Magic Mouse "jerks" playing bubble shooting games

How do I reduce the sensitivity when I am using my Magic Mouse while playing bubble shooting games. When I aim and then press on the mouse to shoot the mouse will jerk just from the inertia used to press on it. Very frustrating.

Hello SABCA,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse: How to adjust double-click and scrolling speed in Lion
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4930
From the Apple () menu, choose System Preferences.
From the View menu, choose Universal Access.
Click the Mouse & Trackpad tab.
For Magic Trackpad, click Trackpad Options to show these slider controls:
For Magic Mouse, click Mouse Options to show these slider controls:
Adjust the sliders to your preference for double-click and scrolling speeds.
Best of luck,
Mario

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Magic Mouse lag issue.. new insight

Hey guys, as many of you i've purchased new magic mouse and been having problems with lag, and unresponsiveness.. I own a 24' imac which i bought a month before the latest update.. This whole situation is so bad for me that it really renders the mouse useless. However, i did find out few interesting things.. First off it only happens during the time HD is working overtime... For example if i am using apps that load up the cpu after a while it will start to lag. As soon as i turn them off, it all back to normal.. Games as well.. I recently tried to play world of warcraft with the mouse and it worked fine until the game made the imac go into overdrive and fans began spinning fast. The mouse started acting up again.. And most recently I realized it lags like **** when my time capsule is doing a back up.. As soon as time machine finishing working its all back to normal.. Very strange.. still no fix but that's what i could figure out so far.. Try it and see if you have those same symptoms.

A quick update to the jumpy mouse saga:
After a year of problems with a jumpy mouse (see videos below) *I purchased a Magic Mouse to see if the Magic Mouse would solve the jumpiness issue. It did but the tracking speed was very slow. Therefore, I installed MouseZoom to increase the tracking speed. After installing MouseZoom I started noticing the jumpy mouse problems again.*
_*This finding is very interesting!*_
_*It implies that the faster the mouse movement the more likely one is to see an erratic mouse with the pointer making unrequested jumps around the screen.*_
My hypothesis is that the operating system or processor is not allocating enough resources to the mouse if the tracking speed is set to a high level.
_*The "jumpy mouse" problem seems to be far worse when the hard disk is running - either copying or downloading a large file*_. Some users are reporting that watching a high resolution flash video will also cause the mouse to skip and jump.
I have tried three routers (two linksys, one Airport Extreme, three bluetooth mice, unplugging all peripherals still the same result.
I am certain the problem is software related because the same exact mice work perfectly in Bootcamp 2.1 and Bootcamp 3.0 in Windows XP SP3.
_*Youtube now has two videos showing the problem*._ You can view the videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxLY3-pH-rs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBzisliiVpg
If you are suffering from similar problems may I suggest three actions:
* Use the Quicktime X screen recording function to record a video of the problem.
* Post the video to YouTube.
* Contact Apple Care and share your video problem description with them.
* Send a note referencing the video and description to www.apple.com/feedback
Category: Mac OSX Feedback
Feedback Type: Bug Report
Feedback Area: Peripheral/Device Support
I will update this video to let you know if the problem has been solved. I am hopeful that Apple will be able to find the source of the problem and solve it quickly. I really like my Mac and I can hardly wait for the problem to be resolved.
Here is hoping that 10.63 will resolve this issue once and for all!

HT204387 iPAD mini iOS 6.1 can pair keyboards, why not the Magic Mouse?

I need to access a site that requires click & drag with my iPad Mini. Has anyone figured out a work-around to get the MAGIC MOUSE to pair with the iPAD Mini? I am having trouble understanding why it won't pair. Can Apple make an update to iOS 6.1 to include the MM? It already can pair many other Bluetooth accessories, why not mice?

Thank you KPenguin. I understand now, though I still can't 'click & drag' items in Kano games. The 2 second hold that works for rearranging app icons doesn't seem to work. Guess I'll be returning my new MMouse, which is a shame. I was looking forward to playing around with all it's cool features! :)
Note to self: Mouse needs active cursor to work! Haha (it's a duh moment here!!) o.O

Magic Mouse spontaneous rotation

Hi.
My Magic Mouse works fine except for a couple of situations. The problem happens while playing video games (Spec Ops, Sanctum 2, Metro: Last Light), all first person shooters. From the moment I begin the game, the mouse starts moving left infinitely. It happens on menus and during game, which makes the game impossible to play from the first second. I tried the same games with my Playstation 3 controller (and the magic mouse off) and everything was great.
All the games that this happen with are from Steam, but I also play other first person shooters bought on Steam (L4D2, Portal, Team Fortress 2) and everything works great. It only occurred on first person shooters so far. I also play Civilization V and there's no problem either.
Any hints on how to solve this issue?
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Telmo

We need far more information.
Has it previously scrolled horizontally? Is the fault restricted to certain browsers or program facilities? What machine are you using it on? Has this problem appeared following an OS upgrade.

