Hello
what are the proper specifications in a mouse to work in blender and also in illustrator?
what components are needed to have “speed and accuracy” that i should consider to have a great mouse?
Thank you very much
I don’t think it really matters- the only use case you’d ever notice the difference between a 5 dollar mouse and a 100 dollar mouse is in professional gaming where every millisecond of latency counts. You should find a mouse that is comfortable for your hand to use for long periods of time, and not worry about technical specs
Being a computer mouse… You may look in any tech store to “feel” it before buying… how it feels ever day is another question…
Exept from that… @joseph for example (who just ansered) was noting that he uses a 5- or 7- button mouse (?) and there are also artists who make there own key-pads the make live easier (like @joseph also 
)…
… and some are just fine with every standard mouse… because they use there tablet(-display-extra-computer)…
For example the color of light it emits…
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I just have a cheap 5 button mouse, it was 5 dollars and it works great 
no lights whatsoever. I do also have a custom built Blender input controller, but that’s a different beast (and it’s currently broken, I need to take it apart and re-solder it):
That has five buttons, four dials, and two indicator lights… but I’m way off topic now, so I’ll stop
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Red allover !! … a bit too agressive… or di dyou saved the mouse from the trap… ??
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I was going to ask how exactly Reverb, Delay and Chorus works in Blender.
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Hahaha great, you just might get into trouble at the airport.
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2 round ears, long tail, beady eyes, long teeth and nicely groomed fur!
Seriously, I highly recommend a tablet even a cheap Wacom (and a pen with 2 buttons, one for middle and one for right click).
I’m really off-topic here, so I apologize to OP, but I might as well share: one knob changes the active camera, pressing it (each knob is also a button) switches in or out of camera view. One knob changes frames- pressing it switches the change rate between 1, 2, or 10 frames. One changes the active editor, pressing it switches to the 3D viewport. The last changes situationally- I usually have it for media controls, but it can also be to switch between tools in sculpting.
It was the electrical tape I already had and I was too cheap to go get some black tape
Yeah, I never travel with homemade electronics. TSA hates me enough already, in high school I always flew with a passport instead of a driver’s license for domestic flights (I didn’t have a driver’s license) and I always got selected for “random” screenings 
And yes, back on topic, having a tablet is awesome 
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I HAVE A PROBLEM HERE:
when I open videos, both in chrome and in MPC, the mouse is shaking / sluggish.
do you think it could be the mouse?
even with it getting slow only with video rolling?
how can i fix this?
I already updated the mouse and video card drivers and it didn’t work
my mouse is : logitech G402
thanks
sometimes it is just dust and grime on the sensor, try to clean it.
Also sometimes the surface you are using, a clean mouse pad can help.
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I already did that and it didn’t work
You probably don’t have enough RAM to watch videos without lag
I have here RAM 16Gb
always worked normally
Your mouse isn’t an intelligent device- it’s just an input device. If you only see lag when watching videos, the problem is somewhere in your computer- the mouse has no way of knowing what the computer is doing
see well:
Mouse shakes when watching videos.
the video passes without any problem.
Could this be dust on the video card?
thanks
Highly unlikely that its the mousedriver. Can you post the status of the graphics features in chrome? Enter this in your browser and make a screenshot
chrome://gpu
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No that looks ok.
Do all videos make the mouse lag or a specific video format or resolution?
If you additionally open the taskmanager, what the cpu usage in the graphs tab?
Some apps have trouble when the mouse has a high poll rate (>125Hz) under certain conditions.
Since neither Blender nor Illustrator exploit the benefits of raw mouse input, nor apply any non-linear speed transformations such as mouse acceleration, using a cheap mouse with a low poll rate is fine.
You can check your poll rate here: https://zowie.benq.com/th-th/support/mouse-rate-checker.html