Red Dead Redemption 2 gameplay on the ROG ALLY

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today, as you can see, we're playing Red

Dead Redemption 2 on the ROG Ally Z1

Extreme, and we're playing it unplugged.

You can see the USB thing attached,

that's just because I ran out of storage

space on my ROG Ally and I had to plug in

a 1TB hard drive, external hard drive,

which is where I installed Red Dead

Redemption 2 to because it's pretty big

game, 120-130GB,

and the ROG Ally only comes with 500GB

storage, which I already used up by now.

So we're going to see— well, you can see

the little monitor here, we've got about

59 FPS and we're currently at 100%

battery. We'll see how quickly the battery

drains. Do about maybe a 15-minute video,

see how long it lasts. So what something

weird already happening. That is a glitch

in the game, not a problem with the ROG

Ally, but there's an invisible horseman

pulling that wagon. There are a few

glitches in this game, but I think it's

just the game. So it is running really

well, which is surprising considering it's

a very nice looking game and it's a very

big game as well. It's kind of like GTA if

it was set in the 1800s. That's basically

what this game is. So it's a very big open

world game, very detailed, and it plays

astonishingly well. I've got it at 55

FPS. I'll show you my settings. I'll show

you some movement. So just

move around a bit. You can see it's really

smooth, obviously, for nearly 60 FPS. You

probably get higher FPS if you fiddle with

the settings. I did a bit of fiddling with

the settings. And I managed to get it to

look decent whilst also playing pretty

smoothly. There were a few hiccups, like

for some reason it just started to stutter

for a few seconds before going smooth

again. Hopefully that won't happen in

today's video. What's that over there?

Oh, it's a man shooting into the distance.

Let's see what he's doing.

I like this game because random things

just happen with NPCs. In the open world,

which is quite funny. Is this guy gonna be

friendly or not? Oh crap, I forgot

what the buttons are. Why am I shooting—

aiming my gun? Can I greet him?

So Y is to get off the horse.

Why am I holding a gun in my other hand?

So you can also change the view into

first-person view, which is pretty cool.

Like that. So if you want, you could have

a first-person kind of experience,

but I prefer third person. So stranger—

what do I do?

He wants money. We could give him $5.

I guess $5 was a lot of money back then.

So what happened? I don't know,

can I just shoot him?

So yeah, I shot him and then I can loot

Um, something's happened. I pressed the

loot button, now he's frozen. I can't

move. Oh, he's moving now. That was weird.

For some reason I can't loot him.

Arthur gets stuck and he doesn't move

anymore. That's really weird.

That never happened before. Anyway, I

don't know what that was about. Let's get

back on the horse and then I'll show you

my settings. The game just looks so

good though. It's astonishing this is

playing on a handheld device.

Okay, I'll show you my settings.

Settings. Wait, why isn't it— you

press X. What does X do? Oh,

X is the button to go forwards. So

graphics. What?

I don't know what's happening.

Let me try and fix that. I think the game

froze. It's saying FPS NA now

and it's flatlined, so I think I'm gonna

have to reboot the game. Kind of weird,

it's never frozen when I entered the

settings menu before. Okay,

so yeah, it crashed and now I've got to

reopen it. Because it's installed on a

hard drive, not an SSD, it takes forever

to load up. So let's see how long it

takes. Well, it feels like it takes

I can't believe it crashed just opening

the menu. I swear it's never done that

before. It seems kind of lame, doesn't it?

20 seconds.

I reckon it'll be done under a minute. 30

seconds.

Coming up to 40 seconds.

I'm not sure how much faster it would be

if I had it installed on

my SSD. Nearly a minute now on the loading

screen.

We're on turbo mode as well, if you can

hear the fans spinning.

I didn't even get into town or do any

action really. Oh,

1 minute and 15 seconds and we loaded

into the game. Hopefully it doesn't crash

this time.

Okay,

so anyway, I was trying to show you the

settings. I'll try and show you it again.

Okay, settings, graphics.

Okay, so if I zoom in a little bit— is

my screen really dirty or was that just

the game art? I think it's the game art,

little white specks. So I put graphics

texture quality high. Some things are

on high, most things are on low for some

reason. I put lighting quality to high and

reflection quality low. Most of it's low,

and I think you really need it on low,

otherwise the FPS wouldn't be very fun. I

also put AMD FSR 2 on, and I put

sharpening up to max, and I put the

performance mode onto balanced. So you can

fiddle around with this, maybe put

performance mode, put graphics mode, it's

up to you. I might do more fiddling later,

but for now, balanced with max sharpening

and most settings on low seems to be

pretty good. You got 60 FPS and the game

looks really nice on this little handheld

screen. Okay, let's play some game,

I guess, see what it's

Put the sound up a bit.

It is quite a relaxing game if you just

want to have like a ride through the

countryside and do a bit of shooting.

The ambience and the nature, the mountains

in the background— the game is a great

looking game.

How do you stop

the horse? Oh yeah, you've got to press

this right bumper to stop the horse,

which is kind of weird. It's like— oops—

it's like driving a car, you got brakes.

I forgot what the button is to do slow

motion. Maybe it's B.

No, B kicks.

So yeah, we're just riding down this

country lane, we got about 60 FPS.

Battery's down to 80%, so I've been

playing for about 5 minutes, lost 20%

battery already.

Let's go into town. I think there's a town

over there.

The game looks so good.

Yeah, it's a really nice

looking game. So this is kind of like

a little town, I guess.

I can't believe America used to be like

this, just like massive sprawling

amounts of countryside

with not much on it apart from a few

wooden houses and rail tracks with people

riding horses up and down with wagons.

This is what it used to be like? That's

wild. I wonder what this area in America

looks like now. It's probably like a

massive city. I don't even know where in

America this is supposed to be. I think

it's West Coast. I forgot what the story

is. I think they,

they traveled west running away from some

kind of gang. So this is like the

Wild West, I guess. Another little farm.

Can I

jump into the sheep holding thing?

No.

Yeah, there's not much action, is there?

I guess I have to do a mission to find

some shooting gameplay.

I don't know how to get my horse over

here. Where is it? Oh, there it is. It's

kind of like The Witcher. You whistle,

your horse comes.

Yeah, so the game plays really well. A few

weird things happen like freezing, and

sometimes a random crash might happen,

but it's pretty rare.

It runs really well if you do fiddle with

the settings a little bit.

So where's my gun?

Someone's shooting. I don't know where

it's coming from.