Shigbeard

I have a massive issue with Corsair Utility Engine. For backstory: I speedrun GoldSRC games, such as Half-Life: Decay and Half-Life: C.A.G.E.D. In games such as this, the higher my FPS = the better my performance. Speedrunners of these games require a higher framerate than what our monitors can actually display due to a number of oddities with the engine, most notably air strafing (where if you strafe into a turn mid-air, you will gain velocity while also adjusting your horizontal trajectory). Where I'm going with this is quite simple. I've been trying to figure out where my FPS is going to when trying to speedrun, and today I tried closing absolutely everything, and could not get a stable framerate (I was at 140-170 fps). I decided "**** it, lets try closing Corsair Utility Engine". Boom. Instant, stable 200 fps. Corsair Utility Engine LITERALLY eats frames from Half Life. Why is this a big deal? Not only does it LOWER my max framerate, it also causes my framerate to FREQUENTLY DIP far below the average. These are called FPS drops, and if one happens right as you are about to jump or perform some frame perfect movement tech like an edgebug, your inputs will be delayed (even if its by a dozen MS) and you will fail the tech. CUE is a massive resource hog and in order for me to play at my best, I must disable Corsair's Utility Engine (and thus most of the features of my mouse and headset, including key rebindings that my mouse's direct competitor, the Razer Naga, can save directly to the device and have work WITHOUT a program eating resources on my computer). Because of this, I am now looking into replacing my mouse and headset. I WAS very happy with my Schimitar RGB, and my Void Wireless, however with most of the functionality of these devices locked away behind resource intensive software, I am going to find solutions elsewhere. It also doesn't help that Corsair doesn't support Linux in any of their devices or their software. Great work on losing a customer. PS: I also find it funny that your "Official Forums" don't support HTTPS, and that you use vBulletin of all things. Jesus christ and I thought your tramp stamp was your low point...

I'm having this issue still, jesus christ corsair it's been two years and I'm having to necropost just to get some help on this. It appears the issue is entirely with the "remap key" functionality, as the button still works if used with a macro or text function, but "remap key" doesn't work. I can only fix this by reinstalling CUE, which breaking my audio routing etc. This also sometimes breaks mid session and can only be fixed by reducing my mouse's response time.