Strangely after going over several benchmark tests, 8gb of ram really doesn’t offer that big of an advantage for most games aside from like COD as even though you allocate that much it doesn’t seem to utilize it. 5gb (or 6gb depending on who you ask) seems to be the sweet spot. Games like Cyberpunk which you mentioned, the performance was negligible between 5gb and 6gb - and actually a couple FPS less with 6gb! For anyone reading this, don’t even bother with Auto as that actually gets it worse performance overall across the board.
I just got the XG Mobile 6850M XT for better performance. 😁 ASUS got me I guess cause I ended up getting a ROG Flow X16 as well to make use of that XG Mobile. I'm looking to get the XG Mobile 4090+ in the future as well.
I couldn’t care less about the fan noise because I wear my XM5 noise canceling headphones when I use my Ally for gaming lol. As long as the custom fan profile keeps the device cool and offers better performance I’m up for it. How much of a performance jump/boost you get going from Turbo plugged in to that custom profile?
@@spiritualantisepticlol thanks for the grammar correction, yes, I meant I didn’t care much about the fan noise because I wear noise canceling headphones. Sadly I no longer have this device though.
RAM? 16GB is appropriate for handheld. Docked as a PC? Maybe. But if your games are breaking 16GB you're pushing the settings beyond what a playable framerate would be to begin with, or you are pumping up settings your human eye won't benefit from on a small screen. My home PC is 32ram and 8vram but that's because I'm rockin newest games at 2k 165hz.
Großartiges Video. BloatyNosy und ausschalten der Kern Isolierung bringen enormen Leistungsboost. Alleine die Hintergrund Anwendungen in Windows fressen den RAM auf. Viele Spiele muss man Benutzerdefiniert einstellen in der Grafik und Schatten reduzieren und Umgebungsdetails ansonsten läuft vieles auf hohen Einstellungen. Nachdem mein ROG Ally einmal zur Reparatur war wegen defekter L1/LB Taste läuft nun alles perfekt.
@@fresco_dinero5155auto in FH5 is actually worst for me. I set is back to 4G and it plays a lot better. 8G will leave you with very little RAM to work with. This should've came with 32GB of RAM that's for sure.
Yeah I don't know why. When you said don't lock the fps it runs choppy. I locked it for gamecube emulation I spent like 30 mins trying to figure out what is the issue of why the graphics were glitchy. I thought it was a setting on Dolphin emulator. Then I took off the fps cap and it fixed the issue.
Try running Deathloop with 8g set on VRAM. That's the first game I saw an issue. I ended up having to set it back to 4g for it to run smoothly (on Auto, it had a bit of stuttering).
Apparently I have heard that 3GB is optimal followed by auto then 4GB. However, to stop fallout 4 from crashing after an hour or two of play, I had to set it to 1 GB for it to work fine.
one thing i did on my Ally is to disable the clock boost on the cpu. it didn't noticably increase the overall fps, but it can save some battery life. as 95% of games are gpu bottlenecked on the ally(except if you use an external gpu), so having a faster cpu makes little to no benefit. also, it helped in some games that had stuttering because of the constantly changing cpu clock. the modification is reversible, so no risks here. ps. i use dbrand's switch oled's screen protector on the ally and it looks shockingly similair to what you have on your Ally ;)
@@jeffreyali1456 well i found a video on yt that descibed it step by step. it's not long, or difficult, but it involves some regedit, that can intimidate some. but don't be afraid, it's safe. you have to enable the gui switch in registry, then just flip a toggle.
Dont lock the framerate it all depends on the game. If you have vrr on and your refresh rate is not set at 120 and locked at 120 there's going to be some tearing🤷
The 322 bios bumps fan curve and performance...theirs several informative videos out on the difference between the 317 and 322 bios and the 322 marginally out performs the 317...so it is safe to say that Asus is back on track on the bios front.
I have had no issues. The fan noise does not bother me. This thing has amazing speakers use them. Never had issues with 319 either. Set up a manual fan curve it's not that hard.
used bloatlynoite and hated. my performance went from good to cloud recovery. never using again, now im back to 1080p gaming 60fps from 720p with low fps. Cyberpunk - the ghosting is because of ingame FSR. i prefer playing 720p medium settings with 70c-75c than overheating the device at 95c and damaging. its not a bug, its really at 95c
Side note: I recently discovered playnite as a frontend for my games it just detects all from your multiple launchers, and it has themes so I have mine looking like a switch theme. Also I have had the OSD bugg out and not update on certain things before. I use a program called FPSMonitor from steam its similar to Riva tuner but its "safer" with anti-cheats as its compatible with more of the well known anti cheats. Additionally I have disabled the Windows Virtual machine, and also disabled Core Isolation on my device.
