Asus ROG Ally replace lets AI haters ditch ‘Gaming Copilot’
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In abstract:
- PCWorld reviews that ASUS ROG Ally customers can now disable or remap Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot characteristic by the newest Armoury Crate SE replace.
- This transformation displays widespread person resistance to Microsoft’s aggressive push for AI options, Home windows 11 migration, and in-OS promoting throughout their gaming gadgets.
- The replace additionally contains BIOS fixes and enhancements for standby mode and UI scaling, giving ROG Ally house owners larger management over their handheld gaming expertise.
Microsoft’s Copilot “AI” system isn’t precisely a smash hit amongst its customers. Whereas the corporate has rebranded at the least among the options as enhancements for gaming, PC players don’t appear to be taking to it any higher. The most recent software program replace for Asus’ ROG Ally collection of handhelds— notably the one ones with Xbox branding—allow you to ditch it completely.
“Remappable Gaming Copilot and Push-to-Speak” is the characteristic highlighted within the newest replace to Armoury Crate SE, the Asus software program that handles a whole lot of the in-between stuff for its gaming {hardware}. “Added the power to remap Gaming Copilot and Push-to-Speak below the ‘Motion’ part of the keymap configuration menu,” reads the related entry. This successfully enables you to take away Gaming Copilot from the interface, usually sure to a long-press of the Library button.
The replace comes together with BIOS updates and Armoury Crate SE 2.1.20.0, in response to Home windows Central, which additionally contains fixes for standby mode, UI scaling, and Xbox 360 controller emulation. I’m not seeing the official changelog from Asus immediately, or anywhere to obtain it. (Usually these seem on this help web page.)
The flexibility to remap the Gaming Copilot characteristic and successfully ignore it’s an attention-grabbing transfer from Asus, particularly because it was the primary firm to companion with Microsoft on its official push for Home windows 11 handhelds. During the last two years, Microsoft has been… a bit pushy in terms of Copilot “AI” options, and customers haven’t embraced it with open arms.
Between that, a seemingly compelled migration from Home windows 10 to Home windows 11, and longstanding resentment as Home windows itself turns into chock-full of promoting and options nobody requested for, Microsoft isn’t actually profitable followers in the mean time. The timing for Asus’ replace is attention-grabbing, too: simply yesterday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was all however begging folks to make use of “AI” usually and Copilot particularly… which might be a coincidence.
In the meantime, Valve’s Steam Deck remains to be extremely common (on this admittedly small area of interest), and the corporate is pushing a brand new wave of {hardware} to increase its PC gaming dominance into the console area the place the Xbox model is actively retreating.
