Your ROG Ally X could be BETTER!

The ROG Ally X Starter Guide covers essential tips for optimizing the device, including enabling gyro functionality through Armory Crate, customizing game settings, and using Emudeck for emulation. It recommends replacing the stock charger with a UGREEN 100W charger, turning off CPU Boost to save battery, and personalizing the Armory Crate interface. Additionally, it provides shortcuts for Windows functions and suggests installing SteamOS for a different user experience.

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00:00 - Setup Guide ROG Ally X
00:49 - Why won’t my games use Gyro?
02:48 - Charge Faster (Sponsor)
03:57 - Armory Crate Tweaks
05:02 - TURN OFF THIS SETTING
06:17 - BFI on EMUDECK
09:10 - Change your Game Art
10:30 - Game Settings
13:43 - Dealing with Windows
16:00 - Ditch Windows

[LordLucian]

Iv had my X a couple of days now and I can firmly say I love it, had the oled before but it never really did it for me, the higher resolution and performance of the ally x has blown me away.

[Seanbo]

Pro Tip: For my gamepad and desktop controller profiles I set a macro in armory crate so that my M1 + L stick click = Alt+F4. Immediately closes games/programs and can help with game crashes.

[fresco_dinero]

I’ve been seeing the praise of the Ally X. I sold my oled and my OG ally and my Ally X will be ready for pickup in a couple days. Ally X objectively is the best and currently has the opportunity to be even better heading into the future.

[Phanbot]

Once I got my Ally X this past Tuesday, I cracked it open, ripped out the puny 1tb M.2 and installed a WD SN850X 4tb M.2 I had laying around. Then I installed Bazzite and after finagling around with the OS and installing my favorite apps, I have started installing my favorite games. I haven't tested anything as of yet, just checked for dead pixels and re-calibrating the gamepad controls. Once I see that all my games are running fine, it's on to installing Emudeck and the roms for the systems I would like to play.

[SZF]

If you have primarily Steam games on Windows, one thing I've done is set Steam to boot at start silently and minimized. You tell Steam itself in its settings to not launch automatically, change the startup location to library, navigate to startup folder (Win + R, shell:startup) then create a shortcut to steam with the following attributes:
-nochatui -nofriendsui -silent
Then your Ally X starts in Amory Crate and Steam will start in the background, launch a game and it is a much nicer experience.

[JsmashTech]

Another Tip: type in search Change user account control. And choose either the 3rd down or the 4rd down.

What that’s gonna do is it’s not gonna make your screen go black or go out of focus whenever you got to press yes or no on admin privileges question. Some games can glitch out or crash when that happens and this will prevent that.

The 4th one will turn off the yes or No questions all together which I don’t really recommend unless your diligent in researching everything you press making sure you don’t do something that will give a virus privileges on your PC.

[ManuDiaz]

Since I installed Bazzite on my X I haven't reach my Steam deck and that's something I thought wasn't gonna happened until the next steam deck.

I'm dual booting, 200gb for linux, 200gb for windows and a third partition where I'm putting all my games and roms, this way both system can share the same games and avoid the low speed on the sd cards. But honestly haven't go to windows other than checking for bios updates.

[hammershot]

I was really on the fence, and I truly love my SD, however, the dual boot setup with Bazzite sold me. I did everything yesterday and I’m blown away how much better I feel about this purchase 😂

[LilWaka]

I’m high af and I loved that little rant about a simpler time, thank you :)

[ok-gtgq]

Maybe a tips on bazzite for the rog ally x like emu deck and other stuff

[antjones]

Still on my Ally Z1 and most all of thjs guide applies to me as well .

Some stuff here i didnt know, and ive had my ally for a year now.

[Captain-Chats]

Awaiting a 2tb drive so I can install Bazite and dual boot with windows

[gdot]

It's a shame how lesser the gyro implementation is in comparison to the Steam Deck. I wish it had the same capacitive touch analog sticks as the Deck and it registered itself as a dualsense or something, so we could customise its gyro directly in steam, instead. Same with the back grip buttons, I could be wrong, but I don't think you can customise those directly in Steam. I believe installing Bazzite fixes both of those issues, which is another testament to how much better of an OS SteamOS/Bazzite is over Windows. Regardless, still a good device, and I think 80watt battery should now be the standard, until we get more power efficient mobile x86 chips

[SeanKnapfel]

Nice vid.

Whats the 3rd device when you show the ally, phone and something else charging? Thanks

[meh]

Pay for the Patreon sub for Emudeck, its worth it for the game mod alone that lets you boot into Steam Big Picture Mode as you default UI, making it like the Steamdeck, then if you quit steam, it loads up the normal windows GUI, like switching the steamdeck to desktop mode. For me this is like having a Steamdeck with vastly superior game compatibility. Yeah you can do it yourself, but I just find this less hassle for less than the cost of a coffee shop coffee each month. The only real downside I find is the volume buttons don't work, but on my Ally X and Legion Go, I just use the side menu to do it instead.

[MBoosted]

Urgh, I just want Valve to announce when there will be a SteamOS image available for the Ally X, would definitely buy at that point.

[luegi]

AFMF2 on emulators...is an absolute game changer. Couple that with the battery life is chef's kiss. Worth every penny

[hove]

I dont see the written guide for bazzite in the description anywhere.

[AIM]

Had my Ally X since launch day, unfortunately I’m having to exchange it for a new one as it developed a squeaky RT. Seems to be a common issue, would be good to get some YT traction. Love the device but accepting a squeaky trigger after spending £799 is not an option.

[henricoloco]

just ordered a ugreen charger because of you :)