Gaming Mousessseseses
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Awesome, first-hand experience is always best.
Can that be completely turned off?
I would assume when they're so proud of having 637242.43277432642 kilobillion colors they also have "turned off". But I've made assumptions like that in the past and been wrong.
I use an alarm clock that has a "if you wave your hand vaguely in front of the clock, it snoozes the alarm" feature. You might assume that if a person doesn't want that (say they snooze on accident all the freakin' time), they could turn it off. You would assume wrong. I had to put electrical tape over the sensor.
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I'm currently using a G700s. I like it.
EDIT: one thing I forgot to add: IT HAS A CORD. I do not want a mouse with batteries. If it has batteries, it must ALSO have a cord suitable for being plugged in 100% of the time.
It has this. It also comes with an Eneloop, so if you want to chuck that in your pile of rechargeable eneloop batteries go right ahead.
It looks like it has the sideways clicking scrollwheel, can you confirm? That's huge for me. Otherwise, mouse3 is totally useless to me.
Both sides click. Middle, right, and left mouse wheel click are customizable.
Also I am a disgusting slob who frequently eats at my computer, so if it's durable in the face of crumbs and food slime, that's a plus.
The scroll wheel has some nastiness on the edges of the rubber but otherwise fine.
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Also, do you want your scroll wheel to fly if you want. This has a button to turn off the click stops when you need to scroll for ages to get to the bottom of a
documentdiscourse threadany infiniscroll page
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MOUSE REVIEW CORSAIR M65 RGB!!!!!
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The scrollwheel DOES INDEED CLICK SIDEWAYS (but unlike my RAT5 which clicked to the LEFT, this one clicks to the RIGHT. OMG OMG OMG OMG)
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The weight feels about right and it's comfortable to grip, although the texture they use on the thumb area is going to take some getting used to. It's very textured.
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The real-time DPI setting (which, BTW, is in an identical position to the one on the RAT5 and toggles in the exact same way) uses the colored LEDs to indicate what DPI is set, which is kind of cool. (The RAT5 used a cellphone signal bars in red LEDs to indicate.)
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The LED underneath the scrollwheel shines forward like a little headlight on my mousepad, that's kind of a cool effect.
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I haven't installed the software yet to dick around with the colors, but I'm very happy with the mouse so far. And it was $10 cheaper than my RAT5 that broke.
EDIT software:
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Driver installer won't run because it can't find the mouse. I clicked the "Next" button USING THE FUCKING MOUSE!!!!!
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Similarly, firmware updater program won't run because it can't find the mouse. WTF?
EDIT EDIT: Oh I googled it and it turns out the M65 RGB takes a different driver than the regular M65? And that is the most common cause of this? Trying again... THERE WE GO OK!
EDIT EDIT EDIT COLORS
- Grey is kind of pinkish, I guess due to the type of LEDs they're using?
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Aaaaaack if you turn off the software, the mouse's LEDs go back to the default colors. WTF?!
EDIT: Aha you have to save the color settings into the mouse's RAM. Because the mouse has RAM.
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Hollow core doors are great for canning.
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MOUSE DAY 2:
Still diggin' it. It has basically everything I liked in the RAT5 and is comfy enough and all that.
I haven't even opened up the Redragon mouse I also bought. I'll keep it for a birthday gift, or in case this one breaks, or something.
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ANOTHER UPDATEZZZZ
When Corsair says the firmware update will fail if the mouse is plugged into a USB hub, they are inexplicably not lying.
I had to switch ports to get the firmware update to work.
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When Corsair says the firmware update will fail if the mouse is plugged into a USB hub, they are inexplicably not lying.
It might be that it needs a larger current draw when doing a firmware update than is normally supported by a USB hub, whereas the computer could be told to deliver extra power during the update process and so make it all work. Which would be prosaic and quite possible.
Anything else would likely take us into
territory.
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The USB3 hub I used is supposed to support the maximum power level on all the ports, that's one of the reasons I bought it.
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Anything else would likely take us into
territory.So? Are you really saying you'd be surprised if it was something else?
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The USB3 hub I used is supposed to support the maximum power level on all the ports, that's one of the reasons I bought it.