I'm curious to see what settings you were using in Cyberpunk. I have been using higher settings at 1080p with a 30 fps cap and it has been fine, game runs good with 25W mode and cpu boost off. 15W or 18W the fps will drop into the 20s though. I have just used auto VRAM and I haven't noticed any issues with it yet. I feel better having it on auto so if a game needs more system ram and less vram it will be able to have that.
Bud. What's it gonna take to get you to just try a custom cleaned version of Win11? All these tools that clean and optimize the bloated stock 11? Nothing compares to an OS that's clean from the beginning. I wait for you to do a video on this after you try a few of the offerings.
Many ‘cleaned’ versions of Win11 remove security features that services like Gamepass require, and generally can break things in weirder ways than stock 11.
@@reaperreaper5098 OK. I've yet to find any such issues like that. That may have been true 20 years ago when we ran hacked WindowsXP versions but not anymore. The tools they use now to strip down the iso are well made. All gamepads related software is automatically grabbed if needed. Everything is compartmentalized these days.
@@gamersdigester thank you so much, sub'd! -- I got 4.4fps+ increase from Bios 319 to Bios 322 (UNPLUGGED TURBO MODE 25W, not plugged in) with these standard preset medium settings Asus said to try. Have pic if you'd like. Fantastic performance now!
Clarity: my request is UNPLUGGED TURBO MODE just to see how well you are optimized vs mine, because you did some debloating and changed RAM. The new bios 322 fan curve is keeping her sooo much cooler and running better. Are there any other practical optimization things you have done that garnered extra performance?
Hello everyone I have a question What does it mean to change gpu setting to 8G? I’m new on this, does that mean more ram for games or better performance? Affects battery?
My charger is jacked up on mine. I plugged it in one day wouldn’t charge plugged the charger into my switch it started charging. So I thought it was the ally. But then I plugged a different type c charger into the ally and it connected instantly no issues. But sadly won’t do 30W turbo only 25w. The asus charger only works if I leave it plugged into my switch for a little then transfer the charger over to the ally super weird idk what it could be.
Sir Could you please help me? I only get 19fps in turbo mode when playing re2. V sync is turned off and i dont have capped fps on so I have no idea what the probleem is. Might you have an idea. Kind regards Thomas
Turn your settings down in game. Everything is probably set too high. I'm getting 60 on Re4 on 1080. Shadows affect performance the most. Start everything low settings and bump the stuff up that matters the most to you slowly until you like it. This thing won't run demanding games on high settings in 1080. I usually have to set most games low to mid. Turn off motion blur also. There is other settings that you don't need as well. Just tinker until your satisfied. Almost every setting will affect your fps. Most games have preset graphic settings also. You can try them and tinker from there.
Had to return mine... was getting extremely hot and had memory card slot issue. Every time I turned it on- memory card disappeared... until ine time game from mem card crashed and messed up the whole card ... I wiped the device and returned it. I wanted to love it but couldn't. Not mentioning the battery. Waiting for another big thing , hopefully soon
Bloaty saved my ram and freed up a lot of space on my device
Strangely after going over several benchmark tests, 8gb of ram really doesn’t offer that big of an advantage for most games aside from like COD as even though you allocate that much it doesn’t seem to utilize it. 5gb (or 6gb depending on who you ask) seems to be the sweet spot. Games like Cyberpunk which you mentioned, the performance was negligible between 5gb and 6gb - and actually a couple FPS less with 6gb!
For anyone reading this, don’t even bother with Auto as that actually gets it worse performance overall across the board.
Thank you for your videos!!! They enlighten me.
I'm so glad!
I just got the XG Mobile 6850M XT for better performance. 😁
ASUS got me I guess cause I ended up getting a ROG Flow X16 as well to make use of that XG Mobile. I'm looking to get the XG Mobile 4090+ in the future as well.
so sick !!!
I couldn’t care less about the fan noise because I wear my XM5 noise canceling headphones when I use my Ally for gaming lol. As long as the custom fan profile keeps the device cool and offers better performance I’m up for it. How much of a performance jump/boost you get going from Turbo plugged in to that custom profile?
I couldn't care less - because you mean you don't care about the fan noise.
@@spiritualantisepticlol thanks for the grammar correction, yes, I meant I didn’t care much about the fan noise because I wear noise canceling headphones. Sadly I no longer have this device though.
Everyone says the ally defeats the point of being a handheld but doesn’t the deck when it’s docked? That defeats the point of having a handheld too.
They really shoulda have included 32GB in the 699 version
They should’ve included 64gb or 128gb @ 300$
@@TuanQTx i’m talking anout RAM lol
Facts. Had they done that, nothing woukd touch this device. 16isnt enough
RAM? 16GB is appropriate for handheld. Docked as a PC? Maybe. But if your games are breaking 16GB you're pushing the settings beyond what a playable framerate would be to begin with, or you are pumping up settings your human eye won't benefit from on a small screen.
My home PC is 32ram and 8vram but that's because I'm rockin newest games at 2k 165hz.
@@messiahmozgusIf you’re running background stuff, like Discord and Armory Crate, you can eat into that RAM decently fast.
Großartiges Video. BloatyNosy und ausschalten der Kern Isolierung bringen enormen Leistungsboost. Alleine die Hintergrund Anwendungen in Windows fressen den RAM auf. Viele Spiele muss man Benutzerdefiniert einstellen in der Grafik und Schatten reduzieren und Umgebungsdetails ansonsten läuft vieles auf hohen Einstellungen. Nachdem mein ROG Ally einmal zur Reparatur war wegen defekter L1/LB Taste läuft nun alles perfekt.
I had my vram on 8gb since day one!! Forza didn’t launch one time for me!! Looked in to it!! Highered vram to 8gb!! Been running smooth since
Only way to play RPCS3 emulator but it runs flawlessly
I want to do this but my performance suffered last time I did that. I set mines to auto tho
@@fresco_dinero5155auto in FH5 is actually worst for me. I set is back to 4G and it plays a lot better. 8G will leave you with very little RAM to work with. This should've came with 32GB of RAM that's for sure.
Yeah I don't know why. When you said don't lock the fps it runs choppy. I locked it for gamecube emulation I spent like 30 mins trying to figure out what is the issue of why the graphics were glitchy. I thought it was a setting on Dolphin emulator. Then I took off the fps cap and it fixed the issue.
Try running Deathloop with 8g set on VRAM. That's the first game I saw an issue. I ended up having to set it back to 4g for it to run smoothly (on Auto, it had a bit of stuttering).
My steam decks fan is still way louder than the ALLYS. Why are people complaining boss?
Temp 96 is crazy.8GB VRAM is bad.Optimum is 4GB or Auto.
Apparently I have heard that 3GB is optimal followed by auto then 4GB. However, to stop fallout 4 from crashing after an hour or two of play, I had to set it to 1 GB for it to work fine.
Very interesting let me look into this!!
7:10 LOL those fans tho 🤣
one thing i did on my Ally is to disable the clock boost on the cpu. it didn't noticably increase the overall fps, but it can save some battery life. as 95% of games are gpu bottlenecked on the ally(except if you use an external gpu), so having a faster cpu makes little to no benefit. also, it helped in some games that had stuttering because of the constantly changing cpu clock. the modification is reversible, so no risks here.
ps. i use dbrand's switch oled's screen protector on the ally and it looks shockingly similair to what you have on your Ally ;)
How did you disable it?
@@jeffreyali1456 well i found a video on yt that descibed it step by step. it's not long, or difficult, but it involves some regedit, that can intimidate some. but don't be afraid, it's safe. you have to enable the gui switch in registry, then just flip a toggle.
@@gyulaorszagh8403 what’s the name of the channel or video so I can check it out
@@jeffreyali1456same here
Dont lock the framerate it all depends on the game.
If you have vrr on and your refresh rate is not set at 120 and locked at 120 there's going to be some tearing🤷
The Ally has excellent speakers even with my fans set at high the noise doesn't bother me. I also use earbuds.
Did anyone here download the new bios yet? If so how is it running so far
The 322 bios bumps fan curve and performance...theirs several informative videos out on the difference between the 317 and 322 bios and the 322 marginally out performs the 317...so it is safe to say that Asus is back on track on the bios front.
322 forced higher fan curve on manual mode. Smh. I'm not a "fan" of this. 😅 I want to run 18W in performance like fan noise not Turbo.
I have had no issues. The fan noise does not bother me. This thing has amazing speakers use them. Never had issues with 319 either. Set up a manual fan curve it's not that hard.
Performance > fan noise
used bloatlynoite and hated. my performance went from good to cloud recovery. never using again, now im back to 1080p gaming 60fps from 720p with low fps.
Cyberpunk - the ghosting is because of ingame FSR. i prefer playing 720p medium settings with 70c-75c than overheating the device at 95c and damaging. its not a bug, its really at 95c
Side note: I recently discovered playnite as a frontend for my games it just detects all from your multiple launchers, and it has themes so I have mine looking like a switch theme.
Also I have had the OSD bugg out and not update on certain things before. I use a program called FPSMonitor from steam its similar to Riva tuner but its "safer" with anti-cheats as its compatible with more of the well known anti cheats.
Additionally I have disabled the Windows Virtual machine, and also disabled Core Isolation on my device.
I'm curious to see what settings you were using in Cyberpunk. I have been using higher settings at 1080p with a 30 fps cap and it has been fine, game runs good with 25W mode and cpu boost off. 15W or 18W the fps will drop into the 20s though. I have just used auto VRAM and I haven't noticed any issues with it yet. I feel better having it on auto so if a game needs more system ram and less vram it will be able to have that.
