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CM Storm Inferno Software Continued
The second tab of the Inferno software deals with the Storm Tactics key.
The Storm Tactics key functions somewhat akin to a function key on a laptop. You hold it down and then you press another button (or two other buttons) to get a new effect. You can use this to reassign buttons more important tasks or less important tasks without losing button functionality. This tab also features the scroll wheel adjustment setting which determines how far each page scrolls with each tick of the scroll wheel. This feature is also profile specific, but you can use the same scripts for each profile if you like.
The third deals with creating macros. The ability to assign macros is a hugely useful feature for this mouse to have, so it is understandable that it is one of the selling points. The mouse is capable of saving up to 32 different macros in the onboard memory, and you can export them to your computer to back them up or if you want to create ones to use later. The scripting tab is quite similar though capable of more advanced functionality and less storage (the mouse can only keep 6 scripts saved to it). The macros and scripts are the only things adjustable on the mouse that aren't profile specific and can be accessed from any profile, so long as you have a button combo set up to access them.
These three mouse functions can combine to greatly increase the usefulness of the mouse in certain games. For example, let's say you are playing a game that has occasional uses for a turbofire mode, but the Rapid Fire button by itself would be much more useful in gameplay if it the computer recognized pressing it as the same as pressing the Return key on the keyboard. What you would do is create a macro consisting of you pressing the Return key, and then you would assign it to the Rapid Fire button instead of the default turbofire function. But since you don't want to lose the turbofire functionality completely, you assign the Rapid Fire button (which is button #9) to work as a turbofire again when you have the Storm Tactics key pressed, like so:
The software is capable of doing much more complex things than this of course, but this is a quick example. Also, remember that this is saved to the mouse itself, so it would work the same way on any computer you plugged it into. You could just need to remember the required button combos and what profile that they are contained within.
As mentioned above, the mouse only has room to save 32 macros and 6 scripts. To create more and/or back up your current ones, you go to the library tab to export macros to your hard drive which is the final tab with the exception of the Update tab. The library is also what you use to import your backed up macros and scripts into the Inferno to save to the on-board memory.
The second tab of the Inferno software deals with the Storm Tactics key.
The Storm Tactics key functions somewhat akin to a function key on a laptop. You hold it down and then you press another button (or two other buttons) to get a new effect. You can use this to reassign buttons more important tasks or less important tasks without losing button functionality. This tab also features the scroll wheel adjustment setting which determines how far each page scrolls with each tick of the scroll wheel. This feature is also profile specific, but you can use the same scripts for each profile if you like.
The third deals with creating macros. The ability to assign macros is a hugely useful feature for this mouse to have, so it is understandable that it is one of the selling points. The mouse is capable of saving up to 32 different macros in the onboard memory, and you can export them to your computer to back them up or if you want to create ones to use later. The scripting tab is quite similar though capable of more advanced functionality and less storage (the mouse can only keep 6 scripts saved to it). The macros and scripts are the only things adjustable on the mouse that aren't profile specific and can be accessed from any profile, so long as you have a button combo set up to access them.
These three mouse functions can combine to greatly increase the usefulness of the mouse in certain games. For example, let's say you are playing a game that has occasional uses for a turbofire mode, but the Rapid Fire button by itself would be much more useful in gameplay if it the computer recognized pressing it as the same as pressing the Return key on the keyboard. What you would do is create a macro consisting of you pressing the Return key, and then you would assign it to the Rapid Fire button instead of the default turbofire function. But since you don't want to lose the turbofire functionality completely, you assign the Rapid Fire button (which is button #9) to work as a turbofire again when you have the Storm Tactics key pressed, like so:
The software is capable of doing much more complex things than this of course, but this is a quick example. Also, remember that this is saved to the mouse itself, so it would work the same way on any computer you plugged it into. You could just need to remember the required button combos and what profile that they are contained within.
As mentioned above, the mouse only has room to save 32 macros and 6 scripts. To create more and/or back up your current ones, you go to the library tab to export macros to your hard drive which is the final tab with the exception of the Update tab. The library is also what you use to import your backed up macros and scripts into the Inferno to save to the on-board memory.