Arsenal
Arsenal in full

Every control.
One clear place.

12 parts of the current Windows app, and what each one can do. Open any row to see the full list. The download page identifies the version currently published here.

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Home and the Arsenal application

The page you land on, the questions Arsenal asks the first time you run it, and every setting behind them.

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Home and the Arsenal application

The page you land on, the questions Arsenal asks the first time you run it, and every setting behind them.

Guided setup

6 features
  • Works out which ASUS laptop it is running on
  • Sets up startup at Windows sign-in and how the tray behaves
  • Asks how notifications should behave before you start using it
  • Explains where ASUS software ends and Arsenal begins
  • Pairs Arsenal Companion last, if you want it
  • Leaves every choice changeable later in Settings

Home dashboard

7 features
  • Device name, model and locally available ASUS artwork
  • Live CPU temperature, power and usage
  • Live GPU temperature, power and active graphics mode
  • CPU and GPU fan speed
  • Battery charge and discharge rate
  • Add, remove and reorder the controls on Home, separately from Quick Panel
  • GPU mode, performance mode, charge, refresh, keyboard and touchpad controls on Home

Settings and notifications

12 features
  • Launch as a standard user or as administrator
  • Run at Windows sign-in
  • Minimize to tray on close
  • Check for Arsenal updates at startup
  • Run the guided setup again
  • System, dark, light and Arsenal themes
  • Arsenal theme with its own rows, groups, buttons and motion
  • Optional Mica transparency
  • Windows or custom accent colour
  • Floating notifications with placement and duration controls
  • Search settings and actions with Ctrl + K
  • Section titles, a title-bar path and back navigation for open settings sections

About, updates and system details

7 features
  • Installed and latest Arsenal version
  • Manual update check and the current release notes
  • Detected laptop model and BIOS version
  • Processor, memory, graphics, display and storage summary
  • Windows edition and build details
  • Licence and source information for the Windows application
  • Support the developer directly from About
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Performance plans and tuning

Silent, Balanced and Turbo, plus the plans you name and build yourself. Everything a plan remembers is here.

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Performance plans and tuning

Silent, Balanced and Turbo, plus the plans you name and build yourself. Everything a plan remembers is here.

Performance and tuning

9 features
  • Silent, Balanced and Turbo firmware modes
  • Custom plans you name, started from the plan you are already on
  • One library to pick, rename and delete plans
  • Per-plan SPL, SPPT and FPPT CPU power limits
  • CPU boost policy and temperature ceiling
  • Curve Optimizer undervolt on supported Ryzen processors
  • Dedicated-GPU core and memory clock offsets
  • Dynamic Boost, TGP and GPU temperature target
  • Nothing takes effect until you apply it, and Reset puts the plan back
03

Theme and navigation

The Arsenal theme gives settings their own shape. Open a section and its name becomes the page title, with a path and a way back above it.

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Theme and navigation

The Arsenal theme gives settings their own shape. Open a section and its name becomes the page title, with a path and a way back above it.

Appearance

3 features
  • System, dark, light and Arsenal themes
  • Arsenal-specific section cards, status rails, choice chips and transitions
  • Windows or custom accent colour and optional Mica transparency

Navigation

6 features
  • Back, forward and search in the title bar
  • A section title and description that follow the section you open
  • A path in the title bar only while a section is open
  • Go back and the path page name return to the parent page
  • Changing pages closes the previous page's open section
  • The sidebar collapses into an icon rail
04

Quick Panel

What drops out of the tray: your readings, your modes, and the controls you reach for without opening the app.

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Quick Panel

What drops out of the tray: your readings, your modes, and the controls you reach for without opening the app.

Quick access

7 features
  • Three chosen built-in or custom performance shortcuts plus Custom
  • Eco, Standard, Ultimate and Optimized in a dedicated GPU row
  • Six tiles a page, up to twenty controls in total
  • Its own ordering and paging, separate from Home
  • Tiles that expand for their options without opening the main window
  • Compact sliders with minimum and maximum labels
  • Taskbar-aware placement on any monitor edge
05

Fan control

Eight-point curves for every fan your laptop has, kept separately for each performance plan.

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Fan control

Eight-point curves for every fan your laptop has, kept separately for each performance plan.

Fan curves

6 features
  • Separate curves for the CPU, GPU and mid fans, where your laptop has them
  • A separate curve saved with each performance plan
  • Drag the points to change temperature and fan percentage
  • Fan hysteresis, where the controller allows it
  • Calibration that measures maximum RPM
  • An edited curve is stored only once you apply it
06

Display, graphics and power

Which GPU runs your games, how the panel looks, how the battery is treated, and what should change the moment you unplug.

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Display, graphics and power

Which GPU runs your games, how the panel looks, how the battery is treated, and what should change the moment you unplug.

Display and graphics

10 features
  • Eco, Standard, Ultimate and Optimized GPU modes
  • The apps still holding the dedicated GPU, listed before you switch to Eco
  • XG Mobile detection and handover
  • Refresh-rate choices with explicit panel overdrive
  • Automatic refresh rate on AC and battery
  • Panel brightness and supported resolutions
  • HDR and Mini-LED multi-zone controls where available
  • OLED dimming that respects GameVisual Disabled
  • GameVisual profiles, gamut and white point
  • ASUS ICC colour-profile installation

Battery

8 features
  • Current charge and charging or discharge rate in watts
  • Estimated time to full while charging
  • Battery health, full-charge capacity and design capacity
  • The charge-limit range your model actually supports
  • 60, 80 and 100 percent presets where the hardware allows them
  • A one-off full charge that leaves your saved limit alone
  • Windows battery report read inside Arsenal with health, capacity, cycles and runtime
  • Weekly capacity history chart and a link to the full Windows report

Automation

4 features
  • Different performance plans for AC power and battery
  • Automatic profile switching when the charger changes
  • Eco GPU mode after unplugging on supported hardware
  • Clamshell mode with an external display connected
07

Devices and lighting

Your keyboard, your lightbar and any ASUS peripheral Arsenal finds, with colour, brightness and buttons in one place.

