The ASUS ROG Ally and Ally X are fantastic devices, capable of playing modern AAA games without breaking a sweat, including the recently released Call of Duty Black Ops 6 beta.
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Running the Black Ops 6 beta on the ROG Ally does involve sacrificing a bit of visual quality in favor of performance though, in order to push a minimum of 60 frames per second at native resolutions.
Optimized Call of Duty Black Ops 6 beta settings for the ROG Ally
In-game settings
- Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive
- Screen Refresh rate: 120
- Display Resolution: Dynamic Resolution
- V-Sync: Keep disabled
- Custom Frame Rate: 60
- Render Resolution: 85
- Dynamic Resolution: On
- Dynamic Resolution Frame Rate Target: 80
- Upscaling: AMD FSR 3
- AMD FSR Preset: Balanced
- AMD Frame Generation: Off
- VRAM Scale Target: 80
- Texture Resolution: Normal
- Texture Filter: Normal
- Depth of Field: Off
- Detail Quality Level: Low
- Particle Resolution: Very Low
- Bullet Impacts: On
- Persistent Effects: Off
- Shader Quality: Low
- On-Demand Texture Streaming: Minimal
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Screen Space Shadows: Low
- Screen Space Ambient Lighting: Low
- Screen Space Reflections: Off
- Static Reflection Quality: Low
- Tessellation: Off
- Volumetric Quality: Low
- Deferred Physics Quality: Off
- Weather Grid Volumes: Low
- Water Quality: Off
ROG Ally specific settings
- Operating Mode: Turbo (25 W); Swap to 30 W Turbo if you have the Ally plugged into a power source
- 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: 6 GB
- Expected battery life: 1 hour for the original ROG Ally, 2-3 hours for the ROG Ally X
Frame Generation techniques such as AFMF and/or AFMF 2 will not be considered for this particular guide, given the usual artifacting and latency that may arise from these methods – which can be quite disastrous in a hyper-competitive game such as Call of Duty.
