question about simulatenously(sp?) pressing few buttons on mouse

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So i use The J-Tech Vertical mouse as it helped me with pretty bad pain in the arm and gaming with it the same as with some pro grade gaming mouse! But problem/question is - so i play wow and use right mouse button for freelook and strafing - ive bind 4th and 5th buttons for spell casting, but those buttons doesnt respond untill i release mouse2button. So question is - is it like with keyboards, where cheap ones are able to press few keys in same time, but expensive ones respond whole keyboard keys at same time? Or for mouse theres some option/driver to make it work? I really dont want to go back to original mouse tho and would like to know - what should i look for when i search for a new vertical mouse - what would explain that this mouse has ability to press most keys on it in the same time?

Sorry for my english and thank you in advance!
 
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What you are saying about cheap mice not handling simultaneous buttons properly could be true, but I find this unlikely.

On a keyboard they have to deal with more than 100 buttons, so they take shortcuts to reduce the number of pins needed on the controller chip - the more pins on a chip, the more expensive. So they have keys sharing pins, which is problematic when many keys are pressed at once.

In a mouse or joystick, you (usually) don't have a lot of buttons, and chips with 16 or 28 pins aren't all that expensive, so each button usually gets a dedicated pin.

So your problems is more likely software related.
To test if it is actually the mouse, see if you can find some mouse diagnostic software that shows mouse button presses and...
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What you are saying about cheap mice not handling simultaneous buttons properly could be true, but I find this unlikely.

On a keyboard they have to deal with more than 100 buttons, so they take shortcuts to reduce the number of pins needed on the controller chip - the more pins on a chip, the more expensive. So they have keys sharing pins, which is problematic when many keys are pressed at once.

In a mouse or joystick, you (usually) don't have a lot of buttons, and chips with 16 or 28 pins aren't all that expensive, so each button usually gets a dedicated pin.

So your problems is more likely software related.
To test if it is actually the mouse, see if you can find some mouse diagnostic software that shows mouse button presses and releases.
If would be a good idea to contact the people who make the mouse and see what they have to say about it. Perhaps it's a driver issue they can fix.


 
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