I have a Tesoro Shrike v2 gaming moose that has been serving me well for over 2 years now and other than the rubber grips coming unstuck, it's flawless, accurate and comfy. However I've recently tried installing the driver provided for it by tesorotec, the driver is pretty bare bones but it does provide some customization like adjusting polling rate, liftoff distance button remaping, led colour switching which was desirable. What was absolutely not desirable was the mouse acceleration it also introduces. So I've uninstalled the driver, removed any registry references i could handily find for it and I've used mouse acceleration registry fix for windows 10. The acceleration remains, the led also still has the colour I've set for it..so the ghost of the driver still haunts me. Any tips on how to return my mouse to it's prior state? Should i try uninstalling the windows drivers like HID-compliant mouse and other in the Human interface device category? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
From what I can find, it's a laser mouse, which means the acceleration is native to the sensor. No magical driver or lack thereof can fix it.
Regardless, every mouse WILL have some acceleration, even 'optical' mice, even my Logitech G502. There is no magical unicorn of mice that I'm aware of. Best thing you can do if you're gaming, like in an FPS for instance, is to turn the DPI down and give your arm plenty of space to move. that'll give you much better control and accuracy than a lack of acceleration.
As for the driver ghost... it has an onboard processor and bank of memory, meaning it saves whatever settings you applied for it onto the mouse. Try installing the driver, resetting the mouse to factory defaults (however you do that) and that should set you straight.
It may store settings internally on the mouse. Like my steel series does and if it's like that you will have to reset it to defaults.
Well that was easier then i expected. I did as suggested, i reinstalled the driver software and there was indeed a reset option. Worked like a charm. Thank you both!