While the ASUS ROG Ally is more than capable of running Black Myth Wukong at a solid 60 frames per second, there do exist a set of optimized settings that offer a fair balance between performance and battery life.
The Ally’s battery life has always been a major point of concern, given that it barely lasts 2 hours on a single charge (when running AAA games at 15 W or higher). As such, limiting frame rates and graphical quality is the way to go for this particular handheld gaming PC, while unplugged.
Optimized Black Myth Wukong ROG Ally settings
In-game settings
- Display Mode: Borderless
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Display Resolution: 1600×900
- Framerate Cap: 60
- V-Sync: Off
- Motion Blur: Weak or Off
- Super Resolution: 70
- Super Resolution Sampling: FSR or TSR; TSR is generally recommended
- Frame Generation: Enabled
- View Distance Quality: Low
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: Low
- Post-Effects Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Visual Effect Quality: Low
- Hair Quality: Low
- Vegetation Quality: Low
- Global Illumination Quality: Low
- Reflection Quality: Low
ROG Ally specific settings
- Operating Mode: Manual (18 W)
- Control Mode: Gamepad
- AMD RSR: Off
- CPU Boost: Disabled
- Resolution: Keep this unchanged
- AMD RIS: On
- FPS Limiter: Disabled to take advantage of VRR
- AFMF Frame Generation: Disabled
- Recommended VRAM: 4-5 GB
- Expected battery life: 2 hours for the original ROG Ally, 4-5 hours for the ROG Ally X
While it is entirely possible to play the game at the 25/30 W Turbo preset, it is generally not recommended to do so – unless you have the handheld plugged into a wall outlet, given that the battery life can be quite underwhelming for the (original) Ally.
The ROG Ally X should be able to run the game at the same settings though, with improved battery life and an 8 GB VRAM preset (enabling it to allocate more memory to high-res textures).
