Your ROG Ally X could be BETTER!

[@NerdNest]

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[@X862go]

Very shiny 👌

[@X862go]

Didn't you say that you had another channel about making YT videos?. What's that channel name? My videos are so rough.

[@donniedarko4497]

This charger is $55 with the link you provided. It's also available on Amazon for cheaper at $41.

[@X862go]

@@donniedarko4497 wow that is so cheap must be a regional thing . I just looked and it shows $63.74 but might be because I live close to Miami everything is expensive.

[@NerdNest]

@X862go the other channel is KZbin.com/billfairchild

[@LordLucian86]

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.

[@X862go]

Agreed, I knew it would be cool, but it's awesome. I just wish the setup was easier.

[@Exodia_Misogynist]

I don't understand the big deal with these handhelds ngl, also Switch 2 is up next so I guess these overpriced gizmos are pointless anyway

[@X862go]

@null-Oh-6666 I use mine to do pc grinding at work. I work in a laboratory, and whenever the samples are loaded on to, let's say, an AU 700, it's anywhere from 40 minutes to 4 hours. That's when I do all the really boring stuff like mining. You're not allowed to walk away from the analyser either it might need you to press a button or refill reagents.

[@X862go]

@null-Oh-6666 oh also all computers are controlled my I.T. and you can't even visit youtube, let alone install a game on the hospitals computer.

[@X862go]

@null-Oh-6666 The switch is awesome for sure. I mean, it literally jumped this whole thing off whenever sone killed the Vita. If I had to sum it um in one work, it would be STEAM. steam sales are absolutely insane and they have basically all software, not just games wanna edit videos NP. Wanna make your own video game download Godot. They even have music 🎶

[@Seanbo88]

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_dinero5155]

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.

[@Limitbreak09]

I also have the oled and og ally and thinking getting X. Hows ur X? Do you really feel that its worth the upgrade?

[@Phanbot01]

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.

[@darth_dunedain106]

Does your WD have heatsink or not? I got the same 4 TB 850 model without the heat sync and the performance seems worse on my ally now than it did before on the original Ally ssd.

[@Phanbot01]

@@darth_dunedain106 Yes I put a heatsink on the M.2. I didn't put one on the 2280 I put in my OG Ally and it didn't having any overheating issues but I was always swapping back and forth between it and the Steam Deck and never played for any longer than a couple hours to see if the M.2 would cause a meltdown.

[@darth_dunedain106]

@Phanbot01 do you think it's possible mine has heat issues? I am just using the shield that was on the original ssd. I followed Joey's Retro Handhelds video. Do I need an additional heat sink?

[@Phanbot01]

@@darth_dunedain106 If you're not experiencing any heat related issues, I would say no. But if it's really something that worries you, go for it, the shields are cheap and I used it since I had it laying around when I forgot to use it on the OG Ally.

[@sugarhiIl]

Are you loving it

[@SZF123456]

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.

[@ManuDiaz06]

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.

[@KejeMudohBlako]

@@ManuDiaz06 you install game use bazite and chose 3rd partition folder, when open in windows, game install with bazite is okay? I just want understand how it work

[@ManuDiaz06]

@KejeMudohBlako partition the drive into 3, one is gonna be Bazzite, the other one windows and 3rd will be storage. In bazzite, you have to set steam to add a new steam folder and install whatever you want. Same deal in windows, set in steam a new steam folder which is gonna be the already existing folder on that third drive, and since you should have already games on that drive, steam will automatically change the status from install to Play.

[@bsmith85282]

This is so smart and I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner 😵‍💫 Thank you!

[@firetv1255]

@@ManuDiaz06 what format is the 3rd partition where you’re storing the games for both windows and Linux to be able to read from it?

[@dylangirard4670]

@@firetv1255 I would assume EX-FAT. I have sd cards formatted to that so i could transfer roms from my desktop to my steam deck. It can be read on both Windows and Linux. This is actually a really smart way to handle storage, as you can have the same game installations accessible to both OSes

[@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.

[@LilWaka]

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

[@hammershot1979]

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 😂

[@ok-gt2gq]

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

[@7MBoosted]

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.

[@antjones2281]

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

[@SeanKnapfel033181]

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

[@gdot1803]

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

[@andi7331]

The bigger the better even with more efficiency.

[@luegi25]

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

[@NerdNest]

How is AFMF helpful for emulation?

[@luegi25]

@@NerdNest wonderful. Troublesome games on cemu, yuzu, rpcs3 run smooth. Playing tears of the kingdom over 60 fps

[@Seanbo88]

Really impressed with the Ally X so far. Great option for those wanting a PC replacement and handheld. My only major complaint is the edges are rounded, yes, but bc of this, they are also thinner/sharper now on the side. Cuts into my hands pretty bad. I'm guessing this can be fixed with a good case, but none on the market yet.

