ROG’s software is called the Armory. A pretty cool name – the default page shows the basic mouse button configuration:
Armory only needs to run when you’re changing a setting. You can assign any button to any function and that includes assigning macros. This is nice, but expected. The downside was that the keyboard wasn’t an assignable option. What I didn’t expect was the ability to write the settings to the mouse itself so that it travelled with the mouse. This I didn’t have on my Deathadder, where instead I could use Razer’s software to login and synchronize my settings from the cloud. So if you take your mouse to competition there is no worry about installing software and having to login and sync your settings, it will be configured exactly the same without any work.
The second tab involves the mouse movement settings. Personally I find 6400dpi just too sensitive. Around 4000 is “enough” for me. You’ll also note that the polling rate can be turned all the way up to 2000Hz. This is better than the box claimed (1000Hz). While I may not notice a difference, I’m sure there is someone who might claim to. Note that more frequent polling of the mouse may have a slight effect on your system performance.
You can also change the lighting of the mouse – the only thing you can’t change is the color. This is where the deathadder chroma has an advantage.
The last page lets you calibrate for the surface you use your mouse on. The manual calibration failed for me, but the cloth mousepad setting worked well on my cloth mousepad and not on the bare desk. The wood skin on the other hand worked for both. The default uncalibrated setting also worked fine on both.
