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.

[@user-bm4il1yt4w]

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.

[@eberdelahoya2781]

Best guide! So clear and easy to follow. Really appreciate it!

[@rileywallace236]

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

[@frankthetank4418]

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.

[@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!

[@jimmycrane246]

❤ 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

[@natas-6747]

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

[@kevins1149]

Best review and walk through of asus rog ally on KZbin thank you ❤❤❤

[@cetehash]

Yes, we want an in dept review about setting up. Good job btw!

[@ScottofOakland]

What a fantastic and informative, clearly described video! Thanks so much!

[@GM_LEONG]

Cheers for the startup tips! Would love to see more ALLY videos :)

[@dark2deeds]

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

[@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.

[@CyrilledN]

Thanks ETAPrime for the video. Would be definitely interested in an advanced tweak guide to maximize performance. Also, any issue on your end with the sd card slot as reported by othet users?

[@Nataschakirk]

Thank You! Waiting for more tweaks!!!

[@kaiichinose9590]

Just got my ally. Loving it so far. So far about 15w gives me about an hour and a half of battery in performance mode. I did go in and disable the aggressive profile settings on the cpu in all modes and it significantly dropped the cpu temps seeing how most titles don’t use cpu much. But its amazing. I may even try out that 18w profile you mentioned. Any other suggestions on increasing battery life. I will say it doesn’t perform as good as the deck does at 10w albeit I was running 1080p. Awesome video love your vibe and content. Keep up the great work. Do you prefer this or your steam deck. I also have a switch Oled so I don’t think I need a steam deck. I just sold my high end gaming laptop as I don’t use it often because I have a full desktop gaming pc with my decent 3080 rig and ps5. I travel a bit and bring Ming my laptop, controller headset cooling pad is just cumbersome when traveling for work which is often. I know it won’t get anywhere near the performance of my 3070ti laptop but I don’t really need all that when traveling.

[@MikoYotsuya292]

Best PC handheld as of now! 😎😎

[@konjecture]

Yea, agree. Definitely the best Windows handheld.

[@12bharp]

Really?

[@rogerpena7796]

Love it!! Impatient people will not like the device tho 😂

[@Jaxv3r]

Man this handheld is so hot it's literally frying your MicroSD card, which is a big yikes and need to be fixed 😐

[@onomatopoeia5540]

You mean most overrated?😂 ally copium😂

[@sixtogomez9678]

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

[@reaxxion]

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

[@MacGamingGuides]

Great guide thank you please can you test more of Overwatch 2 performance when for example hooked up to a 4K screen monitor? As well as talk about generally using it as a laptop replacement?

[@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

[@ryansmurda1552]

Same here. I kinda wish it had a bit more weight to it.

[@yummiermussel5331]

Hell yes just picked it up and would love a guide with more tweaking. Gonna sell my Alienware X17 and make this my do it all pc with a docking setup.

[@bgomz]

Would love to see a video of some detailed tweaks you’d recommend to get just that little bit more out of this device!

[@dave99]

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.

[@chrisc2252]

Just put it on a micro sd and it will work on all windows systems 👍

[@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.

[@richardwakefield5902]

I found that out the hard way too. Can't get away from windows 11's quirks I suppose.

[@kevinw0lf]

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.

[@jeffmofo5013]

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.

[@HitnRunTony]

Quick and easy, thanks

[@darrenc2721]

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!

[@charlesowens5527]

Awesome video. Thanks

[@deejaysnake]

Such a useful video!

[@ravexjunkie]

Thanks for this video much 👍

[@england1818]

Thank you for this video please could you do the tweaking video with fan curves to stop the melting sd cards 😊

[@selenaniswander9638]

I would definitely like a more in depth video, I got the rog ally for the first time and I want to get the best out of it 😊

[@travit666]

I had the steam deck last year and it was fun an all but this right here is gonna be way better since its windows based and dont gotta do some workaround for certain games

[@PandorusFightStick]

lol you could have done this yesterday, when i picked 1 up!!! loving it so far, and think it will replace my steam deck which i have adored since i got!!

[@chevron-vw5rn]

After a lot of research between this and the steam deck OLED i decided to go with the Ally since they were the same price for me and I wanted the better performence and not be limited to what I can play on it. Should get mine in a few days from Jb Hifi. This video will come in handy when I get it!.

[@FoxMC07]

Hello ETA prime...I was your viewer since u started making raspberry pi content...I loved those videos so much...These videos are too awesome..but if you can make raspberry pi videos I would be happy 😄

[@wrathgor]

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

[@chunkylover5367]

This! 4GB to 8.

[@HawkNocturnal]

@@chunkylover5367 no!

[@Mmjgamer82]

Crazy how much you can do with this thing! Good investment!

