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Vengeance M90 Gaming Software
User Guide
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Table of Contents Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................... i Introducing the Vengeance Gaming Software ............................................................................ 1 Welcome .................................................................................................................................... 1 Using This Guide .......................................................
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On-Screen Display .............................................................................................................10 Assign Buttons Activity ..............................................................................................................10 Button Selection ....................................................................................................................10 Playback Options .............................................................................
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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. Using This Guide To help make it easy and quick to learn how to use the Vengean
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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. The Activities Bar There are three activities you can perform with the
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Manage Profiles The Vengeance M90 gaming mouse can store up to 6 profiles that can be selected on-the- fly. 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.
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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. Please see “How-to: Record a Macro” later in this Use
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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
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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 f
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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
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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. When the Vengeance Gaming Software detects the application is running and has focus, the Vengeance M90 will be switched t
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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. Use Save to M90 to load the assigned profil
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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. Export Opens a Windows dialog box that allows you browse and select a folder, as well as enter a name, to export the current profile to, in Vengea
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Left-clicking on the button number selects that button, and shows you the current assignments for that button. Right-clicking on the button brings up a context menu as shown here: From here, you can: Copy the current button assignment (including any macros and playback options); Paste a macro that’s been copied to a button (including the macro name and any playback options); Delete the contents of the selected button; Import a saved macro (including the macro name and any playback opti
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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. Play until stopped When this option is used, pressing
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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. Below the Delay Options text box, there are three options: Ignore delay
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A A A A A 0.050 seconds 0.339 seconds 0.078 seconds B delay delay delay B A A A 0.050 seconds 0.524 seconds 0.530 seconds delay delay delay B B B 0.050 seconds 0.992 seconds 0.094 seconds delay delay delay B B 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. The following options are available, under the Basic and Advanced Commands pull-dow
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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. To illustrate how this is done, we’l
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5. Click on Button Options and then click in the Advanced Buttons box. You should see the following screen: Page 16 Vengeance Gaming Software User Guide
