Asus ROG Ally joystick issues and performance concerns addressed

[@gamersdigester]

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[@tomlee45]

Really enjoying my new Ally purchase! The screen is absolutely fantastic, especially when you tinker with the settings to optimize each game - I've found that 1080p really crisps up the fonts. As anticipated, the battery life is not its strongest suit but it's something I can live with. One aspect that has stood out to me is how well it connects to a monitor without compromising quality, a definite plus over the SteamDeck from my A/B comparisons so far. I'm hopeful that Asus will soon refine their software and further optimize the drivers, which would elevate this device even further.

[@Idgafmf007]

I try and make these comparisons on other channels and the steam deck army always comes out in force to try and crucifi me haha. But I am... relieved to have the Ally . All the shortcomings of the Steam Deck are addressed with this. Love hate relationship with Windows but I am mostly happy to have it for the standardized compatibility with all games. And I didn't have to buy a win11 license to load it up like I would've had to on my steam deck. I recognize there are issues with the Ally's armoury crate being buggy at times launching games and the bios is still being optimized to squeeze every bit out of the unit but I am confident as well Asus will address this. The Ally isn't 1 of 20 gaming laptops Asus is releasing so I think they will support it much better than some of their other products

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

I just set mine to 720 and it took me a second to adjust, loll

[@soulsearch7383]

My device was actually faulty. All kinds of issues. Had to take it back to bestbuy and get a replacement. The new one works amazing.

[@kornstory]

What were your issues?

[@soulsearch7383]

@@kornstory really bad freezings. FPS I’m the low 40s where the new one can get 90 with the same settings. Would refuse to sleep and The fans would stay on for a long time. As card wasn’t working and the finger print sensor was a hit and miss. All that with the latest updates and a factory reset.

[@kornstory]

@@soulsearch7383 I may need to do the same. Mine plugged in on turbo goes to 95c and fps tanks. Lots of stuttering. Cool you got a good one. Did Best Buy give any hassle trading it out?

[@bossedup957]

​@kornstory definitely needs a replacement

[@Tripleh3lix20]

​@@soulsearch7383what games gave you 40 fps?want to see if mines faulty.

[@OldKingMaple]

Excellent video, your communication skills are quite good

[@gloryholdofficial]

Shrink the outer ring zone to 70 trust me it’s a range of stick reduction so it reads full tilt before you hit the edge making it far more sensitive

[@trippyracks6837]

Where is that option?

[@johnwstruhar]

Armory crate.

[@gloryholdofficial]

@@trippyracks6837 oh yea sorry armory crate go to control options and lower the dead zone and outer edge and lower the triggers to 80percent also it fixes all the sensitivity issues

[@QuantumKatmusic]

Gonna try this thankyou

[@theproblem9315]

I fixed my issue with MW2 on my ALLY. I had installed it to my mirco SD and then I uninstalled it and installed it to my internal storage and it fixed it.

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

You need a uhs ii card to get the read/write speeds these games need

[@r6parker]

OneDrive was causing my issues with booting MW2 on my Ally. I just uninstalled OneDrive and it worked.

[@Fullclip777]

Thanks for your input and research, and I respect and appreciate your honesty.👍

[@JohnCiaccio]

Unfortunately the current state for gaming in a Windows 11 environment is not great because of the bloated Windows OS. I hope they come out with a streamlined gaming version. Best advice to people with these new handhelds: Research debloating Win 11. Even Asus's software needs debloating. It looks like Asus did nothing to improve on the default Windows install. Possibly a requirement from MS to get the licenses for cheap.

[@smidlee7747]

Even Microsoft uses Linux on their servers.

[@frankcoley1537]

Doubt they will... Odd how 11 is more bloated 🤔

[@bboyalanleung123]

Can we not just remove all the bloated apps ? I am sure we can ?

[@RP-ci8dj]

BS

[@KD1KDP]

I had seen a video from ASUS that they are aware of a lot of the issues and that they will becoming out with updates to fix the issue because a lot of the problems are software related

[@APEXGuerilla]

Ally 2 rumoured to be announced at Computex 2024 in June. EDIT: Slight correction, Ally refresh not an all out successor.

