Mouse Utility Software

Ozone’s utility and configuration software is called, confusingly, “Ozone Driver”. It offers a standard array of functions for controlling the mouse characteristics and setting up profiles and macros. The main window is shown below. The Sensitivity Options at the left, Profile selection at the bottom, and labeled mouse button graphic in the center are constant; clicking the System Settings, Advanced Settings, or Button Settings tabs will change the control panel shown to the right of the mouse graphic. Here, the System Settings are shown. These are simply the standard Windows mouse settings for things like double-click speed, mouse wheel scroll action, and so forth, presented as a convenience feature.

Sensitivity and DPI options are always shown at the left. Here you can set the sensitivity independently for the X and Y axes, and specify the DPI for each of the four on-the-fly settings.

The Advanced Settings let you change the polling rate and the “on-to-go” speed, which apparently determines how fast mouse functions will repeat.

The Ozone software has a robust selection of functions to assign to its buttons, although there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before. Buttons can invoke macros, emulate any key press or series thereof, change profiles, launch programs, and so forth.

You can store five different profiles in the mouse’ onboard memory, which means you can unplug it and take your gaming setup with you to another computer. Additional profiles can be stored on the disk and can be either loaded manually, or set to automatically load when a specified program is run. Of course for the latter feature to work, the Ozone utility software must be installed on the computer in question.

Let’s see how this mouse is to use in the next section.