IMO.

Found a site with the 9.4.21 drivers, which are the most recent version to have that feature. I'd email logitech to tell them to re-implement it, but I know those morons are going to send me an automated response that has nothing to do with what I'll be asking. They make cool mice and useful features for them, but their tech support sucks major meat-a-ball-ehz.

I have an MX700 sitting here on my desk gathering dust waiting for them to straighten out the driver issues. Is it safe to remove my Intelliemouse Explorer and try this thing now?

OK do they or do they not fix the dame problems with mouse and wheel binds in games ??????
The MX700 looks to be the mouse to get for gamers but not with BS drivers.

These drivers kinda screwed up my mouse speed in my FPS games. I just reverted back to my old drivers. They removed MS Office Compat scroll and Scroll in active window for some odd reason.

heh i wont be installing this crap

last thing i need is that horrible 'web wheel' shit installed again

i have the mx700 and my gf has a 500
these drivers fix ALL the problems that people were having, the beat's of these didnt, ut the final ones (9.75) fix everything!

...especially when there's absolutely positively no fuckin news to post on a day like this, yes.. it's always good to update your mouse drivers...yeah

I have default MS drivers installed for my Logiech Trackball.... does this make me bad?

I heard these dont fix any of the major problems people have with the mx700 and the drivers. Oh well, stupid logitech software. I will stick to using the MS drivers.