Software

The F01 is compatible with Pulsar Fusion 2, which also supports multiple other mice from Pulsar. All options are accessible through four different tabs. The first page allows for button remapping to mouse, keyboard, media, and macro functions. The second page houses CPI adjustment settings for up to six color-coded levels, ranging from 50 to 32,000 CPI in increments of 10. Any non-native values are truncated to native ones. Also included are the usual Windows pointer settings, along with polling rate (125/250/500/1000/2000/4000/8000 Hz), LOD (0.7/1/2 mm), and angle snapping (on/off) adjustment options. "Ripple control" is disabled by default, but can be enabled to apply smoothing, which lessens jitter at higher CPI steps at the cost of increased motion delay. MotionSync can be turned on or off, which turning on synchronizes SPI reads with USB polls at the cost of a motion delay penalty of up to an entire interval. Debounce time effectively controls click latency and may be adjusted at a range of 0 to 15 ms. A macro editor can be found on the third page. The fourth page has power settings, allowing one to define the idle time needed to pass before the mouse enters sleep mode as well as the battery charge percentage at which Low Power Mode is engaged. Lastly, profile management is present as well.

All settings changes are saved to the on-board memory, so the software does not need to be running (or even installed) all the time. On my system, the software had a RAM footprint of 45 MB on average when running in the foreground, which doesn't change when minimized to the system tray. Upon exiting the application, all processes are terminated, as they should be.

Battery Life

Pulsar does not provide any battery life numbers. The software features a percentage-based battery life indicator with single-digit accuracy, which isn't particularly reliable or accurate, but sufficiently so to allow gauging expected battery life. For every three hours of continuous usage at 8000 Hz, the indicator went down by 25%, amounting to an expected battery life of around 12 hours. This would translate to around 60 hours at 1000 Hz.

Sleep mode is entered after 30 seconds of inactivity by default, but this can be adjusted within the software.

Using the included charging dock, I measured the charging speed during the constant current stage, which sits at 0.108 A. The battery has a capacity of 240 mAh (3.7 V) and utilizes a 3-pin JST connector.