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Devices and lighting

Your keyboard, your lightbar and any ASUS peripheral Arsenal finds, with colour, brightness and buttons in one place.

Devices and peripherals

7 features
  • Scan for the supported ASUS peripherals you have connected
  • Pick an onboard profile and write it to the device
  • Mouse DPI, polling rate and whatever else the device exposes
  • Keyboard and mouse button assignments, where the device allows them
  • Per-device lighting mode, brightness, speed and colours
  • Sync compatible peripheral colour with laptop Aura
  • Device battery and OLED controls on supported models

Lighting

8 features
  • Keyboard and lightbar brightness
  • Keyboard-shape preview with number-pad and ISO choices
  • Aura Static, Breathe, Color Cycle, Strobe, Heatmap, GPU, Ambient, Battery and audio effects where supported
  • Primary and secondary effect colours
  • Animation speed
  • Awake, boot, sleep and shutdown lighting rules
  • AniMe Matrix and Slash controls as distinct devices
  • Battery indicator and low-battery dimming
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Battery report

The Windows report is now useful without leaving Arsenal. See its health and capacity readings, then open the complete document if you need it.

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Battery report

The Windows report is now useful without leaving Arsenal. See its health and capacity readings, then open the complete document if you need it.

Report inside Arsenal

7 features
  • Health calculated from full-charge and design capacity
  • Current full-charge capacity and design capacity
  • Cycle count when the battery publishes one
  • Estimated runtime at both current and design capacity
  • Weekly capacity history shown as a chart
  • One-click access to the complete Windows HTML report
  • Report files kept in Arsenal's own folder
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ASUS driver library

What ASUS ships for your model, what you already have installed, and the difference between the two.

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ASUS driver library

What ASUS ships for your model, what you already have installed, and the difference between the two.

Driver discovery

7 features
  • Finds the ASUS packages meant for your model, not a generic list
  • Compares what you have installed against what is available
  • Marks each one as an update, current, optional or newer than ASUS has
  • Totals and filters for each of those states
  • Category, release date and download size for every package
  • Downloads in the app, or sends you to ASUS when that is the right route
  • Rescan whenever you like, without waiting for the next launch
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Mobile Companion

Pair your phone with your laptop over your own network, then see and revoke the devices you have connected.

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Mobile Companion

Pair your phone with your laptop over your own network, then see and revoke the devices you have connected.

Mobile Companion

12 features
  • HTTPS over your own network, with nothing relayed through a cloud service
  • Finds your PC on its own, or pair by QR code or typed address
  • A pairing code that expires quickly
  • A separate encrypted credential for every phone
  • Your PC's TLS identity is pinned once and checked every time
  • See what is connected, and revoke one phone or all of them
  • Companion Home, Tune, Device, Lighting and More destinations
  • Live readings, and the controls your laptop lets you change from the phone
  • Battery report readings on the phone through the Windows app
  • Optional remote screen for paired phones, with PC consent or unattended access
  • View-only or keyboard and mouse access
  • Separate switches for sound, text clipboard, file transfer and locking on disconnect
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Overlay and advanced controls

Temperatures and frame rate on top of your game, and the settings most people are better off leaving alone.

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Overlay and advanced controls

Temperatures and frame rate on top of your game, and the settings most people are better off leaving alone.

Hardware overlay

5 features
  • FPS, CPU, GPU, fan and power readouts
  • Compact and chart display modes
  • Rolling 60-second CPU and GPU power history
  • Put it wherever you want on screen
  • Show it only while you are gaming

Advanced controls

9 features
  • Start or stop the ASUS background services Arsenal depends on
  • Function-row lock behaviour
  • Turn the hardware overlay on, and limit it to games
  • PCIe link power management
  • Modern-standby networking
  • NVIDIA platform-controller policy
  • Close dGPU applications before Eco mode
  • Optimized GPU switching while charging over USB-C
  • Diagnostics and recovery actions for supported hardware
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Remote desktop

A paired Android phone can ask to see the PC screen over the local network. Windows keeps separate decisions for input, sound, clipboard and files.

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Remote desktop

A paired Android phone can ask to see the PC screen over the local network. Windows keeps separate decisions for input, sound, clipboard and files.

Session access

5 features
  • Remote control must be enabled on the PC
  • PC consent prompt by default, with an explicit unattended option
  • View-only sessions or keyboard and mouse input
  • Choose a monitor and quality preset on the phone
  • End all sessions from Windows and clear remembered approvals

Optional channels

4 features
  • Send PC sound to the phone
  • Share text clipboard in either direction
  • Browse and transfer files in both directions
  • Lock the PC when the remote session ends

Your laptop decides what you see.

This page lists everything Arsenal can do. What actually turns up in the app depends on your ASUS model and its firmware, the panel and GPU inside it, the drivers you have installed and whatever you have plugged in.

Independent project

Help Arsenal keep moving.

Arsenal is built independently and shared freely. