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  1. as long as they add up to 18 macro keys, I am down with that modular design. I work with a lefty accounting staffer and she has her calculator on the left. I imagine that might be neat for them. You may find another board mfg or two that does this, but in my opinion, the user experience isn't the same quality level. Corsair is very good at this stuff, and kind of did that with the new interconnected light/fan system 'CORSAIR iCUE LINK'
  2. I am not sure how many corsair decision makers are going to see your post, but the only thing I can say to mitigate your feelings as a user is, I have used many pieces of hardware over the last thirty years and I would say I have gone through five times as many other brand's generics (often times with effectively zero warranty or replacement) as I have 65's and scimitars in the same timeframe. None of them perform as well tactile-ly and often lack other features including precision lighting and button count or layout. I think the hardware can fail for a lot of reasons, including long term use which I think is hard to QC for even with robots bc of the time factor between rolling off the press and getting packaged. There are probably other real world complexities in there including outsourcing of components and materials science like something literally would never fail in the first 12 months but maybe will 36 months out. We also live and game and work in a dynamic environment with dog hair, drywall dust, ceiling tile pieces, chemicals, and humidity / oxidation - none of which are easy to test for in a factory. At least the company stands by their warranty and does replace these devices in a timely fashion.
  3. I think the support site is a good move. https://help.corsair.com/hc/en-us/requests/new They may replace the item if it is in a certain timeframe, and provided there is a hardware issue. if they are for some reason unable to assist (which has never happened to me and I have reached out 3 times I think over the years), can you confirm you get the tactile bump when rolling? If so, it might mean there is an issue getting the scroll registered, which might be something lodged in the way like hair / dust etc which may or may not be made better with some aggressive compressed air
  4. Hey mate, I have been crying about this for a bit, and had to discontinue using my 18 macro key K95s but the K100 opex is what I use now in two locations and I just use an amazon supplemental 12 key macroboard that sits at the left and I even moved the Gkey keycaps to it. Its not perfect, and you don't get icue or sdk integration, but its more or less similar. For what its worth they just came out with another item people have been asking for a long time now, so maybe there is hope.
  5. Love you!! Will buy. I just unfortunately purchased a wired scimitar replacement same day like 2 days ago from local BB as I had a middle mouse stop working consistently (I work in 3d a lot so I hammer that thing an absolutely astronomically abnormal amount so not mad about it I must have used it every day for five years). I am probably going to get one for home and work, but before I pull the trigger on this, can you confirm there is operability with the SDK for the M keys on this wireless model?
  6. the fabric is that nice microfiber you see on a lot of game mats, but it seems to be a titch better quality. Its my 'daily driver' at home and I have had it for quite some time and use it more than 8 hours a day. I like it a lot and feel like its among the better performant mousemats I have used. the edge has some type of clear acrylic or something that allows the diffuse light. There's like three zones for the edges and I am not sure how that works exactly but the one thing its a lot better at than the polaris was, is not having the light too bright. Maybe bc I am shorter than some (5'8" roughly) I think my eye level tends to be a smidge closer to the keyboard so it used to kind of bug me on the polaris - not so much on the MM700 even if the room is dark. The block at the top right is also very nice and has a modular disconnect with the USB C connection and that provides 2x USB3 A. Theres another RGB logo on the top of that block (like a fourth zone). The pass thru is pretty reliable but every once in a while using both ports has been a problem. I rarely do that anyways its usually just for the mouse and the occasional USB drive and I dont have a problem, but like I remember a couple times having the scimitar and a ps4 controller wired there at the same time and it dropped out but thats any USB hub I have ever used has caused some type of problem some of the time. as needed It also seems to clean up nice with just wet papertowels as the stitch is awfully tight so stuff doesnt get lodged into the fabric. I have several dogs so theres a constant hair battle.
  7. were you all able to update the firmware to 1.13.53? That helped some % of the time for me. Still have the occasional phantom lockup typing and the window focus loss but that's less common and its luckily apparent as soon as it happens. Its odd for sure. It feels like the macro recorder went haywire and there's random hardware playback or something.