Is it a powered hub? If it's not, and it's only pulling from your computer, you're limited to the power those ports provide.
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Are you really saying you'd be surprised if it was something else?
Not really, but it would be tremendously disappointing.
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@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
MOUSE REVIEW CORSAIR M65 RGB!!!!!
How are you liking it after a few months? Would you recommend it?
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@loopback0 Problems:
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Can't run the driver software because it inexplicably causes mouseover events in Chrome to stop firing.
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Every so often, after a couple weeks of constantly plugged-in-ness, the mouse will "stall" for a half a second or so. Might be a subtle bug or memory leak either in the mouse's onboard software or driver. Unplugging it and plugging it back in fixes it.
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The buttons at the top of the "thumb holder" thing are the browser back/forward buttons... I find these too easy to hit when I'm simply moving my hand to grip the mouse again, I often end up accidentally changing my browser page. (Especially destructive here, where if you hit Back while writing a post, Ben L's claims aside, the post is gone forever.)
Other than those minor things, I'm happy with it. I haven't even unpacked the Chinese "RedDragon" mouse I bought at the same time.
The true test is longevity. I loved my RAT5 mouses SO MUCH but they just didn't last longer than 6 months. If this thing goes a year without any issues, then Corsair will be my new "go-to" brand.
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@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
Here's a RAT5 knockoff that's only $8.99
Looks like an F-117 fucked a computer mouse.
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@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
Can't run the driver software because it inexplicably causes mouseover events in Chrome to stop firing.
I assume the buttons all still work without them? If the settings are saved to the mouse, can the driver be removed and the settings remain?
@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
Every so often, after a couple weeks of constantly plugged-in-ness, the mouse will "stall" for a half a second or so. Might be a subtle bug or memory leak either in the mouse's onboard software or driver. Unplugging it and plugging it back in fixes it.
I can live with that - my current mouse either "stalls" or needs the batteries replacing more often than that. Unplugging it every couple of weeks is worth it for going back to a wired mouse.
@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
The buttons at the top of the "thumb holder" thing are the browser back/forward buttons... I find these too easy to hit when I'm simply moving my hand to grip the mouse again
They seem to be about where the same buttons are on my current mouse, so can cope with that.
@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
Other than those minor things, I'm happy with it.
Cool. Think I'll get one ordered then.
@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
The true test is longevity. I loved my RAT5 mouses SO MUCH but they just didn't last longer than 6 months.
Yeah, it's taken like 8 years for my Microsoft mouse to get to the point it needs replacing. Something that lasts a couple of years will be good enough though.
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@loopback0 said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
I assume the buttons all still work without them? If the settings are saved to the mouse, can the driver be removed and the settings remain?
Right; I shouldn't say "driver", I should say "management app that sits in the system tray whatever you call that". Corsair obviously intended it to run 24/7 but it has weird bugs that makes it impractical to do that.
@loopback0 said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
I can live with that - my current mouse either "stalls" or needs the batteries replacing more often than that. Unplugging it every couple of weeks is worth it for going back to a wired mouse.
Since I revisited this thread, I ran the Corsair app again and it did a firmware update, so who knows-- maybe they've fixed it. Maybe not. We'll see in a couple weeks.
And BTW, battery-powered mouses (that aren't laptop mobile mouses that fold into a tiny thing you can stick in a laptop case) are the worst idea.
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@loopback0 said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
I assume the buttons all still work without them? If the settings are saved to the mouse, can the driver be removed and the settings remain?
If it's got more than 4 buttons and a clickable wheel, the standard windows driver won't support it.
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@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
Right; I shouldn't say "driver", I should say "management app that sits in the system tray whatever you call that". Corsair obviously intended it to run 24/7 but it has weird bugs that makes it impractical to do that.
Ah, okay. I can live with that then.
@blakeyrat said in Gaming Mousessseseses:
And BTW, battery-powered mouses (that aren't laptop mobile mouses that fold into a tiny thing you can stick in a laptop case) are the worst idea.
Yeah, it's definitely not been perfect, but it's been 'good enough' for most of the 8 years. It's only recently that the wireless and battery life have got worse, and now the sideways click on the scroll wheel is broken.
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I have a plain blue version of that corsair, and have never installed drivers, but enjoy the thing.
