ASRock Motherboard Owners Can Now Use Windows 11’s Own RGB Lighting Controls
ASRock Motherboard Owners Can Now Use Windows 11’s Own RGB Lighting Controls
If you’re rocking one of the recent ASRock motherboards, good news – you can now control the RGB lighting of your peripherals without needing dedicated software to do so. The company has released beta BIOSes for its Intel 600/700 series motherboards, as well as AMD B550/X570, plus AMD 600 series motherboards, which allows Windows 11 to take command of the lighting instead.
ASRock showcased the feature in action with the screenshot below:
Granted, this feature is still very fresh from the oven from both ASRock and Microsoft, the latter of which are still testing in the beta phase with the feature, officially named Dynamic Lighting, in recent Windows 11 23H2 builds. The goal of this feature is to unify all peripherals under a single standard, making vendor RGB software less of a necessity (which, by the way, can fight against games for your PC’s precious resources).
As a bonus, the aforementioned standard is not proprietary – Microsoft says it uses an open standard called HID LamArray, which all peripheral makers can adopt and use as a ‘base firmware’ to build features on, which helps drive development costs down.
It’s worth noting that many peripherals today already support some kind of interoperability between multiple RGB standards, such as Razer Chroma, MSI Mystic Light, ASUS AURA Sync, SignalRGB, OpenRGB, and more. However, the sheer number of existing standards has also introduced many issues, including instability to fragmentation of standards – which Windows 11 aims to eventually solve.
Source: Tom’s Hardware | Videocardz
Pokdepinion: I wonder what happens to the vendor software in the future – would OEMs keep developing it, or change its feature set to provide other exclusive features instead?
