Hi how are you Asus motherboard and GPU owners getting on with the rgb effect software from Asus ? I should be getting a new Asus gpu soon and would like to change the default lighting but i have had nothing but issues with Aura and armory crate (bloatcrate) in the past. Basically if its still junk i would rather just pull the plug on the rgb !
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Asus RGB lighting software..Aura and Armory crate still bad ?
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I am using asus rog b550 motherboard and control the rgb with Armoury crate. It works just fine for me. I only use it to control the rgb of the case fans though.
Hi how are you Asus motherboard and GPU owners getting on with the rgb effect software from Asus ? I should be getting a new Asus gpu soon and would like to change the default lighting but i have had nothing but issues with Aura and armory crate (bloatcrate) in the past. Basically if its still junk i would rather just pull the plug on the rgb 
Exactly why is it so difficult ? I had Armory crate on my last build but it corrupted and refused to uninstall and it kept firing up in task manager constantly..i ended up re installing windows and doing without. I really don't want to put that junk back on why they cannot just give you a choice of software for the rgb only without all that other crap is beyond me.
I've been using armory crate for the last year and it's gone from utter junk to mediocre. I have to use it as it's the only way to control my Asus AIO.
It mostly works now and the settings mostly survive a hard boot. Sometimes it decides it doesn't want to play with Corsair ICue and it didn't like the separate aura sync software which has more features or the software for my strix card when I had one.
Even on it's worse day it was better than the hellspawned abomination of a piece of software that Gigabyte defecated into the world for my old GPU.
My next PC will have no RGB at all and a dedicated fan controller so I can ignore all the rubbish that the moboard and GPU makers dump on their customers.
It mostly works now and the settings mostly survive a hard boot. Sometimes it decides it doesn't want to play with Corsair ICue and it didn't like the separate aura sync software which has more features or the software for my strix card when I had one.
Even on it's worse day it was better than the hellspawned abomination of a piece of software that Gigabyte defecated into the world for my old GPU.
My next PC will have no RGB at all and a dedicated fan controller so I can ignore all the rubbish that the moboard and GPU makers dump on their customers.
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I have the TUF 3090 and Ive never been able to control the lighting on it. Never been able to get armoury crate/aura to work but give up ages ago as there just so much bloat it installs. Its tied with Gigabytes RGB fusion for worst software Ive used as that is just as awful.
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Works fine on my build no issues, as long as its up to date etc.
Its awful. Mobo and gfx are both asus and they control the water pumps and fans and rgb in the the whole system (corsair keyboard and fans)
Getting rgb to work properly or not finding some Asus software component taking up 90% of my 36 cores is rare.
Really really buggy software.
Getting rgb to work properly or not finding some Asus software component taking up 90% of my 36 cores is rare.
Really really buggy software.
From El Reg:
ASUS patches ROG Armoury Crate app after researcher spots all-too-common flaw
It tries to load a file from a location any old user can write to
ASUS patches ROG Armoury Crate after security flaw found • The Register
ASUS patches ROG Armoury Crate app after researcher spots all-too-common flaw
It tries to load a file from a location any old user can write to
ASUS patches ROG Armoury Crate after security flaw found • The Register
Armoury crate works fine now, the days of Aura Sync never working properly are over thank god. However, it does increase latency and if you use any effect other than static, it does use up extra CPU cycles. If you enable the performance mode, it uses even more CPU cycles whilst offering smoother RGB animations.
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Try open RGB maybe? I hear it's gotten pretty good.
I've found regardless of which rgb software is used any RGB in my system which is constantly changing colors causes frametime spikes in games and it's hella annoying - doing static rgb is the only to stop the frame drops
I don't get any frame time spikes, but I see the app using up to 1% of CPU usage just to have the RGB effect going.
It can cause the processor to spike voltage/temps, unless you use Windows Balanced power profile (which all Ryzen 5000 series users should) and have the Performance and Energy slider found in Settings > Power & Sleep set to Best Energy Savings.
That reduces processor responsiveness to background apps that request the CPU to enter the max boost state briefly, like loads of RGB apps and other applications.
Could give this a try, it has been floating around youtube a lot recently.
https://www.whirlwindfx.com/pages/signalrgb
Good find. What's the performance cost like?
Will download it myself and give it a try.
EDIT - The application does not support the 6900 XT Toxic Extreme unfortunately, so no good for me. I did request future support as the app recognised everything else.
I hope they have deep pockets.
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Not sure on the performance cost but for people who have multiple programs like armory crate /rgb fusion/icue i would imagine it should be significantly better.
Found Aura okay, however uninstalled it and do not need it as Corsair iCUE has a plugin for ASUS devices also. Both my builds which are pretty much corsair and ASUS, it all gets controlled from Corsair iCUE these days, works great with all modes you can do it its your thing.
But that worldwind software does look neat.
But that worldwind software does look neat.
Does it support EKWB rgb parts?
Does it support individual headers or is everything synced for a disco lightshow like that video?
Edit: so apparently it doesn't but I'll try it and see what happens
the potential downfall of this software is that it seems it requires them to manually integrate every single device and product - they'll never have the budget and resource available to cover all devices which is a problem. At least with Razer Chroma literally any device I can plug into a Razer controller gets awesome per header rgb control and brightness, it doesn't require per product integration, it simply reads each LED and sends signals to each LED
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