G5 owners...

Sindri · 21 Jun 2010 at 12:22

Recently noticed a sensitivity issue with my g5.

Am I right in thinking the red laser sensor usually goes brighter when it detects movement and dims down after a period of rest?

Are problems with the lasers a common fault?

jbs · 21 Jun 2010 at 13:28

A laser mouse does not have any visible light and my G5 certainly never showed any light. You are thinking about optical mouse that shows a red light to track movement.

Azza · 21 Jun 2010 at 13:31

jbs said:
A laser mouse does not have any visible light and my G5 certainly never showed any light. You are thinking about optical mouse that shows a red light to track movement.

This.

You are either seeing red lights or you don't have a G5. :confused:

Sindri · 21 Jun 2010 at 15:23

I have a g5 and i can see the red laser. Just couldn't understand why the sensitivity switched to really low when i was gaming - pressing the on the fly dpi buttons made no difference either.

stulid · 21 Jun 2010 at 15:25

the G5 has a set of back lit weights in the base, your just seeing this?

jbs · 21 Jun 2010 at 16:02

You do know of course that you can switch the sensitivity by using the two buttons at the top? You can change by how much through your set point software. Also depending on settings in games etc. your sensitivity might be different in games than in windows.

As stulid said there there are back lit weights, but the laser itself is not visible.

Sindri · 21 Jun 2010 at 16:40

As i said before, the sensitivity switched from its normal setting to incredibly low completely at random when playing a game.
I hadn't caught any of the dpi buttons as even when i pressed them they made no difference to it's responsiveness.

Can the people who believe the laser isn't visible please pick your g5 off the desk and gently rotate it while looking down the sensor hole? That isn't a backlight for the weights, its a piercing red colour which can only be the laser.

stulid · 21 Jun 2010 at 16:46

Sindri said:
As i said before, the sensitivity switched from its normal setting to incredibly low completely at random when playing a game.
I hadn't caught any of the dpi buttons as even when i pressed them they made no difference to it's responsiveness.

Can the people who believe the laser isn't visible please pick your g5 off the desk and gently rotate it while looking down the sensor hole? That isn't a backlight for the weights, its a piercing red colour which can only be the laser.

mines has no colour, all there is, is a bit of light seepage from the weights slot

Scooby_WR1 · 21 Jun 2010 at 19:16

I have a g5 and you can see the laser but you really have to look hard for it.

setter · 21 Jun 2010 at 19:32

Scooby_WR1 said:
I have a g5 and you can see the laser but you really have to look hard for it.

Yep, same on my G500, it is extremely faint though.

Sindri · 21 Jun 2010 at 21:50

Scooby_WR1 said:
I have a g5 and you can see the laser but you really have to look hard for it.

setter said:
Yep, same on my G500, it is extremely faint though.

Finally, other people have noticed it too.

All i wondered was if it's meant to be this faint as I wondered if the reason the sensitivity settings were knackered were due to the laser not working properly.

stulid · 21 Jun 2010 at 21:53

im in total darkness here, and theres nothing from my G5, just the weights slot glow

Nickson · 21 Jun 2010 at 22:29

As above, cannot see a thing!

stulid · 21 Jun 2010 at 22:35

even when i put the mouse bottom near the palm of my hand, in darkness, theres nothing

Scooby_WR1 · 21 Jun 2010 at 22:45

stulid said:
even when i put the mouse bottom near the palm of my hand, in darkness, theres nothing

I did not mean that you can see the laser on other surfaces what i meant was that you can actually see the laser if you look into the lense on the right side where it says laser you have to move the mouse about a bit to find it though

Liampope · 21 Jun 2010 at 22:50

Personally, folks, I wouldn't try too hard to look at a laser. It's bad for you.