  8. Good luck. I quite like the board and the optical switches are quite quick in my opinion. There was a weird fail of the media keys today but a reboot sorted it. The firmware I am on is fine I just wanted to make sure I had the last one. The failed bit is probably just bc the server cant be contacted (I havent looked into it)
  9. a quick gist for remapping G1 to G3 and so on using the SDK example here https://gist.github.com/hasteagag/1c48ef79e1f2d16a1999eb7aafafce6b
  10. This is a smidge of a cop out but I skipped the bucky bit business and the amazon board which arrived today is a nice complement to this keyboard, it mimics the old design more or less if you have the old keycaps. As I had used the SDK to remap the G keys to various off keyboard scan codes for use in autohotkey, I have listed some code below which might be helpful as a reference to anyone in this situation (cant hurt). [code] modifierWrapper(theKey:="") { ; grab physical modifiers e:="{" . theKey . "}" print(e) if GetKeyState("Ctrl",P) e:= "^" . e if GetKeyState("Alt",P) e:= "!" . e if GetKeyState("Shift",P) e:="+" . e if GetKeyState("LWin",P) e:="#" . e print(e) return e } *F17:: *F18:: *SC077:: *SC078:: *SC070:: *SC073:: *SC079:: *SC07D:: *SC05C:: *SC07B:: *SC056:: *F15:: baseKey:=StrReplace(A_ThisHotkey,"*","") print(baseKey . " was pressed on the macro board") macroFlop:={F17:"SC0C1",F18:"SC0C2",SC077:"SC0C4",SC078:"SC0C5",SC070:"SC0C7",SC073:"SC0C8",SC079:"SC0CA",SC07D:"SC0CB",SC05C:"SC0CD",SC07B:"SC0CE",SC056:"SC0D0",F15:"SC0D1"} whichIsWhichGKey:={F17:"G1",F18:"G2",SC077:"G4",SC078:"G5",SC070:"G7",SC073:"G8",SC079:"G10",SC07D:"G11",SC05C:"G13",SC07B:"G14",SC056:"G16",F15:"G17"} print(macroFlop[baseKey] . " is what we are about to send...") print(whichIsWhichGKey[baseKey] . " is what we are hoping it represented...") SendLevel, 1 Send % modifierWrapper(macroFlop[baseKey]) return [/code]
  11. I have had both (I think all three) and I seemed to recall the elite having a smidge better tracking - I think it has a better sensor. I also want to say the buttons behind the wheel may have been renamed inside icue in older releases between the two models. Hard to say if there is a value proposition if you can get both, but you might want to check the list of supported hardware on the newest icue to make sure the older scimitar is not a 'legacy product' If you are going to use it every day, its probably worth it?
  12. Check that your profile is not switching when you are looking to test these. IE, say you were in a game and your .sup put sup in the chat, what may be happening is there is an automatic profile switch tied to the application? Or do you only have one profile?
  13. So the second of my three K95 18 Macro keys finally died, and I had a small memorial, but still needed a functioning board. I bought a local best buy in stock K100 RGB and I like it so far. Not a bad keyboard and quite fast to type on if you get used to it. Maybe a bit actuate-y if you aren't careful with certain fingers, I find myself typing sssss a lot. I had created an OSD to mimic the functionality in remote desktop or on steam link, way before its passing (which I had staved off even recently with a full teardown and blow out), but the problem still is, Corsair never released a board with as many macro keys as what they had with the first K95s. I am not grief'ing so much as grieving as I really got used to that quick, on the left functionality. I tend to keep my stream deck on the right hand side of the mouse, and I just bought a thing on amazon that arrives tomorrow that maybe could act as the keys to the left of the six nearest keys, but I sort of doubt its going to be a good product and certainly isn't attached to the key board or at the exact correct height. So looking at the positives, with this new board, I do not have to worry about the random and consistent issues I had from using a many years past its life expectancy keyboard, and I can leverage iCUE in a more meaningful and consistent manner. I used to have to keep iCUE downgraded, and often times avoided opening it because it definitely slowed the process of opening iCUE. I have remapped the MR M1 keys I had to the profile switching and Win lock buttons, because they are in the same vicinity and in my purposes I didn't tend to use M3 and maybe only 20% of the time used M2 but I think I can write my way around that. I was hoping to use the control wheel perhaps with "assignment playback" to act as a bucky-bit for the missing "rows" of G keys, ie: - rolling left would set G1 to act as G3 - rolling right would set G1 to act as G2 - and then G3 on subsequent roll right - rolling left again would set it to G2 All that is easy to do in programming, but I am struggling to find a sensible one handed bucky-bit. Thinking of using CapsLock. Inside iCUE, Assignment Playback, even if you set it to Lang Keys doesn't seem to have a simultaneous trigger for lighting, unless I am missing it. SDK could handle that for sure. I would be doing an OSD of some kind to visually indicate what mode the Macro keys are in (if the amazon macro pad is as bad as I anticipate which arrives tomorrow). There's various questions I have, and I am curious if anyone can assist: - Can the Control Wheel be seen in the SDK? Can this be added? - Can the Control Wheel be set to Assignment Playback and simultaneously change lighting inside iCUE? - Can anyone else get the firmware update to work on this model (as of today)? When I check it is failing with red text stating update failed at step 0/1 and the current keyboard firmware is v1.9.26
  14. I would buy four in 2 seconds. The scimitar is my daily driver at work and at home and I have three, they are awesome. The other corsair mice are great but just dont have the feature set (12 buttons).
  15. Hey Carlos, I ran into the same issue the other day, see post here, I took some seriously drastic measures to try to fix, but so far the only thing that worked was rolling back to version 3 (the latest release on the downloads page). It is so odd because I had a somewhat recent previous version 4 that worked just fine, and I have installed I think just about every release of v4 on both machines and never had this issue. You and I cannot be the only people having this problem in newer V4. Logging doesnt seem to show anything relevant. I can use remaps with G and M keys inside of cue, but not anything using the SDK and I know it isnt the hardware because swapping to a working machine does not make a difference in behavior, working machine works good with either scimitar mouse or 18Gkey K95 keyboard and vice versa. I have not tried updating gradually in version 4 yet, because I dont want to risk it on a maybe on my fresh install of win 10 at the office, but I might try that this weekend if I can find some time. Icue v4 is way more stable than v3 ever was and I wouldnt mind using the latest protocol version and I like to use it alongside leon kiefer (legion2's) icue server for programattic lighting so being relegated to V3 is a bummer. I would like to see them fix this right away, and then promptly announce the new 18 macro key k105 📢
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