[@gamersdigester]

Interesting. So like an steam deck oled but for ally

[@hongheng9510]

Do you eat gamers for breakfast?

[@thristangamer2576]

We do

[@ryuno2097]

Yum yum

[@DNAMobileGaming]

I have 2 Ally's my one that I used daily for the last 3 months finally got the SD card format issue so it is gone to BestBuy for repair. I finally turned on and setup the other one that was just sitting in the box updated installed all my games etc. Idk why but it feels as if the device isn't running as good as my other one was. The left joystick seems to have issues with MW3 when trying to sprint, the game randomly freezes and has major packet loss. My first one that is in for repairs had some packet loss from time to time but not this bad.

[@g_geezer3277]

Dead zone fix!!! The sticks needs to be calibrated in windows! Windows see’s the Ally sticks as a 360 game pad, these need to be calibrated, make sure Ally is in Game pad mode and use a mouse to run through the process! In Search type “set up usb game controller”, properties…flow instructions

[@Anomalyy666]

I have drift issues with my open box best buy one. Will this fix it?

[@lilrockstar77]

I thought I was alone in the stick placement. After using the deck I have such a hard time with handhelds with the sticks aligned like that

[@panamike6178]

Yeah, I tested the Rog Ally at Best Buy and it felt awkward, I'm sure after a day or two you get used to it.

[@NoonMight]

The steam deck is by far the most comfortable handheld to hold. The ps vita was nice but small and cramped, feels better with a grip case, the DS’s were blocks that got uncomfortable after 5 minutes, the switch is really thin and the controllers are tiny. The ayoneo and products similar are also thin and way too expensive. I hope the rog ally feels better over time

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

I've found the Vita the most comfortable one I got used to how they want you to hold it. You don't need the grip of death for it, loll

[@BuRashedVIP]

The problem only with the right joystick only gose up and down 😢

My joystick is physically stuck in something. The left side is at 4 o’clock direction, and the right side is at 7 o’clock direction.

[@mobat4163]

My biggest issue is the desktop mouse emulation , which give a big deadzone issue . When in gamepad mod the sticks are fine without deadzone

[@driftitlikeyouownit]

Mouse works fine with mine.

[@IMGhostRogue]

Can you please show us how to use bloaty

[@CHINOPLAYz]

Really Good Video bro🤞🏼 very informative.

[@gamersdigester]

Glad you liked it 💙

[@brandonux]

Really liking my Ally so far and getting use to the looseness (?) of the thumbstick. I def notice the deadzone thing and figure that will be fixed with an update later hopefully. But one thing, and Idk if its in my head, the right stick feels looser than the left. Maybe my right thumb is stronger lol

[@QuantumKatmusic]

As far as faults go, i feel like with a device so complex and packing so much in such a small package , there's more likely to be issues , but so far ive had good luck myself

[@RoderickMonroe]

My biggest problem has been trying to get the right joystick to work in CS Go. Not sure what’s going on? Works fine in other games and apps. I did download Lightroom just for giggles and was completely shock at how good it ran🤯

[@gamersdigester]

Yeah i tried too and it is a nightmare,

[@lancefelix5]

I have that same problem. No one showing you how to get the game up and running with the controls. When you jump into the game after downloading it, you really can't play it. So why don't anyone show how to get this setup?

[@overoula]

just received mine and left joystick only works for up and down...goes back to amazon:(

[@Chilltechvibes]

Not sure if mine was faulty or its just the ally in general. Mine crashed all the time. i would game for 5 to 10 minutes and it would crash. I was mainly playing older games that this device should have been more than capable of running. I ended up returning it out of frustration

[@stevegonzales527]

8:40 I just ordered a Nintendo switch case and fits perfectly for 20 bucks. So now I have a case for both ally and steam deck. Pretty sure the switch cases will be marketed towards the ally soon

[@demariogoings4295]

I reset the sticks in armory crates and that fixed the stick drift, it wasn't doing do this before bios 333

[@bozolozo21]

My direct pad doesn’t go right. How do I fix this?

