Vengeance® M90 Gaming Software User Guide Revision 1.
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Table of Contents Table of Contents......................................................................................................................... i Introducing the Vengeance Gaming Software ............................................................................ 1 Welcome .................................................................................................................................... 1 Using This Guide ........................................................................
On-Screen Display .............................................................................................................10 Assign Buttons Activity ..............................................................................................................10 Button Selection ....................................................................................................................10 Playback Options ............................................................................................
Introducing the Vengeance Gaming Software Welcome Thanks for choosing the Vengeance M90 laser gaming mouse for your PC gaming. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we do. This Software Guide is designed to help you get the most from your mouse. You can find a community of other Vengeance-equipped gamers at www.corsair.com/forums, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/VengeanceGaming, and on Twitter @CorsairMemory.
User Interface Overview The Vengeance Gaming Software is designed to make tuning your gaming profiles, including recording, editing and storing macros, as easy as possible. All of the options can be found on just three tabs, and most configuration changes and edits are stored automatically. Before following the rest of this guide, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the basics of the user interface: A.
Manage Profiles The Vengeance M90 gaming mouse can store up to 6 profiles that can be selected on-thefly. Each profile independently stores all the important data for the mouse: DPI settings, lift height, reporting rate, and button assignments, as well as your macros and their button bindings. The Manage Profiles activity allows you to manage your profiles, including creating new profiles, importing and exporting profiles, and assigning a profile to a slot on the Vengeance M90 mouse. B.
Other Important User Interface Elements Profile selector This pull-down allows you to select the profile that you will be modifying. You can only select existing profiles; if you need to create a new profile, use the Manage Profiles activity. Macro Record button The Macro Record (MR) button is a toggle that turns macro recording on and off. When Macro Record is active, all of your keystrokes will be recorded until it is turned off.
Using the Vengeance Gaming Software Software versus Hardware Playback The Vengeance Gaming Software provides two different modes of operation: software playback and hardware playback. They each have advantages and disadvantages. Please read this section to determine which mode is best for you. Software Playback This is the default for the Vengeance Gaming Software. In this mode, macros are read from the active profile by a background application played back via the Windows keyboard buffer.
profiles; 2) changes you make to your profile must be saved to the Vengeance M90 before they can be used; and 3) auto-switching of profiles does not work. With up to 54 macros (6 profiles x 9 macro buttons each), the broadest compatibility with games, and the immediate visual feedback of the profile number you’re currently using, hardware playback is the mode used by most of the gamers here at Corsair. Unless you’re using more than six profiles at a time, this is probably your best choice for gaming.
Lock Profile Lock Profile is used in association with the application detection and automatic profile selection, and works only in software playback mode. When you launch a new application or change focus to an application, and that application is assigned to a profile, the Vengeance Gaming Software will automatically switch to that profile. If you have a locked profile, once that profile is active, the Vengeance Gaming Software will not be able to switch to different profile automatically.
Preview brings up a window (similar to the one shown below) that displays the button assignments for the profile, and allows you to print or save the information to a text file. Copy creates a copy of the currently selected profile. Assign Application opens a Windows dialog box that allows you to navigate to the application that you wish to associate with the profile.
To assign a profile to a profile slot, select the pull-down menu corresponding to the slot, then click on the profile name. All of the unassigned profiles currently available on your PC will appear in the pull-down. To move an assigned profile to a different slot, you must first remove it from its current slot, and then select it from the drop-down list in the slot you want to save it in. Click OK to save your changes or Cancel to abandon them.
Information stored in a profile includes button mappings, macros, and performance settings like DPI and lift height. If you import a profile from another Vengeance Gaming Software user, be sure to use the Preview command (detailed earlier) to check the button mappings, and to review the performance settings using the Manage Performance activity.
Left-clicking on the button number selects that button, and shows you the current assignments for that button.
Playback once Select this option to play the macro once for each time you press the button. Playback n times Select this option to play the macro a specific number of times (“n”) for each time you press the button. For example, if you enter “6” in the Define N: text box, pressing the button will cause the macro to run 6 times. Repeat while pressed This option will cause the macro to repeat as long as the button is held down.
