ROG Ally improvements and updates for launch day

ROG Ally is now live. ROG Ally has been pre-booked, tested, reviewed, benchmarked and gamed on - a lot. In time for the product launch and continuously ASUS would like to communicate the many updates and improvements that is being done for ROG Ally. ASUS would also like to wish all new ROG Ally enjoyers a lot of awesome gaming today 13/6 and forward.

(P.S. ROG Ally and a certain brand new Action RPG triple A game is absolutely not a hellish match)

Upcoming updates:

BIOS 319 on 6/9/23 through MyASUS and 6/23/23 through Windows Update

• Silent mode TDP has been changed from 9w to 10w.
• Added support for Extreme Modern Standby. (see below).
• Added support for Extreme Modern Standby (see below).

MCU 308 on 6/9/23

ACSE v1.2.10 on 6/12/2023

• New feature: Extreme Modern Standby extends the standby time of the device by turning off some non-essential features while in sleep mode.
• UX improvement: Refined language translation for Armoury Crate and added Indonesian.
• UX improvement: Optimize the position of the mouse cursor when switching between control modes.
• UX improvement: Optimized the process of selecting game art for new titles in the Game Library.
• Bug fix: Resolved the occasional issue of the mouse cursor not selecting the right element in certain programs.

Previous updates:

BIOS 317:

• Added support for Modern Standby Assistant (see below).
• Added support for user-configurable GPU memory (see below).
• Improved overall system stability.
• Fixed game crashes for Asphalt 9, The Last of Us, Persona 4 Golden, and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor.
• Fixed an issue where certain programs failed to launch.

iGPU driver: 31.0.14058.6 on 6/1/23

iGPU driver v31.0.14003.25002 + AMD Chipset Driver v1.2.0.121 on 5/15/23

ACSE v1.2.5

• New feature: Armoury Crate’s User Center now supports the ability to backup and restore configured game profiles.
• New feature: Armoury Crate’s User Center supports Single Sign On with MyASUS v3.1.18.0
• UX improvement: Improved the order of Aura Sync light patterns in the Command Center toggle.
• Bug fix: Resolved an issue where after switching from Manual mode to another mode, the command center will still display that the Manual mode is active.

ACSE v1.2.4

• New feature: Modern Standby Assistant helps the system enter hibernate to save battery.
• New feature: Users can now manually adjust the amount of memory assigned to the GPU in Armoury Crate, from 1GB to 8GB.
• New feature: User can now disable the Embedded Controller to allow for external gamepads.
• New feature: Users can now create custom key combinations in Control Mode Configuration.
• New feature: Added the “Xbox” button as an option for Actions in button mapping.
• New feature: Added a "Back to Desktop" function in Command Center.
• New feature: Added a volume adjustment slider in Command Center.
• New feature: Added a shutdown button in Command Center.
• New feature: Added an option in Media Gallery to open the media directory in File Explorer.
• UX improvement: Added an Exit icon on the Navigation Bar.
• UX improvement: The alert for running multiple programs has been updated with new language.
• UX improvement: Improved the animation for thumbstick range adjustment and improved the slider behavior for Stick/Trigger/Vibration adjustment.
• UX improvement: Bluetooth and Wi-Fi have now been merged into one "Connection” option.
• UX improvement: Users will now receive an error pop-up if insufficient storage space is detected when taking screenshots or recording video.
• UX improvement: When an external screen is connected, Windows will automatically switch to "Display second screen only" by default.
• UX improvement: Added TDP information to the Operating Mode icons in Command Center.
• UX improvement: Added support for Danish, Polish, Romanian, and Thai languages
• UX improvement: Added an XG Mobile tray icon in the Windows taskbar for quick switching when eGPU is detected.
• UX improvement: Added Base Clock, ROG Boost, and ROG Boost OC measurements for NVIDIA XG Mobile GPUs.
• Bug fix: Improved overall stability of Armoury Crate SE.
• Bug fix: Resolved an issue where saved screenshots and videos were not appearing on the Media Library page.
• Bug fix: Resolved an issue where the Left Bumper would not open the storage file path in Media Gallery.
• Bug fix: Resolved an issue where the ROG Ally would not properly utilize the XG Mobile (GC31/GC33).
• Bug fix: Resolved an issue where the audio settings would not display and updated ASUS Framework from v4.0.0.4 to v4.0.0.5.