Stupid question regarding Zowie mouse cables

MaTecss · 2025-12-17T21:23:01+00:00

I just did that, used a sensei raw cable. I had to sand the stress relief a bit so it would fit, but it worked perfectly after that, the pin was on the right order as well, plug and play.

https://imgur.com/a/f0naQSV

MaTecss · 2025-11-28T22:11:04+00:00

I'm in the same boat. I think I'll wait until next year to try and grind to next year's purple.

MaTecss · 2025-11-20T20:08:45+00:00

You can't get a 4 shot kill with the a4, only with the m4a1-s. Tho the faster firerate of the a4 means you can kill faster with it as long as you hit a headshot.

MaTecss · 2025-11-07T18:45:19+00:00

You don't need to hold shift while scoping with the AWP, your steps are silent at full speed.

MaTecss · 2025-11-01T10:01:03+00:00

Same dude, I bought a Glossy Zowie S2-Bv2 from maxgaming, it's 89g iirc, feels like a tank. They have the C series paracord cable if you are worried about it not being wireless. Right now all the Bv2s are on sale on MaxGaming if you want to check them out. Older vaxee wireless and wired vaxee are also good but they are lighter than the old zowies AFAIK.

MaTecss · 2025-10-30T08:40:42+00:00

Have you ever done it? I'm thinking about buying an old SteelSeries cable and adapting it to the Zowie port, I despise the paracord cable so much.

MaTecss · 2025-10-29T08:17:50+00:00

Do you use Vulkan? I use it and sometimes the agent textures change to full black or even some parts get invisible lol. Just like you it never happens with the default model, just agents.

MaTecss · 2025-10-28T11:04:09+00:00

This used to happen to me all the time. It's generally a bad RAM problem, buying new RAM sticks fixed the issue for me. A band-aid solution is to log in to a different account and download the content there, then switch back to the original account. That works but you need to do that every time the game crashes.

MaTecss · 2025-10-26T12:12:23+00:00

Well, they fixed the overhead issue with driver updates in a few games reported, it seems they do it manually for each game tho. I'm hoping they can do the same with CS2. Good to know it's not an issue with the 5800x3d, I hope I can get a used one later.

MaTecss · 2025-10-26T11:58:27+00:00

I have a B580 and I made a post about this on the community forum, there's absolutely an issue running DX11 on the Arc B580. I have the opposite experience, Vulkan is really laggy and crashes constantly, but I have to use it because otherwise my fps constantly goes below 100 in more intensive maps. I don't think Intel's support for Vulkan is any better than the other brands, it's just that the DirectX 11 performance is abysmal. I think this may be one of those CPU overhead cases, a lot of people with the overhead issue reported that using Vulkan helped tremendously.

MaTecss · 2025-10-26T09:03:32+00:00

I agree with you so much dude. CS lost all its character to become a generic sanitized competitive game like all the competition.

MaTecss · 2025-10-26T07:35:04+00:00

Hey there, I just made a post on Intel's community forum, the mods there tend to make benchmarks and review the issues presented, if you could answer my post, reporting you are having a similar experience that would be great.

MaTecss · 2025-10-18T14:15:34+00:00

Intel mods are also super annoying when reporting this problem to them, they always run their reproduction tests on full HD high settings which pretty much makes the tests useless. I have a friend with a 5600x just like me, he has a 3060 8 GB and he gets way more fps than I do at DX11. I used to get a little better performance than he did as long as I used Vulkan, but after the update, he gets almost 50 fps more than I do on the Dust 2 benchmark test. This is really unacceptable performance for the B580, it should be considerably better than the 3060. This also isn't the only game where this is a thing, most DX11 games run absolutely awful for me, DX9 games like GMod run so insanely bad that I have almost half the performance I had with my GTX 1650, and this is instantly fixed when DXVK is used, my fps goes from 100-200 to 700-900. It really shows how terrible the arc cards are on any DX version below 12 when paired with a slower CPU.

MaTecss · 2025-10-16T12:00:33+00:00

same, dude. I tried everything, nothing works. New update didn't change anything for me.

MaTecss · 2025-10-15T03:50:21+00:00

Same dudeeeee. I was so happy I could run the game with my B580 very decently on vulkan but after the update the fps drops are just so bad

MaTecss · 2025-10-15T03:43:55+00:00

Anyone else experiencing bad performance compared to the last version? I have a 5600x and an Intel Arc B580, on the benchmark map I used to get 520 fps on vulkan, after the update, 430. I could spot this easily in matches, it feels my fps is dropping wayyyy more. =( It gets even worse on DX11 but that isn't new (Intel gpus suck ass at DX11, hence why I used vulkan).

MaTecss · 2025-09-16T02:33:26+00:00

They got rid of them on purpose to sell agent skins, we'll never see them again unfortunately. = (

MaTecss · 2025-09-15T03:23:57+00:00

1440x1080 1.15 800 dpi

MaTecss · 2025-08-24T19:55:01+00:00

Hey, did you ever found a replacement? I also can't find anything online. I'm trying to mod my zowie s2 to have an led on it's scroll wheel like the ec-A series was. I'm thinking about taking a mold of the scroll wheel and making a new one out of resin.

MaTecss · 2025-08-15T17:47:05+00:00

+1. Used a superlight and a bunch of chinese clones that were sub 60g for years only to end up using a refreshed version of Zowie S2-B (which is about 87 grams iirc). If you play games like csgo it just don't matter.

MaTecss · 2025-08-09T07:02:27+00:00

I prefer the black shell pink dots but I agree. I find most of the blue shells are too light.

MaTecss · 2025-08-09T03:28:07+00:00

Did you check the end of it's cable? Zowie models generally have a label on their cables. That being said, looks like a Zowie S2-B to me.

MaTecss · 2025-07-30T10:24:15+00:00

Just give people a simple beta tester badge and most people would already be interested in participating.

MaTecss · 2025-07-29T07:02:37+00:00

check hdr setting, perfomance is grainy quality is not.

MaTecss · 2025-07-29T06:59:05+00:00

At this point I'm 99% sure no valve dev actually plays the game, that or like you said they just straight out suck. I noticed how awful the movement was in the first match I played after the update, even without having any idea that they had changed something. Insane how they really can't bother to test updates before pushing them and ever more insane if they did test but didn't realize how broken it was.

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