Hot Take ─ Armoury Crate

[alphamachine]

Okay, so.. real HOT TAKE here─I know─but this software is pure garbage. Not that unrefined garbage you get over at MSI or Gigabyte, but the real deal, dead-rat-in-a-Tupperware-container-full-of-old-Chinese-takeout-at-a-landfill, PURE GARBAGE!! Your software alone makes me truly regret ever buying an ASUS motherboard.

The software as of yesterday tried to update on its own, but gave an "update failed" error. Now it's fighting my fan controls from AI Suite, and every time I boot my system up, my lights go to full brightness and fans to 100%. I had everything working perfectly before you so kindly pushed your update, but only after having to do fresh install of Windows 10 to get your junk software to work properly in the first place, and now you just had to go and push this seemingly untested bloatware, screwing things up all over again.

I'm on the verge of selling this motherboard and going back to Gigabyte─not that their software is much better. But it is better..

All I want is the previous version of Armoury Crate so that it can run in the background and keep my lighting the way I want it, and so I never have to touch it or worry about it again. Let's just be clear─I don't want to use your software. I don't want all of your bloated junk running in the background on my system. It's ridiculous. Armoury Crate installs a dozen or more pieces of software, drivers and services just on the off chance that you might end up using it.

Explain it to me, but why do I need your microphone noise cancelation service running in the background with no option to remove or disable it? Or, more importantly, the only option to disable it being to edit Windows task scheduler and services.msc? Why do I need a service tasked in the scheduler to run in the background every day, when it's sole purpose is to be there for an ASUS mouse that I do not use, much less even own? Why? Whhyy? There's drivers and software running in the background for a dozen things that I don't even have installed in my system.

It's ridiculous, and there's got to be a better way to go about all of this. Something concise, purposeful and well-executed. Something slim that comes with the option of adding on modules, as needed. But NOT this monstrosity that has everything under the sun thrown in for good measure with no way for the end user─the MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THIS ENTIRE TRANSACTION─to only use what they need, and have the option to forego everything else. It's bloatware, ASUS. You're forcing people who spend hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars with you to use what most people I know would define as Pure Garbage™.

And on top of all of this, trying to properly and fully uninstall Armoury Crate to where the massive amount of bloatware running in the background is fully and truly gone is like pulling weeds, or a game of whack-a-mole. The only way to get rid of this garbage once it has infected your system out is to reinstall Windows. And even then, when you think you've finally woken up from this never-ending nightmare, you can't boot into your fresh copy of Windows without Pure Garbage™ trying to automatically install from the motherboard. Ahhhhhhhhh!!! No!

I really feel for the programmers at ASUS. Those guys probably go through hell trying to keep up with your ridiculous product launch schedules, and likely never have time to properly engineer your software suites to work across the stupid amount of products you come out with every year for no other reason than to saturate the market in hopes that someone might buy your variant of the next new chipset or series.

I'm just... done.

[alphamachine]

Zion_One-Eyed wrote:
you buy a thing of one brand, a thing of the other and you expect it to work without problems?
then uninstall and stop complaining..

LOL. YES. IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK. LMFAO. For one thing, ASUS doesn't make RAM. So that's any number of RAM brand software right there that's needed. ASUS doesn't make very good cases, either, so that's a good case brand right there that's needed. ASUS's AIO coolers are highly overpriced, so that's another brand right there that's needed (never could get Aura Sync or Armoury Crate to recognize my Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro RAM, even with the Corsair plugin)

The point is, ASUS doesn't make everything, and of the things that they do make, I can promise you more than 90% of people who use an ASUS product are using only one of their motherboards, and their motherboard ALONE. With no other ASUS products.

So you are, easily, the odd one out. Go ROG fanboy somewhere else.

The entire point of building a custom PC is to pick the best possible hardware you can afford. And that, I can promise you, will not always be ASUS products. Period. I've been building PC's for more than 20 years, so absolutely, yes, the software should work regardless of what's being used.

And more to the point, the other products I'm using have jack sh*t to do with why this product isn't working. That has more to do with the fact that ASUS programmers and engineers have very little time between release schedules to design and implement hardware and software iterations. It's not their fault that they're being driven by this ridiculous race to release the next product.