[@kenfldude]

Great video, I was on the same page as far as using the steam deck case for my ally but since the sticks didn’t line up I thought it might hurt it being depressed all the time while being stored. Your thoughts on that? Also, I noticed D-brand has a screen protector but they want like 24.95. Do you think it could be worth that kind of premium? Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

[@kenfldude]

D-brand

[@gamersdigester]

Honestly it might be the only one that fits so far! As for if it's worth 25? that's anyone's guess right now 💙

[@rchaze]

@@gamersdigester chit i ordered mine from Dbrand on preorder weeks ago in hopes that I would receive before my preordered ally arrived. Nope rocken naked screen as can be.

[@NoonMight]

You say “premium” but i got the 64gb version of the switch AND got a case with it 🧐 was i not suppose to? I did pay $500 on Newegg instead of the $400 advertised so maybe it was included with the extra $100, wouldn’t say the case is all that worth it tho

[@iggythakid6997]

I notice my right thumbstick will “click” when I rotate it 360 degrees but only towards the top. It’s very faint but I noticed it while playing at night with no sound the other night. Feels like plastic catching or rubbing apart if something.

[@lordofbathurst]

Left stick is doing that

[@jeremiah4708]

Same issue with my left stick

[@donniedarko4497]

My Q1 steam deck did that also. I eventually got a replacement unit for an unrelated issue, and the issue was no longer present. Also when troubleshooting with valve on the sticks, they ask super specific questions and have said it indicates different problems depending where the click like in diagonal directions instead of cardinal directions

[@iggythakid6997]

I’m glad I’m not the only one having this issue at least🤣

[@MR.MUGGTv]

My issue is with every game no matter what I open steam big picture and I even used community layouts for the built in controllers the game still sees it as a mouse and keyboard I have tried a lot of things I want to use my device and play games I bought but I cannot play anything now

[@MrTerry3w]

Thank you for your video, just a comment =)) Could you adjust your camera light to a different angle ? That would be so much better haha.

[@gamersdigester]

Yes I just got the light yesterday and i am currently working it all out haha! It hood the camera and light at the same time so it's just messing with the angles

[@MrTerry3w]

@@gamersdigester very nice camera and setup you have there. Enjoy your weekend!

[@Tindreal]

Nice temps, only 92C ❤

[@SassiTV]

0.13 or 0.14 dead zone feels good. 34 kills highest on mw2 on the ally so far

[@LxcasOnYT]

I have the totk oled. which should I get first the asus rog ally or steam deck?

[@justinalexander5024]

Depends on what types of games you wanna play. The ally is much more powerful for the most part, but the steam deck has alot of going for it as well and at a cheaper price.

[@gamersdigester]

@@justinalexander5024 Great reply, I love both but the Ally takes the cake for me right now!

[@JayHarvey_]

I'm on my second one I had to exchange my first one because of rhe LB button not inputting. My second one the a button kinda gets stuck when playing games

[@aaronfr1707]

No entendi que problema tenias sin tenerla enchufada a la corriente con cod?no se puede jugar bien sin estar conectada a corriente?

[@sonicknives]

GPD win 4 has the same analog stick deadzone issue. very annoying when playing FPS games

[@kennethgill3785]

Dear Games Digester, may i ask a simple question just how do you pause and then re-start when playing a game on the ROG ALLY?

[@wokenbrilliance9034]

Question mines was working fine until out of nowhere. My right joystick now doesn’t recognize the inputs I’m doing it goes up and down, but does not go right and left. I don’t know what to do now how to how do I fix this?

[@mackythedog2021]

I have the same issue

[@wokenbrilliance9034]

@@mackythedog2021 I contacted asus there customer service is actually pretty good…I shipped it back to them for repair and it’s been a week and I should get it back tomorrow

[@ProNetC2]

I've found out that your download speeds corillate with you micro SD cards read/write speed. I've noticed this when I loaded this game on my usb drive with speeds of 600/600MBs and external drive with 1 gig speed transfer rate. My download speeds to install on the flash drive and ext ssd were over 150MB/s. But on my sd card I'm averaging between 20MB/s to 55MB/s because of how slow it is when installing games there. Other then that, when im downloading games to the SSD or doing testing on wifi 6E im averaging between 1.3GB to 1.6GB/s. out of the 2GB/s speed i have on my network.

[@JohnCiaccio]

SD cards should be considered a last resort.

