Software

Although unfortunately not unified at all, there are software drivers for the Redragon K585 Diti keyboard. In fact, every single Redragon product with software support has its own skinned software, most of which appear to just change the lighting effects. The K585 version, as with every other version, can be downloaded here. The download is a zip archive folder with three files, including a read me PDF, a firmware updater, and the installer for the software itself. This installer is 9.5 MB in size, and the installed driver takes up 14 MB on your storage drive. Installation uses a generic skin with the only real choice the install directory. System utilization is minimal, so there is nothing to worry about on that end if you have a decent processor from either camp.


In the PDF, Redragon mentions that the firmware updater is to be run following the software installation itself. At this time, you can start the update directly presuming it checks whether there is one available or not, and then it outputs a message to alert you when it is done. The entire process takes less than a minute, but ties into the mediocre user experience thus far.


With the lack of any unified drivers, I would have at least taken a re-skinned version of the same base for their mice and keyboards from before. Unfortunately, this version somehow lowers the bar further and instead is a re-skin of the worst software drivers I have seen used by a couple of other smaller brand keyboards in the past. Scaling with Windows is so poor that nothing helps here, including going down to 720p on my 4K monitor or trying compatibility modes all the way back to Windows XP. The menu seems easy enough to understand if usable, with profiles on the home page and each profile associated with key mapping and lighting options that are software driven. There is a virtual keyboard over which you can pick any key and map it as another, a macro, or a multimedia shortcut chosen from a list of preset options. The macro setting is for recording and editing macros, but it's again hardly usable even though the software drivers are near-identical in function to those of the K530 Draconic, which had a much better user experience with scaling.

Keyboard illumination comes as an option on the home page that simply reads "Light." Checking the box reveals these options as they are otherwise hidden from view. The virtual keyboard also now lights up to preview the previously set effect, which is unfortunately where things take a turn for the worse again since there are only five effects to choose from and the virtual keyboard seems to display the same effect for all of them. There is a lot of questionable English, which appears to be due to poor translation and associated sub-functions, such as direction of effect, brightness, speed, and the actual color/colors using an R/G/B 16.8 M color selector. I don't know what happened here and whether other Redragon keyboards have a similar software experience, but they do state that the software is not needed to operate the K585 keyboard, and seeing what we have here, it's probably for the best to just treat this as an accident to stumble upon.