Armoury crate asus rgb

Dallies · 31 Oct 2021 at 22:23

Hi thanks for looking.

Does anybody no a way around using this crap?

The problem is every time I switch my pc on all my rgb devices are automatically on and blue the colour of my choice. Then windows starts and rgb addressing is switched off. I then have to launch armoury crate and set rgb to on again.

I'm guessing this is the armoury crate software disabling it!

If I shut down my pc without launching crate all rgb lighting comes on again before shutdown.
Windows wouldn't be responsible would it? There's no settings anywhere in Windows for rgb addressing, not what I can find anyway.

Min15 · 1 Nov 2021 at 11:45

I've found it clunky and hard to use as well. I had settings that have changed. Sure the armoury crate is the cause. Thankfully i'm not overly fussed but it clearly shouldn't be making changes on it's own.

Hawk Tuah · 1 Nov 2021 at 11:59

Could be worse. Could be iCue.

Glanza · 1 Nov 2021 at 12:11

It's how armoury crate has been since they forced people to upgrade to it over the older Aura Sync.

chroniclard · 1 Nov 2021 at 12:30

Yeah I binned off armoury crate, so much bloat.

Could try OpenRGB

That works with the motherboard RGB, mostly.

Dallies · 1 Nov 2021 at 13:02

Min15 said:
I've found it clunky and hard to use as well. I had settings that have changed. Sure the armoury crate is the cause. Thankfully i'm not overly fussed but it clearly shouldn't be making changes on it's own.

It's like it's forcing you to open crate every time Windows starts! The thing is after the asus aura stopped working my rgb lighting was still on and solid blue. It was only after updating my bios it went back to breathing colors at me. Maybe If I set the colour then uninstall crate it might go back to the way it was. I like the breathing thing but my gpu is evga and memory is corsair and for the life of me I can't get them to all sync. Sometimes I can get the colours synced but after a few minutes it's like a display of different rainbows inside my pc!

Thanks.

Dallies · 1 Nov 2021 at 13:05

Bug One said:
Could be worse. Could be iCue.

Lol I can't say I've had any problems with iCue. Yet! Apart from both sticks of ram going out of sync on rainbow mode. What don't you like about it?

Thanks.

Dallies · 1 Nov 2021 at 13:07

Glanza said:
It's how armoury crate has been since they forced people to upgrade to it over the older Aura Sync.

I don't know why they changed it. I read somewhere they was blaming it on a windows update stopping asus aura from working.

Thanks.

Dallies · 1 Nov 2021 at 13:08

chroniclard said:
Yeah I binned off armoury crate, so much bloat.

Could try OpenRGB

That works with the motherboard RGB, mostly.

I'll have a look at open rgb.

Thanks.

Hawk Tuah · 1 Nov 2021 at 13:15

Dallies said:
Lol I can't say I've had any problems with iCue. Yet! Apart from both sticks of ram going out of sync on rainbow mode. What don't you like about it?

Thanks.

It's a gig. Just to control a few sticks of RGB. Madness.

And as a result, it hogs resources.

Dallies · 1 Nov 2021 at 13:40

Bug One said:
It's a gig. Just to control a few sticks of RGB. Madness.

And as a result, it hogs resources.

Yeah I didn't look at it like that. I never really noticed the size. Since being on 5g download sizes don't stand out so much.

Thanks.

Min15 · 1 Nov 2021 at 22:12

Dallies said:
It's like it's forcing you to open crate every time Windows starts! The thing is after the asus aura stopped working my rgb lighting was still on and solid blue. It was only after updating my bios it went back to breathing colors at me. Maybe If I set the colour then uninstall crate it might go back to the way it was. I like the breathing thing but my gpu is evga and memory is corsair and for the life of me I can't get them to all sync. Sometimes I can get the colours synced but after a few minutes it's like a display of different rainbows inside my pc!

Thanks.

I use an external Usb-c monitor quite a lot too, and every time I switch it seems to want to notify me that I should be doing something with the settings for the graphics performance - in my mind the whole point of programmes like this is to simplify things not create more work for me…

Dallies · 1 Nov 2021 at 23:32

chroniclard said:
Yeah I binned off armoury crate, so much bloat.

Could try OpenRGB

That works with the motherboard RGB, mostly.

OpenRGB works a treat. Addresses the mb and memory.

Thanks for the tip.

The Old School Gamer · 2 Nov 2021 at 20:34

Dallies said:
OpenRGB works a treat. Addresses the mb and memory.

Thanks for the tip.

Will give this a try tomorrow as well, as ASUS Armoury Crate and MSI Dragon Center are steaming pile of bloatware s h i t e.
Dunno why they have to make aRGB software so complicated to use with a ton of background services running.

kevbiss1 · 3 Nov 2021 at 19:32

I'm with you on that, I uninstalled all the software as my RGB always seems to revert to rainbow colours, I've messed about so much I've lost all interest in rbg lighting now, I might give that openrgb a go, but I just don't get it really

MadMatty · 4 Nov 2021 at 22:35

When my motherboard rgb worked, I had used the standalone Aura installer instead of the bloated Armoury crate. Then before installing delete all the modules that are not required leaving just the Motherboard Aura software in my case. Aura is a lot worse than ICUE though with separate executables for every type of aura rgb/oleddisplay addon installed and running by default regardless of if you need or not.