DPI buttons are for changing cursor sensitivity (speed) without going into software - usually between a few customisable presets.

So if you do graphics and want to switch from regular/high setting to a lower setting for greater control.

Also handy when watching videos, you can set it to super low so that knocking the desk doesn't make the mouse move slightly and bring up the control panel.

Or if you need to let one of those people that can't use a mouse without moving their hand and arm loads use it.

Wow, that's an interesting/ugly looking thing :D It says 12 buttons on that Amazon page but I can only count 10. Which 2 am I missing?

It changes the DPI. Currently 1200/2500. The other side was set to back/forward too, but I changed it to DPI. There is also a DPI button on the bottom of the mouse. Not the most useful place. I don't really change DPI though so might change the side button to something more useful.

How do you accidentally press THE CAPS BUTTON!? Are Mac keyboards shit?

Oh yeah, with Java you definitely need to type lots more to do things than other languages. I do like some of the features of other languages that make it quicker to do things.

One of the systems I support in work uses Ruby on Rails for the front end. I was trying to change something on the controller to sort some data returned to the browser and just couldn't work out the data type that was being returned from the HTTP call to a back end. Maybe just my lack of experience with Ruby, but at least Java would specify the type and make it easier to work out what's going on.

Sometimes I forget I can't touch-type.

Do you touch type with caps instead of shift? I've seen a lot of people doing that. Touch typing is something that I've been meaning to learn for years but never got around to doing.

It is nice and comfortable. There are 12 buttons, I think the two you're missing are either side of the main left and right butons, they're not obvious, but damned useful in gaming. That said, you lose two of the side buttons, depending on your handedness. 'Cos it's ambidextrous they include thumbs buttons on both sides of the mouse.

I don't really have any sort of technique, I just punch my fingers blindly at the keyboard relying on 'muscle memory' (which works surprisingly well for passwords, and not much else), and the caps lock just gets in my way. WHO EVEN FUCKING USES CAPS LOCK? Oh.

Old(er) Apple desktop keyboards are actually top drawer, certainly way better than what came bundled with pcs. It's the new, 'chiclet' style keyboards that suck donkeys. Apple's mice have always, always sucked.

This is the 10 that I can see.

 :-$ Feck it all, I miscounted.

The extra two 'buttons' that are advertised are scroll forward and scroll backward on the wheel. To be fair, they can be assigned to be anything else.

SCROLL IS NOT BUTTONS! :@

I know, Peter. I know.  :-/


Once nice feature is a shift button of sorts, Roccat call it an 'easy shift'. Hold that button down and the rest of the buttons do other things; mine's configured for a volume raiser and lowerer and music track forward and backwarder. But again, they can be set to pretty much anything, keys, macros, timers etc.

 

Mine has shift along with three different modes - allowing six configurations total - but I already have enough controls for play/pause, back, forwards, vol up, vol down, page up, page down, end, alt, tab, next track, and dpi all in one mode so I've not bothered with it.

These mice are stupidly complicated, like a double-neck guitar.

I played Portal with this the other night. Forgot how short that game is. Still great fun though. It was super, and nice having no wires in the way.

Doom caused some problems though. Holding down the RMB for the weapon's secondary mode and pressing LMB to fire causes the buttons to rub. It's a known problem on the mouse and a lot of people have either sent it back or sanded the buttons a tiny bit so they don't rub.

Also, as Pete said: Scroll wheel counted as buttons :O :O :O What!?

Bought a gaming mouse pad today. Who knew it's an actual thing? Been using an old, black cardboard folder from school (like, from 1993) and it's really starting to come apart making aiming real difficult.

https://www.thesource.ca/en-ca/computers--and--tablets/computer-accessories/mice/xtreme-gaming-anti-slip-gaming-mouse-pad---black/p/108070908

I've got an old Noid pad in the house. Just use my desk in work without a pad.

Does it make any difference?

My pad at work is a sheet of plain A4 paper that gets occasionally replaced either when it gets too dirty, or after the imbecilic klutz of a "cleaner" smushes the keyboard and creases it yet again.

Works just as well as any gaming mat, and is way better than the shitty desk surface.

Yeah, definitely. It's bigger and thinner than any mouse pad I've seen before, so I draped it over the old file folder. Mouse works so much better on it.