Well, that worked for about 2 days, then mouse driver would drop mousepointer completely, in the game as well as in windows after game was shut down.
Went up to logitechs website and found out how to extract the mouseware software, this allows you to update the driver from the setpoint version to the actual mouseware version.
Two things happened when I did this, first the mouse works the way my old microsoft mouse did, middle button, zooms, tilts and rotates game. Second, and honestly I didn't think it was a mouse control issue but here it is.
I have started and played 10 games ranging from med to huge and from 2 to 8 opponents, each time I would send out my ships to find planets they ALL were rated 0, every one within my travel range were this, after the ninth game I did get a couple of 4's and 5's, even one 11. After updating the mouse driver to the mouseware version, the first game I started had an 18 in the next galaxy. Settings in the game start window were set to abundant and tight clusters for habital planets.
Driver version for mouse is now 9.79.0.0
Again, I have no clue why it would change after installing only the mouse driver but it did.
To extract the mouseware drivers use Winzip to open the exe file and choose a directory to extract to, something like c:\temp\extracted mouseware. Then right click on my computer, select manage, then hardware. Note: when I first looked at the drivers installed there were 2 of them, on HID by microsoft, then the MX310 logitech driver, Remove the HID compliant mouse drivers, right click on the MX310 listed and select properties, then update driver. Walk the wizard through until you get to the listing of drivers, select I have a disk, point the program to the expanded mousware directory and select the 2kclean driver and let it install.
Mouse speed improved at least 30% in game, including side scrolling and i have not had any more issues with mouse configuration or losing the mouse pointer.
