Razer Synapse off the Cloud?

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Hey guys thought I'd share my experiences with a New razer product I picked up and gave me nothing but trouble initially! I upgraded from the Abyssus which was great, plug and play no Driver install nothing, but I was cleaning out my Abyssus after pulling the shell appart and it lost responsivness when clicking So be delicate cleaning inside the mouse.


I had asked on the Razer Reddit forum and they said when I was getting Avast and other Virus software telling me  files in my Razer drivers were Trojans they suggested it was NOT a false positive. It was always the same files, if not all the uninstallers for the Razer drivers. Yet there was one for each component of the software yet when you run synapse it keeps everything under a single program which further added too my confusion.

 

Here is the issue, with a specific game. My mouse would act.. sporadic even cutting out for very long intervals. If a game was running (only seemed to happen in one game) I would unplug my mouse and plug it back in as it used to solve the issue for controllers or anyother inputs that are out of sync/ calibration. Well this little mamba decides it no likey being unplugged so windows instantly blue screens. Yet the problem presisted for this game, where mouse input was shotty and wobbly yet my mouse cost as much as a mechanical keyboard.. I cleaned the sensor at bottom which did improve the mouse cutting in and out in other games mind you.

So I looked into this Synapse software a bit, I found they offer Tournament Drivers for internet free install.  This sounded good, too create them just look through the ordinary Synapse and find where you can create tournament drivers. When I loaded this installed onto a USB it actually blue screened the first time trying too install it. Well now heres the kicker. I decided to roll back before I got this mouse. I boot up my PC without internet cord plugged in, (hear me out) The mouse was plugged in. So When I rolled back the Razer driver wasn't trying to auto install on boot/ restart.

Than I took my Synapse installer for the Tournament drivers (which still will connect to the internet if it has the chance) You have to preset your profiles just to let you know as synapse is a "cloud" software and you won't be able to change the tournement drivers. So I set up all my profiles how I wanted before hand, even made use of the extra buttons on the mamba too allow for fast switching between profiles reserving only one button for Dpi change. This proved to be enough for my use, but for FPS you could put in two if you work out a way to keep the profile switching smooth.
You don't need to do this but you can open Synapse with the tournament drivers just thing is you can't change your Hotkeys for one or your RGB profiles secondly. It is inconvienient but I was having game breaking gameplay issues as it was. If I want to make more I use anouther operating system with regular old Synapse 2.0 and I can reload new profiles onto a USB and trasfer it too my gaming OS.

So I installed Synapse without the internet? so doesn't solve my issue first try. I try again, this time I managed to do it because the windows update actually will install drivers like Synapse through windows update, however this wasn't my issue. The issue I had was the installers / named uninstall.exe were showing up as trojans every time I installed the software. Anouther Razer owner told me he got nothing when he scanned with Avast so he said it's most likley not a False Positive. So I decided since my settings can't change niether will the driver.

So After installing Synapse tournament I went through my windows folders. Tracked down all my Synapse and Razer files, and changed the security settings so they could not be modified by any user or the System for that matter. So only I can update them intentionally. After this step I plugged in my internet and did anouther scan and no virus showed up. This solved my blue screen and the input dropping compleatly. Havn't had an issue since. I know it sounds silly but the blue screens were related to a driver error when I unplugged the mouse ingame. On desktop it was fine, and several other games it was also fine to unplug. Just the one game I guess. Not sure what was causing the Unistall.exe to show up as Viruses when doing anti virus scan but the issue was resolved when I changed modify Access for all users. No more freezing, and not a single blue screen yet ^^