Did you ever contact WASD about this and get a reply with release dates? Emailed them yesterday morning but have no reply as of yet.
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Did you ever contact WASD about this and get a reply with release dates? Emailed them yesterday morning but have no reply as of yet.
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Problem with mine after only a week or so. The paint on the WASD keys is rubbing off already!
Going to have to order a new set I think. Can see that WASD site will ship a coloured set for $5 or so. Hope they fit. Might have to look on that forum for a full set that fit as this will bug the hell out of me before long.
Going to have to order a new set I think. Can see that WASD site will ship a coloured set for $5 or so. Hope they fit. Might have to look on that forum for a full set that fit as this will bug the hell out of me before long.
Depends on your screen resolution. But if your just gaming at 1920x1080, I really can't see a reason for anything above 800. I only use 800dpi on a 2650x1440 monitor and it's perfect. I used 400dpi on my old 1080. Anything higher is just too fast an inaccurate.
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It really depends on what you games you are playing, something that doesn't require high tracking speeds or movements, 800 is a good DPI. Even in games like BF3, 800 is enough. In games like Counter Strike source though, a lot of gamers increase their DPI. On a lot of mice, higher DPI can mean more tracking speed, so although you can set a very low in game sensitivity, you mouse will track faster when making huge swipes. If you have a DPI of 800, some mice will only track at 60% of the stated speed on the box, so you can hit the malfunction point, this will lead to either skipping or the mouse not tracking at all. On some mice, these speeds are good enough at even 400 DPI, so you could do anything with a mouse and it wouldn't have any issues, however this assumption is not correct for all mice, so you can buy a mouse that tracks at 3m/s and only get 1.5m/s on 800 DPI. It all depends on what your usage will be.
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Still undecided about brown vs red. I'm quite used to my logitech Illuminated keyboard feel. Either the sound of it (very quiet), or the feel of the keys (tactile bump) 
Thinking of going MK-85 with browns.
Thinking of going MK-85 with browns.
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My Filco Majestouch 2 with Cherry MX Browns arrived yesterday. It's fantastic.
Indeed! I didn't mean it in a stating the obvious kind of way though. I've only had this Choc Mini since Christmas but so far my experience is that the red switch is so very light that, even when I'm focussing hard on only hitting the actuation point, I still bottom out the keys all the time.
If I got reds, I'd definitely be bottoming out all the time, so I'd get the rubber dampers to soften the noise
Keep us updated, I'm waiting eagerly to order one.
Nice. I suppose you don't yet know if there will be any fees? Is it being delivered via Royal Mail?
Nice one! Any chance you could put up a few pictures and comments when it does arrive? Desperately in need of a new keyboard so not honestly sure if Ill wait til the euro layout comes out.
Ah, sorry must have missed that, thanks! Don't really understand why you cant just order the US keyboard with the modifications and then specify in the comments that you want that layout. Surely they wouldn't allow the website to hold them back on a lot of sales?
No idea yet. But i did all the calculations and if there were to be any it would add an extra £30 or so onto it.
And yes it's being delivered by Royal Mail.
Edit* Just checked the tracking again and it says this "Payment of charges - Item being held, addressee being notified"
Guess it's at the post office now. Will go pick it up tomorrow. Screw waiting around for them to send me a letter.
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Will do.
What does cause the problem when, as Piano says, you get stuck moving in one direction despite not holding any key down?
The actual definition of ghosting is slightly different from what Tombo wrote and more like what PianoBasher wrote. I think some manufacturers are using the term wrongly as well. I read a description of what ghosting is after following links from this thread but I can't remember where it was so i'll try and paraphrase........
Ghosting occurs due to the way that keyboards read which key is being pressed. Essentially (and simplified) you can imagine a series of wires running horizontally under the keys, and another set running vertically. When a key is pressed it shorts 2 wires and a current flows from a horizontal wire to a vertical wire. If 2 keys are pressed at once then as long as they are on different pairs of wires then the keyboard recognises the 2 keys from the current flowing in each set of wires. It still works if the keys are arranged on 1 vertical wire but 2 different horizontal wires - it can still tell which keys were pressed. However, if 3 keys are pressed and 2 of them share a horizontal wire, and 2 of them share a vertical wire (1 of the keys is common to both these pairs) then it create a ghost press whereby the keyboard doesn't know if 3 keys were pressed, or a slightly different combination of 3 keys, or indeed if 4 keys were pressed! This is what ghosting is.
The term is often wrongly used to describe the lack of ability to do NKRO. So technically, NKRO and anti-ghosting are seperate things, but some manufacturers use the terms interchangably. Real anti-ghosting requires more sophisticated interperetation of the signals generated when keys are pressed.
Not sure if that makes much sense.... the original article had useful pictures to illustrate what i have probably rather poorly tried to describe!
Ghosting occurs due to the way that keyboards read which key is being pressed. Essentially (and simplified) you can imagine a series of wires running horizontally under the keys, and another set running vertically. When a key is pressed it shorts 2 wires and a current flows from a horizontal wire to a vertical wire. If 2 keys are pressed at once then as long as they are on different pairs of wires then the keyboard recognises the 2 keys from the current flowing in each set of wires. It still works if the keys are arranged on 1 vertical wire but 2 different horizontal wires - it can still tell which keys were pressed. However, if 3 keys are pressed and 2 of them share a horizontal wire, and 2 of them share a vertical wire (1 of the keys is common to both these pairs) then it create a ghost press whereby the keyboard doesn't know if 3 keys were pressed, or a slightly different combination of 3 keys, or indeed if 4 keys were pressed! This is what ghosting is.
The term is often wrongly used to describe the lack of ability to do NKRO. So technically, NKRO and anti-ghosting are seperate things, but some manufacturers use the terms interchangably. Real anti-ghosting requires more sophisticated interperetation of the signals generated when keys are pressed.
Not sure if that makes much sense.... the original article had useful pictures to illustrate what i have probably rather poorly tried to describe!
