**Testing the Ryzen 7 6800H and Acer Predator Helios 300 with Starfield**
Moving up to the laptop's performance mode seems to ease the strain on the GPU usage, allowing us to average around 40 FPS during Space Battles with three or more enemies. Although it drops down to around 32 FPS at 15 watts, it is still playable in this setting.
**Dock Mode Performance Test**
Taking a look at dock mode is an interesting experience, especially when utilizing the included Rog Ally charger. This setup allows us to reach higher TDPs, such as the 52-watt mark, which provides incredible performance with Starfield on the Rog Ally. Moving from Armory Crate SC to manual mode, we can further boost the TDP to its maximum potential.
In dock mode, we're able to max out the TDP and experience amazing performance with Starfield. Before in handheld mode, we were limited to 720p, but now we've taken it up to 1080p with low settings, achieving an average of around 50 FPS on the Rog Ally. We are pushing the laptop's capabilities with this high TDP, but the stock fan curve seems to handle it well.
**Manual Fan Curve and Overclocking**
For those who don't mind a noisier system, we can set up a manual fan curve using Armory Crate SC. This allows us to control the fan speed and ensure that the laptop never reaches thermal throttle limits, even at higher TDPs. We're still pushing it in dock mode, but this feature provides peace of mind.
**Performance Comparison**
Heading back into the open world on Planet, we see that using dock mode, 720p, Fidelity Cast, low settings, and the manual fan curve allows us to achieve an average of around 54 FPS. Although not at 60 FPS yet, we're close and expect future updates to further improve performance.
**Indoor Performance Test**
Moving indoors, we find that the laptop's performance is nearly identical to what we experienced outdoors. With the same settings, 720p Fidelity Cast low, and a high TDP, we achieve an average of around 60 FPS, with occasional dips in afterburner due to the intense rendering demands of the game.
**Conclusion**
Testing the Ryzen 7 6800H and Acer Predator Helios 300 with Starfield was a delightful experience. The laptop's performance is impressive, especially when docked, and we're excited about the potential for future updates to further improve frame rates. If you want to run this at 60 FPS in some cases, dock mode is worth it, but if you prefer handheld gaming, it's still an incredible experience. We appreciate your feedback and look forward to seeing how the laptop performs in other games.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again and today we're going to be checking out Starfield on the Asus Rog Ally so yeah I've been really excited about testing this game out on the Ally and uh day one at least Early Access I had a lot of crashing going on and it came down to the GPU driver I had installed on the Ally at the time I'm making this video it wasn't pushed from Asus over to the update Center on the Ally so I had to go over to the website and download it manually install it and now it's actually performing really well on the Ally so for this video we're going to be testing it in handheld mode at a few different tdps and we're also going to go to dock mode and we're going to Max this thing out to see what happens but before we get into it I do want to mention that this video is brought to you by urcd Keys now I've actually been using this site for a long time now they do offer PC games from Steam you play Ubisoft they 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your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description foreign Starfield running on the Rog Ally so at the moment we're in performance mode with the Allies power profile and if you're familiar with this device you know it's a 15 watt TDP with a boost up to 20 for a short period of time now when it comes to the settings I'm at 720p low and we are using FSR I've even disabled motion blur but it doesn't make a huge difference and again we are in performance mode so we've got that 15 watt TDP and one thing that really actually makes this game and a lot of others great on the Ally is the display we've got a freesync display so we're not going to get any of that tearing or anything like that even at these lower frame rates it actually feels really good and I've noticed that you know games running at at least 40 FPS feels super smooth on this display we're about to get over that 20 watt boost and go right down to 15 watts with the Ally and uh we can stick this right at 30 FPS low settings FSR and I recently I did a video testing this out on the steam deck kind of the same thing you need to take the settings all the way down and we can run at 30 on the steam deck now one thing to keep in mind is it's still really early here we're gonna see some driver optimizations from AMD game optimizations from Bethesda and you know when it comes to the handheld manufacturers be it valve or even a suit for the Ally I'm sure we're going to see a nice little bump in performance once uh everybody gets their optimizations out of the way but right now it is playable at 15 watts 30 FPS on this handheld now going indoors is a bit different we do get a much better frame rate at 15 watts so let's get in here real quick and once we're indoors we can actually average around 40 FPS and again with this uh