#Good mouseless games software

It's a good choice for all-purpose gaming, but not as good as the Logitech Proteus Core ($80). It's a good choice for MMO, but not as good as the Razer Naga ($80). It's a good choice for FPS, but not as good as the Corsair Vengeance M65 ($50). The real question is whether it's worth $100. Watch Dogs and Heart of the Swarm played just fine, but there was nothing endemic to the Tyon to recommend it over other mice. On the other hand, the Tyon didn't do much for the action/adventure or real-time strategy games that I tried. In fact, if you're a hardcore MMO player and don't want to dish out big bucks for a mechanical MMO keyboard, the Tyon might be a good alternative. The EasyShift button was easy to access, and gave me plenty of potential buttons for macros and other useful MMO mainstays. Likewise, reassigning common keyboard commands to my mouse worked wonders for my Jedi Knight in The Old Republic. I ran it through Titanfall, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Watch Dogs and Star Wars: The Old Republic, and found that it had what it takes to succeed in every genre.

#Good mouseless games software

Ultimately, the Tyon's appearance and software are secondary to how it plays games, and it plays games extremely well. If you can live with a steep learning curve and a bit of lassitude, the Roccat software is workable, but not great. The Tyon can detect your surface configuration and optimize its performance, as well as play sounds when users change profiles or adjust DPI between 200 and 8,200. Users can program up to five profiles and match each one with up to three programs. The rest of the software provides what's expected, but in an incredibly granular fashion. Turning off the Tyon's default rainbow cycling effect required me to save changes and exit the program, leaving the mouse to cycle through each one of its color profiles before finally acquiescing. Choosing new colors and selecting Apply often took between 30 and 60 seconds to register.

What's not so attractive is just how sluggish the software feels when trying to alter the color scheme. Still, you can use different color schemes for different profiles, and that's always a plus.

In practice, most blues or purples look pretty similar to one another, and the greens in particular have a sickly, unnatural sheen. Both the scroll wheel and the undercarriage light up, and you can mix and match from a selection of millions of colors - in theory. The Tyon also has some fairly extensive lighting options. I was able to program each button with a keystroke, a mouse function, a media control, a macro or a host of other, more obscure options, which is a lot to take in. The huge amount of options can also be intimidating at first. The color scheme and font made all the text a little cramped and hard to read. When I finally got the software up and running, it was still on the tricky side.