Speedlink Styx

Installation

Installation is as simple as chucking the mouse into a spare USB port. You do get a little driver CD which installs an extension to the normal Windows mouse dialogue found in the Control Panel, and also puts a little mouse icon in your taskbar so that you can access this screen from anywhere.

It doesn’t look as funky as the Razer style setup windows, but then again the entire setup application is less than 6mb. It does the trick and allows you to set up what the buttons do. While the non-standard buttons can be set up to do anything (i.e. not the left and right mouse buttons) the standard buttons can only either be left or right click. This isn’t an issue as it’s rare that you want to do something other than click with these buttons.

You can set up macros to either press a single key, do a sequence or a multiple-key press (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Delete). The macro editor is ridiculously technical, with a sample macro looking like this:

…which isn’t the most user-friendly way of displaying the information in my mind.

As the mouse requires no drivers, it won’t be able to change the standard Windows polling rate which ordinarily sits at 125Hz or 8ms between polling the mouse. We’ve made a glossary article on polling rate and how it effects the mouse movements here.

Peripherals