Software
When it comes to gaming peripherals, the included software is often a hit and miss. Unfortunately with the Armaggeddon G 17 I found the software to be a huge miss. I found the hardware to be very lack luster and buggy and shortly after installing the latest software from Armaggeddon’s site I was greeted with a couple of unpleasant BSOD on Windows 8.1. I had just enough time to take a look at the software before I was forced to uninstall it at which point the mouse handled flawlessly.
The main page is the Button Setting menu. Here you have a handy drop down menu that lets you choose and pick what windows commands you want each key to do. You can program different configuratiosn on the 5 different profile the G17 sports thanks to its massive 512 kB of on-board memory. In this same window you can also record macros, I found it a little outlandish using the “Start Record” button at which point you execute what you want saved. I personally would have preferred the standard approach where you simply click the combination of buttons you want to save.
Moving on we have the Main Frame. This menu allows for the adjustment of the X and Y axis as well sensitivity, windows point speed, scroll speed, and double click speed. All welcomed functions that you do not see every day and also all programmable with the 5 different profiles available.
Lastly we have the Lightning Options. This option is quite pointless and could have been added to the Main Frame Menu. Here you are limited to very few options as to what you can do to the LEDs, you unfortunately cannot change any of the colors. This menu seems unfinished and many extra features could have been added. The software doesn’t even allow on-the-fly changes to the LED unless you hit apply. The other two menus do not have any customization options. Overall the software was a bit of a letdown, I expected a mouse at this price point to include more versatile software with more options and less bugs.
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