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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
    • Insider Mini
    • 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
    • Insider Mini
    • 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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    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.

    THANK YOU. This was it for me as well! On my Basilisk V3 all I had to do was push down on the scroll click a bit harder a couple times and it started registering again.

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      • Blkandwhtlion
      • Insider Mini
      • January 12, 2026

      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.

      THANK YOU. This was it for me as well! On my Basilisk V3 all I had to do was push down on the scroll click a bit harder a couple times and it started registering again.

      Glad it helped. Still today have the same mouse. It still needs more force to register the clicks. It's too bad because it's an otherwise perfect mouse for my needs. 

      The main issue isn't even that it has to be hard. It's a problem in games when I have to push it and it also slips the wheel a bit which triggers scroll and can cause unintentional inputs. For FPS games, trying to ping mid fight and accidentally swapping gear by scrolling is a nightmare. I've started rebinding keys but the muscle memory hurts

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      Yeah that sound super annoying! Especially for a premium mouse like this. Luckily in my case just pressing it down real hard a couple times got it working like normal again. 

       

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