Asus Rog Ally Set Up Guide: From Out Of The Box To Playing Your First Game

Get set up with your new ASUS ROG Ally From Unboxing To Playing Your First Game with this set up guide. also go over a few tweaks and tips to get the most out of this awesome handheld.

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00:00 Introduction
00:13 Unboxing The ROG Ally
01:31 Rog Ally First Boot
01:45 Windows Set Up
02:33 ROG ALLy OS Tweaks
04:36 Updating The ROG Ally
05:21 ROG Ally armory crate
07:20 ROG Ally Command Center
09:50 TDP Performance Tweaks ROG Ally
11:25 Installing First Game from Steam

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[volcalstone]

I have had my Ally for over 2 weeks now and I'm still watching this.

[frankthetank]

A more in depth setup/tweaks guide would be awesome. I would love to be able to squeeze more battery life and performance out of mine.

[NoonMight]

You’re right, i was extremely shocked how light it was, especially compared to the steam deck, and the steam deck isn’t even that heavy

[NinerNatesNonsense]

Loving mine so far but I would love an even bigger and better tweaking guide. Looking forward to trying out my new 18 watt performance mode!

[bmilytw]

Thanks so much for taking the time to run through the creation of a profile. It’s nice to see your settings as a starting point.

[jimmycrane]

❤ thank you so much for this guide, I'm getting my Asus ROG ally in a few days can't wait to use it I will be using this guide once I have it

[sixtogomez]

Do an in-depth guide for battery and performance optimization please. Very interested in this.

[natas-]

Thanks for this ETA! I would love a more in depth tweaking guide, and a Launchbox/Bigbox guide.

[darkdeeds]

so glad you made this vid i havent touched a pc since 2005 i was lost untill i saw this vid thanks

[tc]

thank you so much for the UAC tip im subbing asap

[kevinwlf]

Since you like disabling some services, look for hellzerg optimizer, it does allow for a quick switch on many services that are super unused, not to mention disabling telemetry, which should give some extra headroom. Not sure how much it impacts on games, I need to test that out, but you certainly see the difference on load times for windows and extra responsiveness.

[jeffmofo]

That search icon on the taskbar is cortana. System wide search is the cortana engine. or perhaps the other way around cortana runs as an accessory to the system search engine.

[rileywallace]

Just got mine, and this video was very helpful, an in-depth tweaking guide would be awesome. Thanks.

[wrathgor]

You can also adjust VRam from Operating Mode-> GPU Settings in Armory Crate

[jimmymyers]

Forgot the microsd slot burning up from the fan right next to it. Had to return mine and don't plan on getting another until they do some hardware changes.

[kbhasi]

One thing you didn't mention is that backup of certain "important" folders in the user profile to OneDrive is enabled by default, at least on Windows 11 Home. I learnt that the hard way when I was setting up a new Windows 11 installation and had to manually disable that, then manually move my files back.

[darrenc]

Most of my first day of owning the ALLY has simply been installing the updates, I have fiber and just so many updates still. can only go so fast with the updates, then theres armory crate updates, windows updates, nvidia updates, asus updates, 2 bios updates. I did the main updates first, then disabled bitlocker and swapped out the drive for for a larger one. Cloned that drive, put it back in, then more updates essentially. pretty much done now.I have the xgmobile with the z13 s when one isnt docked, the other one can be. its pretty fun!

One tip i do recommend, if you have a dock or the xgmobile, use it, so much easier with keyboard and mouse to setup your system and all your games and a full size monitor. it just made the process go so much better. No messing about with anything. once your undocked, you are good to go!

[reaxxion]

I just got this open box for such good price at Best Buy and this video helping a lot !!

[dave]

Hi Eta, I really appreciate your videos about the Rog ally. It would be great if you could make a video tutorial similar to this one on how to do Big Box setup on the Rog ally.

[MIngleing]

I would love a more in depth guide. I just got mine after watching a ton of your videos among some others and deciding on the ally as a good cost to performance handheld with a nice screen.