ASUS ROG Gladius III Wireless, USB/Bluetooth

Die Asus ROG Gladius III Wireless greift die Funktionen des Vorgängers auf und verbessert diese in vielerlei Hinsicht. Mehr Akkulaufzeit, neue hauseigene Tastenschalter mit hoher Lebensdauer und ein stärkerer Sensor machen sie zu einem würdigen Nachfolger. Mit einem zusätzlich reduzierten Gewicht, hoher Gleitfähigkeit und dem flexiblen Ladekabel schlägt sie sich auch in flotten Partien nicht schlecht.

First of all, and much like on the ROG Keris, the stock firmware of the Gladius III Wireless has a fatal flaw: Both in wired and wireless operation, a motion delay of upwards of 10 ms is present, effectively rendering the mouse unusable for anything even remotely latency-sensitive. Thankfully, ASUS has cooked up a new firmware that fully fixes this issue. Nonetheless, such a serious oversight simply shouldn't happen. In addition to that, one absolutely needs to install Armoury Crate right away to get said firmware, which is something not everyone possibly wants to do, but more on that later.

In this article, we review the Asus ROG Gladius III mouse in a wired and wireless version. It's an optical gaming mouse that was launched on 15.05.2021. It's a new version of the model that was introduced already seven years ago (2014). ROG Gladius was the first gaming mouse that was made by the Republic of Gamers. Coengineered with pro gamers in the design stage, the classic, ergonomic handshape of the Gladius series has been established. Gladius is the trusted sword of the most significant Roman warrior Maximus.