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Basilisk v3 middle mouse button inconsistency workaround in synapse.

  • September 22, 2025
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Hi all, I’ve been experiencing a weird issue with my Razer Basilisk mouse where the middle-click (wheel-click) doesn’t always register in normal mode. The problem disappears under certain conditions, and I think I’ve isolated what’s going on — maybe others have seen this too, or Razer might fix it.

Details / Symptoms:

1. Middle-click sometimes fails: pressing scroll-wheel gives no click (no action), even though I hear the click.

2. In Turbo mode, middle-click works perfectly (even at low “clicks per second” like 1 cps).

3. If I rebind middle-click to another discrete button (not the wheel), it works flawlessly.

4. Only having this issue with Razer Basilisk v3.

Hypothetical diagnosis:

It’s not a case of the switch being fully dead: signal always exists, but under certain logic the “click” is dropped. Seems like a race condition between the down and up events: if the “up” wins (gets processed first-ish or sequentially early), click is ignored; if “down” arrives and then “up” properly → works as expected.
(not entirely sure if this is the actual problem, but using all of my 20+ years of sitting in front of a PC to rationalize this tells me this is most likely the culprit)


Workaround/fix:

Setting the middle mouse button in turbo mode **HIT SAVE** and back to normal **HIT SAVE** in Synapse seems to sort the signal stack issue..
Although i have no idea how or why..
and it doesn't always persist between PC restarts.. (OOF)
So yeah.. I don't suffer from Basilisk syndrome anymore and it was never the switch to begin with and all i did was switch one button to turbo mode and back..

Please REPLY if you test this and if it works/doesn't work for you! i need more info on this to make a permanent and robust fix. (without nuking device manager and the registry or homebrewing mouse drivers)

Thank you for your patience.

Nemo.

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  • Blkandwhtlion
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  • 3 replies
  • September 28, 2025

I have been experiencing middle click issues from day 1 and I believed I was out of luck. I will try this and report back sometime next week because I have rebound keys to avoid middle mouse but if I can fix it that's best.  Thanks for this workaround there's hope yet.

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  • Blkandwhtlion
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  • 3 replies
  • October 2, 2025

Ok I’m back. Been testing this a bit.
Even downloaded a click/keyboard display recorder to visually see when buttons register etc.

 

For me I happen to have the Basilisk V2 and I have the latest synapse software on Windows 11.

 

First I checked firmware, and the V2 doesn’t even show in the settings to firmware update. So I had to go download it on their site, and the latest version I already have from Dec. 2019

So with all the latest firmware and updates to Windows, and the Razer software, here is what I noticed for me.

First, the middle mouse clicking rarely registered when I depress the middle mouse wheel to hear the audible “click” sound. Sometimes it did but rarely. Second, it 100% registered if I pushed a bit harder.

So after all my issues, it seems for me it was just a really annoying force issue on the button. So I did a little cleaning, no liquid just air and hopes. This did not help.

Before anyone spends loads of time with software, debugging and other things like I did, download a visualization tool (I used NohBoard) and test the clicks. If its its just a “push it a bit harder” problem there isn’t anything I could find to fix that.


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