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Welcome, in front of me is an Asus ROG Phone 5 and today I'll show you a couple of tweaks
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and tricks you can do on this phone. So we're going to begin with basically the entire list that is in the display section
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So let's just open up settings and jump straight down there. So display and start off with the refresh rate
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You do have 120 or 144 and 60 along with the automatic which probably will be the best
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option here. Automatic meaning that it will define when you need to have more frames and when you
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need to have less. Which you could set it up to the highest one and call it a day but your battery will suffer
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because of this. So automatic will basically drop the frame rate whenever it can, whenever it's not needed
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and thus also preserve your battery life because of it. Now moving further, it's going to be the system color scheme right here which is just the
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dark or light mode for your entire phone. As you can see right now it's in light mode
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If I change it to dark it basically changes it into dark as you would expect
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Now that also includes default apps as you can see. Now apart from this looking a little bit more sleek I would say and less annoying to the
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eye during night, it also has a little bit of a benefit which isn't really said anywhere
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but it will reduce your battery strain also a tiny bit. That is just because the phone uses an AMOLED display meaning that every pixel that you
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can see right here is self lit. So anything that is fully black like the background in between those toggles, for instance
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if we also go into the settings, basically the entire backdrop of the settings is fully
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black meaning that those pixels being self lit don't need to light up at all
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They're basically turned off right now meaning that the battery doesn't need to do anything
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extra as it does for the text that is in white color
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So this will give you a little bit of a battery jump but like I said just a little bit
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You don't expect that you will go from running the device for instance two days to running
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it for three or something like that. That's not the way it's going to work
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You might get like an hour probably at tops of battery life but it's still an hour of
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extra battery life. So moving on to the next one, that's going to be the refresh rate
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So let's go with, what am I saying refresh rate, I already went over that
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Where is it? The system navigation, there we go. So by default, if I remember correctly, when you go to the setup, it might give you the
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option to set it up to the gestures or it might not, I don't exactly recall
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But no matter what you chose, you can change it later on and here in the system navigation
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under display. So I right now have the buttons, navigation bar, but I can change it to gestures which
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will completely remove those and give me this tiny little bar right here that I can swipe
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up on, swipe up and hold to go to recent and swipe from the sides to go back, there
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we go. With also a nice haptic feedback behind it, so yeah
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I do recommend the gesture navigation honestly. To me it's one of the best ways of navigating for the device and I personally just love it
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But I will also add that some people might struggle with using the gesture navigation
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So to all those people, if you're struggling with it, what I can recommend you is when
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you're trying to go home, instead of trying to grab that bar and sliding it up, which
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will ensure that you're doing it wrong and you won't be able to go home all the time
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So to combat this, what you want to do is, as you can see, you do have a bezel right here
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Start the back or home gesture on the bezel and when you swipe up, you are basically guaranteed
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to get it correctly all the time. So just a little bit of a tip to make the gesture navigation a little bit easier to
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use if you never used them before, because sometimes it might be a little bit confusing
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So anyway, let's go now into the animation speed, which should be somewhere here
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There we go, it was above. So animation speed. So in here, these animation speeds are straight up pull out of the developer mode
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So we can tap on them and all these, the window animation scale, transition animation scale
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and animation duration scale correspond to different kind of animations for different things
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Window animation scale normally, I would be, actually, we do have an animation of what
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it is. So when you tap on it, this shows up a little window and that is, this will basically correspond
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to how quick the window is animated. So if you set it to off, that window will basically pop instantaneously on
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While if you set it to times 10, it will just be almost slow motion like
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Now personally, I would recommend you to set it to 0.5, which is basically best of both
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worlds, still having animation, but reducing the animation speed or animation duration
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by half. So those animations will fly by way quicker than they used to
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So you can do that for all of the three different animation types
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And yeah, that will basically make it look and feel a little bit better overall in the
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use of the entire device. Everything will open up quicker and close and be animated quicker
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Now in all honesty, the device will run basically the same way that it ran before, but the animation
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speed will make it feel like it's going quicker because you will be actually opening up apps quicker
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You will be animated faster, so you will have the content fully open on your screen before
