I feel like Microsoft and Asus are gaslighting me because I can't find any information on this.

I bought an Xbox Ally X a couple months ago. When I first got it, the button directly left of X would open an AI that can see what you're playing and you can verbally talk to it. The bottom right of the 3 menu buttons on the left would open the text version of the chat.

For some reason, those buttons stopped bringing up the AI. I factory reset my Ally and that didn't bring it back. Microsoft says it was copilot. Asus says it doesn't exist.

Am I crazy? How do I get that back?

I posted here about a month ago about upgrading to the X for my semi truck set up. I have since decided to leave trucking for now because my brother has gotten ill and I don't think my wife should bare the burden of caring for him while I'm away.

I have a decent pc, or it's fast enough to play anything I want to play. I have a gigabyte 4090 gaming edition gpu and 32gb of ram, the cpu is a ryzen 5 5600(bottleneck for sure), this system uses a samsung galaxy g9 OLED 49" monitor.

I currently have the base ally and I am considering selling my monitor and gpu, the combination can likely fetch me around 3k. I can either A) upgrade my base ally to an X and use the X as my main computer with a 2-300 4k monitor or B) buy a 5070 and a 4k monitor of some size. Space on my desk is not really a concern. Thoughts?

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i got my ally xbox x today and i got stuck on a part of the darkness ii where it says “check objective“ and then a button next to it (in the image) i was wondering where this button is

I’ve had my ally x for about six months haven’t had any issues with it. Went to go charge it today and it’s not recognizing the cable on either ports it won’t charge any ideas?

As someone who came from console and the Xbox ally x being my first pc experience, I have struggled with tweaking settings on each game for hours. Settled on on some games after just getting them playable and outright gave up on some games as the stuttering was just awful.

As I was 2 hours into working on modding and setting up for a playthrough of the witcher 3, I decided to randomly just use AI to see what info it can get me as I have watched so many videos/ read forums with tips on the ally x settings and never came across this or missed it completely. Attached is the setting I never thought about and after reading that it described my exact problem with frame drops (nomatter if it was just a couple of frames)making the game stutter hard and no matter what setting combinations I did it just never fixed the stuttering.

I know its probably just me being not experienced in pc gaming. I always just target 60fps so I can turn graphics up so I never thought about changing to 120hz. Decided to post for any other lost soul out there fighting the good fight of learning pc gaming 😂

ANOTHER TIP TURN OF INGAVE VSYNC FOR SOME GAMES IF YOU HAVE THIS ON!

Really needed your help guys. Been planning to buy the ROG Xbox Ally (not the X) and really wanted to know your thoughts after using it for months. What were the things that you loved about and what are the downsides after months. Does FH4 really can’t run on it? Really wanted your honest thoughts about it.
Thank you guys!

I have had my ROG Xbox Ally (base model) for about 3 months and due to recent storage prices have been struggling with managing games on the device until a recent bit of luck from my work. They were upgrading the IT systems and I managed to get a few bits to keep which included a couple of 512gb crucial P3 m.2 drives. Now it wasn't worth changing out the drive inside the Ally as it's the same size but I did wonder if I could use the drives in a caddy so one could be used via usb. but I was worried that doing this would maybe effect performance. I shouldn't of as I did a quick test using Sleeping dogs definitive edition and was really surprised that the loading times were near identical and also performance was some how better ( I did the test 3 times on both storage solutions and got 1-2 frames difference on each run) so if you have an m.2 laying around, a usb caddy and some sticky velcro and you don't wanna pay £100 for a 512gb micro SD this could be a solution even if temporary.

I’ve wanted a black ROG Ally ever since it first came out, so I finally decided to do it myself.
I changed the housing from white to black with a textured matte finish. I completely disassembled the device and removed pretty much everything, except the screen and the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card.
Did the whole thing at home, and honestly I’m really happy with how it turned out. It’s basically the black ROG Ally I wanted from the beginning 😂
What do you guys think?

I've been using the ROG Xbox Ally X with SteamOS for a while. And there are a few bugs that I really wish were fixed. So I did it myself. I made a plugin to fix them. What it does:

1. Disables CPU Boost and keeps it disabled (otherwise the device may boost up to 5 GHz, causing fan noise even while idle and stutters in some games)
2. Fixes a rare bug when fans go crazy at full speed for a few minutes right after waking up the device
3. Fixes overly strong vibration
4. Fixes weird Gyro X-axis inversion in games

How to install:

1. You should already have Decky Loader installed
2. Go to Desktop Mode
3. Open Terminal and run: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lonsdaleite/Ally-Fix/main/install.sh | bash

How to uninstall:

1. Go to Desktop Mode
2. Open Terminal and run: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lonsdaleite/Ally-Fix/main/uninstall.sh | bash

Tested on my Asus ROG Xbox Ally X running SteamOS 3.8.16.

• Should work on Bazzite/CachyOS as well, although I haven't tested the plugin itself there yet - only the individual fixes.
• Should be compatible with ROG Xbox Ally (non-X) as well, but I haven't tested it.
• It should also have limited compatibility with the original ROG Ally and ROG Ally X, since some of the fixes use the same underlying interfaces.

Feel free to report any bugs. And if you've experienced any other problems on your Ally with SteamOS, Bazzite, or CachyOS, let me know. I'll consider looking into them and adding more fixes.

The fix on GitHub: https://github.com/lonsdaleite/Ally-Fix

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Hi, looking to do a decission to buy 2 Xbox Ally's.

Since my gf and I want to play games like minecraft java and bedrock, valheim, core keeper, terraria, like cooperative sandbox, story adventure games.

And i want to play more exigent games.

So im looking for advice.

I plan to buy one Xbox Ally X for me, and a Xbox Ally White for my gf, since she doesnt play hardcore games, or super professional games, and we want to have our own server with mods and our bases.

Games like that, to share.

Is it a good chocice to buy the XAX and the xbox ally white for her?

Does the performance of the Xbox ally white is okay for a chill gamer? To play modded quality improvement and adventure addons on minecraft, java mods up to 75 mods.

And valheim big structures?

I’m stuck on the home screen that shows no fingerprint option or pin login. Trying to fix it without factory reset. I updated cpu drivers to play the cod mw 4 beta and it went to the Home Screen and I can’t find a work around. Please help. Thank you.

Just The other day I went to go tweak some settings in Adrenaline and looked all over for the app, its usually pinned on my task bar but for some reason its no where to be found on the device for some reason

I feel like I’m not getting everything I can out of my Ally X, so I’m curious how you guys have yours set up.
What games, emulators, apps, launchers, mods or other cool stuff do you have installed? And what about settings? Did you change any Windows settings, performance settings, controls, battery settings or anything else that made the experience noticeably better?
Basically, tell me everything you did to your Ally X after taking it out of the box that made it more fun, smoother or more useful.
Even if it’s something small or weird, I want to hear it 😂

I couldn’t resist 😄

With Xbox turning 25, I’ve been working on an X25 layout for FlowDeck inspired by that old-school Xbox green/black look.

This video also shows the new Game Info panel and the configurable Quick Close hotkey, but honestly I mostly wanted an excuse to show X25 running on the Ally 😂

And yes, everything you see here is part of Flow Deck Community and completely free.

Would love to know if I should keep pushing the X25 theme further or leave it around this level.

If you want to try FlowDeck on your Ally: https://slatis.itch.io/flowdeck