ROG Ally

The fact that we are able to play games like Cyberpunk 2077 on a handheld PC completely blows my mind.

When I first downloaded it from Steam I wasn’t expecting it to run at all. But not only does it run, with some tweaking it runs VERY well.

All you have to do is drop the screen resolution down to 720p and enable the Steam Deck graphics preset in the settings.

Hey presto. Cyberpunk, running natively on a handheld PC and averaging 80fps in Turbo mode. Now while it will run at a respectable 70ish fps on 25w not plugged in, your battery life will be measured in minutes. About 35 of them in fact. So stay plugged in if you can.

Don’t worry about running it at 720p either. The Ally’s screen is so good that even at 720p games still look crisp and sharp and they will run amazingly well. Sometimes you can bump it up to 900p for games like Black Ops 6 while keeping the game at 70+fps and for older titles 1080p is fine.

But if like me you prefer performance over eye candy then 720p is the resolution to choose.

• Natively on default Windows?
• Natively on another OS like Bazzite?
• Streaming via Sunshine/Apollo/etc?

And as a follow up, why do you play that way?

I mostly stream to my Ally from my desktop via Sunshine - it can run almost anything at high settings on 1080p, and the Ally can be left on low power mode so the battery lasts forever.

I've left Windows installed on the Ally for maximum compatibility, but I'm playing around with the idea of a Linux distro because if I keep the desktop on Windows I can still play games that don't like Linux.

Curious what the rest of you all do and why!

I'm currently working through Avowed. It seems solid so far - I'm not far enough along to really have a fully formed opinion, but romping around fighting stuff with Garrus again has been a blast if nothing else.

Hello and welcome.

This is a new community that will be dedicated to the ROG Ally handheld gaming PC. So hardware, games, emulators or other software that you can run on the Ally, this is the place to discuss it.

In all of Lemmy there was one ROG Ally community, over on Lemmy World. However that community appears to have been abandoned several months ago.

So as my account is based here on Lemmy.zip I thought I’d try my hand at creating a community here. I’ve never moderated a community before and I am also new to Lemmy so it might take a little while to get the hang of how things work here.

In the mean time why not share any news, tips or just how much you love the Ally in the comments.

Once again,

Welcome.