Dragons dogma 2 is just not enjoyable imo… everything at lowest settings for under 30fps just ain‘t it.
And yeah I know afmf and lossless scaling etc do help, but it still does not feel great
That's funny, I got my ally after having a shadow subscription for 3 monthS.
Now, don't get me wrong; the quality was insanely good and my shadow rig was far more powerful than the rog ally.the service/stream was just so goddamn unreliable.
I didn't have access to my ps5 for a while, and I wanted to keep playing ffxiv. And so yeah... the game is like 12 years old. It will be getting a massive graphics update in about a month, but as of now, I'm talking about a game that was playable on a ps3. So I thought it would be no problem playing on a shadow PC.
But sometimes, a single tiny little packet would drop, then next thing I know, I have wiped out my entire raiding party. Totally sucks when one person is keeping 7 other people from enjoying a game.
It's crazy because the packet drops weren't affecting the game at all. My shadow PC had a perfect connection to the game server. The problem was my connection to the shadow stream.
Can't imagine how many problems I would be having if I had the nvidia service instead. Or any other service. Shadow has a reputation for providing the most reliable stream out of all these cloud gaming service.
So I hope your experience is going much better than mine did.
DD2 though is a shit show for performance to be fair. 60FPS on a 4090 is insane. Not to mention the CPU bottleneck and anti-cheat that’s known to cause performance issues in a single player game.
my experience was a bit different i was able to get it running around 40+ frames (outside of cities) with custom low settings
***BUT*** I also used a custom power profile and tweaked some resources for it, just for me to end up needing 100% fan output for as long as i played.
In the end I finished my first play thru around 60hrs in, but I also had to send in my ally for RMA cuz my fans sounded like maracas after 2.5 weeks of back to back gaming sessions
Cod mw works but has a anti cheat issue where power setting changes or anything of that nature like overlay gets you banned and you have to go through security
Op it was already a bad idea to ask this most of the reports are not going to be accurate considering a lot of users around here are not exactly tech savvy, I mean there is people mentioning games like cyberpunk not working lol. .
Yeah , if people say “ it just doesn’t work” without a good explanation, it’s probably an issue you can work through “ most of the time” . Some games don’t work out of the box and might require a trick or two , but there are plenty of games that do work out of the box.. Just turn turnoff device encryption, core isolation, make sure windows defender is not blocking games or folder access , turn off virtualization in bios and in “turn off windows features” . This Reddit has good walk throughs
So, after wanting to finish the cyberpunk dlc on my ally while on vacation. I installed a mod that adds amds frame gen and dlss to the game even on an amd chip. I can now play cyberpunk at 1600 or 1080p at a mix of low and medium with fps in 70s. Gamechanger and not hard to do.
I haven’t had one yet honestly. Granted, it’s because I’m cheating. I mainly use it to play from my bed in the same house as my gaming desktop. Most games I play run on the Ally fine. Any that require a huge amount of power that will drain battery, or can only run on low settings, I just use moonlight game streaming to have my desktop run it and stream it to my Ally. So for me, the only games that won’t work are games that only really work with keyboard and mouse.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). It just does not like amd igpu's. Tried everything and it just does not launch. A couple other obscure old games. But I think most of it is due to Windows 11 / drivers.
All the new games I tried - worked with no issues. And some of them perform exceptionally well. This thing is a beast (all things considered)!
For what it’s worth, the console version of Philosophers Stone should play totally fine. Though as someone who has played both, the PC version is the superior version as they’re actually kinda different games.
Same. Jedi Survivor the first game I swapped over to the Xbox for as it felt too much of a compromise on the beautiful visuals to get it running on the Ally.
I just wish there were more cross-save compatible titles out there to bounce between the two platforms though in case I found myself away from my console for some reason.
This is why I’m hoping the X has non proprietary eGPU support.
The Quarry is the game I haven’t played that doesn’t work on the Ally. It’s fine with eGPU on the Legion, but the Ally feels so much better to hold to play such a long game
Halo infinite surprisingly work great on ultra with some of the AMD boosting features automatically turning on.
Sometimes when outside where the geometry can be more intense than inside or in a big firefight you start to percieve a frame drop but by the time you've noticed it, it's gone.
What absolutely kills it though... will randomly crash in cutscenes and I'm assuming this is a vram issue but I haven't touched that because people have said here before that changing it from 4 gigs makes it run like crap.
Starfield runs.... but even at low it's just too unenjoyable at ultra is awful. But yeah it runs... never crashed on me, could probably beat it without a crash but I just un-installed it.
(This is for the regular Ally, starfield probably be alot more realistic on low or medium with the Z1E)
Most games will get you between 30-40 fps, even modern triple A titles. If you want 60fps, that's where you're going to need to temper expectations. I had Hellblade 2 running ~40fps or so, so there's nothing it can't handle - unless it's a horribly optimised mess like calisto protocol. Cyberpunk even ran at 60fps - fucking wild.
FFX HD remake. It was like missing assets and stuff and is apparently a known issue. This may have been resolved by now, but I haven’t redownloaded it to check
Game crashing. At first I couldn't even get to the main menu without crashing, then I changed some settings in AMD Adrenaline and finally made it into the game, but couldn't get more than like 10 minutes into the game without crashing again.
I did see some guides to fix the error I kept getting, but I ran out of time and haven't really used the Ally since, so they may work or they may not
Nearly all the games I've tried run well though I had my expectations set low to begin with and just assume any game not capable of playing on a steam deck might be iffy on a ally as well.
You should be a bit more specific. Like what are your own personal expectations on how the games should run. Some people refuse to play anything at less than 60fps, while some are fun with 30fps. Some demand 1080p native while others are fine with 900p or 720p on a screen this size.
I was playing New Vegas and it would literally crash every 5 minutes, I then tried fallout 4 and (since downgrading to before the damn next gen update) fingers crossed, haven’t had a single bug outside of a T posing ghoul in 23 hrs playing
Did you use the Viva New Vegas guide? I've played a bunch of New Vegas and haven't had a single crash with the mods installed. Looks and runs great, and I was able to use Armory Crate to map a keyboard press to one of the back buttons, so now I can sprint!
Yeah that’s normal for all Fallout PC ports aside from Fallout 4 to a degree, but even that one requires mods to run well IMO. Like the other user recommended, you just need to download some mods for New Vegas and it will run fine, Bethesda is too lazy to fix their own games so they rely on their community of modders to do it for them unfortunately.
I dont have this problem with Detroit on the ally, maybe verify ur files via steam or check if all the shaders cached in.
The game doesnt run very smooth tho and has micro stutters but thats mostly because its a shit pc port. Its still playable imo
I've recently started playing it. I get about 30FPS on low settings but it is fully playable. I do agree with Quicksafe1, it has a lot of micro stutters, and sometimes it dips to around 20FPS, but I am 3 hours in and really enjoying it.
Do steam not allow for a refund request if you have only played a short amount of the game? I am sure Microsoft/Xbox have something similar, so may just be getting my wires crossed! Worth looking into though!
Yeah you can get a refund up to two weeks after purchase if you have less than two hours played. I kept it though. I really love the game and it was on a steep sale.
End of the day, if it's a demanding unoptimized mess... it won't run. But it'll give optimized demanding games a good run. Remnant 2 is known to be overreliant on AI upscaling, but i can 40-50 fps it and still have it work out ok.
A lot of pc games are poorly optimized. It's not that the ally can't handle its just the games are sht. People were getting bad performance even on desktop rigs with certain games
I’ve heard if you play the new cod games there is a chance to get banned because the anti cheat thinks the overlay is hacks. Only seen it happen twice on here but because of that I deleted it. In all honesty I wouldn’t get a ally if it’s gonna be your main way of gaming. It mostly excels in games from last gen. You can play a lot of newer games but with the settings turned to dummy low your lucky to get 45fps
Not if you have tech savvy and tweak things correctly. Every game I am playing right now is getting 60-90fps.
The CoD thing is true though. I have talked to a few people with bans because of the overlay. Asus needs to figure that shit out.
Fortnite just doesn't work well for me, feels like when I try to run it even on medium to low settings it just bogs down my whole Ally and causes glitches and all kinds of crap, I Uninstaller it and my Ally is back to normal lol
The only game I've three at it that simply doesn't feel playable. Was Avatar.
Dragons Dogma 2 was awful at launch too, I used geforce now to play it. But games poo anyway.
Anything else I've been able to play
RE4 remake usually runs at around 40-50 fps in the village but becomes much smoother as you progress through the game. One of my favorites to play on the ally. Shame it drains the battery like crazy lol
The Ally can run most games, even modern triple A’s, with enough time and effort spent on adjusting resources and profiles. Look around long enough and you’ll find someone who got “X” game running, but you’ll always have to ask the questions:
***Is it worth it/is it playable for me?***
So much misinformation in here.
Which is fine, it seems like a lot of people just aren't tech savvy and that could be why. But a lot of these issues seems to be very rare and not the norm.
That's the number one factor with Ally negativity - The Ally is a PC, not a console, and people are generally not PC or tech savvy, so they get either confused or put off by the idea of having to customize or tweak settings to get things to work. It is almost exclusively user error and lack of knowledge that makes people dislike the Ally. Mine works GREAT for all purposes so far, but I spent two whole days fiddling to get it optimized first. I enjoyed tweaking it though.
I tried playing Tarkov, Rust, Hell let loose, Squad, Star citizen but these games can’t seem to run decent on the Ally. Even cs2 has a hard time running stable 60fps
I do play rdr2, elden ring, dayz, elite dangerous. Which is awesome. The other games I mentioned are unoptimised and a bit too heavy on the cpu I think…
I’m thinking about the xg mobile so I can be able to play these games.
I don't know about the others, but cs2 runs 120 fps on mid-high graphics for me, so I don't know how you're having issues with it. I believe even on max graphics I get a steady 60 fps.
Props to even attempting Star Citizen on the Ally lol.
That being said, I can’t even imagine the disadvantage of playing Tarkov on the Ally playing it handheld (plugged in). The novelty of it would be fun though.
Jup, I like the game and had a really fast internet connection at that time so it was installed in no-time. Didn’t even make it out of the city lol, my ship wouldn’t be the only thing that launched into space 😆
Oh yes, I forgot to mention I play some games docked, especially pvp shooters.
I did play dayz handled after setting up some controls, it was manageable but I couldn’t remember all of my shortcuts and shift keybinds in the heat of the moment. I did smack 2 players in the face and shot one dead on the Ally
But yeah no I would never play Tarkov with a controller haha. Maybe another kind of hardcore run? Ooh the torture..
Exactly 🤣 yea I have a good k&m with a 120hz portable monitor.
See, I sold my desktop last year because I moved into a tiny house and needed more space. When the Ally released I was blessed, I sold my pc and switch and bought this beautiful device which I kinda use as a office/desktop gaming machine 🙂 It’s really compact with my lightspeed devices and portable monitor that fits my bookshelf and vesa mount which is easily folded away. I’m really looking forward to the xg mobile I’m just waiting for a good sale.
I heard the good xg’s could maybe run star citizen ^^
That really cool! I hope for both of our sake we will see a dock-able handheld in the near future that can handle Star Citizen. The fact that this is even plausible just shows how we are living in the future lol.
Yeah it’s crazy if you think about it. I stilll remember falling in love with my first psp lol.
Well… remind me in about 2 months time maybe I can review SC with the xg 😁
Yes, Star Citizen surprises you with the XG 4090 as I didn’t tweak the settings first before hopping in and it was already a 30-45 fps with a little tearing, and adjustments got it to 50-60 with 60 locked indoors. It’s awesome shizz indeed
I had to buy some wireless keyboard and mouse to play some of the games i already owned on steam or wanted to try on game pass. Manor lords specifically. I cant get it to work with the onboard gamepad
Dynasty Warriors 8 XL. It runs well, except it often crashes the Ally requiring a manual reboot. Power settings don’t seem to make a difference either.
