Mad Catz R.A.T.5 a graduation present.

Ok so I graduated recently after several years of being in college and attending a local university which I really enjoyed. There are great professors from several information system courses I took for my major and other classes such as management, Chinese history, and finance. I felt many of the professors really did their best, I'm glad to have attended and been part of each of those classes. Well but like the title of this post says Mad Catz R.A.T.5 you are here for that, not my reminiscence of college days, haha. Ok so I graduated and one of my cousins who I look up to for being straight out awesome always pushing against obstacles in life no matter how tough they are she knows how to keep pushing forward. She originally got me a different mouse, but said she was trying to get me something more of my liking, but she had relied on salesperson lack of knowledge and later after purchasing the first mouse someone was kind enough to explain the differences in the types of gaming mouse available. So luckily she had the receipt and I could go exchange it for the one I wanted. I was like awesome!!!! So I hurried back to the electronics store, and if anyone is wondering where. Fry's electronics. Any who I go and return the mouse and I'm looking around the store and then I was like I've been keeping an eye on the R.A.T mouse for a long time. So I took the R.A.T.5 and alas I have a gaming mouse which I love. I first plugged it in without the installation of the drivers simply let Windows configure it, and it worked of course. I was like this works great even without the download of the drivers and software, but I like playing Starcraft II so I went ahead and downloaded the drivers and software. Here is what followed:::

 So first step simply was to go to their website which is http://www.cyborggaming.com/ and of course their website is fairly easy to navigate through and find what you are looking for. So under the downloads section simply choose your Operating System(OS) followed by your product, mine of course was the R.A.T.5, click the download driver and wait a few seconds or minutes depending on your connection. Then download the latest software much easier as you can see choose your OS and click download software. I think this one I waited for a two or three minutes, not very long.

 So as you can see I'm using Firefox here so first install the driver and after the interface software. And as you can see in the screenshot below the driver install easily and fast just keep an eye out if you are using windows for the user account control which will appear if enabled.

 So after the driver was installed I ran the setup file for the software as seen above. Simple process not confusing at all. And even their disclaimer was short and to the point, at least that is what I thought.

 So it takes a few seconds after accepting the terms of the disclaimer and clicking on the next button to actually install the software, it was pretty fast, probably took about 1 or 2 minutes to install. As you can see below that is the last step, I left the check box marked to run the profile editor after clicking finish. You don't have to obviously and can just open it later.

 As you can see from the last two screen shots the software interface where you can go and configure the mouse settings and programming. Under settings you get the actual dpi options you want which is great because there is an X and Y for what level of sensitivity you want the dpi to be set to and each can be set to a different level. Both X and Y range from 100 to 5,600 dpi, and their is also a precision aim which allows an adjustment for all those FPS games, although I can't play any of those games without having a disaster of overeating on pizza and burgers with all the chugging of soda only to fall asleep within 30 minutes of gaming, haha. Lastly they have a section for support which has links some useful I think, especially the game profiles which you can get for the mouse. I haven't tried that myself yet, but I will. That's all for today. Hope you enjoyed this small rant of my graduation gift.
May you all keep gaming it one day at a time!