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Steelseries gg linux9/23/2023 I love how effortlessly SteelSeries mice glide across a mousepad and I never once felt like the Rival 5 let me down on the accuracy front during my tests in Warzone and Hell Let Loose. Tame that in a mouse bungee and that’s less of a concern because, outside of that, the Rival 5 never skipped a beat. When it comes to shooters, what’s more important to me than a bevvy of easily accessible buttons is overall performance, and the Rival 5 only falls slightly short with a stiffer-than-usual USB cable. In saying that, for less-twitchy games like Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition and Red Dead Redemption 2, having extra buttons is a gaming godsend. That said, not having easy access to the three selling-point buttons (if you include the thumb one) lowers the overall value proposition for the Rival 5 depending on your mouse grip. These paddle buttons are out of the way for shooter fans where they’re less important. In fairness, I’m of two minds about this. Though a clever design, it also makes button six easier to function than button seven because you have to lift or roll your thumb up just to pull the paddle down. But reaching the paddle to activate button six (up) and button seven (down), involves lifting my thumb, which weakens my mouse grip. Mouse buttons four and five are an upwards roll away from being used, which makes them as practical as they always are on SteelSeries gaming mice. Still, while I’m gaming, my fingertip grip renders this button impractically unreachable, and it’s a similar story for the dual-function thumb paddle above mouse buttons four and five. If I adjust my palm grip by pushing my hand forward on the mouse, the thumb button becomes accessible, pressed by a slight forward roll of the thumb. But the Rival 5 has taught me that I must have a shallow palm grip because that thumb-activated mouse button feel elusive, and that’s coming from someone with long digits. For instance, I use a palm grip for my everyday mousing and a fingertip grip when I’m gaming. The SteelSeries Rival 5 shines as a versatile gaming mouse, but that versatility depends a lot on your mouse grip. Here’s also where you can also tweak the nine buttons and scroll-wheels, as well as change the illumination settings if that’s your thing.Įven with default click options, the Rival 5 is a great everyday mouse companion, reliable enough to work accurately across my three-monitor configuration and with enough buttons to rethink how to best streamline everyday tasks. For gamers, the polling rate should absolutely be left on 1000 while both acceleration and deceleration sliders should be jammed as far left as possible. In terms of mouse tweaks, you can manually adjust the sensitivity hops, jumps or leaps between DPI-button clicks in 100-level increments, picking which five you fancy most, even if there’s already a good spread of options by default. That’s some extra clicking to SteelEngine, though. Click a little deeper, though, and you’ll find a neat new Moments feature for capturing in-game footage as well as the familiar SteelSeries Engine software. To tweak the DPI button (or any other button for that matter), you’ll want to download SteelSeries GG, which is the new version of the SteelSeries Engine.Īt first glance, SteelSeries GG is a marketing tool with a home page that’s flush with SteelSeries articles to read, competitions to enter and products to buy. Thankfully, a firmware update towards the end of my testing addressed this issue. In my experience, I needed that button every time I started or restarted Windows because the Rival 5 would frustratingly reset its DPI to the lowest setting. Even though you won’t be able to tweak some of the advanced settings, you’ll have a responsive mouse that lets you switch sensitivity care of the top-mounted DPI-cycling button. Despite the orange tag on the USB cable that encourages you to download software, you can get away with just plugging in the SteelSeries Rival 5 to get going.
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