Asus releases major updates to ROG gaming laptops with stuttering and performance interruption fixes
Asus has moved to address 'stuttering and performance interruptions' that it has acknowledged are affecting certain ROG-branded gaming laptops. To recap, the company claimed that it had heard community feedback regarding the issue almost a fortnight ago.
As Linus Sebastian summarises in the video below, a recent independent investigation identified that ROG Scar, ROG Strix and ROG Zephyrus gaming laptops produced from 2021 onwards suffer from the same overarching performance hitches regardless of their specifications. In short, these issues occur because of poorly coded ACPI firmware, which inefficiently utilises APUs or CPUs and results in high latency levels.
From the lengthy technical investigation into the matter, it seems that TUF Gaming-branded laptops like the TUF Gaming A14 are unaffected (curr. $1,749 on Amazon) despite sharing a lot of the same hardware as their ROG Scar, ROG Strix or ROG Zephyrus counterparts. As the embedded tweet below emphasises, Asus has only released fixes for the ROG Strix Scar 15 (G533ZW) and Zephyrus M16 (GU604VI) that the company launched in 2023.
Even then, Asus stresses that these BIOS updates are still in beta. Presumably, fixes for more laptop models will follow in due course. Unfortunately, Asus has not provided a timeline for any of these additional laptops. Please see the Asus gaming laptop technical investigation for more details about the ACPI firmware bug.
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