Selecting the Delay Options button brings up the following choices: The Delay Options text box and the button next to it allow you to manually insert a delay while recording a macro. The default is 50ms. If you wish to use a different delay, be sure to enter it before you start recording. While Macro Recording (MR) is active, the button will be available. Click it to insert a delay in the macro you are recording.
A A B B A 0.050 seconds delay A 0.050 seconds delay B 0.050 seconds delay B A 0.339 seconds delay A 0.524 seconds delay B 0.992 seconds delay B A 0.078 seconds delay A 0.530 seconds delay B 0.094 seconds delay B Advanced Options Selecting Advanced Options allows you to select a Windows action/command that can be mapped to a button on your Vengeance M90 mouse.
Button Options Selecting Button Options allows you to select a mouse-specific action that can be mapped to a button on your Vengeance M90 mouse. The following options are available, under the Basic and Advanced Buttons pull-down menus: Basic Buttons Advanced Buttons After selecting the command you want, click to assign it to the button. How to: Changing a button mapping You can control what happens when you click any button on the Vengeance M90.
5. Click on Button Options and then click in the Advanced Buttons box.
6. Click Profile Up to select that function, and then click + to assign the function to button 13 on the mouse. You can change the name of the button by clicking in the text box next to “Assign Button 13 >” and typing in a new name. 7. Now click on 14, select Advanced Buttons, click on Profile Down, and then + to assign the function. 8. Now click Close. 9. That’s it! You’ve mapped Profile Up to button 13 and Profile Down to button 12.
should see the following screen: 5. Click on Button Options and select the Basic Buttons control. Select Keystroke - the bottom option in the list, then click +. 6. Press the keyboard key you would like to bind to button 13, and then press OK. In this example we are using 5.
7. Now click Close. 8. That’s it! You’ve assigned your first keystroke and now it’s time to test it out. Open Notepad or Word (or your favorite text editor), start a new document, and then press button 13 on your Vengeance M90. You should see the number 5 appear as if you were typing it. If you are using Hardware playback, you need to save the updated profile to your Vengeance M90 mouse before the new keystroke assignment will be available. You can do this using the Manage Profiles activity.
14. Now, type “Hello World” (without the quotes) on your keyboard. Use the shift key to capitalize the H and W. When you’re done typing, click the MR button to stop the recording. You should see a screen similar to this: 15. Now, let’s give the macro a name. Click in the text box next to Assign Button 15> . Delete the existing name (“No Function”), type in “Test” and then press Enter.
16. Now click Close. 17. That’s it! You’ve created your first macro and now it’s time to test it out. Open Notepad or Word (or your favorite text editor), start a new document, and then press button on your Vengeance M90. You should see Hello World appear as if you were typing it. If you are using Hardware playback, you need to save the updated profile to your Vengeance M90 mouse before the new macro will be available. You can do this using the Manage Profiles activity.
5. For this example, let’s first add a couple of keystrokes to change the macro from creating “Hello World” to “A Jello World”. Start by right-clicking on the first occurrence of 0.050 seconds delay (just below LShift) to open the edit menu, which looks like this: 6. We will be adding a keypress, so select Insert Key and the following dialog box will appear: 7. Enter the letter A, click OK and then select the A 8. Now click Insert Delay, which inserts the default 50ms delay.
Manage Performance Activity The Manage Performance activity allows you to control many of the parameters of the advanced Avago sensor used in the Vengeance M90. Settings such as DPI, report rate, and lift height can be tuned to match your gaming style and gaming surface, allowing you to elevate your PC gaming to a new level.
Set the DPI used by the sniper function by clicking Sniper and adjusting the slider to the setting you wish to use. The Sniper function can be used whenever you need more control over the mouse. At higher DPI settings, even small movements of the mouse can result in large movements of the cursor on-screen. By lowering the DPI, the cursor is easier to control. This can be very useful when using long-range weapons in first-person shooters, or even when editing a pixel mask in Photoshop.
If you are experiencing problems with your cursor lagging behind your movements, jumping around on the screen, or not tracking your movements of the mouse, you should check your surface quality. If you are getting a poor result, try a different surface or invest in a mouse mat to increase the surface quality. Lift Height If you use your mouse by “skipping” or “skating” across the surface, as many FPS gamers do, you will frequently lift your mouse above the surface it is on.
