What's the point of different profiles for keyboards and mice?

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Just trying to wrap my head around it never quite understood their intended purposes.

 

For example, I usually just set the RGB I want and there's that. I guess I could see different macros but do people really have a different set of macros per game/profile? 

 

For mice, do people really use different DPIs per game rather than have a set DPI and you change the ingame sensitivity? 

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Peripherals

 

To both, answer is yes. Though with keyboards, the need for profiles is less obvious. I don't think many use them for other than RGB. But for mice, DPS, binds and macros are a key. I have different dps for graphics editing than for Windows in general. I have had in past different dps for games and within game too. I have had different profiles for different software for work because of macros and binds.

[JoeyButterhands]

14 minutes ago, TheMidnightNarwhal said:

Just trying to wrap my head around it never quite understood their intended purposes.

 

For example, I usually just set the RGB I want and there's that. I guess I could see different macros but do people really have a different set of macros per game/profile? 

 

For mice, do people really use different DPIs per game rather than have a set DPI and you change the ingame sensitivity? 

Yes, I use different DPI profiles between FPS, RTS and desktop as well as disable some buttons in esports games.

 

Keyboard, I disable a few buttons for certain games

[TylerD321]

For mine, I have two profiles. I have one that is the RGB that I like on both keyboard and mouse. The other is the rgb turned off on everything incase I need to leave my pc on for any reason.

[Doobeedoo]

I don't use them as much, profiles for keyboard so say macros don't overlap with either Windows and different software or game binds. Though I try to set main things to work regardless of profiles so it works in general. Like launch certain thing. I use dozens of macros in WoW so this is nothing strange to me.

For mouse, no no profiles, don't need anything change. In fact no software it's all hardware setup for my mouse. I never really change my DPI I could on my mouse if I'd need for older game that only may work like that or I'd need to for some software for more precission though very rare.

So in general no I kinda stopped with profiles for both as I can set up and get pretty much everything without changing them on the fly.