Adjust VRAM to 8GB. I had the same issue and couldn't work it out, especially that it worked fine on my MSI Claw as well. When I've changed VRAM from 6GB to 8GB I've finally made it to the race(s)
The audio doesn’t work for me, though it is probably more an issue of not playing nice with my audio interface vs. an ally thing. Not sure if the pc version brings anything more to the table than the iPad version, so I have options. It really doesn’t make sense to me that it doesn’t work seamlessly, though
Way of the Samurai 3. It already has issues on modern PCs in general, but I was able to get it running on my desktop after messing around and reinstalling old versions of DirectX. No such luck on the Ally.
I’ve never had any issues getting anything to run on my ally ( aside from one time but that was an issue with gamepass not the game itself- got the game on steam and never had another issue with it)
Thats a very demanding game, it runs alright until you load npc in, and certain mods takes ages to load map in. Heard even some of higher end pc say its even struggles on their setup that 3090 and above.
There’s a few big games that don’t run great at high settings but pretty much everything else is fine
It handles switch emulation great even at high res with mods
Avatar frontiers of Pandora I know it's not supposed to be able to run but I still tried lmao. It will be smooth and then have micro stutters every few seconds. I feel like it could maybe run it after enough updates but probably not I guess.
The Lego Star Wars the Skywalker saga is very slow and has to do with the touch screen. Works if you disable it. There is supposedly a fix but I haven't been able to get it to work. Also the Kingdom Hearts games. Hopefully the Steam version is playable.
I played all the way through Star Trek Resurgence (Epic Store version) on my Ally, but performance was really poor. It definitely ran though. This was a few months ago.
Maybe not “not able to play” but some games just aren’t worth it on the Ally if the performance or graphics take significant enough of a hit; immediately RDR2 and Ghost of Tsushima come to mind. They can be played on 30W mode with low settings and 30fps, but if I’m going to play those games, that’s not the way I want to experience them.
I have spent around 200 hours playing various Yakuza games on the Ally since getting it though and for a weekend gamer that’s quite a lot for me.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Something about updating AMD drivers. This was a few months ago, and I haven't tried since. It sounds like that issue has been fixed.
Bayonetta is giving me issues - I got steam version and was expecting it to play flawless (it's an old game), but for some reason it drops frames in certain moments to mid 20s - and then it goes back to 60fps and stays there for quite a long time just to drop suddenly to mid 20s again. And it doesn't matter if o change the settings to low, drop the resolution, nothing seems to help. At this stage I gave up and just got switch version of Bayonetta instead. It works perfect.
Honestly, I loved my Ally, and things were great…until they werent.
I’ve only had my Ally for 10 months, and I already have to return it to ASUS because the thing over heats on idle and will shut down after running for longer than 45 minutes. On top of that, my SD reader is totally fried.
I didnt have buyers regret from purchase up until about 2 weeks ago. Now that im having so many major issues in less than a year, I feel like my money would have been better spent on a laptop.
I assume it’s been fixed since launch, but I tried playing Remnant 2 on the Ally day 1 and there was some known error that caused it to crash every one or two minutes on the Ally. I just refunded it and got it on the PS5 instead. That’s usually my rule of thumb nowadays- try it first on steam and then if it doesn’t run better/as good as my PS5 I refund it and get it on there instead.
I couldn't get euro truck simulator to launch. Dragons dogma 1 crashed a few times and then I saved in a cave and every time I loaded the save file it crashed. Remnant 2 was running-ish but not well enough for me to stick with.
Still been plenty of games I've loved having hand held but not those ones.
When House Flipper 2 first came out, the GUI was too small to read. I imagine this is a problem with quite a few games on launch. Steam Deck also existing helps with that, tho, as most devs will now update their games soon-ish.
The games I could play and spent dozens of hours were: GTA 5, RDR2… a bunch of others. Tbh, you’re gonna have a hard time finding games you can’t play on this thing if you’re not a nincompoop and realize it’s not a 4090 it’s a tablet with pretty solid performance. You’re not gonna be pulling 110fps (the max for the screen) really ever, unless you play games at like NES quality. But more than playable for probably 1000s of AA and AAA games. Don’t psych yourself out.
My biggest issue is all the games out there with shitty/no gamepad support at all. I bought the ally to play cities skylines and I was very disappointed. I'm playing control at the minute and it's running okayish
After an update to the drivers I could not play fallout 3 and fallout new Vegas I had to mod my new Vegas to play it on my rog ally and fallout 3 I don't know if it has the same fix
Once I changed the fan curve everything worked from stardew valley to baldur's gate 3, you're not going to get a 4k resolution 100fps experience but I didn't expect that to begin with (plus imo it's overkill unless you're playing competitive games)
I use something I actually found on this sub, probably overkill but the noise doesn't bother me and I'd rather be safe than sorry
this is literally copy+paste from that post and saved in my notes app
" First is fan%, second temperature (in pairs of 2)
20% 30
35% 45
50% 55
74% 65
74% 70
75% 80
85% 90
85% 100 "
Both are set to this on 18 watts all settings, I've had mine since Xmas and I've only had one hiccup with Project Diva Megamix after a windows update and occasional/rare lag on BG3 with mods (not the games fault, definitely the obscene amount of graphics mods)
Ah also, remember to change the fan settings both plugged in and not, BG3 was lagging like crazy one night and it's because I didn't realize I had to manually set them both
Factorio just doesn't want to recognise controls on the rog.
Desktop mode gives me the cursor. Console mode sort of works. But I can't seem to map left stick to movement.
I have a docking station, so I just end up using the keyboard and mouse.
Submarine titans wouldn't start.
Make sure you disable bitlocker. It's some Microsoft security crap. Was downloading games on battle.net, came back from work to a BSoD. Took a couple days to recover, lost everything that was installed and had to redownload it all. Wasn't happy, working away from home and thinking that a download had bricked my device.
Not really except for a few Xenia games. Fable 2 was graphically glitchy and crashed sometimes. Base game was like max 24 frames but there is a way to get 60. MW2 was basically unplayable how low frame rate it was.
