Razer Diamondback Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 23, 2004 7:55am PDT

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Looks real nice, might have to pick it up, though I'd rather they finally get the Mamba out. Never did get on with the bulky new logitechs for gaming. :(

Sep 23, 2004 8:14am PDT

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Looks real nice, might have to pick it up, though I'd rather they finally get the Mamba out. Never did ge... : node
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  the MX300/310 is pretty snazzy for small optical. : Turd Ferguson
  - Same with the 510 : TheArtMan

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Windows XP restricts the USB low speed HID protocol to a 8ms-polling rate contrary to USB spec. Windows 2000 and ME comply with the USB spec. This is why we had to find another way around instead of increasing polling rate; it wonÃ¢Â€Â™t work in WinXP (but it will work, in OSX and Linux, for instance).

hehe, BAD MICROSOFT!! BAD! BAD!! Also found this tidbit:

The problem with 8 bits for X/Y info is well known. -127/+127 (left/right) is the maximum info that can be sent, resulting in a very low maximum top speed of around 11Ã¢Â€Â per second at 800dpi and 6400 frames per second.

On top of this problem, the old MX500 did not have buffer overflow protection, so if it exceeded +127 instead of staying at +127, it would either error and reset to zero, or worse, reset to -127, resulting in the mouse going in the OPPOSITE direction as fast as possible! With 12 bits, the maximum is -2048/+2048; with 16bits the maximum is -32k/+32k.

Ouch, glad I never got one of those. I wonder if this mouse is big-hand friendly; I just hate the ergonomics of Logitech's mice.

Sep 23, 2004 11:07am PDT

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Windows XP restricts the USB low speed HID protocol to a 8ms-polling rate contrary to USB spec. Windows 2 : the archvile
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- some of the biggest mice i know. flat but reallllly realllly wide : Klebold
- I have NEVER, not ONCE had my MX700 go in the wrong direction or fail to move. Maybe it becomes a prob... : nudel

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