Turtle Beach Grip 500 Laser Gaming Mouse User Guide
Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 5 Installation ..........................................................................................................................
Introduction Welcome to the Turtle Beach Grip 500 Gaming Mouse User’s Guide. This user’s guide is intended to introduce you to the features and operation of your Grip 500 Gaming Mouse and the configuration software that can be used to enable and configure all its powerful features. For more help, visit www.turtlebeach.com/grip500. Installation Visit www.turtlebeach.com/grip500 to download the Grip 500 Configuration Software.
Opening and Closing Grip 500 Configuration Software When you close the application, an icon will remain in the system tray. You can relaunch the application by double clicking on the Turtle Beach icon in the system tray Double'Click'to'Launch'Program' You can also start the application by launching it from the Windows Start menu (in Windows 7) or from the Apps launcher (in Windows 8). You can minimize the application by pressing the _ icon.
Configuring Your Grip 500 Mouse You can enable features and customize the configuration of you Grip 500 from the main configuration window and the subsequent windows that open depending on what you are adjusting. Main Window Basic operations such as assigning actions to buttons and managing Profiles are accomplished from the main window.
and down. • • • • • • You can program any of the following to buttons using the Button Assignment pull-down menus. Mouse buttons – Left click, right click, middle click, mouse button 4 and 5, scroll up, scroll down. You can also Deactivate the button. Sensitivity (DPI) - Up, Down, or Cycle to next setting. Keyboard keys – Up to 3 simultaneous keystrokes along with CTRL SHIFT, ALT, and WIN modifier keys.
Performance Settings To customize the performance settings of your mouse, press the Performance Settings button. This will open the Performance Settings Window.
Setting Report (Polling) Rate Report rate is the frequency that the mouse reports its status to the Windows operating system. A setting of 1000 hertz means that it reports 1000 times per second or approximately once ever 1 mS. This is very fast. Most modern computers are fine getting information this quickly. You only need to adjust this setting if you have a slower computer or one that is doing a lot of other operations.
Illumination Settings To customize the Illumination of your mouse press the Illumination Settings button. This will open the Illumination Settings Window. Color%/%Shade%Picker% Color%Bar% Grill%Illumina>on% Current%Color% Scroll%Wheel%Illumina>on% Color%RGB%% and%Hex%Values% Previous%Colors% Effects%Selector% Logo%Illumina>on% Apply%Changes% Apply%Changes% and%Close% Cancel%Changes% In this window, you can set the illumination of the 3 zones (scroll wheel, Turtle Beach logo, and front grill).
As you use colors, the software will remember up to 10 colors and place them in the little boxes at the bottom of the scroll wheel color picker. You can reuse them later by clicking on the one you want. Macro Editor With the Grip 500 and its configuration software, you can create and assign complex combinations of keystrokes so that you can do almost anything you want. You can also insert commands and customize the timing / delays between those keystrokes.
Recording Macros with no Delays If you want to record macros with no delay between the keystrokes then before you click Record, select the box next to the Ignore Delay Time Box then click the apply Arrow. Then press Record and press all the keystrokes you want in your macro. Once you are complete, click on the Stop button. Now the delay between your keystokes will be 0 ms and they will be output to the computer as fast as possible.
Editing Macros You can also edit macros that you previously recorded from the macro editor window. Macro&Name& Apply&to&Line& Selected&Line& Edit&Delay& Ignore&or&Insert& Delay& Insert&Command& Record&Macro& Select&Previous&/&& Next&Line& Stop&Recording& Delete&Selected&Line& To change the timing of commands in your macro, select the line of the keystroke in the editor window and them change the delay in the Adjust Delay box.