[Zion_One-Eyed]

alphamachine wrote:
LOL. YES. IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK. LMFAO. For one thing, ASUS doesn't make RAM. So that's any number of RAM brand software right there that's needed. ASUS doesn't make very good cases, either, so that's a good case brand right there that's needed. ASUS's AIO coolers are highly overpriced, so that's another brand right there that's needed (never could get Aura Sync or Armoury Crate to recognize my Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro RAM, even with the Corsair plugin)

The point is, ASUS doesn't make everything, and of the things that they do make, I can promise you more than 90% of people who use an ASUS product are using only one of their motherboards, and their motherboard ALONE. With no other ASUS products.

So you are, easily, the odd one out. Go ROG fanboy somewhere else.

The entire point of building a custom PC is to pick the best possible hardware you can afford. And that, I can promise you, will not always be ASUS products. Period. I've been building PC's for more than 20 years, so absolutely, yes, the software should work regardless of what's being used.

And more to the point, the other products I'm using have jack sh*t to do with why this product isn't working. That has more to do with the fact that ASUS programmers and engineers have very little time between release schedules to design and implement hardware and software iterations. It's not their fault that they're being driven by this ridiculous race to release the next product.

I don't even waste time reading you, you write too much, maybe i will be a rog fanboy but you are rude for sure, for example aisuite hasn't worked for me for some time but i don't come here to write pages of **** !!
everything you have written is a slander of a product that works!!
you go thrown in the garbage!!

[alphamachine]

Zion_One-Eyed wrote:
I don't even waste time reading you, you write too much, maybe i will be a rog fanboy but you are rude for sure, for example aisuite hasn't worked for me for some time but i don't come here to write pages of **** !!
everything you have written is a slander of a product that works!!
you go thrown in the garbage!!

You first tell me that the product ONLY works if you're using ALL ROG products, now you tell me I'm "slandering a product that works!"

Mmm, yes.. very astute.

[BigJohnny]

Zion_One-Eyed wrote:
I don't even waste time reading you, you write too much, maybe i will be a rog fanboy but you are rude for sure, for example aisuite hasn't worked for me for some time but i don't come here to write pages of **** !!
everything you have written is a slander of a product that works!!
you go thrown in the garbage!!

Have you bothered to read the forum pages? Vast majority of posts are issues with Armory Crate or AI Suite. I dont run either as they have failed time and again and I eventually gave up on it. I use aquacomputer for fan control and all corsiar now for everything else and both work flawlessly. ASUS makes great hardware with the exception of peripherals but the software leave a lot to be desired. Ive been following and tried it from first launch. AI Suite bricked both BIOS ROMS on a M8E so I never loaded that app again. Aura was always plagued with bugs and now Armory Crate. Post after post after post of issues with both. GPU tweak doesnt work as it should either. To the point I use MSI afterburner and get better results that are actually still there when I reboot....imagine that!

[lLegendaary]

Zion_One-Eyed wrote:
I don't even waste time reading you, you write too much, maybe i will be a rog fanboy but you are rude for sure, for example aisuite hasn't worked for me for some time but i don't come here to write pages of **** !!
everything you have written is a slander of a product that works!!
you go thrown in the garbage!!

The way you shake it ... I don't believe it [ you act so much M*xIUe*KEKWS ] .. Please report this user for text abuse ..
while the owner of this post is suffering from certain asus apps .. or product )
this kind of people are not even good to be in asus product feedback is good point to improve Software..Prodcut side

Go to sleep better reported .

[alphamachine]

Zion_One-Eyed wrote:
you buy a thing of one brand, a thing of the other and you expect it to work without problems?
then uninstall and stop complaining..

And you, do you seriously believe that ASUS expects everyone who ever buys an ASUS product to buy nothing but ASUS products? So, no one can just buy an ASUS motherboard and call it a day? They have to use ALL other ASUS products for said motherboard to function properly?!? THAT'S your take on this? It's all or nothing? ASUS would never make any money if this were the case, because you are one of very few people in the world are going to buy ALL ASUS PRODUCTS for their system.

SMH.. I'm just at a loss as to how people can bring themselves to thinking this way. It blows my mind how easily it is for human beings to fall into a mental state of delusional thinking.

[BigJohnny]

Zion_One-Eyed wrote:
this is your thought, for me armoury crate has always worked perfectly, you can't use armoury without all rog, it works badly if you don't have all rog, it has always been like this

Ive run it with 100% ROG and it was still a fail.