Razer Boomslang in winxp

[Johnbear007]

Hey, anyone get these working well yet in winxp?


I'm thinking this company is finally dead. unfortunatley, no web updates for a long, long time.

 

[RudeBoie]

Last I heard,
Still dead. Try http://www.ntcompatible.cjb.net/ for more info

 

[Goi]

Hmmn, for some reason I was under the impression that the company was not dead, but in fact coming back alive.

 

[Johnbear007]

they said they were coming back, but there has been no change in the web page for months now

 

[bmacd]

what exactly is Razer Boomslang?

-=bmacd=-

 

[Goi]

bmacd, click here

 

[Johnbear007]

I sent an e-malo to them and got this reply:

We hope to be up and running again soon,

thank you for your support.




pretty informative eh?

 

[Goi]

Yeah well, I hope to be a billionnaire and have both Jennifer Love Hewitt and Penelope Cruz by my side, but that's not gonna happen anytime soon either...

 

[EJ]

You can get info running it in WinXP here http://razer.tigga.org/

Razer is the best mouse out there. It actually lets you use the higher dpi it has. If you raise or lower your Razer sensitivity in it's control panel you don't lose any pixel precision(unlike optical mice).

Too bad the company has had bad luck.

EJ

 

[RudeBoie]

I'm hoping another company will make a similar design precision wise, with optical and usb, and maybe normal grip for it.

SUPER MOUSE!

 

[EJ]

Yeah cause I'm pretty sure it's just good custom drivers that make the Razer actually use it's high dpi. Most mice use default windows control for their sensitivity (pixel skipping).

A good optical with Razer drivers would be nice

EJ

 

[Goi]

Actually, if I'm not wrong, the Razor Boomslang does use optical technology. However, rather than letting the optical sensor track the surface of the mousepad, it tracks the surface of the mouse ball. This provides consistency in the tracking surface - its always a mouse ball - compared to the mousepad, which will always be different depending on what you use. Also, and I'm just guessing here, that the fixing of the sensor and mouseball can also mean that the texture/surface of the mouseball can be optimized to allow for better optical tracking, and vice versa.

 

[PliotronX]

Man, I was really interested in the Mamba. Somehow I get the feeling MS is striking up a deal with Razer :Q

 

[YBS1]

The mouse should work perfectly fine in XP, simply use the 2.12 drivers. The only issue those drivers had in XP to my knowledge was customized settings wouldn't load at boot. In which case there was a fairly easy workaround. Open regedit and browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Karna\Razer and grab a quick screenshot of your personalized settings. Then go to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Karna\Razer and make any needed changes to mirror the settings from your CURRENT_USER directory. Close, reboot and from then on your settings are loaded at bootup and the drivers work as well in XP as they did in Win9X. The odd thing is I recently had to reinstall XP and I slipstreamed SP1 in with it, it seems as if SP1 fixed the no-load at boot up issue with the driver, as I didn't have to use the registry workaround this time.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: Goi
Actually, if I'm not wrong, the Razor Boomslang does use optical technology. However, rather than letting the optical sensor track the surface of the mousepad, it tracks the surface of the mouse ball. This provides consistency in the tracking surface - its always a mouse ball - compared to the mousepad, which will always be different depending on what you use. Also, and I'm just guessing here, that the fixing of the sensor and mouseball can also mean that the texture/surface of the mouseball can be optimized to allow for better optical tracking, and vice versa.

Ive been inside, outside, and all around a razer boomslang and there are no optical sensors whatsoever anywherein that mouse. you can get the blueprints on one of the razer tech sites...


I wish they would start making mice again!

 

[TheWart]

for some reason the win2k drivers work for me without a hiccup. the web site HAS changed, first to notify of the new stock thru ebay and now for some updates a week or two back.

 

[EJ]

Actually there are optical sensors. There are wheels ,with grooves, attached to the rods the mouse ball makes spin. The sensors watch the grooves of those wheels.

EJ

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: EJ
Actually there are optical sensors. There are wheels ,with grooves, attached to the rods the mouse ball makes spin. The sensors watch the grooves of those wheels.

EJ

I dont know which versions are optical, but Ihave a boomslang 1000 and there are no optical sensors anywhere in that mouse. ive had it apart numerous times for maintanence

 

[YBS1]

*Cough*

"1) Encoder DPI............... The key to this new technology is the focused light beam used to count the rotations of the encoder wheel. An analogy would be the pinpoint precision of a laser versus the dispersion of a flood light. By focusing the light beam, the Razer can track the slightest movement of the encoder wheel with speed and precision far beyond that of a conventional mouse."

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: YBS1
*Cough*

"1) Encoder DPI............... The key to this new technology is the focused light beam used to count the rotations of the encoder wheel. An analogy would be the pinpoint precision of a laser versus the dispersion of a flood light. By focusing the light beam, the Razer can track the slightest movement of the encoder wheel with speed and precision far beyond that of a conventional mouse."

Well, I guess I stand corrected. I did not see any "light beam" when I was inside my boomslang. I'm going to rip this thing apart again just for the heck of it so I can see this thing.


sorry