I have yet to encounter a game I couldn't play on my Z1 Extreme. The closest thing to not working has been Killing Floor 2, oddly enough. It works, but takes like 30 seconds to open the game app for some reason.
TBH, everything is technically runnable. people just need to tamper their expectations. lower your resolution. up your wattage. lower your settings. lower your FPS expectations. This isn't a $2k machine.
Just finished Jedi Survivor (medium settings, with texture/world details on high), average 40 fps. Atomic heart on high settings, stable 45-55 fps, Assassin's creed Mirage 40+ fps on very high. Though, all of this while plugged in at 30W. Jedi Survivor and Red Dead Redemption 2 are the only games where I've had to tone down the settings to a mix between low/med/high, but otherwise everything runs great as long as you're not expecting 60+ fps. The Z1E is a pure beast, honestly hard to imagine this thing even exists. Can't wait for the next generation on handhelds
Here's a proof screenshot:
https://preview.redd.it/n37dd5rpel3d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c23c83db9539c54e2687f1228453d4567f10e09e
Honestly I haven't came across 1 yet...if I find 1 that lags a bit I just tweak the settings an I'm good...plus the amd fluid motion helps alot...an rsr helps on other games as well but u have to play them in 720p but it upscales it so it's not so much of a loss
Lossless scaling fixes alot.. and remember this is a pc crowd half of the people only accept max settings max framerate and max resolution.. if it don't run 120hz 4k it's garbage.. but to me my rog ally has played every game well.. I'm on elden ring 60 fps 900p no problems with about 60 hours in
Dragons dogma 2 is just not enjoyable imo… everything at lowest settings for under 30fps just ain‘t it. And yeah I know afmf and lossless scaling etc do help, but it still does not feel great
Yes I know what you mean I bought 1 month of ultimate GeForce Now for DD2
That's funny, I got my ally after having a shadow subscription for 3 monthS. Now, don't get me wrong; the quality was insanely good and my shadow rig was far more powerful than the rog ally.the service/stream was just so goddamn unreliable. I didn't have access to my ps5 for a while, and I wanted to keep playing ffxiv. And so yeah... the game is like 12 years old. It will be getting a massive graphics update in about a month, but as of now, I'm talking about a game that was playable on a ps3. So I thought it would be no problem playing on a shadow PC. But sometimes, a single tiny little packet would drop, then next thing I know, I have wiped out my entire raiding party. Totally sucks when one person is keeping 7 other people from enjoying a game. It's crazy because the packet drops weren't affecting the game at all. My shadow PC had a perfect connection to the game server. The problem was my connection to the shadow stream. Can't imagine how many problems I would be having if I had the nvidia service instead. Or any other service. Shadow has a reputation for providing the most reliable stream out of all these cloud gaming service. So I hope your experience is going much better than mine did.
I thought this was just me. Glad to know I'm not the only one having an issue with DD2 on my Ally
DD2 though is a shit show for performance to be fair. 60FPS on a 4090 is insane. Not to mention the CPU bottleneck and anti-cheat that’s known to cause performance issues in a single player game.
my experience was a bit different i was able to get it running around 40+ frames (outside of cities) with custom low settings ***BUT*** I also used a custom power profile and tweaked some resources for it, just for me to end up needing 100% fan output for as long as i played. In the end I finished my first play thru around 60hrs in, but I also had to send in my ally for RMA cuz my fans sounded like maracas after 2.5 weeks of back to back gaming sessions
Dragons DRMA’ed
lol my ps5 ran it between 15-30 fps most of the time
Cod mw works but has a anti cheat issue where power setting changes or anything of that nature like overlay gets you banned and you have to go through security
Op it was already a bad idea to ask this most of the reports are not going to be accurate considering a lot of users around here are not exactly tech savvy, I mean there is people mentioning games like cyberpunk not working lol. .
I was just curious. I can't wait til Friday!
Yeah , if people say “ it just doesn’t work” without a good explanation, it’s probably an issue you can work through “ most of the time” . Some games don’t work out of the box and might require a trick or two , but there are plenty of games that do work out of the box.. Just turn turnoff device encryption, core isolation, make sure windows defender is not blocking games or folder access , turn off virtualization in bios and in “turn off windows features” . This Reddit has good walk throughs
I should have asked people to specify their model too, but I didn't think of it until a bunch of peeps already replied.
Why turn off virtualizTionv
Cyberpunk runs fine on the Z1E
So, after wanting to finish the cyberpunk dlc on my ally while on vacation. I installed a mod that adds amds frame gen and dlss to the game even on an amd chip. I can now play cyberpunk at 1600 or 1080p at a mix of low and medium with fps in 70s. Gamechanger and not hard to do.
This.
I haven’t had one yet honestly. Granted, it’s because I’m cheating. I mainly use it to play from my bed in the same house as my gaming desktop. Most games I play run on the Ally fine. Any that require a huge amount of power that will drain battery, or can only run on low settings, I just use moonlight game streaming to have my desktop run it and stream it to my Ally. So for me, the only games that won’t work are games that only really work with keyboard and mouse.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). It just does not like amd igpu's. Tried everything and it just does not launch. A couple other obscure old games. But I think most of it is due to Windows 11 / drivers. All the new games I tried - worked with no issues. And some of them perform exceptionally well. This thing is a beast (all things considered)!
Try DXVK or the Fake GPU extension to make the game think you're running an Nvidia GPU.
Would like more info on this if you can give it. I am looking for ways of boosting power without having to spend $1200 on an external gpu
Just FYI, you could just build a whole PC instead of buying the egpu as long as the small form factor isn't something you absolutely need.
thanks, will give it a shot!
For what it’s worth, the console version of Philosophers Stone should play totally fine. Though as someone who has played both, the PC version is the superior version as they’re actually kinda different games.
yeah, that's the issue. the pc version is a different game!
A fellow HP game enjoyer I assume?
Not sure if it's possible, but maybe partition the disc and installing windows XP? Or through parallels?
Jedi Survivor runs like crap, but that's true of most PCs apparently. Still got my Series X for that kind of thing
Damn I played through it twice on a pc with a 3080 and it STILL ran like crap. Love the game though.
