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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers Nexus net and today we're looking at the Logitech G Series drivers for for the mouse and keyboard and other G Series products so this is the accompaniment the video accompaniment to our G 600 that's what you see here the G 600 review which is published and linked below in the description of this video click on that link to read the full review of the G 600 but this is a so this is the mouse you have 12 buttons here on the on the left side thumb side and it's just four by three and then you have the normal left right and middle mouse buttons of course the the middle one can scroll or press you can lean left and right with it which is good for tilting or leaning in a game like Call of Duty there are two different elevation buttons right here and then there's a what they call a G shift button for your ring finger and personally I think this one is pretty cool you hold it down and it gives you a different set of key bindings for all the buttons on the mouse so if I hold it down it'll change what all of these things do to a different set if I release it it goes back to the default set pretty cool in total there's something I don't know something like 20 buttons it's pretty insane so you can store these profiles either locally on the mouse or on the system that you're on storing it on the mouse is pretty cool because if you take it to a land party where you're using a different machine as long as they have the software on there or you're allowed to load it you can load up that profile and just go it's that easy with this you just store it straight to the machine so that's what I will do here's the actual this is what we're looking at here for bindings I've already programmed a couple of these as you can see I've programmed an alternate toolbar break free finisher move and this is a profile I'm building for rift so the mouse does ship with a couple pre-built profiles I was not happy at all with one the chips for rift so I am building a custom one let me just unassign these so I can do the demo for you and basically it's very simple oops the way it works is you click on the button you can do edit you see here we have all of our options you can do it keystroke which is just anything like shift why for example multi key a textblock which is good because if you're trying to spam guild recruitment text and chat you can basically type like hey join our guild blah blah blah and hit the button on the mouse and it will spam that and everyone will hate you but you won't have to type it so good for you I guess Mouse functions these are normal functions on pretty much any Mouse except there are dpi up down and shift buttons so that's pretty useful if you change dpi a lot the media center command here are for Windows Media Player or your other default media players hitting a button with this bound to it will execute the command even if you have rift or other games open so for example you can play or skip songs that are already loaded in Media Player hotkeys these are normal Windows things cut paste stuff like that shortcuts just for launching applications very simple functions more Windows stuff calculator is kind of cool but totally not necessary and Ventrilo of course for voice-over-ip needs and you can mute and unmute microphone or sound while fullscreen by hitting a button so that's kind of cool you don't have to minimize to do that and what we are going to do though is a basic keystroke we will start with so first of all the goal here is to use something that you're not going to be able to hit easily with your keyboard like shift left bracket that's just so far out of the way I'm never going to hit it and it gives me an extra key that I can that wasn't already being used in rift or other mmo's so that's pretty useful there because it does give you more options if you want to have like three toolbars on your screen simultaneously and you were running out of reachable keys on the keyboard you can now bind unreachable keys or macros I show or whatever you want to call them combinations to the mouse so we will call this alternate alternative toolbar one and basically this will be for my second toolbar on the screen I already have one toolbar that uses one through equals and then I will have a second toolbar that uses these buttons so I don't need this which toolbars which of course increases user input latency and decreases your competitive advantage in PvP so now let's do a basically what I just did is bind this to shift bracket so I can press that and execute a command on a toolbar the next thing I'm going to do is create a simple macro so we will call this a combat finisher how about that and this is what I will use on my assassin class when I'm trying to execute a series of abilities and rapid in succession without the potential for me screwing it up by hitting the wrong button and you can record delays if you want to but I will have a lawn a lawn macro set or a long ability execution timer on the game so that these will just queue sequentially and then execute as each one finishes so let's record this we'll just say it's 1 2 3 4 5 and then for sake of example Shift + left bracket and stop recording so now if I hit the front middle button this one here it will execute all those in succession and then sequentially sequentially use the abilities in the game pretty simple you can tell it to repeat if you want to while pressed it'll just keep repeating over and over or tell it to toggle like if you're doing a Crouch toggle so that's how that works and the rest are all fairly simple really you can bind to actual abilities like break free I've done here but that's all you need to see there G shift that's that rein finger button if I hold it you can now see these are all green that's a second set of options and that's basically useful if you if you need more than these buttons to do stuff that's why you would do it that's why you'd use G shift so that's that let's go on to the next screen here we have dpi sensitivity very simple you can enable a certain amount of levels for dpi control I only want three because that's all I can handle and I will use 1400 dpi for sniping mode because I want a lower sensitivity when I'm scoped that way I'm less likely to screw up and miss I'll have this as my default sensitivity I've already assigned as default as you can see over here and then I'll have this as my shift sensitivity which is a logitech function so if I used the the dpi shift key it will shift temporarily to uber twitch speed which is almost 3000 dpi report rate is just the Hertz reports per second so that's I think that's in frequency which would be Hertz from the mouse to the unit and I've set that to 500 at 1000 which is a killer I've actually had issues with with the mouse freezing and other profiles so I will not do that you can enable per profile pointer settings as you see here if I want dota to have different sensitivity levels than rift I can do that and then finally you have colors so you can do full RGB spectrum here and and basically just you see in the background there what's happening to the mouse pretty cool stuff you can set the opacity if you don't want it to be crazy bright well you should be able to set it oh it must not be happy because of something I've checked every here yeah there we go so you can set the opacity and if you select the lighting effects here you can tell it to cycle lighting like this you see over here there's a full RGB or ROYGBIV color spectrum you can do pulse lighting which as you're seeing here will just pulse on and off and you can increase the frequency with which it does that I don't want to have a seizure so I'm disabling it you can also tell it to go to sleep when your wave when you're idle for so on so it doesn't kill the LEDs won't really conserve any power though it's only like a watt and then there are per profile backlight settings which are just pretty cool you can make each profile different color that way it's easier to track which profile you're using and then this is just the settings page there's nothing useful to see here other than a couple toggle settings so that is really it for the software for the g600 check out the link below for the full review I really encourage it it's a pretty good mouse but does have very specific applications so it's not for everyone as with all my sub course and it I've had fun with it in MMOs our other reviewer who worked on the mouse the actual review said he personally does not have as many uses for it so it really just depends on who you are and what you're doing check out that link and I will see you all next time peace