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Their hardware, in the case of gaming mice/keyboards at least, runs absolutely fine with generic drivers. The issue here is them pushing an extra "control cente
by supernes 6y ago
Their hardware, in the case of gaming mice/keyboards at least, runs absolutely fine with generic drivers. The issue here is them pushing an extra "control center" type app through ads that pop up on the desktop without any consent or interaction from the user.
- vbezhenar 6y agoI guess that proprietary drivers are required to configure additional buttons, DPI, etc. Though Logitech mices save configuration inside, so I was able to configure the mice, then reinstall Windows and use generic driver.
- matheusmoreira 6y ago> The issue here is them pushing an extra "control center" type app through ads that pop up on the desktop without any consent or interaction from the user. Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. These fancy input devices usually have LEDs, macros, variable sensitivity and other nifty features that are configured via vendor-specific driver applications. I've never used one that was even remotely good. My Clevo laptop shipped with gamer-style bloatware that would take over a minute just to start up. I managed to reverse engineer it with wireshark and made a command line program that implements most of the features I cared about. The code is pretty short, here is the project in case anyone wants to see how it works or create a custom version for their own hardware: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x It was just a matter of figuring out what data the manufacturer's application sends to the device and making my program do the same thing.