[@christopherfernandez2305]

Great video! Tweaking guide next please!

[@christophermcconnell703]

Thank you my guy

[@isaboll1]

Would you be able to revisit ChimeraOS on the Ally? They have a guide with fixes in progress provided specifically for the Ally with it, and it'd be great to visually see those in action

[@Hazemann]

Ally > Deck anydays ❤

[@slurpdiedurp]

Great set-up guide. Could you perhaps do a set-up guide on how to play games from Playstation plus and blizzard?

[@Captain-Chats]

love my Ally, i have decided i will keep it and sell my steam deck. I shall also be upgrading my SSD over the next few days to a 1TB

[@stillmaticsupreme3876]

I truly appreciate your videos/tutorials Thank You So Much 🫡🥃

[@sdthghsghl]

First of all, Thank you Thank you so much for your easy and straightforward setup guide. Much appreciated my friend. Secondly I have some questions regarding for steam app and Xbox app. For steam app, after finishing the game and close the game, what is the best way to close the game from running? For Xbox app I accidentally used my other account to sign in, is there a way to switch account?

[@jinro.f.t.a]

Great intro! Somehow I have the problem that some steam games and also League of Legends don't recognize the built in controls. Did you ever have that problem?

[@ThangNguyen-rq5hl]

very helpful 🥰🥰🥰

[@TopShelfHunters]

ETA the goat

[@bradfearnow2697]

I would like more of in-depth video please.

[@alateralus88]

Control mode gamepad makes a big difference in being able to play some games. If let auto, the computer can’t decide between mouse and keyboard or controller and it doesn’t work. Changing it to controller will make the games work.

[@D17Gaming]

How about a guide on performance tweaking on the more popular games/ emulation configuration.

[@LeChimp-jg6fh]

Really helpful advice thanks

[@Meskwaki]

Brilliant. Just what I needed. Except it messed up my pin and now I can't use the machine.

[@user-gt8dp8iu2s]

Thanks bro

[@SpecOpsDad]

Just got it yesterday on sale. Still doing updates lol. Updated windows and now currently updating armory

[@credry477]

In depth tweaking guide please!

[@AlfaM03]

I heard autotdp or autoperf helps with efficiency and performance? Could you do a vid on that?

[@SolidienceYT]

Just ordered mine

[@night_blade3006]

I got mine yesterday 😭😭 best thing I’ve ever bought beside the WII U

[@SolidienceYT]

@@night_blade3006 Yup im using mine right now, the WII U is hard to beat 😂😂

[@hashiraknightwalker393]

Just brought mine yesterday

[@ThatGamingKid183]

Just ordered mine, coming in 2 days. Super impatient😂

[@almenarab]

Arrives tomorrow!

[@SeanSR]

IN DEPTH TWEAKING GUIDE WOULD BE AWESOME! Just got this yesterday and in turbo mode playing 7 days to die the temp is steady 95c, my sd card stopped working after playing for about 20 minutes at this temp. I looked online and couldnt find any answers on why it runs so hot.

[@ertepechis]

Any way you can try an EGPU other than the official ROG one? I bet I will get more performance out of the more expensive ROG one but it would be great to see how this thing handles a graphics card for a little extra 120 fps 1080p performance if you have an extra graphics card laying around.

[@billybobthorton2026]

unfortunately not. The USB C port isn't cable of supporting regular external gpus. Asus most likely wanted to lock that down, by putting their own proprietary connector for external gpu.

[@AbhinavT18]

Can you please make a video on setup guide for “Top Spin 4” on this Asus Rog Ally

[@kevrosbane]

have you tried xenia on this? wondering if any of the exclusives that never got ported to pc work such as Infinite Undiscovery.

[@nabilharun6542]

whats your opinion abaout the SD card location? it is too close to the exaust fan, i think this could be a problem in long term use...

[@FG-ls6xj]

Can you show us what would happen if you try to do a live stream simultaneously while playing a game on the rog ally?

[@blanka4545]

Love it so far! Beats crappy legion go!

[@Ghostface22x]

I purchased the Rog ally with a 2tb ssd, can I skip the initial setup and just install the ssd out of the box?

[@parkertechsavvy]

Nice handheld device

[@Mailmartinviljoen]

I replaced the default shell which is explorer.exe with steam.exe so that when it boots it goes straight into steam using windows autologin. It gives a much better console experience. None of the normal windows stuff like the taskbar , search , notifications, desktop wallpapers/icons are present. I find that all of those things create regular interruptions which can become annoying. I also saved the registry entries to be able to switch back to explorer.exe when i need to. Only drawback is the volume rocker does not register but you can still set the volume using the button to change operation mode.

[@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.

[@Omniking.]

Exactly I returned my rog ally too and having to manually adjust a fan curve to avoid the system burning your micro sd is ridiculous asus needs to recall and release a refresh.

