📹 GREAT or GARBAGE? MSI Mystic Light – RGB Explained
MSI Mystic Light is how you control the RGB for your MSI Motherboard and Graphics Card but is MSI Mystic Light any good?
Why does mystic light fail to install?
The Mystic Light not working error occurs when an outdated version of MSI Mystic Light or Dragon Center is installed. Users may experience the Mystic Light not appearing in the Dragon Center or not being able to control specific lights. This issue affects almost all types of MSI desktops, computers, and motherboards. To resolve this issue, users can try troubleshooting methods, such as reinstalling the software or contacting the manufacturer for assistance.
What is MSI Center for?
MSI Center is a gaming application designed for the MSI gaming series, offering optimized performance and efficiency. It provides download and installation methods, an introduction to common features, and a detailed explanation of all its features. To download MSI Center, visit the MSI official website and click on the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner. For example, to search for “MEG Z590 ACE”, enter the search icon and press “Enter”. For more information, refer to the MSI CENTER User Guide.
Does MSI support iCUE?
Following the installation of Mystic Light, it is recommended that an Advanced Scan be performed and that all packages be updated, with the exception of third-party utilities. Following a system reboot, the MSI Center should be opened once more. The features tab should then be selected, after which Mystic Light can be chosen from the available options.
Do I need an MSI motherboard to use mystic light?
MSI Mystic Light SYNC is an open software development kit (SDK) for personal computer (PC) components and peripherals. It enables users to control the color and effect of compatible products through a single application. In order to utilize the MSI Mystic Light SYNC functionality, a motherboard that is compatible with the SYNC standard and equipped with JRGB, JRainbow, or Jcorsair headers is necessary.
Is Corsair compatible with MSI Mystic Light?
Affirmative. The device is compatible with MSI Mystic Light Sync, Asus Aura Sync, and Gigabyte RGB Fusion.
What does mystic light do in MSI?
MSI Mystic Light offers comprehensive control over RGB lighting on your PC, including motherboard, graphics card, and PC case lighting. It supports Mystic Light Sync compatible products, allowing you to create a glowing gaming setup. The MSI Mystic Light Extension allows you to customize RGB LED strips for synchronized lighting, allowing you to control the lights over your RGB motherboard and system.
Ambient Link, a partnership with AAA game publisher, synchronizes MSI Mystic Light products with on-screen gaming and compatible lighting accessories like Nanoleaf Light Panels and Philip Hue Go, allowing gamers to create realistic ambient lighting simulated via in-game color schemes. This extends the gaming world into your RGB PC setup and room.
Can you use mystic light without MSI center?
Mystic Light software is a comprehensive RGB software solution application that enables users to control the RGB LED light effects of MSI and partner products. Users can download the software from the MSI website or MSI Center. The MSI Mystic Light SYNC feature allows users to easily control all colors and effects of compatible products. The Mystic Light Extension feature allows users to control colors and effects of partner products like RGB LED Strips, RGB PC Fans, or RGB PC Cases via on-board JRGB / JRainbow / JCorsair pin headers.
Who owns MSI?
MSI Express, a middle market private equity firm, is majority owned by HCI Equity Partners. The company was formed in 1988 by the merger of Express Packaging and Manufacturing Solutions International. In 2020, it acquired Power Packaging. MSI Express’s headquarters are located in Portage, Indiana. HCI is a middle market private equity firm that partners with family and founder-owned manufacturing, service, and distribution companies.
Are MSI motherboards OK?
MSI motherboards are renowned for their robust build quality, innovative features, and excellent performance. They cater to various user segments, including casual PC users, hardcore gamers, and overclockers, and cover platforms like Intel and AMD. MSI motherboards are built with high-quality components, ensuring long-term reliability. They offer cutting-edge features, such as advanced overclocking tools, high-speed connectivity options, and specialized software for system optimization.
