INSTALLATION
Installation is easy. Just plug the Gandiva to one of your computer’s USB port. Then install the software/driver to your computer from the CD installer included then you’re good! The LED illumination of the Gandiva might disappoint you a bit because you can’t change the blue LED illumination of the Gandiva’s body but you can change the LED illumination of the scroll button and the TESORO logo to any color you want.
After installation, the control software bundled with the Gandiva H1L may not look stylish but it’s very easy to use. So from within the control panel you can assign functions to all of the 8 buttons. You can create new macros, set the illumination colors corresponding to each of the 5 available mapping profiles, set the polling rate, adjust the 5 different DPI setting increments, configure the liftoff distance and save each configuration on one of the 5 onboard profile slots.
We tested Gadiva if it is a true 1000mhz polling rate gaming mouse. We used the Keyboard test software to give us an accurate reading of the polling rate of the Gandiva. During the test, I manually set the polling rate to 125, 250, 500 and 1000mhz to test if the mouse is really performing our settings. The image above shows that the mouse is actually performing a 1000mhz polling rate. The messages per second value represents the mouse polling rate in the case of USB connected mice, or the interrupt rate in the case of PS/2 connected mice.
But for the 500mhz polling rate settings, the test readings showed that Gandiva is only giving us a max range of 481 to 488 mhz polling rate. That’s about 12 to 19 mhz behind the rated polling rate of 500mhz. The same thing happened when we tested 250mhz and 125 mhz polling rate. Our measuring software gave us a reading of 234mhz and 115 mhz respectively. So the 250mhz polling rate gave us a max of 237mhz while the 125mhz polling rate gave us a max of 118 mhz. I have tested this numerous times trying to figure out if there’s an issue within the software or hardware but the fact that the reading shows an accurate measurement of 1000mhz polling rate when our settings was set to 1000mhz polling rate means that there’s nothing wrong with our setup. However, polling rate is limited to 200mhz when using windows 8.1 and you have to do some workaround to get through it. The issues with 500mhz, 250mhz, and 125mhz lacking a few mhz might be caused by the Windows itself.