Corsair Brings iCUE lighting control to ASUS motherboards
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kakiharaFRS
latest releases (2-3 including this one) broke anything strip related
both an RGB strip and the LS100 monitor stip kit are broken half the leds in line after the 1st color cease to respond and stay stuck with the same color or are turned off
I noticed that with the LS100 1st but when I tried to modify my rgbs trip today after this update 2/3 segments turned black and don't respond anymore
if I quit icue app everything lights up again
they broke something in the commands of led strips for sure at least in my setup fans, water block and reservoir/pump combo work fine
will revert to old versions and update
edit 1 : user tip if you have corsair rgb memory go to settings and enable disable several times if necessary the "full software control" have your task manager open and watch the corsair cpu usage, the goal is to have it off, you can't really leave it on, I suggets making "showcase profiles with it and only use them to show off but not every day
The Goose
The Goose
Corsair Dominator 3600 platinum still giving error
nick0323
I've given up with Asus. Armoury Crate, Lightsync, and the new beta app are all bloody awful. Even uninstalling it leaves trash all over your PC.
Save yourself the hassle, go in to BIOS and disable Aura.
iCUE CPU usage for me is 5% and 10% when I had Aura installed.
Install iCUE, set hardware lighting, uninstall. See ya.
I went back to iLink (0.1% CPU usage) and I can still control my water pump.
The Goose
nick0323
anub1s18
yea i've generally given up on rgb software, also the thing to really look for on zen 2 processors is what the voltage does. asus's rgb service running min 0.9 v, corsair icue running 1.3v min 1.4v avg, razer synapse with all it's modules also 1.3-1.4v.
i've since slapped on a fresh windows and i run only razer synapse without chroma studio, and use openRGB to set my rgb to a color and call it a day. result is idling down to 0.3v and lower which it just never ever did with asus's lighting service running, corsairs lighting service running or whatever razer chroma studio add's running (i've still also got steam, spotify, aquasuite, msi afterburner and norton av running and those seem to not cause the cpu to go crazy).
another thing is cores now actually going to sleep at idle i might have 1-3 core's running at a low speed/voltage and 9 core's napping, this is what i wanted my cpu to do but it was unable to thx to rgb software : /
not sure why but it treats most of them as if it were a gaming load or something.
0blivious
ARGB is the buggiest thing in my new build. I'm using AURA, but it's pretty barebones and leaves much to be desired. I seem to recall iCUE being worse.
The software can't do some of the basic things I assumed I could do with ARGB. Like save lighting profiles. If I create a custom Seahawks multicolor lighting scheme, I cannot save it. If I want to slowly transition from a single color to another color, it won't do that. (software seems to have that functionality, but it doesn't work). Stuff like that. Plus, when my PC is "off" or sleeping, parts of the ARGB on my motherboard continue to light up.
With iCUE I seem to recall having crazy CPU usage.
Let's not forget delving into all the proprietary fun of matching up ARGB components that play nice together.
Now, I just change my single color every once in awhile. It's better than my old rig's single, always-on color, but ARGB is not as cool as I'd hoped it would be. Being addressable is basically pointless versus standard RGB.
anub1s18
BadDriver
Software version must be 3.36.125
larsiano
Software version must be 3.36.125 < confirmed!
Neo Cyrus
So to be clear this is used at the same time as Asus's own software right?
Killersjp
I have never been able to get icue to work with Aura on my Maximus x Hero. Don’t know if I’m doing something wrong. I installed Aura with icue not running, then turned on icue and motherboard doesn’t show up. On a positive I can now adjust the GeForce logo on my RTX 3090 and now set a fan curve. The last update made it possible to change colours or turn off the LED on the horizontal side of the card near the fan
I_Eat_You_Alive
0blivious
The ARGB connections (x2) on my X570 Strix board have decided to give me a strobe light effect (or go all red). It strobes the lights so fast that I thought it was going to burn out the fan lighting so I disconnected the ARGB leads at the board. (Turning it off in bios and in Aura (or) Armory Crate software didn't stop the seizure inducing light spasms) My motherboard ARGB and ram ARGB still light up and work properly though.
The lighting was acting funny prior to my bios update but it went completely haywire afterwards. Thing is, that bios update is what finally got my Soundblaster Z to quit channel-swapping.
I've tried all the usual fixes.... I'm just giving up on full ARGB for now. Troubleshooting it just makes my brain hurt.
Killersjp
Hi I Eat You Alive. Do you know what this beta module is called. I have no idea what I’m even looking for in the download sections. Thanks.
misticx
As soon as i installed newer version of iCUE it started to crash, utter garbage, now im back on the old one.
kakiharaFRS
talking about v4.10.273
I lasted less than 5 hours with this poo poo, it's the typical "someone doesn't have anything to do at Corsair so decided to ruin something that worked" and I'm sure is happy with his "work" 😕
- it's much heavier than the 3.x version it made me lose 20fps in borderlands 3 benchmark you basically can't have this running or it will destroy your scores and makes it impossible to know how your system performs I lost 14'000 3dmark wildlife score omg from 96k to 82k "awesome" 😡
- they had the "great" idea to remove the choice to enable or disable full software control on the rgb memory which is the main ressource hog on icue, I only had to disable it to benchmark with 3.x to make icue have a minimal impact but with 4.x you have to quit the app every time since you cannot use the "hardware setting" while the app runs
- the interface is "looks over use" awful you have to click 3x more to do the same thing, everything is hidden in "animated" submenus which don't remember which menus you were in
- new icons everywhere but awful to read or set up
uninstalled horrible and I'm a guy with full on corsair rgb stuff
Darren Hodgson
I had some odd issues with the Lock button on my Corsair K65 RGB keyboard not working which happened because iCUE v4.10 was not loading with Windows (even though I had the option enabled in the settings).
The new version 4.11.274, which I downloaded last night, thankfully fixes that and iCUE is back to loading with Windows 10 Pro (21H1 by the way).
BahamutxD
They are adding MSI support now - we don't know if there will be more boards added or which boards are supported but theres that.