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USB Overdrive - 10.4.8

driver for usb mice, trackball, joystick, gamepad

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All Time:	(4.2)
This Version:	(1.0)
Current Version:	10.4.8
Release Date:	2007-10-26
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	16,013
Downloads (all versions):	186,603
Price:	$20.00

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Product Description:

The USB Overdrive is a universal USB driver that handles all USB mice and trackballs from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on an application-specific basis. It reads all kinds of wheels, buttons, switches and controls and supports scrolling, keyboard emulation, launching and complex actions as well as all the usual stuff like clicking, control-clicking and so forth. The USB Overdrive can easily handle several USB devices at once.

What's new in this version:

This release is ready for Leopard and adds support for Bluetooth mice including Wireless Mighty Mouse.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(1.0)	Features:	(3.0)	Support:	(1.5)
Ease of Use:	(1.0)	Quality / Stability:	(1.0)	Price:	(3.0)

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Would no longer recommend this. - Version: 10.4.8, 5/4/2008 04:55PM PST

gesplus

I used to recommend this to customers. I purchased a Macally iLaser that with their software has terrible control on pointer speed, it's either slow or hyper speed on the next notch up, so I tried this. This does not work. 10.5.2 G4. It seems it hasn't been updated since before 10.5 yet it gives 10.5 as a requirement. I installed and had to do a keyboard restart and a Safe Boot. I am left handed and after swapping left and right button functions I no longer had any mouse click function.

Buyer beware.

No Longer Working in 10.5.2 - Version: 10.4.8, 4/18/2008 03:16AM PST

tuqqer

Friday, April 18, 2008:
I've been a fan of USB Overdrive for years (I posted a glowing report a few months ago), but as of 10.5.2, this utility no longer works, and the developer is not responding.

It simply doesn't recognize any mouse that we've tried with it. Normally, once you install USB Overdrive and restart your Mac, you can go into its System Pref, and click on any of your mouse's buttons, and the utility will tell you which button that is corresponding to. You can then set up any actions you'd like to that button. However, it's no longer doing this, rendering the program utterly useless.

I'm posting this to make sure others are purchasing this program, at least until they start responding to problems, and come out with an update beyond 10.4.8.

Quite useless with a Logitech G9 mouse - Version: 10.4.8, 4/2/2008 04:27PM PST

Ocker

While this version detected and was useful for my Razer Copperhead gamer mouse, it failed to recognise my Logitech G9, also a gamer's mouse. The G9 could not be configured in any way and only left me with MacOSX's default 2-button operation. It was galling when the G9 was first plugged in to have it thought of by Leopard as a keyboard with the mandatory keyboard indentification process following.

For the same shareware price, the alternative SteerMouse was a better option for both mice. I much prefer the G9 to the Razer so I was forced to uninstall USB Overdrive in favour of SteerMouse. SteerMouse's default settings are fine for the G9.

So while USB Overdrive has been great in the past it needs updating to work with newer products.