Vengeance® 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 ...................................................................................................................... 1
Compatible Products ................................................................................................................ 1
User Interface Overview .......................................................................................................... 2
A. The Activities Bar ....................................................................................................... 2
Assign Buttons .................................................................................................................. 2
Manage Performance ......................................................................................................... 2
Manage Profiles ................................................................................................................. 3
B. Help Buttons .................................................................................................................. 3
C. Device Navigation .......................................................................................................... 3
D. Button Selection ......................................................................................................... 3
E. Cancel and Close ............................................................................................................ 3
Other Important User Interface Elements ........................................................................... 4
Profile selector ................................................................................................................... 4
Macro Record button ......................................................................................................... 4
LED Toggle ........................................................................................................................ 4
Using the Vengeance Gaming Software .................................................................................. 5
Software versus Hardware Playback ....................................................................................... 5
Software Playback ................................................................................................................ 5
Advantages of software playback ...................................................................................... 5
Disadvantages of software playback ................................................................................. 5
Hardware playback ............................................................................................................... 5
Advantages of hardware playback .................................................................................... 5
Disadvantages of hardware playback ............................................................................... 6
Manage Profiles Activity .......................................................................................................... 6
Manage Profiles screen ......................................................................................................... 7
Lock Profile ........................................................................................................................ 7
Profile Name and Application ........................................................................................... 8
Application ......................................................................................................................... 9
LED .................................................................................................................................... 9
New ...................................................................................................................................10
Delete ................................................................................................................................10
Import ...............................................................................................................................10
Export ...............................................................................................................................10
Notification .......................................................................................................................10
On-Screen Display ............................................................................................................10
Assign Buttons Activity ...........................................................................................................11
Button Selection ...................................................................................................................11
Playback Options .................................................................................................................12
Delay Options .......................................................................................................................12
Ignore delays ....................................................................................................................13
Default delay ....................................................................................................................13
Random delay time ...........................................................................................................13
No delay options selected .................................................................................................13
Comparing the delay options ...........................................................................................14
Advanced Options ................................................................................................................14
Button Options .....................................................................................................................15
How to: Changing a button mapping...................................................................................15
How-to: Record a macro .......................................................................................................17
How-to: Edit a macro ...........................................................................................................18
Manage Performance Activity .................................................................................................21
Manage Performance Screen ...............................................................................................21
DPI Selection ........................................................................................................................21
Sniper ................................................................................................................................21
Angle Snapping ................................................................................................................22
Report Rate Setting .............................................................................................................22
Surface Quality ....................................................................................................................22
Lift Height ............................................................................................................................23
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 Vengeance Gaming Software, we
used the following formatting conventions in this User Guide:
Items that you click on will be in boldface type.
Items that are particularly important will be in
Button numbers will be shown like this:
The terms Select and Click are used interchangeably and indicate that you should
left-click on the item.
Right-click means to select the item and press the right mouse button.
Paragraphs that are called out like this are tips for making your experience with the
Vengeance Gaming Software and the Vengeance M90 gaming mouse better.
italics
.
Compatible Products
The Vengeance Gaming Software can be used with the Vengeance K90 MMO/RTSoptimized gaming keyboard, and the Vengeance M90 and M60 laser gaming mice. The
Vengeance K60 FPS-optimized gaming keyboard has no programmable functions and
therefore does not use the Vengeance Gaming Software.
This User Guide covers the Vengeance M90 gaming mouse. Other User Guides cover the
other Vengeance gaming peripherals.
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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 Vengeance Gaming Software:
Assign Buttons, Manage Performance, and Manage Profiles.
Assign Buttons
This activity allows you to changes the actions assigned to a button, or record, edit, and
delete macros, and bind them to the button of your choice on the Vengeance M90
gaming mouse. You can also change how the macros will be played back.
Manage Performance
This activity gives you total control over how the mouse works, including adjusting the
DPI settings, the rate at which the mouse reports data to the system, lift height and
provides a surface test feature.
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Manage Profiles
The Vengeance M90 gaming mouse can store up to 6 profiles that can be selected onthe-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. Help Buttons
The help buttons provide access to important information about the Vengeance Gaming
Software.
Selecting opens the Information dialog box and displays the software version, USB
ID information, etc. It is useful for checking the version you are running, and can assist
our Technical Support group in the event you have a problem with your mouse.
Selecting opens your browser to the Vengeance Gaming Peripherals Frequently
Asked Questions page on corsair.com.
Selecting opens your browser to corsair.com
C. Device Navigation
The Device Navigation section shows images of the Vengeance gaming peripherals that
are installed on your system, and allows you to choose which one the Vengeance Gaming
Software is modifying. You can scroll through devices by clicking on the < and > arrow
symbols on the screen. Select the Vengeance gaming peripheral you wish to configure by
clicking on the appropriate image.
D. Button Selection
The Button Selection area displays an image of the Vengeance M90 gaming mouse, with
each button labeled. When using the Assign Buttons activity, this is where you select
the button you would like to modify.
E. Cancel and Close
Generally speaking, most changes you make in the Vengeance Gaming Software are
saved automatically to the mouse. The Cancel button provides a single-level undo for
any changes that haven’t yet been saved to the mouse.
When the Cancel button is available, clicking it will cancel any changes you have made,
including any macros you have recorded. When the Cancel button is grayed out, your
edits have been saved to the mouse and you cannot cancel them.
Selecting Close will minimize the application to the task bar whenever Notification is
enabled. The Vengeance Gaming Software is still be active and can be accessed again by
double-clicking the icon in the task bar. If you do not have Notification enabled, the
Vengeance Gaming Software will close and you will need to reopen it from the Windows
Start menu if you wish to make any changes.
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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 User Guide for step-by-step
instructions on using the macro record feature.
LED Toggle
The LED toggle controls the LED lighting on the mouse, allowing you to turn it on and
off. The state of the LED toggle is not stored in a profile.
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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.
Advantages of software playback
The main advantages of software playback are: 1) auto-switching of profiles based on
the application assigned to the profile; 2) more than six profiles can be used; and 3)
changes made to a profile, setting, or macro are immediately available.
The automatic profile switching allows you to assign an application to a profile, and
when the Vengeance Gaming Software detects that application as running and having
focus, it will switch profiles for you. You can assign applications to a profile under the
Manage Profiles
The Vengeance M90 gaming mouse is limited to a maximum of six onboard profiles. If
you want to be able to choose between more than six active profiles, you’ll need to use
the software mode.
Disadvantages of software playback
The main disadvantages of software playback are: 1) some applications block macro
playback by reading directly from the hardware rather than the Windows keyboard
buffer; and 2) because more than six profiles can be used, the profile LEDs on the mouse
are disabled as they cannot be mapped to the complete list of profiles.
If you choose to use software playback, enabling On-Screen Display (OSD) will let you
see the name of the profile you are switching to, the DPI setting you’ve selected, and
other data. However, because the OSD uses Windows to display the message, you may
be switched out of a full-screen game to the Windows desktop when you change a profile
or setting. If you choose to use software playback with OSD enabled, be sure to test this
before you’re in the middle of the action in your favorite game!
Hardware playback
Because the Vengeance M90 gaming mouse has on-board memory, you can playback
your macros directly from the hardware. This mode is enabled by selecting Hardware
playback from any of the activity screens.
Advantages of hardware playback
The main advantages of hardware playback are: 1) better game compatibility; and 2)
visual feedback via the six profile LEDs to identify the profile you’re currently using.
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