OK, 2 weeks with the Kova+ mouse. Found problems and had questions to Roccat, the mouse maker. Roccat didn't answer back, so here is the mail for all of you to see:
Operating System: WIN7-64bit (2 computers) + (3rd computer) XP32bit SP3. Product: Gaming mouse KOVA+. Driver: 1.25 Country: Israel
Hi, bought the mouse a week ago (18/7/2014), and after learning and testing (on several computers and games), I found problems and have questions.
First, the problems:
1) In the mouse software, in "Standard button assignment", selecting VLC player for button 6, after successfully selecting Winamp player for button 4, results in:
A. Button 6 remains unchanged (from its original mode which is "disabled"), despite the user command to change the function of the button.
B. Button 4 changes function from Winamp to VLC.
C. If now I'm trying to change button 4 to a different function (say sensitivity up), and then back to "Open player", button 4 won't change to "Open player".
2) In the mouse software, changing scroll wheel speed level doesn't show any noticeable speed change. Only using windows mouse settings brought a noticeable change of scrolling speed. Regardless of speed settings, the response time of the scroll wheel is awful. Most of the time, there is a huge delay or no response at all.
3) The volume level configuration of the mouse mode announcement volume is notch based, instead of being a continues / linear bar. The result is a too high announcement volume even on the lowest level (same on different computers and different sound systems).
4) Macros don't work (see more in questions).
Questions:
1) I was testing the mouse on Battlefield 3, and in that game I can only use 3 buttons from the mouse (left / right click, and the scroll button with it's additional functions, and there are game functions where for some reason I cannot assign the scroll button to them - like "select grenade" function - while other functions are assignable).
How can I use all of the mouse buttons for BF3 or any other game? I want to use the mouse to reload a weapon or do a melee attack. I tried using the Macro options for it but that didn't work (and not only on BF3, but on CS 1.6 too, even the default macros for CS provided by the driver).
No predefined BF3 macro options, and when I create one, it doesn't do anything in the game. So beside 3 buttons, all other mouse buttons are either disabled in the game or I use them for changing DPI and sensitivity.
2) I wanted to create specific modes of sensitivity / DPI levels for 1 game, in the push of a button, so when I switch to sniping, I push a button once and immediately get a specific level of DPI / sens, that I chosen in advance. That was the main reason I bought a gaming mouse. Is it possible with this mouse? Cause I haven't found a way. Using 2 profiles for the same game doesn't work.
End of e-mail.
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Apart from all the above I didn't like the design of the mouse:
1) The mouse gliders should glide better for this price and product. They're not smooth enough.
2) The position of the side buttons is not good like I thought before I used this mouse. Maybe it's because of the design of the buttons themselves. They require too much push force, and that moves the mouse.
3) Scroll wheel is very big with no point. It also has only 1 button and one axis of movement. And also has no option to change mode from clicky to smooth scroll (I've known that before I bought the mouse, but it's still annoying).
4) The mouse cord creates too much resistance of movement for the mouse. It's a cord I would expect on a 5$ mouse, not a 50$ mouse.
Verdict: I wouldn't but it again if I had the option. I'm very disappointed. And I'm using kind words here. I'm very angry and feel cheated.
To make it clear, to all who are interested in a solution to the main problem presented in this thread: To achieve the ability, at least in BF3, to switch between 2 exact pre-defined modes of DPI / sensitivity, I needed to find and set just the right amount of mouse sensitivity in the game menu. And even then, It's not really good enough, and the end result is a lot of fiddling with the mouse buttons all the time (changing DPI, and sometimes also sensitivity) while in the heat of the battle. ANNOYING!
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