![]() ![]() Running the games, however, is another matter entirely. Games just install like they would on your PC. The Ally has one very important distinction from other handhelds: Since it runs Windows, there’s no compatibility layer to go through. Once a game figured out what control method I was using, it worked well enough, but I started assuming that it would take time to figure out how to control each new game I played. However, in 20-plus hours of testing over the past week, I often found that games thought I was using a keyboard when I was in Gamepad mode. A button to the left of the screen brings up an overlay that, among other things, lets you swap between Gamepad, Desktop, or Auto modes. The Armoury Crate app is meant to solve this problem, but it often failed. ![]() It’s also what you’ll find when launching Steam on the Ally, but other stores like Xbox and Epic are just scaled-down versions of their desktop app. Steam’s Big Picture mode is designed for everything from handhelds to TVs, and it's the default interface for the Steam Deck. Most of the UI work is offloaded to Windows-based game stores, and of those only Steam is really prepared for a handheld interface. What merited such an interruption? “Your battery is running low. Once, while playing Doom Eternal, I was suddenly snapped out of the game to the Windows desktop, with a large black box filling half the screen. I felt myself struggling against the form factor of the Ally. This was a theme that popped up constantly. It sounds minor, but connecting to Wi-Fi is one of the first, most basic aspects of setting up a device, and I was already annoyed. To correct those mistakes, I had to hold down the “Show password” icon while stretching my fingers to tap the onscreen arrow keys. It was also finicky and failed to register several letters. The very first time I tried to launch Steam from the Armoury launcher, the app crashed because I didn’t yet have an internet connection (which the device never prompted me to set up), popping up a standard, albeit tiny Windows error box.Ĭonnecting to Wi-Fi, I found a UI problem that gave me a bad premonition of things to come: The onscreen keyboard I needed to enter my (rather long) Wi-Fi password covered half the password box. This is great for game compatibility and terrible for just about everything else. The ROG Ally isn’t so much a Windows-based handheld gaming console as it’s just a Windows PC built inside a large controller with a screen. ![]()
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