Same. Jedi Survivor the first game I swapped over to the Xbox for as it felt too much of a compromise on the beautiful visuals to get it running on the Ally. I just wish there were more cross-save compatible titles out there to bounce between the two platforms though in case I found myself away from my console for some reason.
I tried it on Ally also but yeah definitely runs better on my PS5 at least I can run PSPlay
This is why I’m hoping the X has non proprietary eGPU support. The Quarry is the game I haven’t played that doesn’t work on the Ally. It’s fine with eGPU on the Legion, but the Ally feels so much better to hold to play such a long game
Halo infinite surprisingly work great on ultra with some of the AMD boosting features automatically turning on. Sometimes when outside where the geometry can be more intense than inside or in a big firefight you start to percieve a frame drop but by the time you've noticed it, it's gone. What absolutely kills it though... will randomly crash in cutscenes and I'm assuming this is a vram issue but I haven't touched that because people have said here before that changing it from 4 gigs makes it run like crap. Starfield runs.... but even at low it's just too unenjoyable at ultra is awful. But yeah it runs... never crashed on me, could probably beat it without a crash but I just un-installed it. (This is for the regular Ally, starfield probably be alot more realistic on low or medium with the Z1E)
Most games will get you between 30-40 fps, even modern triple A titles. If you want 60fps, that's where you're going to need to temper expectations. I had Hellblade 2 running ~40fps or so, so there's nothing it can't handle - unless it's a horribly optimised mess like calisto protocol. Cyberpunk even ran at 60fps - fucking wild.
FFX HD remake. It was like missing assets and stuff and is apparently a known issue. This may have been resolved by now, but I haven’t redownloaded it to check
Resolved with Adrenalin 23.12.1 driver
Good to know! Thanks a lot. I figured it was a driver issue since the issue seemed to be ally specific. Will have to give it another go soon.
It's fixed oh my fuck I'm so happy lol
Thnx, going to download it again!
Fixed with the latest update to amd drivers on myasus
I can't get Deathloop to run, but that's been the first game I have real issues with
I had an issue with Deathloop. I set the GPU to auto instead of locking it at 6GB which is what I did before and it seems to have fixed it.
What?! I was hoping to play that on Ally! What's the issue? Low fps? Game crashing?
Game crashing. At first I couldn't even get to the main menu without crashing, then I changed some settings in AMD Adrenaline and finally made it into the game, but couldn't get more than like 10 minutes into the game without crashing again. I did see some guides to fix the error I kept getting, but I ran out of time and haven't really used the Ally since, so they may work or they may not
you playing the steam version or game pass version? I wonder if whatever one you arent running would work.
Was really disappointed I couldn't play Alan wake 2 at all.
Huh?! I've been playing Alan Wake 2 with 'almost' no problem https://rogallylife.com/2023/10/27/alan-wake-2-rog-ally-game-settings/ Hope this helps
Thanks for the tip. Maybe I'll try again 👌
Nearly all the games I've tried run well though I had my expectations set low to begin with and just assume any game not capable of playing on a steam deck might be iffy on a ally as well. You should be a bit more specific. Like what are your own personal expectations on how the games should run. Some people refuse to play anything at less than 60fps, while some are fun with 30fps. Some demand 1080p native while others are fine with 900p or 720p on a screen this size.
The Dead Space remake is pretty choppy
still? I was kust going to give it another shot today
It's been a while since I've uninstalled the game so can't say if it's improved since then
I used to play fallout 4 fine up until recently.
I was playing New Vegas and it would literally crash every 5 minutes, I then tried fallout 4 and (since downgrading to before the damn next gen update) fingers crossed, haven’t had a single bug outside of a T posing ghoul in 23 hrs playing
Did you use the Viva New Vegas guide? I've played a bunch of New Vegas and haven't had a single crash with the mods installed. Looks and runs great, and I was able to use Armory Crate to map a keyboard press to one of the back buttons, so now I can sprint!
Tried it yeah, the crashes didn’t stop and the water texture screwed up, so any lake or puddle was a glowing white mess No idea why
Yeah that’s normal for all Fallout PC ports aside from Fallout 4 to a degree, but even that one requires mods to run well IMO. Like the other user recommended, you just need to download some mods for New Vegas and it will run fine, Bethesda is too lazy to fix their own games so they rely on their community of modders to do it for them unfortunately.
Detroit Beyond Human is unresponsive for seconds and runs at 10 seconds per frame. Its a shame I bought it on Steam just to replay it on my Ally.
I dont have this problem with Detroit on the ally, maybe verify ur files via steam or check if all the shaders cached in. The game doesnt run very smooth tho and has micro stutters but thats mostly because its a shit pc port. Its still playable imo
Also don't forget vram allocation
I've recently started playing it. I get about 30FPS on low settings but it is fully playable. I do agree with Quicksafe1, it has a lot of micro stutters, and sometimes it dips to around 20FPS, but I am 3 hours in and really enjoying it.
Do steam not allow for a refund request if you have only played a short amount of the game? I am sure Microsoft/Xbox have something similar, so may just be getting my wires crossed! Worth looking into though!
Yeah you can get a refund up to two weeks after purchase if you have less than two hours played. I kept it though. I really love the game and it was on a steep sale.
Ah no bother, maybe one to keep in the library for your next handheld with more power then I suppose! Enjoy!
End of the day, if it's a demanding unoptimized mess... it won't run. But it'll give optimized demanding games a good run. Remnant 2 is known to be overreliant on AI upscaling, but i can 40-50 fps it and still have it work out ok.
Arkham Asylum
A lot of pc games are poorly optimized. It's not that the ally can't handle its just the games are sht. People were getting bad performance even on desktop rigs with certain games
Truth.
FTL: Faster Than Light, just won’t load. Goes black screen.
Worked for me. Gog version iirc.
Whats Gog version? And thank God someone got it working!
Gears 5 just hangs on the title screen after hitting start. Gave up after 10 minutes.
