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Asus ’ ROG Ally is one of thebest handheld play PCsyou can grease one’s palms , and now it ’s pay off even better . Asus is updatingthe handheld with AMD ’s Fluid Motion Frames ( AFMF ) . This is a driver - level feature that adds framing contemporaries to the majority of DirectX 11 and 12 game , which should vastly improve public presentation .
We ’ve seenAFMF in actionon AMD graphics batting order previously . The characteristic launched late last year for screen background and peregrine AMD computer graphic cards , but theROG Allyoddly did n’t support the feature . Asus ’ handheld uses the Ryzen Z1 chipset , which includes both an AMD central processing unit and graphics card , but it expend its own specialized equipment driver . Because of that , it did n’t get AFMF support right forth .
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Thankfully , that ’s changing . soma coevals is a huge blessing for a handheld where performance margins are often extremely blind drunk . Hopefully , AFMF will make demand titles likeCyberpunk 2077run smoother at higher graphics configurations , as well as earmark less demanding game likeHi - Fi Rush tofully impregnate the 120Hz , 1080p display .
Although AFMF is technically supported on the ROG Ally now , it ’s not on the button easy to use . It is n’t currently an option in the Armoury Crate utility that the handheld uses . Instead , you ’ll need to work on the feature article in Radeon Software , either globally or on a per - game basis . Asus says it ’s work on summate the feature to Armoury Crate in the future .
AFMF is technically physical body generation , but it does n’t work in the same way asNvidia ’s DLSS 3orAMD ’s FSR 3 . It rather works through the machine driver . It read two physique rendered by the biz and compares them , and then runs that information through an algorithm to estimate what a systema skeletale in between would see like . It ’s a motion - smoothing applied science , not a performance - boosting engineering science like upscaling .
The characteristic work well in some titles , though it has certain limitations . It will plow itself off during degraded motion , for example , and it does n’t always get the best timber , as it does n’t have admission to information from the secret plan like motion vectors . Still , take AFMF on the ROG Ally is a shortcut to smoother game , even if it amount at a slight cost .
The ROG Ally is currently the only handheld with AFMF support , despite the fact that theSteam DeckandLenovo Legion Goboth use AMD chipsets . It ’s possible those handhelds could see an update with the tech in the hereafter .