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when it was on the one. So anyway, let's again go back and now touch upon one of the things that I personally really
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like, which is the status bar icons right here. So it's a fairly simple one and I don't know why I like it so much, but it just adds you
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the ability to remove all the toggles visible from the status bar
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And I basically have open a lot of toggles, so Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, mobile, things like that
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NFC location, and normally they would be all visible in the status bar, which personally
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for instance, if you set up an alarm clock, you don't need to see it all the time
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It's just an alarm clock. We all are aware that it's open. So in here you can actually remove it from showing up
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Now it will still be open or set and running, but it just won't show up in the notification
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right there. So you could go a little bit insane here and turn it all off if you wanted to, but some
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things I would say might be worth keeping if you want to
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So just pick and choose wisely which one you want to keep on and which one you just want
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to completely remove from showing up. And basically if I start toggling them off, I'm going to go the insane route
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And there we go. And as you can see, the only thing that I have left in the taskbar right now is just
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two notifications. And notifications are going to show up always unless you interact with them and remove them
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So that's why there's two gear icons. That's because one is for the finishing up the setup and one is for finishing up search engine
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Oh well, whatever. But yeah, both of them are system related as a notification
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And you can't really remove notifications like that. But yeah, other than that, as you can see, you can remove clocks and battery if you don't
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want it. Although I'll probably keep both of those just because they are useful in my opinion
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So yeah, so it helps you out, clean up your display. As you can see, it looks way better than it did before
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Now moving on to the next option. It's going to be the air triggers
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And we're finally moving out of the display section. So let's go back into the settings
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But this time around, we're going to go into advanced. So scroll down into advanced
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There we go. And we have the air triggers. You can enable them
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And when you tap on it, it will show you up. We do have these triggers right on the top and the bottom of the bezel
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That is primarily used for gaming. But you can also set it up to do additional functions outside of it
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So short squeeze, Google Assistant, long squeeze, X mode. I actually don't know what that is, but yeah, let's do it
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So I'm not exactly sure if I have to grab it. Yep
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As you can see, it just launched the Google Assistant. Now the way you do have to squeeze it is not just the trigger itself, which is right here
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Hopefully you can see it. But it's just the entire phone. Like you grab it from both bezels and you squeeze it
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You will hear, or not hear, but feel a vibration. And it will open up whatever it is set to
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So this is one. I guess it's not really launching X mode, whatever that is
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Oh well. But as you can see, that is how you do it. You can also change the squeeze level
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So meaning you don't have to squeeze it as hard. Or you can make it be squeezable harder, however that is pronounced correctly
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So as you can see, now I set it to 2 instead of 6. So I can just kind of like gently do it and it will launch it
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Which is a really nice option. You can basically change the levels of how hard you need to basically press these gestures
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or however you want to classify this as. Now moving on further, we're going to go into something that usually is not very glamorous
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which is just a screen recorder. But here, Asus decided to take that into a new height
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Let's just find the screen recorder toggle, which is somewhere. There we go
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Right here. So once you find it, you can hold it and this will take you to the settings
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And as you can see in here, we do have typical options as you probably are used to
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So orientations, frame rates and stuff like that. Whatever, right? But when you go into it, apart from the resolution, because this device I believe only has like
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1080p resolution, we do have quality. We do have frame rate, which right here is just a completely 360 difference and turnaround
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from basically every other screen recorder. It supports 120 Hertz of 120 frames, meaning that this right here, the screen recorder
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right here, I believe is the best one I have ever seen. It will produce the smoothest footage you can possibly imagine from a phone
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Because every other phone I believe records, at least at the moment of recording this
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that I've tested. Every phone that I have tested this with only supported 60
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And that was the best. Some devices didn't even go to 60, but just stopped at 30
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So as you can see, this is just significantly above everything else
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Now you also have the option to change the recording storage, although I'm not exactly sure why
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Because this doesn't have an SD slot, I guess you could plug in an external storage and
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save it to it, but that's just a little bit annoying in my opinion and cumbersome
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But hey, it's actually nice that it's here. We have also recording audio, which nothing really here additionally screams quality
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but just the frame rate and the option for you to record at 120, basically blows away
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any kind of other competition in terms of recording the on-screen, whatever is on-screen
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So yeah. Now moving on to another option, which is as well not very glamorous in majority of
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the devices, but in here it just, Asus decided to take it into however they can
