Corsair Vengeance M60 Mouse Review

👤by Richard Weatherstone Comments 📅18-01-12
Software
Corsair appears to be using a single console that can be adapted for any of their compatible Vengeance peripherals, currently including the K90 and of course today's review item, the M60. Each peripheral is chosen towards the top right of the software suite and will have specific windows to control that particular piece of hardware. The aptly named Corsair Vengeance Gaming Software for the M60 is spread over three tabs:

Assign Buttons



The Assign Buttons tab is where the majority of tweaking will occur as this is where you will dedicate functionality to the mouse by choosing what each of the 8 mouse buttons do. With the main buttons programmed you can delve into the world of Macro programming. While the M60 does not have as many buttons as the M90 (designed for MMO/RTS gamers) each of the 8 buttons are programmable with a Macro with each Macro being able to be controlled via four different methods - Play once, play infinite, play multiple times or start/stop. The delay time between macro settings can also be adjusted in milliseconds so you have plenty of scope to create those glitch exposing bunny hops, weapon change/reload configurations or whatever preference of macro you can think of.

While the lighting is blue only, it can be turned off if you prefer at the flick of a switch in the software suite under the Assign Buttons tab along with adjusting previously saved profiles.

Manage Performance



To tweak the M60's sensitivity you would head to the Manage Performance Tab where there are all manner of settings available. The mouse has three main DPI settings adjustable 'on-the-fly' using the up/down middle mouse buttons and a further 'on-the-fly' DPI setting for the Sniper button. The DPI is configured using a slider which moves in increments of 100 and has a range of 100 to the M60's maximum setting of 5700 DPI. Not only that but each axis can have a different setting so the right to left movement could be more sensitive than the up/down motion or vice versa which is great for those who like to dabble in piloting choppers or the jet whores!

Yet another feature of the software console is the hardware playback function. This allows the mouse rather than software to playback macro settings because some games can see software based macro's as hacks so this is a workaround ensures you do not get inadvertently get kicked from the server for using a macro.


If you feel your mouse pad surface is letting you down then why not let your mouse be the judge of that? The Vengeance gaming suite is capable of monitoring the gaming surface quality and during testing it did actually work very well. A cloth coated rubber backed mouse mat was reported to be of 'medium' quality whereas an Icemat 2.0 was classified as good. While this doesn't really have any functional benefit it will at least let you know not to blame the mouse if your surface is poor!

Yet another feature of the M60 is 'Angle Snapping'. 'Angle Snapping is the means of the mouse correcting our twitchy movements. Open MS paint and draw a straight line (using freehand tool) and I would wage you cannot do many if any at all.



Red= disabled Blue=Enabled
With Angle snapping enabled the mouse predicts that you wish to move in a straight line. Of course this effect has some impact in gaming - particularly useful for snap shooting. Imagine firing in one direction then a quick swivel 180 degrees should in theory allow you keep the same height (perfect for headshots?).

You can see this in action in the picture above. With angle snapping enabled (blue) the lines are much more linear than the red (disabled). The angle snapping of the M60 was not as severe as other mice I have tested but it does appear to work fairly well. I conducted this test a few times for fear of the angle snapping results simply being a result of the 'placebo' effect but for the most part, angle snapping seemed to work well on the M60.

Manage Profiles


Profile management is exactly what it says on the tin. This is where you can back-up, import, export your profiles. An infinite amount of profiles can be created and reloaded at your leisure with each profile name being briefly displayed on-screen once loaded onto the mouse.

Let's see how these features translate to performance as we analyse the mouse under gaming conditions...

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