MSI’s gaming motherboards are designed with features specifically tailored for gamers, such as reinforced PCIe slots, enhanced audio capabilities, RGB lighting options, and gaming-oriented software. These motherboards also have attractive designs and customizable RGB lighting. However, some users have reported occasional issues with BIOS updates, which could lead to compatibility problems or system-related issues. MSI typically addresses these problems through regular updates. Despite improvements in customer support, some users still face challenges in obtaining timely and satisfactory support.
Does MSI gaming mode help?
MSI Gaming Mode is designed to optimize visual and audio lighting settings for enhanced gaming experiences. The automatic tuning feature ensures optimal performance by adjusting the game settings to suit the user’s preferences.
Is Razer compatible with MSI?
Razer Chroma Connect is a module on Razer Synapse that allows control for all Chroma enabled apps and third-party hardware devices. It requires both third-party software and Razer Synapse 3 to run concurrently. MSI’s software needs to be running to use Razer Chroma Connect, which reads RGB values from Razer Synapse 3 and applies them to MSI’s device. It is only supported on Windows PC, with third-party software installed, and supported third-party hardware devices.
📹 MYSTIC LIGHT from MSI for Motherboard RGB Control – In depth look
If you’re considering using a motherboard from MSI and want more information on using it for RGB control, this in depth overview …
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What I don’t like about these RGB softwares is that there are very little effects using 2 or more custom colors. I’d just love to see a two-color rotation effect, etc… Software control seems to be having less diverse effects than some of the button or remote RGB controllers I have seen, which include 2 – or 3- colored effects
RGB Explained is finally back! Despite how popular RGB is, you’re the only one I know of to be actually reviewing the different RGB softwares out there. Thank you for putting in the time and effort to do so! I have 2 questions: 1) How often do you think you’ll update this series? I really enjoy it, and I think that provides really good information for people looking into lighting up their setups. 2) Are you planning on reviewing any third-party/open source softwares (e.g. OpenRGB or SignalRGB), or just the motherboard manufacturer ones? I personally use SignalRGB, and from my experience with it and from what I’ve seen of first-party RGB softwares, it’s miles ahead of the game.
Geez, I’ve been fighting this software tooth and nail since I installed it. Yellow and orange wouldn’t work unless I typed the numbers in. Sometimes an effect will work, sometimes nuthin’. The temp color slider won’t move. Clicking at colors on the color wheel is iffy at best so memorizing numbers of color values is a thing I guess. Always full of surprises.
Nah my experience of Mystic Light is garbage. B450 you can select the colour, but when it changes it doesn’t fade or have a smooth transition, the board doesn’t have a memory chip for me to turn off the default static red LEDS on it, and why the hell can’t GPU manufacturers make it so their GPUs can sync up with whatever RGB software you choose to run? Why would I need Mystic Light to change the colour of my MSI GPU lighting? Why can’t anything else do it?
How is it possible to let a ARGB wave for example go over multiple fans? If they are dasy chained together every fan gets the same signal. Or doesn’t it? And how is it with ARGB hubs in general. They get one signal from the motherboard. I don‘t have any real life experience, I just geathered some information via YouTube and the Internet so please forgive me if I understood something wrong.
Great series RGB Explained and awesome to see this topic being covered. Unfortunately I’ve found, fro: personal experience, Gigabyte (love their mobos’) RGB Fusion is garbage, Asus Aura Sync isn’t much better and MSI Mystic Light is the best of the bunch (still not great thou). All manufacturers are pushing their RGB & related software, but need to really improve what they’re offering 🤦🤦♂️🤭😂🤣.
OMG MSI! I HAD A MSI X570 BOARD AND LOVED YOUR MYSTIC LIGHT RGB CONTROL – I UPGRADED TO AM5 AND WENT WITH A GIGABYTE BOARD.. AND THEIR RGB CONTROL STINKS.. SO I SENT THEIR BOARD BACK AND PAID MORE FOR YOUR X670 BOARD.. WELL IT FORCED A NEW DOWNLOAD OF MSI CENTER AND ALL THE STUFF I LOVED ABOUT MYSTIC LIGHT IS GONE OR RUINED.. OMG MSI! DON’T MAKE ME HATE YOU.. GIVE US BACK ALL OUR SCHEMES WE SO LOVED!