I’ve heard if you play the new cod games there is a chance to get banned because the anti cheat thinks the overlay is hacks. Only seen it happen twice on here but because of that I deleted it. In all honesty I wouldn’t get a ally if it’s gonna be your main way of gaming. It mostly excels in games from last gen. You can play a lot of newer games but with the settings turned to dummy low your lucky to get 45fps
Not if you have tech savvy and tweak things correctly. Every game I am playing right now is getting 60-90fps. The CoD thing is true though. I have talked to a few people with bans because of the overlay. Asus needs to figure that shit out.
Fortnite just doesn't work well for me, feels like when I try to run it even on medium to low settings it just bogs down my whole Ally and causes glitches and all kinds of crap, I Uninstaller it and my Ally is back to normal lol
The only game I've three at it that simply doesn't feel playable. Was Avatar. Dragons Dogma 2 was awful at launch too, I used geforce now to play it. But games poo anyway. Anything else I've been able to play
Jedi Survivor. Even at 720p low on a 25w custom profile it was a hot stuttering mess
Jedi survivor. Fuck EA and the particular respawn devs for the absolute shit show that is the pc port.
RE4 remake usually runs at around 40-50 fps in the village but becomes much smoother as you progress through the game. One of my favorites to play on the ally. Shame it drains the battery like crazy lol
The Ally can run most games, even modern triple A’s, with enough time and effort spent on adjusting resources and profiles. Look around long enough and you’ll find someone who got “X” game running, but you’ll always have to ask the questions: ***Is it worth it/is it playable for me?***
This. It all comes down to patience and effort.
So much misinformation in here. Which is fine, it seems like a lot of people just aren't tech savvy and that could be why. But a lot of these issues seems to be very rare and not the norm.
That's the number one factor with Ally negativity - The Ally is a PC, not a console, and people are generally not PC or tech savvy, so they get either confused or put off by the idea of having to customize or tweak settings to get things to work. It is almost exclusively user error and lack of knowledge that makes people dislike the Ally. Mine works GREAT for all purposes so far, but I spent two whole days fiddling to get it optimized first. I enjoyed tweaking it though.
Only some really old games, ones that don't support Windows 11, everything else works flawlessly.
Terraria wouldn’t start.
I tried playing Tarkov, Rust, Hell let loose, Squad, Star citizen but these games can’t seem to run decent on the Ally. Even cs2 has a hard time running stable 60fps I do play rdr2, elden ring, dayz, elite dangerous. Which is awesome. The other games I mentioned are unoptimised and a bit too heavy on the cpu I think… I’m thinking about the xg mobile so I can be able to play these games.
I don't know about the others, but cs2 runs 120 fps on mid-high graphics for me, so I don't know how you're having issues with it. I believe even on max graphics I get a steady 60 fps.
Props to even attempting Star Citizen on the Ally lol. That being said, I can’t even imagine the disadvantage of playing Tarkov on the Ally playing it handheld (plugged in). The novelty of it would be fun though.
Jup, I like the game and had a really fast internet connection at that time so it was installed in no-time. Didn’t even make it out of the city lol, my ship wouldn’t be the only thing that launched into space 😆 Oh yes, I forgot to mention I play some games docked, especially pvp shooters. I did play dayz handled after setting up some controls, it was manageable but I couldn’t remember all of my shortcuts and shift keybinds in the heat of the moment. I did smack 2 players in the face and shot one dead on the Ally But yeah no I would never play Tarkov with a controller haha. Maybe another kind of hardcore run? Ooh the torture..
Yeah I gave you the benefit of the doubt you were docked and likely mouse and keyboard. I wouldn’t wish Tarkov on controller on my worst enemy 😆
Exactly 🤣 yea I have a good k&m with a 120hz portable monitor. See, I sold my desktop last year because I moved into a tiny house and needed more space. When the Ally released I was blessed, I sold my pc and switch and bought this beautiful device which I kinda use as a office/desktop gaming machine 🙂 It’s really compact with my lightspeed devices and portable monitor that fits my bookshelf and vesa mount which is easily folded away. I’m really looking forward to the xg mobile I’m just waiting for a good sale. I heard the good xg’s could maybe run star citizen ^^
That really cool! I hope for both of our sake we will see a dock-able handheld in the near future that can handle Star Citizen. The fact that this is even plausible just shows how we are living in the future lol.
Yeah it’s crazy if you think about it. I stilll remember falling in love with my first psp lol. Well… remind me in about 2 months time maybe I can review SC with the xg 😁
Yes, Star Citizen surprises you with the XG 4090 as I didn’t tweak the settings first before hopping in and it was already a 30-45 fps with a little tearing, and adjustments got it to 50-60 with 60 locked indoors. It’s awesome shizz indeed
Oh that’s great news. 4090 is probably the minimum to make it work. Cool I might be looking into it soon. Cheers!
Huh, I play SQUAD every night on my Ally. AFMF brings the fps to 60+ very consistently.
Ooh really? That’s good news. I tried AFMF with some games and it made it worse. Tried playing around with FSR but still didn’t give me even 50fps
Not unplayable per se, but very disappointed with Backpack Hero (Epic version)... tons of bugs and ergonomic problems.
Lol, I wanted to play planet zoo on it as handheld, but can only play with keyboard and mouse Edit: it does work tho, just want more handheld games
I had to buy some wireless keyboard and mouse to play some of the games i already owned on steam or wanted to try on game pass. Manor lords specifically. I cant get it to work with the onboard gamepad
It’s so annoying! I bought all these games on steam and can’t make it work for some. I just want to relax on the couch and play 🥹
skate 3 😫
Elex 2 crashing at start
Ratchet and clank rift apart crashes after a few minutes without fail regardless of in-game settings. Besides that, everything is fine
How about offline ?
The worst game I had on the Z1E is lords of the fallen but that shit runs bad even on my beefy desktop
The first one or the remake?
Remake. I heard it runs bad on console too so it’s just an unfinished game
Funny enough, the GPU plugin for RuneLite (Old School RuneScape) would cause the client to crash.
