Question For The Dtg Team (rog Xbox Ally)

Hello,
DTG Alex DTG Matt DTG JD DTG Jamie

Recently, Xbox & ASUS has announced they are producing the ROG Xbox Ally (Pictured below) and I was just wondering if TSW6 (and subsequent TSW Games) will be avaliable to play on this hand-held*. I don't game enough nor do I travel enough to benefit getting one (even though they are priced between $700 (£518 / €597) & $1000 (£740 / €853)) but I thought I'd ask just in case I ever decided to wave goodbye on a month's wage on a hand-held device*.

Thanks

*This handheld is more of a handheld gaming computer rather then a handheld console like the Nintendo Switch

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It’s just a PC with XBox branding and a version of windows 11 that supposedly has all the bloat ware cut out. It will default to the XBox store, which sells TSW but there is nothing to stop you installing Steam.

TSW will run on it in the same way that it runs on the current Ally or Steamdeck. It won’t be brilliant but it’ll work. I set my current Ally X to medium and 900p it’s playable, but not the best experience. Routes like Frankfurt Fulda have big frame rate drops in some areas and you only get 30-40fps to start with. The XBox Ally X is only slightly more powerful than the current Ally X. The Standard Xbox Ally is slightly less so expect similar performance.

Basically it’s an expensive way to play TSW and not the best experience, but it’ll work.

 

I don’t own a steam deck, but if I was in your position I’d save a few quid and just buy a steam deck.

 

Echo this, the Steam Deck is out now, a LOT cheaper and plays TSW just fine (mostly).

 

At the moment, I don't plan on getting the Xbox Ally.. far too much money for what it basically is

 

I tried these recently they perform pretty good however the antiailisng on the steamdeck on the medium preset wasn't good most likely down to the 720p display.

Using the engine.ini I upped the quality of the Antiailisng using...

r.PostProcessAAQuality=4

Could it be possible to get AA quality as a togglable option in the advanced settings for users who don't want to play with config files?

 

I do have TAA enabled and my screen percentage set to 100%.

I probably should have been clearer. The mentioned .ini setting I added fixed the anti aliasing for me.

I believe what I've done is essentially set the TAA quality to the level it would have been if I was using the High preset in game. What I was asking is if this could be incorporated as a separate setting in the advanced menu rather than being linked to the low, medium, high, ultra presets in the resolution tab

I agree there is only so much a 720p 7 inch screen can do but changing this made the image quality much better and hasn't changed the performance impact either.

 

I have an Ayaneo handheld with similar specs. It runs TSW just fine.

It tends towards comparable performance in the same games at similar graphics settings to the Series S, though is a bit more powerful in certain areas, and can usually dial a couple of settings higher than the console version with minimal impact, like upping pedestrian density in CP77.

I recommend a handheld system with a VRR display like the Ally, as you will see framerate drops from 60 if going for performance, but they will tend to be within the VRR window. You can of course if you choose go for 40 or 30 modes and up the visuals accordingly, if your eyes can handle sub-60 without migraines*.


*I get them on any flat panel display below about 50Hz, and can only tolerate such framerates on a CRT

 

I had a Onexfly Onexplayer (AMD Ryzen 7 7840U, 32GB RAM, Win 11).
TSW with Ultra settings never caused any problems.
The performance of this handheld is incredible.