:-$ 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.

Here is the AMAZING MOUSE PAD in action

I think I speak for teh possie as a whole when I say that desk is a fucking disgrace.

An intervention may be needed.

Yeah, only one monitor!? That is absolutely unacceptable.

Ten minutes clearing up the clutter would make space for at least a 17" companion, and another ten re-organising would allow a matching pair.

What? Why?

The "clutter" to the right is another pc with a flatbed scanner stacked on top. And, um, some other stuff. There's only about 10" space for something else which, ATM is a network switch.

That is a truly abhorrent scene. It's either the result of a diseased mind, or a genius visual metaphor for the political state in which we find the world and should be transposed forthwith piece by grubby piece to the nearest Tate gallery for critical dissemination by art experts and seen by everyone. Or both.

Why the towel? I can only guess it's for a kind of lumbar support being rolled up like that.

I think it's high time we had another round of take a picture of your desk and post it here.

I see you're still playing far cry 3.

I found a heavily discounted gaming (I hate the term, but that's how they market it) mouse pad in Currys some time ago, down from the exorbitant £20 or so down to £7, and it really makes a difference. The one I got is between 1 and 2mm thick, so you don't experience a ridge that would be in the way of your wrist and it really allows the mouse to glide. You get virtually no resistance and it's a consistent surface, much better than the piece of wood making up my desk. No way would it be worth £20+, but for what I paid it's great.

Or exorcism.