A PC is never truly a gamer PC unless it has some fancy RGB lighting right? Now easier to control than ever with OpenRGB 1.0 released.
What is it? The developer explains it as - "One of the biggest complaints about RGB is the software ecosystem surrounding it. Every manufacturer has their own app, their own brand, their own style. If you want to mix and match devices, you end up with a ton of conflicting, functionally identical apps competing for your background resources. On top of that, these apps are proprietary and Windows-only. Some even require online accounts. What if there was a way to control all of your RGB devices from a single app, on Windows, Linux, and MacOS, without any nonsense? That is what OpenRGB sets out to achieve. One app to rule them all."
As for the new stuff in the 1.0 release - rather a lot. In the release notes the developer mentioned "This monumental release encompasses nearly 3 years of work since the 0.9 release, and a year's worth of core reworks since the 1.0rc2 release candidate last year. Tons of new device support, an overhauled profile system, the option to cleanly run as a background service, PawnIO, Qt6, and much more!"
There's seemingly no clear changelog, but an earlier release candidate did also note some specific bits including:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
- Corsair DRAM controller has been improved so that the module type/name and number of LEDs are determined automatically.
- New QMK keyboard support for VialRGB and Keychron protocols.
- New Logitech HID++ 2.0 controller should allow for more Logitech device support in the future.
- Better support for PNY Epic-X ARGB GPUs.
- Rework of Gigabyte motherboard support adds support for many additional boards.
- Some new MSI motherboard, laptop, and monitor support.
- Lots of GPUs added across various controllers.
- Support for Clevo laptop keyboards and lightbars.
- Support for some PowerColor GPUs.
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seflasporin 14 Sep 2026
Quoting: seflasporinAnnoyingly it doesn't work with my motherboard RGB and the BIOS was nerfed years ago, so I can't turn the damn thing off.Fortunately I can, only thing on fire are my RAM Sticks now, hopefully this release will be able to fix this. That would be awesome.
Anyway, OpenRGB is very well made. I ordered a Redragon M811 mouse recently, and it had the damned rainbow effect, super bright, and no way to turn it off on the hardware side. It wasn't supported by OpenRGB out of the box. I supposed that Redragon uses a similar hardware led control on their different mice, and most of their other mice were supported. I downloaded the code off their gitlab and got to work. Turns out all I had to was add 2 lines in the code with the device name and Id and rebuild it. It recognized the mouse and applied my default off setting to it immediately. Bam, annoying rainbow zapped in less than 10 minutes, that includes finding the code online, downloading it and building it.
linuxjacques 14 Sep 2026
Quoting: linuxjacquesI'm still afraid of corrupting my DRAM SPD.That's my concern too. Although kudos to the ambition and development of this project.
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