Software

Most bigger peripheral manufacturers use a unified driver for their products nowadays, and ASUS is in this league too. The ROG Armoury is a well-made program that follows the design and color elements of the ROG lineup, which means you'll see a lot of black and red colors and harsh, sharp edges and metallic-like elements.

The program is quite self-explanatory; nearly all settings can easily be accessed, and I encountered no bugs or flaws whatsoever (except when uninstalling the program, but more on that later).

The main screen that pops up after opening the software is the Buttons section, where you can adjust button mapping. Naturally, there's an option to create macros, and these have their own main tab as well. The Performance page lets you fiddle around with sensor and button response settings (I'd highly suggest using the lowest 4 ms value). The Calibration tab contains the lift-off distance settings with a number of pre-defined options, but you can manually calibrate the LOD as well. Next, the Power section displays battery stats, as well as the sleep timer for the mouse. You can also make the lighting blink if the battery drains to a specific level. There's a profile panel on the left that's always visible, containing three different profiles you can link to programs.

The program takes up about 362 MB of disk space and consumes 22 MB of memory on my configuration. It's definitely not lightweight, so if you'd like, you can delete the software after setting everything up as the mouse has built-in memory (however, my set macro was lost during this process—this might be a one-time bug or a software flaw).

Lighting

RGB lighting certainly cannot miss from a flagship product, and the Gladius II Wireless lights up in amazing colors. The lighting is vivid and bright, with beautiful, vibrant colors. I'm still against the whole RGB-mania, but from an objective point of view, it really is beautiful. You can choose the "usual" effects; there's static lighting, breathing, color cycle, and reactive lighting. There's also a battery indication, which changes in color according to the set battery level.

I made a video to demonstrate these lighting effects:


Many ASUS peripherals, including the Gladius II Wireless, support a feature called Aura Sync, which is an option to synchronize the lighting effects with different devices. In this case, there are only three modes for Aura Sync; static, breathing, and color cycle. I made another video to demonstrate this; the Gladius is hooked up to the ASUS ROG Balteus Qi mouse pad: