The ROG Ally X is a superb handheld, nevertheless it nonetheless runs Home windows 11 — and meaning, there are a number of settings you’ll want to change.

I am a giant fan of Asus’ ROG Xbox Ally X for a number of causes, together with its ample energy, how comfy it’s to carry, and the flexibility Home windows 11 affords on the subject of what video games you may truly play on the hand-held. That mentioned, it is from good, and whereas Home windows 11 is its finest characteristic, it may additionally make the hand-held expertise irritating, particularly whenever you’re navigating between Microsoft’s working system and the brand new Xbox Full Display Expertise.

Add in Asus’ Armoury crate layer and you’ve got a complicated mixture of a number of settings apps, all vying to your consideration. With that in thoughts, as quickly as I received my palms on the ROG Xbox Ally X, I modified quite a few key settings, each inside Home windows 11 and Armoury Crate. Some are associated to efficiency, whereas others contain getting rid of some of Home windows 11’s extra annoying options.

Why would you need this characteristic on a gaming handheld?

If you wish to take away Home windows 11’s annoying information ticker, first, head to Home windows 11 mode. Subsequent, right-click on a clean area on the taskbar, choose Taskbar Settings, find Widgets, toggle them Off. This turns off information, climate and different updates within the Home windows Taskbar when you’ve gotten the ROG Xbox Ally X set to Home windows 11 mode. For those who’re acquainted with Home windows 11, this is likely to be one thing you have already executed in your PC, however if you happen to aren’t, it probably feels a bit buried inside Microsoft’s desktop working system.

Make sure that your display screen does not look bizarre

Nobody needs to play video games that look yellow generally

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This characteristic is likely to be helpful on a laptop computer, however within the context of a gaming handheld, you probably don’t need your video games that includes an odd yellow tinge to them. First, be sure you’re in Home windows 11 mode. Subsequent, head to Settings, System, and switch off Evening Gentle. With this characteristic off, you will not want to fret about your video games randomly turning yellow (this characteristic was turned on for me for some cause, nevertheless it must be off by default usually).

Flip that flashy RGB off

Or not less than change the colour

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If you do not need your ROG Xbox Ally X to be a beacon of RGB consideration, open up Asus’ Armoury Crate app by clicking the Xbox button and scroll all the way down to the Armoury Crate icon on the backside of the display screen. After the app boots up, click on Lighting. On this display screen, you may change how the lights that cirlce the joysticks seem, together with whether or not they’re Static, Respiration, Strobing and extra. You can too modify the brightness and alter the colour (or in my case, fully flip the glowing joystick rings off).

Create a maxed out efficiency profile

Push the hand-held to its limits

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For those who goal to play high-end video games and actually push your ROG Xbox Ally X to its limits, you will wish to create a customized efficiency profile. To do that, faucet the Xbox button and scroll all the way down to the Armoury Crate icon. Subsequent, click on Efficiency. You may then see numerous choices like Silent, Efficiency, Turbo, and Guide. Choose Guide and switch SPL, SPPT, and FPPT to their high settings. For this new customized profile to be lively, you will want to pick out it from the Armoury Crate menu, which you may get again to by taping the Xbox Button.

Flip CPU enhance on and off

If a sport is CPU sure, this characteristic may be very helpful

By now, you are in all probability realizing that Armoury Crate is your new finest buddy. Subsequent up, if you wish to flip CPU enhance on and off, head to the Armoury Crate app by taping the Xbox button and discovering the app. Subsequent, choose Efficiency adopted by Eco Help. Right here you will discover the CPU Enhance setting and you may toggle it on and off. This characteristic is nice for CPU sure video games like Battlefield 6 and Starfield, however if you happen to’re enjoying an indie title that is not useful resource intensive, turning it off will prevent battery life.

Step your VRAM sport up

Sure, you are headed again into Armoury Crate

Open up Armoury Crate once more with the Xbox Button and scroll all the way down to its devoted app. Subsequent, head to Efficiency and choose GPU Settings. Click on the Reminiscence Assigned to GPU possibility. A drop-down then seems that lets you choose how a lot VRAM you wish to allocate. I discover that 10GB is an effective steadiness, particularly for extra resource-intensive video games.

Customise Command Heart with shortcuts you truly use

It may appear apparent, however I did not know this feature existed at first

Faucet the Xbox Button and scroll all the way down to the Armoury Crate icon. Subsequent, scroll down barely so you may see all the fast choices. Then faucet Y to Customise the format. As soon as you have executed that, you’ll faucet the little X within the high nook of every shortcut to take away them from the fast menu. Scrolling all the way down to the underside enables you to add new shortcuts. I like being able to report, the Actual-time Monitor, and the choice to drag up an on-screen keyboard available.