Mouse recomendation

andybird123 · 22 Jan 2012 at 15:09

hi guys, I recently broke my OCZ eliminator and have been hunting around for a new gaming mouse, seen a couple with a "sniper" button that slows DPI to a predetermined low setting when held, thing is I don't like the idea of having to hold 2 buttons plus click a 3rd all at the same time for sniping

I picked up an M60 as it said that it's fully programmable however you can't assign mouse functions to their macros so you can;t get it to right click AND dpi set on a single button

does anyone know a mouse where you can set the dpi and another key (could even be keyboard I guess to set keyboard zoom on at the same time) on a single button?

been looking at the logitech g9x, gigabyte m8000x or steelseries Xai but can't find definitive answers on whether any of these support low dpi + zoom on a single button

cheers, Andy

andybird123 · 22 Jan 2012 at 15:30

the m60 lets you swap all the buttons around, so right click can become dpi set, but only one mouse function per button
(or as many keyboard keys as you want in sequence by recording a macro)

the rat 7 doesn't let you program the dpi set button at all

the gigabyte lets you macro mouse clicks but I don't know if it supports setting dpi to x via macro, I think the intellimouse explorer lets you set to x via any mouse button but I don't know if you can set it to be both right click and set x at the same time

if anyone has any of these mice and can say yay or nay it would really help me

andybird123 · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:17

so, I've narrowed it down to either the Roccat Kone+ or the logitech G500

these both support "dpi set to x" on mouse button hold (roccat call it EasyAim)
what I'm not sure of is if either of these mice (or associated software) let you stack 2 commands on to a single button, even if you have to do it via a macro that would be fine

does anyone know if the roccat software lets you macro the EasyAim function? or assign both easyaim and another mouse function to a single button at the same time?

my main issue with the M60 is just that it's so damn uncomfortable for me to use, so either of these are bigger and more likely comfortable, so just having EasyAim or whatever will probably be enough, but if it can do both things on a single button then all the better

andybird123 · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:59

SGWills said:
cant you bind a letter on your kb for the button you need pressed and have a macro no the mouse to change the dpi and and press the button on kb?

That is one solution, the Corsair M60 does not support this however.

This is what I am asking, does anyone have a logitech (either G9X or G500), or a Kone+ or anything, and can verify that it can do a dpi set AND a keypress at the same time

I don't really want to spend £200 on buying 4 mice to test them all and then send back the ones that don't do this, the one I have tested so far does not do this

andybird123 · 24 Jan 2012 at 22:46

Double post. stupid android

andybird123 · 24 Jan 2012 at 22:47

James J said:
This. Got one myself and it has 2 buttons just below left click for DPI setting (raise and lower it to pre-determined min/max values in the mouse software).

Example:

My G9X is set to have 5 increments of DPI ranging from 400, 800, 1200, 2000, 3200 and 5700. You can change any of these values at will, plus lower the number of increments also if you want. I use 400 for sniping, 800 for running around, 1200 in ground vehicles, 2000 in aircraft and the highest settings for amazingly hard oh **** turns, all in BF3.

Due to the button placement and the software being really good, this is the first mouse I've owned where I can truly change the dpi on the fly to my presets, which are all set by me. You can also program the mouse to change the presets you want based on the application you load, which is an insanely powerful tool in my opinion.

Can you record a macro that includes set dpi to 800 and another key or button?
the g9x is too small for me so itd have to be a g500, but they use the same software

Im assuming not as logitech have deleted my thread and blocked my account for even asking

andybird123 · 25 Jan 2012 at 09:24

thankyou!

so at least it might support zoom + low dpi on one button and unzoom + high dpi on another as a toggle, which isn't exactly what I want but might do in a pinch, or can you set 1 macro for mouse down and another macro for mouse up?