Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 550M Cougar
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UIX ™ Instructions for Mice.
1. Introduction 2. Install COUGAR UIX 3. Game Profile Management 4. Performance Panel DPI Settings DP What? Unleash your sensor's power (DPI Adjustment) Pinpoint Sniping Polling Rate Angle Snapping Lift Height Double Click Speed Scroll Speed Windows pointer speed and mouse acceleration 5.
1. Introduction Dear user, We want to thank you for purchasing a COUGAR product. All aspects of COUGAR products have been designed with you, the gamer, in mind. We put all our skill in designing and producing tools that help you progress in gaming, whether it is for personal pleasure or for professional competition.
3. Game Profile Management Game profiles are complete sets that contain your device's configuration. All the UIX compatible COUGAR gaming peripherals can store up to three game profiles on board, which will be the ones that stay active.
Profile name is simply the name you want to give that specific profile. Usually it is best to choose a name that is closely related to the usage you plan to give it (for example, “healing spells” .
To make it one of the three active profiles, you need to close the game profile management window, choose one of the three active profiles in the mid left side of the UIX interface and open the sliding menu called current game profile. From there, choose which of your profiles you want to associate with this mode and click “Apply”.
5- With this done, we can go to the game profile management screen. We can see that our newly created profile shows a small M1 on its lower right area. This means that this is now the profile associated with Mode 1. M1 Creating the new profile. New Edit will allow you to modify this profile's name, picture and the .
4. Performance Panel Note: After changing any setting, please click for the changes to take effect. To go to the Performance panel, click on the button with that name, located under the profile select.
Please note that the accuracy with which you will be able to set the DPI levels will vary from model to model. Some models will allow for extremely precise DPI selection, while others will provide a smaller number of choices at some key points. The box to the left of each mode's name allows us to set it as either activated or deactivated.
Pinpoint Sniping This section allows us to set the DPI settings that will become active when you press the Sniper mode button, and stay so until we release it. As with the standard DPI settings, you can adjust independently the DPI levels for the X and Y axis by checking the box under that section.
Lift Height This sections allows you to define the height at which the mouse will stop providing input. If you choose “low”, the mouse will stop responding almost immediately upon being lifted. If you choose “high”, the mouse will still provide input even when you lift it moderately.
Windows pointer speed and mouse acceleration This section allows you to adjust the Windows Pointer Speed. Setting it to Slow will provide you with slower mouse movements, and the opposite applies it you set it closer to Fast. Please note that there is a difference between this and adjusting the DPI mode.
To add any function to a specific button, we need to drag the function's icon from the panel on the right to the box corresponding to the button in which we want to use that function. 5. Key Assignment Panel Note: After changing any setting, please click for the changes to take effect.
To remove a function, simply drag its icon from the box of the button it is assigned to to the trash can icon. The spaces for icons are linked clearly to their button, and the button spaces below are .
5-1. Basic Functions Double click Please note that by double clicking an empty box you can access the shortcut setting mode: you can input a key combination to associate it with a specific button.
5-2. Advanced Functions: DPI Switch Within the Advanced Functions panel, you will find that you have quite a broad range of functions to choose from. Let's see what they can do for you. Sets the DPI mode to the first DPI setting defined for the current game profile mode.
Sniper Mode The Sniper DPI function will activate the DPI settings defined for sniper mode for as long as the button is kept pressed. Upon release of the button, the DPI settings will go back to the previous one.
Please note that you can select a picture to represent this application by clicking on the upwards arrow icon you can see in this window. I-Mode 1, 2 and 3 switch the mouse to the game profile mode 1,.
These functions are pretty straightforward and should not require any explanation. Stop Previous Track Play/Pause Volume Up Volume Down Mute Next Track Media Functions 18 UIX.
The first thing you'll be required to do is to create a macro group. To do so, click on New Group and give a name to the macro group. 2 With the macro group created, we can proceed to click on the New Macro button.
We will then access the New / Edit Macro window, which allows us to define a macro and its settings. The first thing that we need to define is the macro's name. After doing so, we have three parameters that we must define and will affect the macro.
Record mouse movement offers us three different choices related to the macro. First and foremost, it gives us the choice of not recording the mouse's movements, to record absolute coordinates and to record relative coordinates.
Under these settings we've got the list of input components of the macro. The first column, No., simply indicates the order in which the actions listed will be performed when the macro is executed.
The second column, Device, indicates whether that input comes from the mouse or from the keyboard. This icon indicates that the action comes from keyboard input. This icon indicates that the action comes from mouse button input. This indicates that the action is a mouse movement.
The Action column does exactly that, indicate which is the action that will be performed. Finally, the “Key: This indicates the amount of time that will be recorded in the macro between two actions, measured in milliseconds. This indicates that the action is a relative mouse movement.
This is the UIX section that allows you to take full advantage of compatible COUGAR mice's impressive visual capabilities. 6. Lighting control Note: After changing any setting, please click for the changes to take effect.
2- There are three ways to choose the color: by clicking on the wheel to pick the one you want, by entering the exact RGB (Red-Green-Blue) amount you want or to pick one from the ones we preselected. 1. By clicking on the wheel to pick the one you want.
To know which version of UIX you're currently using, please click on the upwards arrow on the Windows Task Bar, right click on the UIX icon on the pop-up that will appear and click About/Update.
An important point after buying a device Cougar 550M (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought Cougar 550M yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data Cougar 550M - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, Cougar 550M you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get Cougar 550M will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of Cougar 550M, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime Cougar 550M.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with Cougar 550M. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device Cougar 550M along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