Erratic Magic Mouse (jumps accross screen precisely every second)

The title sums it up really. Every second (on the second) the cursor will jump very slightly on the screen. Probably only about 2 or 3 millimeters. It's annoying, but it's not a huge deal.
What IS a huge deal is when the mouse decides to jump the cursor to a random point on either of my two screens. Extremely annoying especially if the second screen isn't even turned on and it jumps over there.
What I've noticed is that it seems to do it more frequently when there is a higher load on the system. With a 'normal' workload (internet browsing, skype, listening to music etc) it will do this big jump approximately every minute. But when there is a high load, like when I'm trying to play a game it will happen every couple of seconds, rendering most games totally unplayable! (The number of times my character has ran off the edge of a cliff because of this is maddening).
Now here's the thing, I took my iMac and Magic Mouse to my local Apple Store and wouldn't you know it, nothing happened. It behaved itself perfectly. But they were very good and swapped my old Magic Mouse for a brand new one out of a retail package anyway. Happy, I bring it home and immediately it's doing it again exactly as before with the brand new mouse!
My iMac is the 2010 27" Core i5 version upgraded with 12gb of ram, in case any of that is relevant at all.

I don't believe this. I've just spotted this post by user Ratzelda. He says that it's an issue with having dual (or multiple) monitors connected but powered down. I hadn't noticed any change in the mouse's behaviour when using the second monitor, but out of curiosity I just switched it on and sure enough the mouse is behaving normally now!
That explains why the mouse didn't respond erratically when I took the iMac to the Apple Store, because I didn't take my second display with me.
It seems like this is a known issue, and yet no patch has been released by Apple to fix it? Having to continuously run both monitors when it's not needed seems very energy inefficient to me. What is Apple playing at?

Magical Mouse

I'm having some issues with my magic mouse, on my iMac in SL 10.6.5
It jumps at random to somewhere, while I'm trying to point to a file or application.
Due to this, I start accidentally applications from the Dock, for example.
Resizing windows is also a problem, or playing games where it comes to close pointing with the mouse.
I've tried several mouse pads, but none seems to resolve this. Next to that.. Apples states that the intelligent magic mouse should be operating on nearly every surface.
The most magical thing is... It works perfectly in windows 7 with bootcamp on the same iMac.
(MagicPrefs does also not resolve this).
Any one knows of this, encounter the same, and or knows a solution, without saying I need to buy another mouse?
It's a jumpy , mouse pointer within Mac OS X on my iMac 3.06GHz Intel Core i3.
And then.. I've tried a logic optical wired usb mouse.. and it had the seems issue. The mouse pointer jumps around at random, to random places on the screen.
I'm not using WiFi, and other bluetooth devices work properly.
Many thanks in advance.

Hello.
Try creating a new user or signing into a different account and see if it happens on that seperate account.
If it doesn't jump/skip around on a different user then we know it's a software issue with your account. You'll have to perform an archive and instal and if that doesn't work then an erase and install.
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Ben

Woes With the Magic Mouse...

I am a proud new owner of an iMac 27 Inch computer. Everything is working flawlessly, except for one thing. I have had the computer for maybe two days, transferred all the info from my old iMac.
Recently, I was playing World of Warcraft when the game froze on me and forced me to power down the computer. Upon rebooting my computer, I noticed the mouse cursor speed had been set to an ungodly speed, and the cursor was zooming around the screen like crazy. I nearly had to set the tracking speed all the way down for it to be tolerable. Afterwards, I also noticed that my scroll features on the mouse were no longer working. I opened up the preferences to check and see what was wrong, and now my Mouse Preferences window doesn't even recognize it as a Magic Mouse, but a standard wireless one.
I want to get the Magic Mouse back up and working, but I have no idea where to go from here. As far as I know, I have all the drivers installed and working, am up to date with Snow Leopard 10.6.4, but the mouse is not being recognized as anything but a standard wireless.
Please help.

Hi m:
There are several things you can try (more or less one at a time) to try to fix the problem.
1. Run repair disk from your software install DVD.
2. Trash a preference file (com.apple.bluetooth.plist) and restart.
3. Reset the SMC:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
4. Reset PRAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
5. Go to system preferences>bluetooth and delete the mouse. Restart and see if it is discovered as a magic mouse.
6. If everything else fails, reinstall OS X 10.6 from your software install DVD (over your existing system) and then run software update.
Barry
Message was edited by: Barry Hemphill

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