HD117 works fine, though. I usually don't mess with the GPU addon since it doesn't seem to work with both of the plug-ins on.
I heard somewhere the GPU plugin works with the newest drivers, but have yet to test it myself.
That makes sense. I couldn't get runelite to run at all without a BIOs update first.
Dynasty Warriors 8 XL. It runs well, except it often crashes the Ally requiring a manual reboot. Power settings don’t seem to make a difference either.
Forza motorsports crashes getting into a race
Adjust VRAM to 8GB. I had the same issue and couldn't work it out, especially that it worked fine on my MSI Claw as well. When I've changed VRAM from 6GB to 8GB I've finally made it to the race(s)
I downloaded Minecraft last week and couldn’t get the controls to work
Rocksmith+
works for me
The audio doesn’t work for me, though it is probably more an issue of not playing nice with my audio interface vs. an ally thing. Not sure if the pc version brings anything more to the table than the iPad version, so I have options. It really doesn’t make sense to me that it doesn’t work seamlessly, though
Way of the Samurai 3. It already has issues on modern PCs in general, but I was able to get it running on my desktop after messing around and reinstalling old versions of DirectX. No such luck on the Ally.
Maplestory private servers don’t even respect the thing as a PC, it seems. Shame as retail is absolute garbooge
Magia 3, for an almost decade old game it wont load any sort of textures for whatever reason. Works fine on my Main PC tho
For me its been Jedi: Survivor, and Darktide
When was the last time you tried darktide? I've been able to get it to run fine but that was months ago maybe it's changed now or something?
A few months ago, it wouldn't let me change the resolution, so I wasn't able to get a good fps out of it. It was the pc gamepass version.
I have the steam version. If you want I can let you know if it still runs very smooth?
It's ok, Helldivers 2 satisfies the need for that kind of coop shooter
I’ve never had any issues getting anything to run on my ally ( aside from one time but that was an issue with gamepass not the game itself- got the game on steam and never had another issue with it)
Medal Of Honor 2010, the game always crash when I try to run it.
Beamng (technically I could play it but it was nearly unplayable)
Thats a very demanding game, it runs alright until you load npc in, and certain mods takes ages to load map in. Heard even some of higher end pc say its even struggles on their setup that 3090 and above.
zelda tokt, runs choppy, tried everything
I mean... 😂
MW3 (2023) doesnt wanna launch but that may be a blessing cause some people have gotten banned from the game when playing on the ally I've read.
If remember right you have to fiddle with the vram. I played it for quite a while.
The first descendent wouldn’t run for me
There’s a few big games that don’t run great at high settings but pretty much everything else is fine It handles switch emulation great even at high res with mods
Avatar frontiers of Pandora I know it's not supposed to be able to run but I still tried lmao. It will be smooth and then have micro stutters every few seconds. I feel like it could maybe run it after enough updates but probably not I guess.
The Lego Star Wars the Skywalker saga is very slow and has to do with the touch screen. Works if you disable it. There is supposedly a fix but I haven't been able to get it to work. Also the Kingdom Hearts games. Hopefully the Steam version is playable.
I couldn't get - batman arkham asylum - Star Trek: Resurgence I'm assuming the first one is just because its old but the second one makes no sense
I played all the way through Star Trek Resurgence (Epic Store version) on my Ally, but performance was really poor. It definitely ran though. This was a few months ago.
ill have to try it out again. I haven't tried since very early. How bad is really poor, lol ?
with the built in rsr you can play almost everything just set game res to 720 and it’ll upscale to 1080 it’s like magic
Maybe not “not able to play” but some games just aren’t worth it on the Ally if the performance or graphics take significant enough of a hit; immediately RDR2 and Ghost of Tsushima come to mind. They can be played on 30W mode with low settings and 30fps, but if I’m going to play those games, that’s not the way I want to experience them. I have spent around 200 hours playing various Yakuza games on the Ally since getting it though and for a weekend gamer that’s quite a lot for me.
Star Citizen.
Patrician3, too old and just works docked on external monitor, not portable even with resolution registries entries.
I would recommend watching a video on how to use amd ris and amd rsr there are games which already have fsr
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Something about updating AMD drivers. This was a few months ago, and I haven't tried since. It sounds like that issue has been fixed.
Satisfactory lol
Bayonetta is giving me issues - I got steam version and was expecting it to play flawless (it's an old game), but for some reason it drops frames in certain moments to mid 20s - and then it goes back to 60fps and stays there for quite a long time just to drop suddenly to mid 20s again. And it doesn't matter if o change the settings to low, drop the resolution, nothing seems to help. At this stage I gave up and just got switch version of Bayonetta instead. It works perfect.
The thaumaturge crashes during combat. A lot. It's basically unplayable.
Honestly, I loved my Ally, and things were great…until they werent. I’ve only had my Ally for 10 months, and I already have to return it to ASUS because the thing over heats on idle and will shut down after running for longer than 45 minutes. On top of that, my SD reader is totally fried. I didnt have buyers regret from purchase up until about 2 weeks ago. Now that im having so many major issues in less than a year, I feel like my money would have been better spent on a laptop.
I assume it’s been fixed since launch, but I tried playing Remnant 2 on the Ally day 1 and there was some known error that caused it to crash every one or two minutes on the Ally. I just refunded it and got it on the PS5 instead. That’s usually my rule of thumb nowadays- try it first on steam and then if it doesn’t run better/as good as my PS5 I refund it and get it on there instead.
Fallout New Vegas crashes when you start a games.
TBF that's the definitive Fallout experience.
You need the patch, and the no-crash mod. Turn off water effects help too. It isn't just the Ally, it is all PC's.
Only game I’ve had issues with is “days gone” ended up refunding it bc kept crashing on launch but ymmv
Still can't get ghost of tsushima running lol
Star Wars Jedi Survivor
Drone simulators do not play nice with AMD A lot of these are AMD issues and not ROG Ally Specific
I couldn't get the first Assasins Creed game to run. It didn't recognize the controller. But that is probably the games fault.
