#Smoothmouse alternative sierra drivers

Update (February 2017): we’re resuming R&D on our own and pausing the program until further notice. It’s very likely that what we need is impossible, but I’m going to try my luck and offer a small bounty- the first person who finds these solutions and sends a proof-of-concept will be awarded $500+$300+$200=$1000. The person who forwards this task to the genius who gets the bounty, will also get $50. Inject pointer movements with relative coordinates without incurring a performance penalty, breaking games and macOS accessibility features (such as shake-to-find and screen zoom).Suppress the “system driver” if necessary, i.e. prevent the events from a given device from reaching the default driver and moving the mouse pointer.Read raw x-y coordinates from connected mice and trackpads and tell one device from another.To make SmoothMouse reliably work in Sierra and subsequent releases of macOS, we need to find new ways to: The only way out is to find someone who can dig deeper than we can imagine. When you need to do something like getting raw coordinates from a mouse, you end up in uncharted waters-there’s no documentation, no code samples, nobody knows anything. We’d have to throw away a lot of essential code, yet we’d have nothing to replace it with. I mentioned that Apple had deprecated IOHID system calls, but it’s actually just a tip of the iceberg. Like I’ve said before, we can’t just move things here and there to make SmoothMouse work in macOS Sierra.

#Smoothmouse alternative sierra drivers

Now that the pointer lag is fixed in the newer versions of macOS, I was hoping our users would find other 3rd party mouse drivers more useful for they provide more acceleration controls than SmoothMouse. Some switched without any complaints-others, however, hated everything they tried. (Probably a minority, but as a someone from a minority of those who complained about the lag before SmoothMouse came out, I can relate). The discontinuation of SmoothMouse seems to have upset many people.