Back in the day, I knew what I would get from ASUS and their AURA tech. Pretty simple, just choose what you want and go. My LEDs did what I wanted, it was simple. But no… no they said. Instead we want you to download most of a gig of bullshit to do the same thing, but with extra fucking steps.
I’m pretty sure my light controlling software is now tracking me. I’m not sure if the pattern of my LEDs are watching me or not.
How the shit did we let this come to pass? Why do we let these monstrosities into our life?
I’m part of the problem, I know. I just want my lights to do what I tell them to.
What annoys me about all this LED crap is that I have to download whatever companies shitty software to disable that shit. IMO all lights should be off entirely unless you install a program to switch them on.
But I can definitely agree that the software is also shitty.
openrgb worked great for me. it is available for all OS
The latest two or so versions of OpenRGB have been great. Pretty much all of my RGB is supported in my machine.
Hadn’t heard of that, will look into it. Thanks!
I wasn’t able to get that to place nice with all my RGB garbage. Really great idea though. Wish manufacturers would just lean into it.
it quite easy to add new hw if you got any programming experience
Define “quite easy?” I’d gladly contribute if it’s straight forward, but I’m personally not really interested in learning how to reverse engineering hw vendor shitware or learning i2c communications in C++.
nah most things are i2c based and there is nifty sniffer on their wiki. even with just dumps of your device and its native software, you can help
I’ll take a look, thanks for the tip.
I yearn for the day when this lighting fad dies…my case has no plexiglass yet my ram motherboard and video card has lights…I’m surprised Intel doesn’t have LEDs on their processors yet …
You might be waiting a long time because people were already jamming cold cathode tubes into their PCs 25 years ago before LEDs got popular.
Back when Voodoo cards were popular my local computer store was selling acrylic window conversion kits where you’d need a Dremel to install it, with a rubber gasket, cold cathode and driver. In like, 1999. We’ve been doing this for a while.
Haha I remember those days. Every super hardcore case modding nerd was taking a Dremel to their side panels for more fan space and places for windows. They all used those old school fan grilles screwed onto the outside.
My case is steel and glass but I feel you.
they’ve got lighting on some stock hsf now, so just give 'em time…
Have you tried OpenRGB?
Its actually worse than that. Their fucking software doesnt work. I had to use the button on the case to have any control over the rgb.
I haven’t had that problem but I would like to know more.
I wish that crap could be customized in the bios and not need software unless you want to change stuff through the desktop OS. I stopped messing with RGB stuff and went to rainbow barf due to not wanting to deal with the software. Next build will be no RGB.
FYI with ASUS AURA if you don’t care about special effects or whatever you can set a static color or I think a basic rainbow or turn lights off entirely via the BIOS settings. No need for crapware.
My Computers aren’t aircraft… Why do you have lights on yours?
I thoroughly enjoy the lights syncing with the music when I’m reading my Kindle in the dark. There are other solutions of course but this just happened to be built into the motherboard I bought.
Asrock app is trash too. Takes ages to start up and the UI is edgy-looking, wannabe ROG garbage. You can only control the motherboard RGB from the BIOS, so you can’t avoid ditching it if you want everything off on your RAM, etc. and of course the Kingston sticks default to godawful pulsing rainbow eye-cancer. I miss evga so much.
RGB software is such garbage. Aura sucks, Synapse sucks, iCue sucks, Polychrome really really really sucks, RGB Fusion sucks, they’re all bloated garbage designed to lock you into an ecosystem and produced by the lowest tier of programmers around apparently as they are unstable and usually incredibly bloated messes.
This nonsense is why I started working on what eventually became OpenRGB.