[@ProNetC2]

@@JohnCiaccio yeah I agree with that. But unfortunately for me I prioritized more the battery life and cover/insurance over adding more storage. For now it's ok, playing games on the SD card is actually great. The loadings time are actually really good. Almost all my games load pretty fast. Eventually I'll purchase a 2 tb drive maybe a 4 TB if they have 1 and split the drive 3tb for storage.

[@hovenworld]

Also what case is that you were showing?

[@soldierplays4616]

What your geekbench 6 score? Cause I think I am having the issue

[@Witsahandleforus]

Ive just got the asus rog ally and its not great for fps games i mostly use it for rpgs etc so its not really a big problem

[@xXObscurusXX]

Well I’ve been using my since release day & I’m already having issues. The charging port seems faulty or it might be a design flaw. Noticed the heat gets blown directly on top where the power is connected, it’ll get hot & my device won’t recognize when I plug it in. Little worried of keeping this thing.

[@justinsane332]

return...mine doesnt do that

[@workbirdygaming]

I can see alot of people having problems with the system because most people are new to windows pc gaming and this was the ez route, they will learn 😂 I'm playing rpcs3 and I'm blown away by how good the ally can run ps3 games. And playing gtav 🔐 60 1080p 😮😮

[@mechanicalmonk2020]

Literally the worst narrative around this device right now is "everyone having issues must be new to windows lol". Windows has 75% market share. Statistically most people using the Ally have experienced windows before.

[@rchaze]

yeah that was me lol bought a msi 75 stealth like 3 years ago just to configure betaflight and emuflight blheli 32 worse experience for about a couple months got the hang of when an issue arose how to fix countless of those before I can even get what needed then I can configure my quads. forget video editing on this lol to much. 4 days straight issue after issue with iss ally microsoft blocking my graphic card freezing in games all sorts of hurdles. best buy was about to claim another ally return. but now got my s.h 2 ending of disc one playing from where I left on the sd which had for three 3 weeks. that only took 2 days to working. all I can say is hang in there newbies learn as go. game on!!!!!

[@Paradigmfusion]

Best I can do with destiny at 35w is medium settings 60-73 FPS, 15w around 55 FPS, some games that run unreal I have some pretty bad input lag that Im still trying to figure out.

[@MobileDecay]

That screen protector doesn't even come close to fitting. Get that thing off there. Lol. 🤣

[@gamersdigester]

💀😂😂😂 It works for now hahahha

[@sgtvassago]

For some reason i cant seem to get my right joystick working correctly in wz, it keeps on telling there is no controller connected, allthough the left one is working correctly. Also i keep on getting letters as shortcuts, as it thinks there is a keyboard connected. Can you tell how to install correctly?

[@AlejandroGarcia-lc1lm]

Did you fix it? I have the same problem dunno how to fix it

[@QuantumKatmusic]

I will say that my games struggled until I updated everything , games ran faster . But the steering thing is extremely noticeable when i try to race in forza , I can't turn smoothly , feels Jerky and now seeing you point it out I know I'm not crazy but I can't find any solution. This is the only video I've found that even acknowledges it. ,,all other videos are just "ooh look my rog is playing pretty games at 60+fps" not helpful lol, oh well, thanks for sharing , it's at least something

[@VoidBass6412]

Im gonna test warzone today, some how my sticks feel off a little too. Its Hard to adjust small aim calculations when shooting and aiming off a bit. I'll Post a comment later on that

[@Witsahandleforus]

Did you find a solution to this I'm having the same issue with the right stick it just feels off

[@VoidBass6412]

@@Witsahandleforus no brother, i returned my ALLY, wasn't satisfied With it. 16 GB was too low for gpu and RAM. With 24 its amazing

[@Witsahandleforus]

@VoidBass6412 yeah some games run really well but I'm noticing alot of games run at 30fps or lower and stutter quite alot unless you adjust settings in game to low and lower the display

[@dannypassion]

All my buttons just stopped working all of them any ideas how to fix it?

[@jacklovejane]

May I ask is that a Nintendo switch Oled's screen protector on Rog Ally ?

