CuppaManga

If it makes you feel better, I believe the orange hand cursor is a clue.

During early Mac beta the cursors had reversed RGB, and there were also issues with the mouse cursor jumping around.

At one point, both the cursor color and the cursor reliability issues were fixed, but then they both came back with this latest build. My guess is they switched code branches and ended up with some older code. At least I hope so, because that's easier to fix.

The 950 isn't *officially* supported because it has texture problems due to incomplete OpenGL implementation (that's why you see broken/missing textures). BUT, the mouse bug isn't related to that, so once it's fixed for the GMA 3100 it should work correctly on the 950 as well.

If you send a petition and you have a 950 it'll tell Support how widespread the problem is but you'll probably get a blowoff response.

Btw, as an aside: Whenever the next Mac client comes along it'll probably be on the Training Room first for a while. It would be very helpful if a few Intel GMA users volunteer to test it before it publishes to live.

The problem is specifically with the Intel GMA 950 and 3100.

Update to 10.5.8 via Software Update.

Try rotating to the left or right slowly (using Q or E) while you click. It doesn't really fix the problem, but it makes clicking more manageable.

Also, I'd like someone with the Intel GMA to experiment with setting their game to 800x600 or 1024x768 and switching to windowed mode (to avoid stretching), since that's a standard "square" resolution. Since most Macs and monitors are widescreen these days, I suspect the aspect ratio correction interacting with the mouse location may be the problem.

I could probably test that but I have to borrow the Mac Mini I tried yesterday and I don't have access to it right now.

As an off-topic aside: The devs haven't really seen the flood of posts on this issue yet, as they're on Pacific time. Once they do, they'll probably have to meet with each other first and discuss what to tell us players so they're not all posting at once saying different and confusing things. Then they talk to QA and see if they can duplicate the issue and formulate a workaround (which is far more useful than a "we know the problem exists"). After all of that we'll hear from them somehow.

P.S. Aspect ratio is the difference between the height and width of the screen, and is used to keep objects on-screen from stretching out of proportion. If the mouse is obeying a different aspect ratio than the video, you'd have it shift wildly every time a selectable object switches orientation, similar to what it does now.

If your Mac has Intel GMA video you're going to have problems clicking things until a fix comes along.

Macs with nVidia video work great. I had it tested with an nVidia 8600, 9400, and 9600 so far.

All except the nVidia 8600 were using Snow Leopard (the 8600 was using Leopard 10.5.8).

That's a known issue for a while now.

Yes, with the keyboard. I tried CoH for Mac on a Mac Mini with Intel GMA video, and Snow Leopard installed, and experienced the mouse bug.

I discovered that if your character is rotating, the mouse jump bug will occur, but in the opposite direction you're rotating. Because the camera is moving the opposite way, you don't notice the jump quite as much, and it increases click accuracy. It's a little weird and difficult to get used to, but it works.

I don't yet know if adjusting Tracking Speed or something similar for the mouse will help.