The ASUS ROG Ally is capable of playing multiple AAA games with relative ease thanks to the powerful AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU housed within it – including Metaphor ReFantazio.
ReFantazio isn’t a very demanding title, but tweaking its many graphical options does allow for a more consistent level of performance, making it quite playable on handheld devices.
These ideal Metaphor ReFantazio settings for the ROG Ally will be detailed below, targeting a 60 FPS output with a focus on battery life.
Optimized Metaphor ReFantazio ROG Ally settings
In-game settings
Display Settings
- Resolution: 1600×900; 1080p can also be used for a crisper image at the cost of higher TDP
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen; can be toggled to Borderless
- Monitor: 1 by default; leave as is
- V-Sync: Off; always keep this disabled
Graphics Settings
- Screen Brightness: Adjust to your liking, or leave at its default value
- Graphics Quality: Custom; we will not be using the predefined presets here
- Rendering Scale: 75%
- Ambient Occlusion: Off; currently bugged and absolutely wrecks performance when enabled
- Texture Quality: Normal; can be bumped up to High with 8 GB of VRAM
- Frame Rate Limit: 60 FPS; best to leave this capped in order to avoid excess battery drain, can be changed to Uncapped when using the 30 W Turbo preset
ROG Ally specific settings
- Operating Mode: Manual (20 W)
- Control Mode: Gamepad
- AMD RSR: Off
- CPU Boost: Disabled
- Resolution: Keep this unchanged from 1080p
- AMD RIS: On
- FPS Limiter: Disable to take advantage of VRR
- AFMF: Disabled; can be enabled if so desired to obtain a pseudo boost in frame rates
- Recommended VRAM: 6 – 8 GB
Expect 1-2 hours of battery life while playing the game on the ROG Ally with the aforementioned presets and TDP values. Those with the newer, upgraded ROG Ally X can expect close to 4 hours of battery life instead.