Mystic Light has 27 modes (Saying 27 instead of 28, because I’m not counting “Random” as an actual mode here)… and roughly… 4 of them are worth anything at all… Best bet is to put your LEDs on different headers JRAINBOW1 and JRAINBOW2, then set the style the same, but adjust light speed and cycle time, to offset your lights for a nice, but still tame show… But other than that… Mystic Light is rubbish… 3 speeds for Light Speed? Cmon, give us a real slider, and not “click/click/click” junk. MSI also needs to give people a small explanation of what each mode does… 27 modes and some of them respond to the system in some way (temperature, power use, time of day?, etc)… They should allow multiple modes “stacked” as well… Say… Visor at all times, but if the CPU hits 75° then flash all LEDs Red, or whatever… And no “Game Mode” integration? MSI Center tells you “Mystic Light needs an update”? Yes please! (Because, it has to be new modes, or awesome new features/options, right?) Wait, no… it doesn’t change a single thing… not one little option has changed/been added/been removed, even… And… it resets to “Unicorn Puke” Full on ARGB rainbow flow after every Mystic Light update… So, since you can’t save your profiles… It’s back to manually setting everything back up again… I was typing this as I was perusal/listening to your article and you’ve hit on pretty much every pro/con that I’ve typed out, but… I’m not deleting all of this (in hopes that maybe someone from MSI sees that there are users here that really like the “idea” of Mystic Light but want to pull their hair out at its horrible piss-poor execution) and welcome everyone else who uses Mystic Light to post their “C’mon MSI, this is a no-brainer to change and get ahead of EVERY other ARGB software out there!
For me it’s quite clear. Mystic light is not ARGB software, it is RGB software. I am extremely disappointed with it, I didn’t know this going in as I thought ARGB headers meant ARGB control. NO, it isn’t so, I’ve tried everything including open source RGB software. MSI motherboards are the problem, they are under built and missing proper ARGB implementation. You can have rainbow puke or RGB effects. You cannot address individual LEDs and to be honest, I feel absolutely cheated by this and think MSI should be challenged for misleading product descriptions. I wanted to set up a PC with purple and blue, two tone fans to match the rest of my setup. I bought ARGB fans compatible with mystic light and an MSI motherboard with ARBG headers. I am now stuck with hardware that cannot do what I bought it to do because of MSI, and I am proper annoyed. I wish you had raked them over the coals for this, as they deserve. I will agree with you that their software for RGB stuff is actually pretty good, but that is not what people are buying in 2022 and that needs to be pointed out and made aware. Want ARGB? DO NOT BUY MSI
I tried using other profiles for different lighting and it does not even work, I used mixer on the first profile and no matter what effect I pick on the second profile it just always use the mixer effect from the first profile after showing the intended effect for a bit then switching back even though the mixer is not even picked.
The biggest issue for me I found was that I have to turn off overwriting third party settings in mystic light settings to be able to control my Corsair RGB RAM sticks. But this only works if you have also the Corsair ICue installed and have them both ( Mystic Light and ICue) set to start with system start up.
Not sure if it’s only me or someone else has this problem but I can’t get MSI Center to work at all.. I’ve already preinstalled it 10 times and still only works first time after reinstall and that’s it, keeps crashing every other time when I try to run it. Apart form MSI Center I do have LianLi L-Connect 3 installed for better control of my fans. Unsure if this is what’s causing problem or not. Hope that someone will be able to help.
