The LAN-pak:

    Included in my review sample was a LAN-pak. It is made out of a nice soft cloth material. It is meant to hold your mouse in style, and would be perfect for taking your mouse to a LAN party. The Viper's smaller size doesn't want to hold very tightly in the elastic holder, but it does hold well enough when you close up the LAN-pak. I like the idea of a mesh pocket on the inside, which I assume could carry CD's with some ingenuity, and a zipper pocket on the outside of the LAN-pak. That shows me consideration was put in to make it better than just a zippered case. Not pictured is a belt loop on the back. At least it has the killer Razer logo on the outside, so if you have seen the recent remake movie: "The In-Laws" "Is that a fanny pack?" Probably won't come to anyone's mind....

 

(8) The LAN bag	(9) Opened

The software:

    I'll be using the latest 3.1.00 version for testing. I'm using Windows XP, and my mildly configured PIII workstation. I'll spare you further specs, because I don't game that much anymore. Ok, very little. I don't have time with content creating and graphics work that I have been doing lately (mostly all the time.) I however will be testing the mouse in gaming, but will only be giving my opinion, and not doing any real speculation as to increasing scores. Enjoy the pictures for now, and I'll do a very brief summary after.

 

(S1) So you'll want to plug in your mouse before you install the driver! :)

(S2) Yes, have to do that in XP, I forget if you have to in Windows 2000, but I've personally never came across a driver that wasn't signed by M$ that hasn't worked that was designed for XP. Ok, sorry, maybe a video driver, but video drivers I shouldn't be playing with regardless.

(S3) The Green "R" of course is the Razer Control Software. A right click on the icon brings up this menu. Select "Load Customizer to bring up what you see below. Or just double click on the icon in the system tray.

(S4) This is the sensitivity settings for the mouse. Double click speed, and YES, independent X and Y axis sensitivity can be controlled. How cool is that?

(S5) On the fly sensitivity On with "Show On Screen" checked (Note: I have not adjusted it with "showing on screen" while playing a game.) However, just having the ability to change that like for example; different game maps when you need more accuracy such as sniping. It's still very fresh that Razer has done this, and kept this through their all of their driver sets. Plus being able to see them on screen is very nice. Imagine if you were a graphics designer, and had to move in at the pixel level. You'll thank being able to adjust the sensitivity easily.

(S6) Scroll wheel settings. There is even a test area to see how fast your scroll wheel scrolls up and down. Razer has thought of everything.

(S7) Button programming screen. There are more features here than you can shake a stick at. I'll just do a brief summary below.

    So, not only does the software look pretty, it is very advanced. You can do macros with your buttons, and assign any key to any button. Of course with that being said, it isn't all that flexible considering the amount of buttons on the Viper, but think back to page 1, and the Internet Back command in IE. The software is flexible enough to do just about anything with the buttons.