Software

The DM8 Mini Pro comes with its own lightweight software. All settings are distributed across three different tabs. The first tab includes button remapping, allowing one to rebind all buttons to mouse, media, or macro functions. The second tab contains CPI adjustment at a range from 100 to 26,000 CPI in increments of 50, for up to six color-coded levels. CPI values cannot be entered manually, and some specific values are impossible to set as the slider will jump over them. Furthermore, polling rate can be set to 125, 250, 500, or 1000 Hz. "Key Response" describes button debounce time and can be set to a value between 0 and 16 ms, with lower values lowering click latency but increasing the likelihood of inadvertent double-clicking. The third tab has a macro editor.

All setting changes are saved to the on-board memory, so the software does not need to be running (or be installed) all the time. On my system, the software had a RAM footprint of 13 MB on average when running in the foreground, which doesn't change when minimized, be it to the taskbar or system tray. Upon exiting the application, all processes are terminated, as they should be.