Razer Abyssus Mirror Special Edition Gaming Mouse Review

👤by Vinh Thai Comments 📅01-07-10
Mirror Special Edition and Drift Control
The Razer Abyssus Mirror (and the Razer Abyssus) is one of the few Razer mice that have no drift control out of the box. Another mouse would be the Razer Imperator as well as the Razer DeathAdder after a firmware update. Drift control is basically a technology that corrects small movements as a straight line. This technology is mostly noticed at low sensitivity or when using the mouse under certain circumstances, such as image editing and drawing.

In a gaming situation, drift control should more or less affect performance. According to Razer, drift control might incorrectly correct the mouse movement of a gamer. An example of when this might occur is when using a sniper rifle with the mouse’s sensitivity at low.

I would believe that the impact of drift control on gaming performance is small, however. Given the fact that the target is usually large on the screen (suppose the enemy’s head here) the gamer should still hit the target.

Still, on paper, no drift control does indeed give total freedom of movement to the gamer. Whether or not it translates to improved accuracy in real-world gaming is debatable.

Nevertheless, no drift control might be good or bad in circumstances other than gaming. The best example that comes into mind is image editing. Cropping or selecting an area of an image to the pixel can be tedious with drift control. Drift control might correct small mouse movements as a straight line when you didn’t want the cursor movement to be that way. In these cases, drift control can be detrimental to performance.

Drift Control Explanation by Razer: http://eu.razerzone.com/razer-abyssus-mirror

Q: What is Drift Control and how does it affect accuracy?
A:
Drift control is a common prediction mechanism in mouse sensors that is designed to assist users in drawing straight lines vertically/horizontally in graphical and work applications. Such sensors predict when a straight line is being drawn and corrects any movement that deviates from that straight line, rather than follow the user’s exact movements. This means a downward swipe of 5 degrees can be corrected into a completely horizontal line, causing a gamer to miss his target.





For absolute freedom of movement, the Razer Abyssus™ Mirror Special Edition is engineered with no drift control - giving gamers the ability to translate their exact mouse movements into in game frags without interference from prediction mechanisms that results in accuracy loss.


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