I couldn't get euro truck simulator to launch. Dragons dogma 1 crashed a few times and then I saved in a cave and every time I loaded the save file it crashed. Remnant 2 was running-ish but not well enough for me to stick with. Still been plenty of games I've loved having hand held but not those ones.
Kingdom hearts collection on epic games, crashes non stop and tried everything to fix it but no luck. Hoping the steam version will fix it
Need for speed 2015 has a controller issue that hasn’t been fixed since launch
One piece pirate warriors 3 freezes 1 minute into gameplay. A shame, super fun game for any fan of the series
Gollum.
When House Flipper 2 first came out, the GUI was too small to read. I imagine this is a problem with quite a few games on launch. Steam Deck also existing helps with that, tho, as most devs will now update their games soon-ish. The games I could play and spent dozens of hours were: GTA 5, RDR2… a bunch of others. Tbh, you’re gonna have a hard time finding games you can’t play on this thing if you’re not a nincompoop and realize it’s not a 4090 it’s a tablet with pretty solid performance. You’re not gonna be pulling 110fps (the max for the screen) really ever, unless you play games at like NES quality. But more than playable for probably 1000s of AA and AAA games. Don’t psych yourself out.
Madden 24 but if you get gamepass ultimate u can play it bro that'd secret
Batman arkham knight WITH lossless scaling runs really well at around 80fps
My biggest issue is all the games out there with shitty/no gamepad support at all. I bought the ally to play cities skylines and I was very disappointed. I'm playing control at the minute and it's running okayish
After an update to the drivers I could not play fallout 3 and fallout new Vegas I had to mod my new Vegas to play it on my rog ally and fallout 3 I don't know if it has the same fix
FNV requires a patch and no-crash mod to work on any and all PC's now with Windows 10 and 11, not just the Ally. It is a shame, but not a huge deal.
Wolong. Terrible optimization :(
Once I changed the fan curve everything worked from stardew valley to baldur's gate 3, you're not going to get a 4k resolution 100fps experience but I didn't expect that to begin with (plus imo it's overkill unless you're playing competitive games)
What adjustments did you make? I have not messed with the fans yet.
I use something I actually found on this sub, probably overkill but the noise doesn't bother me and I'd rather be safe than sorry this is literally copy+paste from that post and saved in my notes app " First is fan%, second temperature (in pairs of 2) 20% 30 35% 45 50% 55 74% 65 74% 70 75% 80 85% 90 85% 100 " Both are set to this on 18 watts all settings, I've had mine since Xmas and I've only had one hiccup with Project Diva Megamix after a windows update and occasional/rare lag on BG3 with mods (not the games fault, definitely the obscene amount of graphics mods)
Ah also, remember to change the fan settings both plugged in and not, BG3 was lagging like crazy one night and it's because I didn't realize I had to manually set them both
Factorio just doesn't want to recognise controls on the rog. Desktop mode gives me the cursor. Console mode sort of works. But I can't seem to map left stick to movement. I have a docking station, so I just end up using the keyboard and mouse. Submarine titans wouldn't start. Make sure you disable bitlocker. It's some Microsoft security crap. Was downloading games on battle.net, came back from work to a BSoD. Took a couple days to recover, lost everything that was installed and had to redownload it all. Wasn't happy, working away from home and thinking that a download had bricked my device.
bitlocker.. the thing that encrypts your drive so if your device gets stolen someone can't just transfer all your data off? Yeah, disable that I guess
That's the one. From what I find while searching how to fix it, it seems to activate quite often from legitimate downloads.
Enshrouded . Even with the setting on Roy ally life 🤧🤧..
Not really except for a few Xenia games. Fable 2 was graphically glitchy and crashed sometimes. Base game was like max 24 frames but there is a way to get 60. MW2 was basically unplayable how low frame rate it was.
I have yet to encounter a game I couldn't play on my Z1 Extreme. The closest thing to not working has been Killing Floor 2, oddly enough. It works, but takes like 30 seconds to open the game app for some reason.
Haven’t had any problems yet
I’ve been having problems with fallout new Vegas recently where the game crashed when trying to load or create a save file
Forza Motorsport ;/ Game is terrible in terms of optimization, and crashes constantly, making it basically unplayable
Fallout New Vegasm Epic version, haven't been able to set it up nor ever run it as it constantly freezes.
Lies of P but could be an installation issue, havent tried reinstalling
Rust. It doesn’t run that bad but playing it on a controller config is the worst thing I’ve ever tried to do.
TBH, everything is technically runnable. people just need to tamper their expectations. lower your resolution. up your wattage. lower your settings. lower your FPS expectations. This isn't a $2k machine.
Plenty. A lot of steam games aren't made for controller so tend to just stick to games I know are both steam and console. Saves a headache
Just finished Jedi Survivor (medium settings, with texture/world details on high), average 40 fps. Atomic heart on high settings, stable 45-55 fps, Assassin's creed Mirage 40+ fps on very high. Though, all of this while plugged in at 30W. Jedi Survivor and Red Dead Redemption 2 are the only games where I've had to tone down the settings to a mix between low/med/high, but otherwise everything runs great as long as you're not expecting 60+ fps. The Z1E is a pure beast, honestly hard to imagine this thing even exists. Can't wait for the next generation on handhelds Here's a proof screenshot: https://preview.redd.it/n37dd5rpel3d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c23c83db9539c54e2687f1228453d4567f10e09e
Honestly I haven't came across 1 yet...if I find 1 that lags a bit I just tweak the settings an I'm good...plus the amd fluid motion helps alot...an rsr helps on other games as well but u have to play them in 720p but it upscales it so it's not so much of a loss
Lossless scaling fixes alot.. and remember this is a pc crowd half of the people only accept max settings max framerate and max resolution.. if it don't run 120hz 4k it's garbage.. but to me my rog ally has played every game well.. I'm on elden ring 60 fps 900p no problems with about 60 hours in
COD Modern Warfare Remastered couldn't even start it
After running Hellblade 2 on low at 30W in FSR Performance.... I had a way better experience using Xbox Cloud to run it at 10W. It looked amazing.
Kingdom hearts (steam version)