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So it is the battery. Now I know that's saying that probably makes you be really confused how the battery can
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be a decent tweak or whatever. But once I open it up, go to the system mode and you see this advanced option
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Now let's be honest, most of the time when you see advanced on a phone, it's not
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But in here, yeah, you do have things like thermal limits, CPU performance, GPU performance
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RAM performance, and so on. As you can see, this literally allows you to tweak how the device runs on a temperature
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and well, the overclocking performance of it, which is honestly one of the most ridiculous
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things I have seen on a phone. I can virtually can overclock this device in the battery section, which sounds kind
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of nuts, but if someone wants it, it's here and it is really nice
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It's very detailed as you can see what you can do. Now I would probably like to see more of a number scale rather than thermal limits, low
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medium, high, because I have no clue what low, medium or high is or CPU performance
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low, medium, high. I know what the CPU performance should be here in terms of gigahertz
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So I would like to see just actual numbers just so I would know exactly what I'm changing
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and how far I'm changing it. But apart from that gripe that I have with it, as you can see, this is way better than
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any other phone I have seen on the market. You can change the 5 gigahertz antennas, refresh rates
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This basically acts as a power saving mode in a way, but you can set it up to be also
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an overclocking mode if you wanted to. So yeah. And moving on to the last option, it's just going to be the simple app right here, the
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Harmor Crate, which isn't necessarily the best name for it, I would say
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It makes me feel like it's a cheesy microtransaction option right here
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But yeah, and here I can launch games from this. It will show you most of the time, majority of the games that you already have installed
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If you can't see them, you can simply add them on by checking them on from here
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But outside of that, you being able to add them on and launch them from here, you can
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also launch them from the home screen, I know. But the benefit right here is you can apply additional settings to the app
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So notification restrictions, boosts in your performance of the device, and just how it
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overall allows you to run the game, which is something that I would consider really nice
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And also if I remember correctly, if you launch any game from here, it does give you the access
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to this little thing. So if I move it to the side, as you can see, the game doesn't really matter
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It just matters that you launch it through here. And as you can see, you have the game engine
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And in here, you have all the things that are already set. So we can quickly toggle things on and off, get a really detailed overview of how the
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device is performing in terms of thermals, frame rates, stuff like that
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So right now, we're running at 30 frames. Device is at 35C, Celsius
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We are at 845MHz on CPU, I believe. And yeah, apart from that, as I said, we have the no calling, so I can disable people
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from being able to call me. I can change the refresh rate from the high one from 120 or 144 to 60 as an example, even
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though it looks like right now it's running at 30. So let me see if I can change it
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Nope, not what I want. I will be honest, I don't really play this, so I have no idea how to access settings in here
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There we go. So yeah, it looks like it's by default set to 30
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That's why it's showing us right here, 30. So apparently, we cannot set it higher for some awkward reason
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Great, so apparently we're locked to 30
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So probably this wasn't the best option for me to show you, considering in terms of frame
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rate, this is locked to 30 max. Not sure why. But yeah, you can see anything else that it can do in here
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You can set up air triggers. In terms of a shooter, air triggers are an amazing thing
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They basically will allow you to, let me quickly show you. So as you can see, we have the left and right air trigger
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The blue highlight is just so you know where the actual trigger is. So right here and here
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And what you want to do is grab this little circle. Let's see
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Nope, not what I wanted. There we go
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So as you can see right now, we have the left and right set up
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And they are fairly sensitive at the moment. That's because I did lower the sensitivity too, if you remember
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But you can also see these two little L and left and right one
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So what you want to do with these, I would say preferably for most of them, is put them
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on things like shooting a gun or scoping in. And shooters, right
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Which then, when you hold it, you scope in with one, you shoot with the other
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So just a nice way for you to do something like that
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And you can move those around, set specific macros or, I'm not sure if macro is the correct
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word, but make them be specifically placed in each individual game. So this will be remembered for this game
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If I leave it like that, and next time I launch it, I used to use air triggers, they will
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be stuck in right here. So I'd have to probably align them correctly for this to actually work
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But you get the point. So yeah. Now that being said, this was the gaming mode, I would call it
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And also, this would be the conclusion of the video. So if you found it helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe, and thanks for watching
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