Software

Much like ASUS Armoury Crate, MSI Dragon Center is a UWP-integrated app for all things MSI. And much like Armoury Crate, Dragon Center has a bit of a bad reputation. However, and to anyone's surprise, my experience with Dragon Center wasn't all that bad. The installation went down smoothly, and although the number of running background processes and their RAM footprint isn't exactly to my liking, core functionality is pretty decent. Upon opening Dragon Center, one is first greeted by a login screen, but that one can be safely skipped without any resulting restrictions to functionality. On the home screen, three options are laid out at first: True Color, Mystic Light, and Gaming Gear. The first one is entirely unrelated to mouse functionality and merely allows one to apply custom Windows color profiles. Annoyingly, any already applied non-default ICC profiles will be reset on every system start-up and need to be manually re-enabled, which can get quite tedious. Mystic Light concerns lighting settings and is detailed below. Gaming Gear has all the mouse settings. Curiously, when having the latter option open, Dragon Center cannot be minimized directly; rather, just by clicking on its icon on the taskbar.

All settings are presented across two tabs. The first one has button remapping, to mouse, macro, and media functions. The second tab includes options for polling rate (125/250/500/1000 Hz), angle snapping (on/off), and lift-off distance (high/low). CPI adjustment is possible for five levels and at a range of 100 to 16,000 CPI, in increments of 100. As the 3389 is capable of increments of 50 CPI, the restriction to 100 CPI increments is an artificial one. Lastly, profile management is available, too. When applied, all settings are 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 minimum RAM footprint of 107 MB. However, after having opened certain tabs (such as Mystic Light), this figure may go up by as much as 100 MB for an average of around 200 MB in total. When minimized to the system tray, a RAM footprint of 72 MB is averaged. Upon exiting the application, several processes with a RAM footprint of 67 MB keep running.

For uninstalling Dragon Center, I recommend using the official uninstall tool provided by MSI, which can be found in this not-so-official looking Google Drive. Using this tool, I was able to get rid of all remnants of Dragon Center.

Lighting

The Clutch GM41 Lightweight has but a single lighting zone, which is the logo at the back. Three pre-defined lighting effects are available: Steady, Rainbow, and Breathing, along with a custom mode. If other MSI devices are present, the lighting may be synchronized with them. Colors, transition speed, and brightness can be further customized. Of course, the lighting can also be disabled altogether.

Color accuracy and vibrancy are excellent throughout. Here's a short demonstration video in which I go through the Rainbow and Breathing lighting effects: