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The manual says otherwise, the difference is that a ‘Key Press’ button must be held down till it finishes, but under testing, it seems to perform the entire action regardless. ‘New Key Presses’ and ‘New Macro’ seem to do the same thing, enable macro recording like you would if you were to just click on the blanks pace when the button setting drops down. ‘Fall Back’ is complicated, as it assigns the same key across all three profile modes. ‘Unprogrammed’ resets the button back to default. ‘Latched’ is a tag meaning ‘repeat until the button is pressed again’, so it’ll keep looping through the macro or key presses until you press the button again to tell it to stop. The commands available are not exactly clear as to their function by name alone.

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Clicking on the little black arrow in the corner will expand the full list of options available. Clicking in the blank space will start the key press recorder – very simple. Hovering the cursor over any of the button labels will produce a drop-down menu showing you the current button or macro settings.

This is rather unfortunate, as this can lead to aggravation should you either use the mouse on another computer or merely unplug and replug the mouse back in. It’s worth mentioning now that the mouse has no memory at all and is completely software-dependent for it’s extra functionality. So the best thing to do is leave mode 1 alone and edit 2 and 3 only. This can be infuriating at first as it means changing the other mode settings again if you make a mistake. One thing that’ll probably catch many off guard as you’d have to read the manual thoroughly to find out, is that Mode 1, Red, acts as the default profile and will overwrite all other modes when changed. Each mode is given a color of Red, Blue and Purple. These can be changed via the mode button on the mouse next to the left mouse button. There are 3 modes available for each profile you create. Moving on to the ‘Programming’ tab and we’re greeted with a rather fancy overview of the mouse and the available buttons that can be changed. Having the ability to set different precision aim values for each DPI level would be useful, maybe something for a future version. Up to 4 DPI levels can be set, but the precision aim is limited to a single setting for all modes. There is independent control over each axis but there is a button missing for mouse acceleration, which if you need to turn off, you’ll have to go to the OS-based menu instead. As a result, you can not set different DPI levels for different modes. These settings are fixed and are completely independent from profiles. The first tab you can hit on is ‘Settings’, which controls the DPI levels and Sniper button. When the splash screen passes and you’re greeted with the product overview page, a tip box will open as well – which can be disabled. This isn’t too much of a problem these days as XP’s market share dwindles by the day.Īfter the install, a new icon will be present in the taskbar, ready for you to start editing and programming away.

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It tells you to let windows automatically find the driver on the CD – 3 times. Popping the CD in and running the installer you’ll be greeted with multiple pop-ups. Plug in the mouse and the standard HID compliant driver kicks in and you can use the mouse fine, just none of the extra buttons work. Those still using the now somewhat antiquated Windows XP, the installation is a bit of a chore.

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Folks on Windows 7 will have no problems at all, since as soon as you plug the mouse in, Windows will just do it’s thing and download the drivers for you, or at least give you the chance via Windows Update. The software installation process can have a somewhat mixed result, depending on the OS you choose to use.

Mad catz rat 7 user manual