It might not bother some people as much but when I'm mucking around in Photoshop or trying to accurately place a cursor accurately somewhere in the terminal or a code editor, it gets frustrating. If you're considering getting a gaming / high-resolution mouse and using it with OS X, keep this in mind. I'll have to wait until I find someone with a PC I can use for 10 minutes.
VMWARE PLAYER MAC OS X JITTERY MOUSE UPDATE
I tried forcing a driver update on the HID device, which worked but SetPoint was not fooled. VMware Fusion is finicky about reporting the true hardware device details to the OS so the mouse just appeared as a generic HID device that the SetPoint software would not recognize.
I tried getting this to work in my Windows VM but no such luck. As such, after changing that setting and connecting it to a Mac it should work properly at low speeds. The G500 and other high-end Logitech mice have internal memory and will store this setting and use it natively regardless of the host OS. Until Apple releases some kind of fix for this, a pseudo-fix that lessens the effect currently appears to be connecting the mouse to a Windows PC running the Logitech SetPoint software and lowering the polling rate there. A simple test is trying to draw a diagonal line in Photoshop at low speed. What happens is that at low speeds, the cursor becomes jumpy and feels like it moves erratically 3-4 pixels at a time in various directions. OS X feels more comfortable with a polling rate of around 125Hz. The G500 natively reports 1000 times per second. Mac OS X does not deal well with high resolution mice and their respective high USB polling rates. I realized the issue lies with OS X instead. Unfortunately, the G500 is giving me issues too.
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