[@gamersdigester]

Yessir haha, until mine decides to ship from amazon

[@shanesiwek9301]

Anyone else have the problem of playing maybe zombies and the screen jumps around while your trying to look around or the guns shoot on their own? Randomly?

[@brandon..1]

only issue with mine is after being put to sleep it locks the gpu to 800mhz 😢

[@donniedarko4497]

That's no. Bueno! Steam deck had that glitch also, and there was no fix, only replacement for that death sentence

[@bayfinest1938]

Warzone in a match my right stick doesn't go left or right but other buttons works ?

[@purpzy1x184]

with the silicon lottery not ever ally is going to get the same performance

[@TheTribes44]

silicon lottery applies to overclocking, lets just stop beating around the bush and say asus fucked up

[@ff_acc]

@@TheTribes44 people cannot understand that buggy bios and software is not the same as defective hardware. Asus fans believe that everything will be fixed with updates 💯💯%%

[@yogaflame7884]

Sticking with my steam deck, heard endless problems with this device.

[@thejustinjustin1233]

I like the device but I feel like the performance is crap for the most part. I’ve updated everything and optimized the settings and playing games like amnesia the bunker or even cassette Beasts, the fps is very stutters and low. I’ve done the optimization tricks so I’m not sure what else to try.

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

What are your game settings? Is the game running from internal SSD or memory card?

[@thejustinjustin1233]

I’ve tried lowering them to medium and low and it micro stutters quite a bit

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

@@thejustinjustin1233 running from internal SSD or micro SD?

[@thejustinjustin1233]

Internal and I think it might just be that certain games don’t play well with the ally. I tried dbz Kama rot and it ran buttery smooth at 120 hz.

[@GhostsofthePoor]

The joysticks are too tall for my liking. I wish they made them with a short throw and stiffer.

[@AlexRubio]

Windows really sucks.

[@Juju-s1z]

I have a issue where I’m playing and call of duty game while I sprint it’ll stop like It wont allow me to move with the left stick til I let it go for a sec or 2 again . Is it stick drift or a system fault

[@zomg346]

Did you turn off core isolation and virtual machine?I gained 15 fps doing that

[@denniscaro437]

keep up the good vids

[@edwincuret2289]

Welp my controller stopped working, only touchscreen is functional, any idea on how to fix this?

[@salsachevy1]

I run AMD FSR 2.1 in quality mode and changed my GPU from 4gb to Auto and i get 70 ish FPS at 1080p.

[@danielmccourt1237]

Has anyone heard of an issue where the Ally will only turn back on if it’s plugged in? That’s the only way that mine turns on at this point and even then it takes about a minute for the icon to show up on the screen.

[@gamersdigester]

I have to hold down my power button!

[@BlkK1ng]

Love it but anyone else right joy stick only going up and down?

[@bachtiarsaleh3083]

Mine started to act the same just today. Have you solved this problem?

[@Sh3lbz]

Can someone plz tell me does it make noise when you click the R? Mine has no noise like the left and I'm stuck on a game bc the R won't click in. Please help.

[@C-Fav]

Can’t get my Xbox elite 2 controller to control anything in game.

[@zombgaming8539]

Out of box my destiny 2 worked at a pretty steady 60 fps

[@BigDaddyMacc]

95.... why do people run these game at this high temp... i stay at 53-63 even in plugged

[@Singhflixx]

Why mines locked to mouse😢😢 My controller button not working

[@denniscaro437]

hey when playing mw2 my games keeps skiping u know a fix for that?

[@hovenworld]

I can’t get 60 fps on 1080 on halo infinite :(

[@rybaldt]

For whatever reason warzone doesnt function properly, i can move forward but cant look right or left with the joystick

[@r6parker]

Make sure you change the setting for ‘input’ in game to “controller” as well as switch to gamepad mode in Asus software.

[@The_Shock_and_Awe]

😂 I never had problems with mine ever and already had 2 Allys

[@mgsan4702]

Talking about battery issues.. As a ex-mibile gamer... Stay near outlet and charging your device is not a problem for struggle but duty to complete 😂😂😂

[@VoidBass6412]

4:12

[@jlopez8451]

It literally makes playing fps games impossible

[@crea754]

😍👍👍👍👍

[@mipad553]

Microsoft flight simulator game play both in Ally and deck