I can't seem to use the fourth and fifth on my newly purchased and already much-beloved Razer Deathadder mouse in VO. When I try to assign a function to them, nothing happens.

Unfortunately, the Deathadder has no Mac OS X drivers. Normally, this is not a problem, as most of us mac users do most of our serious gaming in Windows XP anyways (where drivers are available), or use USB Overdrive to get full mouse functionality in OS X.

However, I'm a bit memory-cpu-hog-paranoid these days, and try to minimize running processes on my computer. Therefore, It would be lovely to be able to use the Deathadder with VO in OS X without having to use USB Overdrive.

Is there a way to get VO to recognize the fourth and fifth mouse buttons in OS X without first using a third-party app to assign keystrokes to the mouse buttons?

should be a way.. most other games I play, recognize all my usb mouse's buttons just fine.. some dont, but most do. tbh tho, I've never tried it in VO.

But, it seems to be a game limitation, not an OS limitation, since other games (including 1 MMO that shall remain nameless) recognize my 4th and 5th buttons...

I coded VO to support up to 11 button mice if the mouse driver properly sends the mouse events. I don't use the generic HID input, I use the OS's mouse events. According to one review of that mouse, they said OS X drivers are not very good.

The Deathadder actually has no OS X drivers at all. It's not a problem normally though, as the rest of OS X recognizes the fourth and fifth buttons. It's just VO that is refusing to work with them.

Do you know if there is any way to make the mouse send the proper events without resorting to third-party applications (that run in the background and steal my already meager amount of memory. 1 GB just doesn't do it for me anymore)?

I just tried my 5 button logitech Mx510 mouse and it recognized all the buttons.
I don't know of any apps to do what you need, though.
I think it is possible to write one that continuously polls the mouse via HID drivers and interject a mousebutton event to the system.

I could not for the life of me explain why, but suddenly, my fourth and fifth mouse buttons are recognized by VO. Perhaps it had something to do with installing, trying, and uninstalling both USB Overdrive and Steermouse (though no daemon from any of those apps are running in the background).

Anyways, thanks for the help, raybondo. Glad I did not have to stumble into the unknown territory of building my own mouse recognition app ;-)

@break19: Admit it! It's EVE Online! Traitor!

Heh. Eve doesn't have a mac version (yet).
I assumed he was talking about WoW.

Heh, yes, I know it doesn't. But macs have a windows version ;-)

Not this mac: ibook G4, 1.42ghz - and yes.. it was wow.. note the *was* but also Enemy Territory, Rainbow 6, and Unreal Tournament 2004, all recognized all of my generic (read: $20) USB mouse's buttons..

just plug in, and go.

drivers? I dun need no steenkin drivers!@!

I'll see what I can do about using the HID mouse buttons. I just hope I don't break mouse input by doing that.