Ok maybe saying all Asus software sucked was a little silly. I was annoyed that after months of refusing to install the Armoury software for the lighting and mouse, having previous errors upon installation resulting in having to do a full system restore, I decided today to give it a try - which resulted in me wasting a good hour and uninstalling the Armoury crate software (which refused to recognise the Spatha mouse and the Horus keyboard)
I initially decided to try updating the Armoury software and firmware for the Spatha - this resulted in the 'update' simply uninstalling itself - when I reinstalled it, it was not to be found anywhere - literally no icons to start it, nothing. I tried rebooting and reinstalling but the same deal - it just would not work.
So, after faffing about for a good hour or so, I uninstalled Armoury crate and the mystery Armoury software for the mouse - I would point out that I even attempted to update the firmware on the mouse in which a small box appeared and told me to 'shut down and remove the cable from the mouse, then press and hold the red buttons on the mouse' - this I did and it did absolutely nothing!
So I can't recommend the Armoury crate software or the latest Armoury 2 mouse software. Maybe it was just me, but looking at the number of issues that people have had with this software I think it's more than likely just poorly written software.
**Edit**
Actually it seems you may have been telling porkies about not having any issues with Asus software..
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?114738-Armoury-Crate-damaged-my-whole-systemSeems you have!