Bud. What's it gonna take to get you to just try a custom cleaned version of Win11? All these tools that clean and optimize the bloated stock 11? Nothing compares to an OS that's clean from the beginning. I wait for you to do a video on this after you try a few of the offerings.
True. Right now this works great but I can look into that 💙
Many ‘cleaned’ versions of Win11 remove security features that services like Gamepass require, and generally can break things in weirder ways than stock 11.
@@reaperreaper5098 OK. I've yet to find any such issues like that. That may have been true 20 years ago when we ran hacked WindowsXP versions but not anymore. The tools they use now to strip down the iso are well made. All gamepads related software is automatically grabbed if needed. Everything is compartmentalized these days.
no they dont. I use Win10Shutup and Windows just runs barebones. Windows Defender is untouched.
@@Robbie-mw5uu defender is crap though and should be removed. Major performance boost to file speeds
The cooling in the rog ally is the worst right now .. even if the fan set to 100% the temps are still very high compared to other pc handhelds !!
My rog ally runs at 25c wifh 100% fan speed lmao
Do you have a rc channel by any chance? You sound just like ampro engenering. Exactly like him
😂 unfortunantly not. I wish hahah
@@gamersdigester check him out mate your voice is identical to him. Mind blown. Let me know what u think lol
Just for comparison, can you please do a quick Cyberpunk benchmark at 1080p, not 720p with MEDIUM settings preset like Asus suggested. How many FPS?
That video was 1080 p! But yes I can do that in an upcoming video
@@gamersdigester thank you so much, sub'd! -- I got 4.4fps+ increase from Bios 319 to Bios 322 (UNPLUGGED TURBO MODE 25W, not plugged in) with these standard preset medium settings Asus said to try. Have pic if you'd like. Fantastic performance now!
Clarity: my request is UNPLUGGED TURBO MODE just to see how well you are optimized vs mine, because you did some debloating and changed RAM. The new bios 322 fan curve is keeping her sooo much cooler and running better.
Are there any other practical optimization things you have done that garnered extra performance?
Sir no you can’t go back to that tiny screen protector what happened I thought you got more 😂
Hahahah I knowww, the ones i purchased were the WORST quality glass ever so I think I will just order the DBrand one
Would you recommend using CRU to expanding the VRR range from 120-48hz to say 120-30hz?
All the games i play i play at silent mod from sleeping dogs,AC black, battlefield 3 and fifa 19😂
I can't wait for this to be realeased here in Brazil. I still don't understand why Valve didn't release the deck here.
By using something like the bloat nosey how much ram did that clear up? Id really like to know.
Hello everyone I have a question
What does it mean to change gpu setting to 8G? I’m new on this, does that mean more ram for games or better performance? Affects battery?
Basically allowing the gpu more vram to use with the shared ram with the cpu. I leave it on auto so it chooses how much to use as needed.
how's the tem[ on your screen? gets super hot?
If i slide the power settings all the way up it gets to like 90 degrees cl.
After more testing try out 18-20 watts for much much lower temps with still high fps
My charger is jacked up on mine. I plugged it in one day wouldn’t charge plugged the charger into my switch it started charging. So I thought it was the ally. But then I plugged a different type c charger into the ally and it connected instantly no issues. But sadly won’t do 30W turbo only 25w. The asus charger only works if I leave it plugged into my switch for a little then transfer the charger over to the ally super weird idk what it could be.
waiittt ! did you use internet explorer???
😍👍👍👍
i'm having extreme performance on Windows mode compare to Manuel
My fans are never that loud even in turbo mode plugged in. In that mode I never have lag or slowdown even after hours of play.
Can get change fan curve for some reason
If you go manual and overclocking setup ! The middle one shows me only 30w not 43 like you! Why?
100w charger
Sir Could you please help me? I only get 19fps in turbo mode when playing re2. V sync is turned off and i dont have capped fps on so I have no idea what the probleem is. Might you have an idea. Kind regards Thomas
Turn your settings down in game. Everything is probably set too high. I'm getting 60 on Re4 on 1080. Shadows affect performance the most. Start everything low settings and bump the stuff up that matters the most to you slowly until you like it. This thing won't run demanding games on high settings in 1080. I usually have to set most games low to mid. Turn off motion blur also. There is other settings that you don't need as well. Just tinker until your satisfied. Almost every setting will affect your fps. Most games have preset graphic settings also. You can try them and tinker from there.
Had to return mine... was getting extremely hot and had memory card slot issue. Every time I turned it on- memory card disappeared... until ine time game from mem card crashed and messed up the whole card ... I wiped the device and returned it. I wanted to love it but couldn't. Not mentioning the battery. Waiting for another big thing , hopefully soon
rog ally 2 being announced by end of 2024
going to bricked hardware.🤣🤣