freesync display anything at 40 or over feels really smooth but there's still a lot more that we can get out of this handheld because we're still only in performance mode 15 watts so let's go ahead and take it up to Turbo and the stock turbo mode is a TDP of 25 with a boost up to 30. of course your battery is going to die a lot quicker but uh it definitely ups that performance on Starfield and most other games that I've tested for a handheld gaming device I do think that this is some great performance because in turbo mode we're now getting an average of around 48 fps indoors but again our battery life is going to suffer here because we've upped that TDP the whole unit is just pulling a lot more power I think a nice little sweet spot for this game at 720p low with FSR on and handheld mode is 18 Watts you can go into Armory crate SC and set up a manual TDP right there at 18 Watts gives us a nice little mix of good performance and great battery life before we move over to dock mode and really unlock the performance here I did want to show you one more thing because when it comes to Star field we're going to spend a lot of time in space or in our spaceship so let's go ahead and move up up here it does kind of ease up on that GPU usage so I've actually just gone back to Performance mode and we can average around 40 FPS during Space Battles with three or more enemies it does drop down to around 32 FPS at 15 watts but it's still playable here the next thing I wanted to take a look at was dock mode now keep in mind you could actually do this on the built-in screen you can use the included Rog Ally charger and go up to these tdps that you're about to see but personally I like having it plugged into a larger display plus we can see a bit more here and of course like this we don't need to worry about battery life so we can take it all the way up so from Armory crate SC I take this to manual mode and just take the TDP as far as we can go it'll actually give us a boost up to around 52 Watts usually stays around 42 on average and uh yeah this is where you're going to see some great performance with Starfield on the Rog Ally okay so here it is Doc mode we're maxed out here with the TDP at least as far as we can go with Armory crate SC and uh performance is absolutely amazing before in handheld mode we were at 720p but now in dock mode I've actually taken it up to 1080p we're still at low settings and instead of using FSR for resolution scale I opted to use Fidelity cast now I've noticed on some games especially with these apus we do see a nice little bump in performance and with it set up like this 1080p low we can get an average of around 50 FPS on the Rog Ally in dock mode but we are pushing that Apu now I wouldn't worry about this thing overheating or anything like that the stock fan curve does a pretty decent job but from Armory cray SE we can actually set up a manual fan curve and there's a couple different presets we can choose from so if you don't mind having a noisier system you can have those fans come on much sooner and you'll never hit thermal throttle even at these higher tdps now we're still kind of pushing it here at 1080p so what I'm going to do is drop it down to 720 but we're going to use those same settings I do need to change my system resolution here so we're back down to 720p low settings and we're still using Cass here instead of FSR heading back into the open world Planet uh you'll see that we actually get an average of around 54 FPS now still not quite at 60 but I do have a feeling that in the future in Doc mode 720p we will be able to run this at 60fps in the wide open and really what's kind of holding us back here is that render distance so let's head indoors and I'll show you what this thing can do now now we don't have to worry about that rendered distance everything is pretty much roped off here still using the same settings 720p Fidelity cast low and uh we've got that TDP as high as we can go if you keep an eye on afterburner up in the top left hand corner you will see a dip every once in a while I've seen it dip down to around 56 FPS but on average we have a pretty steady 60fps obviously I've got vsync on also but this is really awesome and it's super smooth and again you don't need to be plugged into an external monitor you will need power plugged into the Rog Ally but you can play it like this in dock mode while you're sitting down at the table or laying in bed have a really good time with it very impressed by this ryzen Z1 extreme in this game and of course we will see a bump in performance down the road at the time I'm making this video this game has been in Early Access for about 18 hours so uh yeah I mean we've already got a few updates here that do increase performance by quite a bit and if you do test it out on your Rog Ally just make sure you have the latest driver from the ace Zeus website because that's really going to cause a lot of issues if you don't I'd say give it about a week and we're going to see a much smoother experience here at those lower tdps but you know if you do want to run this at 60 FPS in some cases I would definitely put it in dock mode it's well worth it but that's gonna wrap it up for this video I really appreciate you watching I'm super excited about this let me know what you think in the comments below and like always thanks for watching\n"
