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| System Name | Pioneer |
|---|---|
| Processor | Ryzen R9 7950X |
| Motherboard | GIGABYTE Aorus Elite X670 AX |
| Cooling | Noctua NH-D15 + A whole lotta Sunon and Corsair Maglev blower fans... |
| Memory | 64GB (4x 16GB) G.Skill Flare X5 @ DDR5-6000 CL30 |
| Video Card(s) | XFX RX 7900 XTX Speedster Merc 310 |
| Storage | 2x Crucial P5 Plus 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs |
| Display(s) | 55" LG 55" B9 OLED 4K Display |
| Case | Thermaltake Core X31 |
| Audio Device(s) | TOSLINK->Schiit Modi MB->Asgard 2 DAC Amp->AKG Pro K712 Headphones or HDMI->B9 OLED |
| Power Supply | FSP Hydro Ti Pro 850W |
| Mouse | Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless |
| Keyboard | WASD Code v3 with Cherry Green keyswitches + PBT DS keycaps |
| Software | Gentoo Linux x64 |
Razer's cloud storage servers failed for the second time this month, forcing user peripherals to use default settings across the globe. Worse yet, it came during the weekend, a time when many come home from a hard work-week to hope to have a gaming session. The worst part of all this? Apparently, the profiles are not only stored on the cloud, but also on your local machine, however, you must use a XML editing hack to get the software in offline mode to make it actually use the local profile on your machine. Otherwise, the software prefers to just go to defaults and give the end user an arguably irritable situation.
Razer has had their software like this for years, and as of now there have been no announcement of plans to change how it works. This is of course, one of the biggest pitfalls of "cloud" convenience; It's only convenient when the servers are online. When they fail, the lack of access to whatever you were trying to store can be one of the most irritating first-world problems imaginable. Of course, for something simple like a mouse profile, it doesn't have to be this way. It can and even is stored offline. Why it isn't used when the software fails to connect to Razer's servers can only be described as baffling.
EDIT: A smart TPU-Reader pointed out that Razer does allow you to create "Tournament Mode" drivers, effectively creating an offline installer with your driver and profile bundled together. This is as unadvertised as it can possibly be, in this humble editor and Razer user's opinion.
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Razer has had their software like this for years, and as of now there have been no announcement of plans to change how it works. This is of course, one of the biggest pitfalls of "cloud" convenience; It's only convenient when the servers are online. When they fail, the lack of access to whatever you were trying to store can be one of the most irritating first-world problems imaginable. Of course, for something simple like a mouse profile, it doesn't have to be this way. It can and even is stored offline. Why it isn't used when the software fails to connect to Razer's servers can only be described as baffling.
EDIT: A smart TPU-Reader pointed out that Razer does allow you to create "Tournament Mode" drivers, effectively creating an offline installer with your driver and profile bundled together. This is as unadvertised as it can possibly be, in this humble editor and Razer user's opinion.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
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) and a mouse bungee that i still use (if they did fail at that ... i would laugh really hard ... tho it was overpriced because of the branding, got it with a discount nonetheless ) it's like saying : "their only good product were the 1st they got out, after that: nix"
