Software

The new Endorfy Thock wireless keyboards benefit from unified software drivers whose installer can be found on the Endorfy software page. The company sent me the latest version v1.0.2.8 that should be available on the website on the day this review goes live. It downloads as a 14 MB compressed archive folder that contains only the executable file and the installation process is straightforward as seen above, albeit we don't see any ToS to agree to and there's no option of whether or not to have a start menu item. The final install takes just 24 MB on your storage drive and is light on system resources.


You need to have the keyboard plugged in for the software drivers to recognize it and open the specific home page for the Thock TKL Wireless. I also noticed at this point that the drivers seem to scale slightly weirdly with display resolution and OS scaling, in that the window does get smaller and larger as expected—there is no maximize or full screen option—but the window goes behind the start menu and task bar after a while and you can't move it up or down at this stage either. I ended up going to 1440p on my display to avoid this issue and things were smoother then even though I would have liked to see an actually functional maximize window option. There was a firmware update available for the keyboard which took ~2 min to fully finish and now I was ready to go exploring the software further.

Endorfy continues to display its affection for a bright color color here as part of the default home page that lands on the illumination tab where you can customize the RGB lighting effects. There is a decent selection of static, dynamic, and reactive typing effects to choose from with each of them having their own options too. I also appreciate that the virtual keyboard shows the effects in real time down to the different brightness, speed, and directions as applicable. You have full choice of 16.8 M colors here and the custom lighting mode offers per-key changes too. Then there's "Buttons" which allows for key mapping that, combined with the profiles you can create, allow for a variety of keyboard settings which work with the software running in the background. Macros is self-explanatory and works as expected too, and you can tie custom game or program macros to different profiles too. There are a few other settings in the final tab which by themselves are nothing new and yet are good to see here nonetheless.