AMD Fluid Motion Frames is a technology developed by AMD to improve the smoothness and responsiveness of gameplay in DirectX 11 and 12 games. It achieves this by using a technique called frame generation, which essentially analyzes existing frames and creates new ones in between them, effectively doubling your frame rate.
ASUS officially added AFMF to the ROG Ally on April 24th, you can read about that update here.
While AFMF can make games feel smoother, it can also introduce some additional input lag. This is because the generated frames are not real, and there is a slight delay between when you make an input and when the corresponding frame is displayed on the screen.
- AFMF is recommended to be combined with AMD Radeon Anti-Lag to reduce in-game latency while maintaining a minimum in-game fps of 60.
- Due to the potential latency impact of AFMF, it must be manually enabled in the per-game settings for certain fast-paced competitive titles, even if AFMF was already enabled globally. Gamers are free to enable AFMF in these titles based on their preference and gameplay style, however, they may not experience optimal performance – specifically at lower frame rates.
- AFMF may be enabled or disabled on the fly using the default hotkey of Alt-Shift-G.
- AFMF currently requires the game to be played in fullscreen mode with VSYNC disabled.
- For better compatibility with borderless-fullscreen titles, Windows 11 users can enable “Optimizations for windowed games“.
How To Enable AMD Fluid Motion Frames
Make sure to install all the latest updates in Armoury Crate and in the MyASUS App.
AFMF is not yet available in the Command Center, but they are working on integrating it in the future. For now you need to enable it globally or on a game to game basis in the AMD software application.
Make sure V-Sync is off in game and the game is set to Fullscreen or Exclusive Fullscreen.
Use AMD’s Overlay
First, you want to make sure you turn off the ROG Ally real time monitor and other FPS monitor you use such as RTSS. To get the proper FPS counter while using AFMF, open the up AMD Software App.
- Go to the performance tab and click Metrics. On the right side Tracking section, enable FPS and other info you want displayed.
- Click Overlay tab right next to Tracking and Enable the Metrics Overlay and Game Detection.
To Enable AFMF Globally.
- Open up the AMD Software App
- Click the Gaming Tab up top.
- Click the Graphics Tab, scroll down and Enable AMD Fluid Motion Frames.
To Enable AFMF on a game to game basis.
- Open up the AMD Software App
- Click the Gaming Tab up top.
- Click the Games Tab, select the game you want to enable AFMF for.
- Scroll down and Enable AMD Fluid Motion Frames.
How to know if AFMF is enabled
You can enable AMD’s In-Game overlay that will display when a game is launched. This overlay will show for a brief moment at the top right of your screen and will show if you have AFMF enabled or not. Note: this overlay does that show for every game.
- Open up the AMD Software App.
- Click the Settings Icon at the top right and then click Preferences.
- Enable the In-Game Overlay.
AFMF Armoury Crate Keymapping
Here's a more advanced setup for AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) on the ROG Ally. If you know how to use Armoury Crate Keymapping you can set a keymap to enable and disable AFMF on the fly in game. Here's my keymap. #ROGAlly pic.twitter.com/sVsBuC3Oj1
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