I have an MSI B350M Gaming Pro from an old build that didn’t have anything RGB inside it and repurposed the motherboard for a newer build that has ThermalRIght RGB fans. I cannot figure out for the life of me how to change the color of my fans so I’m hoping this software gives me that ability as the fans are stuck on static red and that has to be my least favorite RGB color.
Hey so my motherboard is msi, I’ve never downloaded this software, when I got my pc I had a little remote to turn my lights off and on, I unplugged my pc when moving my set up around, when I plugged it all back in and my lights stopped working, they just wasn’t turning back on when using the remote, will this software turn it back on ?
I dont use mystic light but i do have an msi motherboard and the default color it gives to my aftermarket fans is that awful rainbow color. I have it so it changes once it completes booting up through my L connect software but id like my lian li fans to skip the brief rainbow color altogether any way to do that without mystic?
i have 2 5v argb headers 5 fans each but is it possible to add 2 colors to one single fan. i have 24 leds on each fan. it should be technically possible. but so far i can only do 1 header one color and the other another header. and let me tell you it can get a little confusing with the wires when all daisy chained behind case
i finally got it downloaded, & dont u hate it when it messes with other peripherals that’s not even MSI?! i just lost 2hrs modifying my Corsair Keyboard & RGB RAM lights…when MSI ML finish downloading it made all Corsair lights red Softwares are so weird its like they really have access to all your hardware, but they just want u to download their stuff Edit: oooof, to add insult to injury it has no effect of my MSI GPU RGB lights & MSI CPU RGB liquid cooler. To the observer all My MSI ML did was not change any MSI peripherals, but instead invade my Corsiar peripherals. i restarted my pc twice…just at the 1st sec the Corsair RGB custom lights show up, then, back to MSI’s desired All-red my vote from the title will be: Garbage, because it’s literally going into the Recycle bin…wish i had a Garbage bin
Thanks for the review of this. I have a B450 MSI and upgraded my memory to Kingston Fury RGBs. When using the Mystic Light it seems that the memory does not seem to link up with the RGB of the motherboard. I selected sync all but it seems the memory colour comes out different so I must be missing something. Also I noticed the JRGB headers (x2) on the board which are for strips. How can one install RGB fans, can these connect to the JRGB Pins? and can you run say 2x fans off the one pin? Any recommendation would be great, thanks all.
bought a Deepcool LS520 and i’ve downloaded, uninstalled, and redownloaded both MSI Dragon Center and MSI Center and mystic light on both and it won’t detect my water cooler, tells me to update bios (I have) and no matter what I do I can’t configure the RGB on my hardware. love seeing that everyone on reddit has the same issues and no one has a fix. shit company apparently.
Of a scale from 1-6 I give the MSI a barely 2. It IS garbage in 2022 with the latest updates of my Nov. “edition” on a “PRO” (“pro my @ss) Z-690-P mobo. Why: 1. It resets itself at random after a shutdown and boot. 2. It’s NOT a ARGB as previous mentioned but a purely app controlled RGB whim. 3. The three “profiles is a joke since at random when you switch back and forth between them the “profile” will reset and you need enter tha values…. AGAIN for the umphtheent time and no real “save profile” option. 4. It randoms fails to detect RAM without you have changed a single bit on the pc. 5. Basically needs to be started together with Windows and no option leave certain components alone like RAM or or list the ones on the same website but defaults them. Nuff to go bonkers! My advice: Ditch the onboard system and get a dedicated box sort the ARGB.
God I LOOOVE when my GPU randomly switches to default superbright rainbow pulse if I leave my computer on for a few days. What a GREAT piece of software it is. And then I have to go and update the software suite, Then I have to update the lighting control subsoftware, Just to switch it back to Dim Red. 10/10 IGN
Its a complete Garbage. Conflicts with MSI afterburner, completely trashes GPU fan control, bugs, etc etc… It is the reason why i will probably look for another brand for gpu next time i get one. I dont even care about the rgbs but just having this software that is utter crap and not doing anything about it, its enough to drive me away from msi.