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Bad move: Switching from Synapse 3 back to Synapse 4

  • August 26, 2025
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I was recently contacted by Razer Support about a ticket I opened at the beginning of the year.  They wanted me to try Synapse 4 again.

 

I told them of the trials but they convinced me to install Synapse 4!  Bad Move.

It took 3 days to unscramble the profiles of the 3 Razer products.  The fourth device (Nari headset), when I select a duplicate profile, in order to remove the profile, the program crashes.

 

No end of additional bugs, all of which existed previously and have been reported.  These include:

Sync mismatch.  The system detects a mismatch between the cloud and local storage.  This happened multiple times.

 

After I “upgraded” to Synapse 4, a few profiles became blank, and had to be reworked.  This meant that I had to check every profile that it was correct.

 

The Nari Tab became blank after a few minutes, thus making it impossible to review the profiles.

 

Linked and existing programs, are claimed by Synapse that they do not exist.  Even though other programs in the same folder can be found without issue.

 

Chroma profiles are not being used when the relevant program is selected.

 

Plus when trying to add a particular profile to a program, it is very difficult as the program sorts the profiles randomly. 

 

I have now had enough and returning once more to the safety of Synapse 3.

 

To the current beta testers of Synapse 4, I wish you good luck.

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  • August 27, 2025

Oh yeah. I also wrote to them about my global keys not being saved. I told them that it worked fine in synapse 3. But in synapse 4 the global keys refuse to be saved in the program.

 

 They answered me:

 

 "Sheena (Razer Support)

 

 24-Aug-2025 07:01 PM PT

 

 

 

 Hi Andrew, 

 

 

 

 Thank you for contacting Razer. My name is Sheena and I'll be your support agent today.

 

 

 

 We value your support and we’re grateful that you’re a part of the Razer community. 

 

 

 

 However, as part of our ongoing security measures, we apologize for not being able to provide further support for your Razer product. 

 

 

 

 Despite this, we would still like to help by directing you to our website, which contains extensive troubleshooting guides and comprehensive product information. 

 

 

 

 Kindly refer to www.razer.com for all your information needs. 

 

 

 

 Thank you for your kind understanding of this difficult circumstance that we are in. 

 

 

 

 Take care, but most importantly, stay safe. 

 

 

 

 To update this case, you can reply to this email or use our Razer Support Portal.

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Sheena

 

Razer Support Team

 

mysupport.razer.com"

 

It turns out synapse 4 is safe and stable. Unlike synapse 3.

Looking at the comments here, I am convinced of this. A perfectly working program, yes.