Software

Compared to usual, using Armoury Crate was almost entirely hassle-free. This time around, no restart was necessary before installation, which still took a decent while nonetheless. After launching Armoury Crate, another round of updating for connected devices was in order. In total, installation "only" took around 15 minutes, which is likely a new low. That said, doing the installation without any ASUS devices connected is still recommended for best results.

Much like in Armoury II, the available settings are distributed across several tabs. The first page houses button-remapping functions, which allow one to rebind all but the left button to mouse, keyboard, multimedia, or macro functions. The second page includes options for CPI adjustment (100–16,000 CPI, increments of 100, four steps), polling rate (125, 250, 500, or 1000 Hz), and angle snapping (on/off). The third page gives access to LOD adjustment, which is limited to two levels (low/high). Lastly, profile management and a macro editor are available as well.

All settings are updated live and 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 302 MB on average when running in the foreground and 105 MB when minimized. Upon exiting the application, several processes with a RAM footprint of 100 MB keep running. Please note that the number of active processes and their associated RAM footprint will depend on one's system configuration. In my case, I've had well over 20 processes running at any time even without Armoury Crate open.

In order to ease uninstalling Armoury Crate, ASUS released a tool specifically for that. Using this tool instead of uninstalling all Armoury Crate modules individually is highly recommended since it does wipe almost everything related to Armoury Crate off the system. Only a few derelict folders are left on C: drive and within AppData/Local, which are easily removed manually. That said, I found that in some cases, not only scheduled tasks, but also several services manage to escape the uninstall tool. The easiest way to get rid of those is to open the services application and search for any ASUS-related entries. After stopping those, note their short names. Then, open an elevated command prompt and enter "sc delete servicename" without any quotes and servicename being the short name of the service in question. Afterwards, it is recommended to purge the entire ASUS folder found within the task scheduler.