[section_title title=”Software”]Software
Logitech stick with their tried, tested and universal gaming software suite for the G502. In it you can dictate whether or not you want to use profiles stored on your local machine or on the mouse itself, as well as the usual gubbins of game detection for executable dependant profiles and a macro editor/creation suite.
Below is the Titanfall profile at work – the call in Titan option is there but just further up the command list – with in game functions already pre-assigned for you to various buttons on the G502.
The tuning element of the G502 Proteus Core comes not only from the weights, but from a surface calibration utility too.
The brief test is meant to acclimatise the laser to your playing surface and from there on Logitech dictates how certain properties of the sensor should function. There isn’t really much on the Logitech website about how this works exactly, although from my brief non-scientific tests switching between my own calibrated mode and Logitech’s preset G240 mode (soft surface) didn’t feel any different. Comparing my own mode to the G440 (hard surface) setting felt like the G440 had a slower tracking on the X axis. The significance of the tuning utility is debatable, but its inclusion is welcomed nonetheless.
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