[@meh78336]

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.

[@henricoloco7864]

just ordered a ugreen charger because of you :)

[@hove131]

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

[@amirajackson3977]

I tried the short at 14:14 Macro + Menu button it didn't work for me

[@AIM1986]

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.

[@lonesn1per]

I cant for the life of me get the proper controls to work on games that support controllers, everything is fully updated as well. I have tried launching from AC. I've tried changing the settings and cycling desktop mode, auto and gamepad mode. Also ensured that embedded gamepad is turned on. I even tried using handheld companion with no luck. Im going to try my luck with a cloud recovery and hopefully things will be better.

[@Saiklohit]

How did you get your touch keyboard to look like that? Mine looks completely different even in the small floating mode.

[@NerdNest]

I'm not sure, this is just what it looked like.

[@Saiklohit]

I found out. That is how it looks when Windows is not in tablet mode.

[@IslemIsGey]

Legion is the way to GO

[@blastu2fool]

Exactly, I've been with the Legion from launch and glad I still made the right choice.

[@RolandDobbins]

It needs more RAM in order to allow allocation of vRAM for textures.

[@Jello_Criminal]

It's got 24gb.

[@RolandDobbins]

@@Jello_Criminal - it needs at least 32GB, & a 48GB or 64GB option would be very welcome. Since it’s only 24GB, I’ll stick with my 64GB RAM AOKZOE A1 Pro, for now. I have 16GB of vRAM allocated, & that leaves me plenty of memory for the game and maybe some caching.

[@ArtificialIntelligenceSound]

@@RolandDobbins You want to tell me 24GB is not enough? What are you playing? 😂

[@mrvinny985]

@@RolandDobbins this is all wrong

[@RolandDobbins]

@@ArtificialIntelligenceSound - again, VRAM.

[@metasprite5648]

How much faster does a 100 w charger charge compared to a 65?

[@smsmafia]

@metasprite5648 The original Ally got to about 40-50 % in 30 mins with a 65w charger BUT the battery is smaller. Since the battery on the X is bigger it'd take a but longer to charge it. The 100w charger will give it the same charging time as the OG Ally so 40-50% in 30 mins with 100w.

[@michkael1076]

@@smsmafia so basically the 65 watt charger is still okay to use rather than the 100 watt charger?

[@AndyP4X]

@@michkael1076 the 65W charger is still plenty. I haven’t encountered a time where I wish I had a 100w charger lol

[@MillardBarredo]

Rog ally x is $1099CAD at best buy. You can buy an RTX4050 laptop for that. But it's a nice to have though.

[@WorthyOfAWar]

Exactly! It's too expensive for what it is. After tax and 2yrs of Best Buy protection it's $1570....that's a RTX4060. Yea not a handheld but still portable and will crush the Ally in performance and longevity. It's cool and all but still

[@uniquemusha]

What is the game in 13:15 ?

[@NerdNest]

Animal Well

[@uniquemusha]

@@NerdNest thanks!

[@cindytobben2269]

Could you do an install of bazzite on the ally x

[@wyvern681]

Russ did one over on @retrogamecorps

[@evilcrashbandicootthetouho2753]

Bazzite still not safe or we to see valve her self used bazzite the youtubers who said valve used bazzite is wrong because steamos made in 2003 not 2022 steam deck is just a machine for the os

[@Game-y3i]

Can you play battlefield 2042 ?

[@Jello_Criminal]

Definitely, you can play cyberpunk on it.

[@darth_dunedain106]

So i bought a WD SN 850X Black 4TB and i have noticed that the speed is much slower than the regular one. For example before i was getting about 56 - 60 FPS on high settings 900p consistently but I am lucky to even get 50 FPS on same settings now with new drive. Is something wrong? Plz help.

[@darth_dunedain106]

@NerdNest Do you have any ideas, remind me what ssd you ordered?

[@joshuawalker7038]

Gotta say nope, upvote and move on lol I’m too weak willed to watch these and not want to buy one.

[@10kE]

@@joshuawalker7038 exactly how i’m feeling lmaoo,

[@alh5470]

tip 11 add wd 40 to squeaky triggers

[@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk]

If I have to throw away the product’s charger im not buying the product

[@StandardNegative]

Every one on the internet keeps saying that-especially those with affiliate links and/or sponsors (no judgement). It works just fine. It’ll just take a few more minutes. We should all go out shoot a roll of 35mm film while we’re waiting. Slowing down a bit is probably healthier.

[@lilhootie]

first

[@hazzehummuz6688]

I just hold on my Steam Deck until Xbox blows our minds with their handheld. 900 € for a average computer/gaming handheld that cant even sleep / wake game without bugging out... T r a s h for the money

[@mrvinny985]

Sure bud