CORSAIR Launches iCUE Murals Lighting, a State-of-the-Art RGB Customization Software

[btarunr]

CORSAIR, a world leader in enthusiast components for gamers, creators, and PC builders, today introduced iCUE Murals Lighting, a groundbreaking software for creating incredibly immersive lighting effects in CORSAIR iCUE. This powerful feature enables you to use images, video, and even on-screen visuals as colorful templates to produce imaginative, mesmerizing lightscapes. With Murals, your desktop - and entire game room - comes alive with dazzling, custom-created RGB.

Murals Lighting is an intuitive, interactive tool that enables users to quickly create custom RGB lighting effects in iCUE like never before. Upload any image, GIF, or video to Murals, and then place your RGB devices over it on-screen to create astonishing visuals across your setup. The platform is simple, easy to use, and surprisingly fun as you watch your gaming space burst to life with each new effect.



Nearly any static or moving image file format works in Murals, so you can choose from your favorite videos or background images - or even match on-screen games or media in real-time - to produce completely unique lighting effects. From Pac-Man and pixel art running across your keyboard and ambient lighting, to animations and audio visualizers pulsing throughout your PC, you can let your creativity run wild with Murals.

Murals Lighting grants you the ability to extend your RGB light show beyond your desktop, filling your entire room in radiant RGB. Thanks to partnerships with smart lighting ecosystems such as Philips Hue and Nanoleaf, you can control your game room's wall panels, smart light bulbs, and more in iCUE - and when combined with Murals, your system, ambient lighting, and walls are set aglow in a multi-dimensional lightscape of color and effects.

"We're thrilled to introduce iCUE Murals, a revolutionary leap in full-system interactive lighting control and personalization," said Thi La, President and COO of CORSAIR. "Our team has had a lot of fun with this software, and we have already seen some amazing room lighting setups from our community using Murals in beta. We can't wait to see what both newcomers and experienced users can do with Murals to create their unique lightscape."

With such unlimited lighting customization options now available on your RGB palette, you can color your world with Murals Lighting.

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[SirB]

They cant even get regular icue to work properly. Now they add MORE bloat instead of fixing the long list of issues.
Icue is a deal breaker for me. Lost me as a customer. I wont buy ANY other corsair product that uses this crap.

 

[Chaitanya]

They send out press release of a software while not showing a single screenshot of said software to give an idea what UI looks like for potential "users".

 

[DarkReaper969]

They cant even get regular icue to work properly. Now they add MORE bloat instead of fixing the long list of issues.
Icue is a deal breaker for me. Lost me as a customer. I wont buy ANY other corsair product that uses this crap.

I`m exactly in the same boat, have Corsair RAM which worked with iCUE just fine, until i bought the Corsair HS80 headset. The drivers, that the headset has through iCUE, are abysmally bad. So bad, that i had to remove iCUE from my PC, and without it, the headset actually sounds good. A bit of EQ here and there but it works fine for my ears. But with iCUE they are unbearable, i dont understand how and why thats a thing. + iCUE also sometimes just broke when AURA or Armoury was running, and i still dont have an idea why

 

[TheDeeGee]

ROFLMFAO!!!!!! at the picture with the guy wearing a helmet playing a arcade racer with a keyboard.

 

[Jeager]

They send out press release of a software while not showing a single screenshot of said software to given what UI looks like for potential "users".

Because its not working on their side too ?

ROFLMFAO!!!!!! at the picture with the guy wearing a helmet playing a arcade racer with a keyboard.

Haha, just saw that too, cant imagine the retard who created this non sense picture

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

I could see this being useful, but unfortunately a motherboard addressable header is usually limited to 150 pixels, which stinks and so far, every PC brand LED controller Ive looked at has similar limitations....now, I'm guessing that's a limitation due to wattage, so I'm wondering, does anyone think it would be possible to connect JUST the data line to the addressable header, and then inject power I to the 5v and GND lines with an external power supply? That way I could hook up a 5 meter, 60 led/meter strip (total of 300 leds) to the motherboards header and control all 300 pixels through windows? Does anyone think that'd work?

FYI: There's a cool program called JackNet that allows you to control ANY product connected to your motherboards addressable header through the iCue software. Currently I'm controlling an Asus motherboard, G.Skill RAM, Montech fans, a Sapphire videocard and generic addressable LED strips through iCue.

 

[bonehead123]

#JustSayNo2iClueless#

'nuff said

 

[Hxx]

They cant even get regular icue to work properly. Now they add MORE bloat instead of fixing the long list of issues.
Icue is a deal breaker for me. Lost me as a customer. I wont buy ANY other corsair product that uses this crap.

i stopped buying corsair years ago. Sad really because corsair was a big factor in what got me into PC gaming more than decade ago and they were the go to premium brand. I used to own an exclusive corsair build at some point in time. For years theyve been tone deaf to what the customer needs...oh well.

 

[thegnome]

Luckily SignalRGB saves my ass from iCue, next time I'm for sure getting a better supported GPU though (still having to use MSI because their RGB control sucks) thou. Can't be that hard to make somewhat normal RGB...

 

[Gmr_Chick]

ROFLMFAO!!!!!! at the picture with the guy wearing a helmet playing a arcade racer with a keyboard.

Homie is a rebel, dontcha know? And sometimes, when he's feeling particularly dangerous, he likes to drink from his sippy cup minus the sippy part

 

[Mussels]

Even MORE bloat?