[@jimmymyers]

@izayaface501young thankfully it didn't kill my microsd card and I can still use it in my phone, but it killed the port.

[@Omniking.]

@@jimmymyers same I’m getting a steamdeck and am gonna use my micro sd with that instead

[@jimmymyers]

@izayaface501young I was trying to sell my Deck after I bought the Ally but luckily I was unable to and I still have something portable that's decent

[@SirSpuddington]

Here's a question for some people more knowledgeable than Asus' technical support, apparently - I recently had to return my Ally because it had developed an extreme heat spike problem that made it unusable. At the time, I was using an aftermarket Sabrent Rocket SSD in place of the factory one. I've now gotten a new replacement Ally and haven't turned it on for the first time yet. Would it be detrimental to the device if I immediately swapped out the factory SSD and replaced it with the Sabrent that already has Windows and all necessary software installed and initialized on it? Or should I go through the normal out-of-box setup procedure with the stock SSD first and then swap them out?

[@reececrawford1688]

What do you think lol..

[@reececrawford1688]

Follow your gut 10 times out of 10 and you'll stay out of trouble ten times out of ten

[@SirSpuddington]

@@reececrawford1688 Thank you. Much helpful, such appreciated. 😒

[@GraveZero]

Yes

[@bakakafka4428]

@ETA PRIME - what are your experiences/thoughts on the masses of failing SD cards in the Ally probably due to the heatpipe right next to the card reader and reaching 95C?

[@onomatopoeia5540]

He wont answer that, he is paid by rog money😂

[@glittlehoss]

Yes please lots of tweaking videos for Rog ally

[@jakecampbell9517]

Does the device come with the correct drivers? Can we just start playing without any problems?

[@kareemhakeem8665]

I’ve had to cloud restore my asus like 6 times and it’s said multiple times my sad card has a error and disconnected it even though it’s never had an issue before. Any suggestions for me? My asus hasn’t been modded at all and is updated

[@teedzay]

in-depth guide on not to fry the microSD please.

[@tear008]

hi can you make top 5 or 10 external battery for the org ally.. thanks

[@Fireprotruther98]

What is the best bios Should I just leave it on what it is when I get it

[@kalista37]

I'm a beginner, so thank you 🙏🏽

[@swever826]

Isn't disabling the UAC a big cybersecurity concern?

[@papaduncry]

This might be new for 2024, but during cloud restore once you use your MS account it starts to sync everything from your ONE drive and other stuff.

[@dedychandra880]

How to use gamepad layout from steam, i mean we just copy the layout from steam community and paste it to rog ally layout, cause set 1 by 1 takes so much time

[@michaeliovani4487]

The manual profile/fan curve is supposedly the best thing to do out the box to prevent sd reader failure right now until Asus admits what is going on.

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem74]

I don't understand don't companies test this kind of stuff anymore

[@camod2310]

Is that the 18w custom setting he did?

[@Soradakanizat]

I wouldn’t f*ck with these settings. If something breaks when using manual mode, guarantee doesn’t apply

[@noelg43737]

@etaprime i want to know the settings that you use to play jedi survivor in the Rog Ally.

[@Zoom20102]

I agree with u all apps are annoying when u see pop up I turn them off

[@houtcheang6689]

So you were not sleeping and doing this video at 3 AM? Damn lol.

[@shanilsam]

Definetely keen on a tweaking guide. I'm particularly interested in power profiles, fan curves and whether undervolting is a thing. Also, does anyone know if you can use community made profiles for games?

[@reececrawford1688]

You don't want to be undervolting this thing.

[@glennXP3]

Why does my fan speed 3 look different than ur fan speed 3 in manual mode? Is the 18w setup setup still relevant? After bios update

[@funtyes1970]

do you think you can run emulators on this device like PS3,Xbox,Xbox360,Wii U, like high-end emulators

[@ballballlin]

Thanks for this useful guide video, I will delete the Microsoft app when back home!!!!

[@ezeztztz]

I like straight out of the box,sign in or create account and your in the game store just like the steamdeck and switch,this looks a little too complicated to me.

[@ShellShockTheTruth]

legit question, can this replace a gaming laptop? cos the only reason i have a laptop in the first place is because its "portable". I also have a desktop.

[@Omniking.]

Its a good handheld PC its just flawed from horrible QA Testing. I’m not spending 150 - 250 to upgrade the internal ssd to 1Tb or 2TB and have to run the fans at max JUST TO USE to the micro sd card when I only use the micro sd for emulation not AAA games. Once asus acknowledges the micro sd card issue and releases a refresh model only then will I consider buying another rog ally.

[@LoisCS]

60$ 1TB upgrade. New bios with fan curve for your sd slot. You can do it now