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I had the chance to work with the new SteelSeries Engine 3 with both the 9H and the Siberia Elite. With the Rival, this was the first chance I had to see how the software handles mice. Just like before, when you boot up the software it lists all of the SteelSeries devices you have and have had hooked up and lets you select what you want to work with. When you pick the Rival it opens up another window, something that I’m not a fan of. When you open it up though you are greeted with a large picture of the Rival with each of the configurable button and lights has a line coming off the photo to a drop down menu. There is an option up top to let you flip from a top down view of the Rival to a side profile to get at each of the buttons, or you can use the actions list on the left side.

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Each of the mouse buttons can be programed to macros, keyboard and mouse buttons, or even media buttons. Speaking of macros, the macro editor looks simple but when you start recording your key strokes it really looks cool.

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Along the right side of the software you have a whole bunch of options ranging from angle snapping, polling rate, DPI options, and even slider bars for adjusting acceleration and deceleration. There are so many options that you have to scroll up and down to get through all of the options actually. The DPI settings take up a good portion of that space because they are large round gauge looking sliders for both the low and high DPI settings.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #33558 27 Dec 2013 21:23
Before the weekend I take a look at the latest mouse from SteelSeries. If you are a fan of the Razer Deathadder, I would highly recommend you check this one out. Have a great weekend

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