Why do i get the feeling they bought out another company and re-named their software, bodged up a link to icue and released as-is

 

[PLAfiller]

At this point Corsair might as well enter the lighting market....I mean...looking at their bling stuff, can imagine how much resources are spent on R/D in that direction

 

[vermis]

At this point Corsair might as well enter the lighting market....I mean...looking at their bling stuff, can imagine how much resources are spent on R/D in that direction

In the context of this news piece, their R&D just straight up ripped off imitated SignalRGB canvas concept as a form of flattery lmao

 

[trsttte]

In the context of this news piece, their R&D just straight up ripped off imitated SignalRGB canvas concept as a form of flattery lmao

Which itself imitated OpenRGB

 

[vermis]

I could see this being useful, but unfortunately a motherboard addressable header is usually limited to 150 pixels, which stinks and so far, every PC brand LED controller Ive looked at has similar limitations....now, I'm guessing that's a limitation due to wattage, so I'm wondering, does anyone think it would be possible to connect JUST the data line to the addressable header, and then inject power I to the 5v and GND lines with an external power supply? That way I could hook up a 5 meter, 60 led/meter strip (total of 300 leds) to the motherboards header and control all 300 pixels through windows? Does anyone think that'd work?

FYI: There's a cool program called JackNet that allows you to control ANY product connected to your motherboards addressable header through the iCue software. Currently I'm controlling an Asus motherboard, G.Skill RAM, Montech fans, a Sapphire videocard and generic addressable LED strips through iCue.

Mobo vendors are all over the place regarding what RGB MCU they use, some clain even as far as 500 ARGB LEDs per header (yeah, at 10% brightness maybe) so you are right that the limitation is mostly due to power. For your example, the "good practice" wiring would include 5v power (+gnd) injections at the beggining, middle and end of the 5m strip to prevent brightness and color degradation. Common grounding with the mobo's header may be necessary if flickering occurs.

You probably already know JackNet reached end of dev life and its spiritual successor's (SignalRGB) team includes Jack himself along with some others, just thought I'd mention it just in case.

 

[vermis]

Which itself imitated OpenRGB

If you are referring to (again in this context) OpenRGB's visual map plugin, I honestly couldn't say if it's been functional longer than it's GitLab activity suggests (1yr) but I remember using SignalRGB's canvas for...maybe a year longer?

 

[trsttte]

If you are referring to (again in this context) OpenRGB's visual map plugin, I honestly couldn't say if it's been functional longer than it's GitLab activity suggests (1yr) but I remember using SignalRGB's canvas for...maybe a year longer?

I'm referring to the idea of having a single piece of software that's able to control everything rgb related across diferent ecosystems and implementations. OpenRGB is also older than the gitlab suggests, I think they had to move the repository for whatever reason at some point

History of OpenRGB - OpenRGB Wiki

openrgb-wiki.readthedocs.io

I don't know when SignalRGB entered the scene, first I heard of it was on a youtube ad long after I was using openrgb already. Whichever actually came first I still prefer openrgb because it's fully open and very lightweight. I never tried SignalRGB but, besides the fremium model, a simple google search tells me in the first results that it's about as bad as icue, aura, etc. the only advantage being you only need a single program to control everything.

 

[SoM6]

ROFLMFAO!!!!!! at the picture with the guy wearing a helmet playing a arcade racer with a keyboard.

he forgot to put the gloves on LOL

 

[aciDev]

If you are referring to (again in this context) OpenRGB's visual map plugin, I honestly couldn't say if it's been functional longer than it's GitLab activity suggests (1yr) but I remember using SignalRGB's canvas for...maybe a year longer?

It doesn't matter as long as SignalRGB is another software as a service BS where users' money goes to feed Meta and friends. This trend must be stopped.

 

[vermis]

It doesn't matter as long as SignalRGB is another software as a service BS where users' money goes to feed Meta and friends. This trend must be stopped.

Disregarding the infertile debate of which sw predates which and my personal views on sw production models, I honestly believe there's a trend only because demand exists and free oss alternatives need very, very, heavy dumbing down and UI/UX revamps done before they can fill that spot with their offer. SignalRGB then Corsair and very soon HYTE, each w/ an agenda of their own, have realized that a big, sufficiently educated and generally self-reliant userbase is utopic.

 

[aciDev]

sufficiently educated and generally self-reliant userbase is utopic.

...to espect SW as a service trend to stop, I know... Multiplication, addition, concepts difficult to grasp. The important thing is that it is only $3.33/mo.

 

[Mussels]

So glad 11 is rolling out generic RGB control
Time to ditch third party softwares is approaching

It doesn't matter as long as SignalRGB is another software as a service BS where users' money goes to feed Meta and friends. This trend must be stopped.

just use and tell people about OpenRGB - its free and staying that way

 

[aciDev]

So glad 11 is rolling out generic RGB control
Time to ditch third party softwares is approaching


just use and tell people about OpenRGB - its free and staying that way

Hopefully, W11's RGB control will lead manufacturers to unification, but it is not a feature that can lure me to W11 and its GUI.
Sorry for the flame, but it was not just about RGB controlling software.

 

[Mussels]

Hopefully, W11's RGB control will lead manufacturers to unification, but it is not a feature that can lure me to W11 and its GUI.
Sorry for the flame, but it was not just about RGB controlling software.

In all honesty, i find that most complaints about 11 tend to be extremely outdated because they simply fix a lot of issues in the OS fairly rapidly (3-6 months) so people often have negative views on something they saw or read about that's simply long gone - or a newer, easier way to do things has been there all along (and always was, in 10)

The amount of people who didn't even know that even in 10 you can right click the start menu and get shortcuts to most of those things people claim are now hidden, just because one of many methods to access the settings changed and that's the only one they knew of