Screw you Setpoint Drivers!!!!

[leeland]

I am at my ends wit on this one...I have a MX518 gaming mouse and installed the latest drivers. Halfway through it gives me the Windows File Protection error message...I hit cancel install the drivers and it completes.

Go into BF2 and the sensitivity buttons are not mapped correctly...the doc switch button is the speed increase and the speed increase button is the decrease sensitivity.

Works fine in windows like it is supposed to do...

Any way to get this working? I have tried several earlier versions of the drivers and nothing is working...

Any help would be appreciated...cause this is pissing me off lol to no end

 

[eplebnista]

curiosity bump

 

[Somedudenamedryan]

Wierd. What is the exact error message. Look at this MS article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539. A lot of the time drivers are installed several times. Nuke 'em all(mouse drivers) and reinstall.

 

[Smilin]

Are you getting WFP errors outside of driver installation? Reboot then check your system event log for wfp events. If you are you need to do a SFC /scannow while having your source and service pack CD in hand (there is also a kb article out there on how to modify the registry source path to point to a share/folder rather than use the CD if you would like).

If driver installation is truly kicking off WFP then that is some *shiiity* drivers you got there. They are trying to replace a system file with one of their own, or are indicating they are signed but have invalid signatures. Basically they are attempting to shove your computer into Windows 95ish DLL hell that doesn't happen any more these days.

Wow. Bad, bad stuff. BAD stuff.

go to the OEM and see if they have a kbase, readme or some documentation regarding what nutbag procedure they want to use. You might also try just grabbing the .sys and .inf files from the driver kit, throwing them in a folder then using device manager to manually update the driver. Point it to the folder where you dropped those files.

 

[Aolish]

i just use the xp drivers. nuff said. lol... a mouse driver that clocks in at 50 megs is just pure nonsense imo. Just use the xp driver and your good to go.

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: Smilin
Are you getting WFP errors outside of driver installation? Reboot then check your system event log for wfp events. If you are you need to do a SFC /scannow while having your source and service pack CD in hand (there is also a kb article out there on how to modify the registry source path to point to a share/folder rather than use the CD if you would like).

If driver installation is truly kicking off WFP then that is some *shiiity* drivers you got there. They are trying to replace a system file with one of their own, or are indicating they are signed but have invalid signatures. Basically they are attempting to shove your computer into Windows 95ish DLL hell that doesn't happen any more these days.

Wow. Bad, bad stuff. BAD stuff.

go to the OEM and see if they have a kbase, readme or some documentation regarding what nutbag procedure they want to use. You might also try just grabbing the .sys and .inf files from the driver kit, throwing them in a folder then using device manager to manually update the driver. Point it to the folder where you dropped those files.

I have tried a couple of different things and I am only unsure of one thing. I made a slipped stream xp2 disc with nLite...so I am not sure if that is "affecting" how these drivers are installing. I am not sure I can extract anything from these logitech setpoint drivers as they are an .exe file.

I am pretty friggin irritated that you have a kick ass mouse that has all this functionality, but the damn drivers suck cock. I looked into disabling WFP but holy cow is that a complicated brain surgery operation, modifying the registry, using Hex editors...

the thing that is probably most irritating portion of this whole deal is the fact that it "technically works" but the buttons are miss mapped when I am in a game like BF2.

EDIT: I haven't gotten the error message with any other software, and yes I would imagine that these drivers are attempting to modify something that they shouldn't. I have tried it both ways...canceling the WFP error message and installing the drivers...and also just having the windows xp disc in and allowing it to "apparently" correct the driver install which I guess basically nuke the install causing my end problem.

I also followed the clean driver install directions from logitech with no help...


The last resort I might have is basically re-installing the OS "without XP2"...installing the drivers and then doing the xp2 install...

 

[Somedudenamedryan]

Well...I'd get a proper XP sp2 cd just in case. And try a repair install first.

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: Somedudenamedryan
Well...I'd get a proper XP sp2 cd just in case. And try a repair install first.

That is most likely what I will attempt to do...thanks for the advice guys!

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: leeland

Originally posted by: Somedudenamedryan
Well...I'd get a proper XP sp2 cd just in case. And try a repair install first.

That is most likely what I will attempt to do...thanks for the advice guys!

I believe this may be one of those cases where a repair install won't help much. Repair intentionally does not touch 3rd party registry entires. If you're going to do it, use the uninstaller from your OEM before attempting the repair. With a touch of luck it will put you back at just default mouse drivers and you can try the 3rd party drivers again.

Definately don't try to disable WFP for this. If something is triggering WFP then you *want* WFP to kick in. Sh1t should not be touching the files that WFP monitors. Ever.

Either I missed it in your post or you didn't check... Do you see any WFP events in your system log just after a normal boot when not doing anything with the drivers? If you do then the driver issue could be a symptom of a problem rather than the cause.

 

[rgallant]

I have a MX518 and found the set point drives 3.3 want to control my microsoft key board
when I only want the mouse only drivers, I found going back to the 2.3 on the CD the option to install mouse only seems to work, even if key board is still reported as a Logitect,
but they seem to play together ok.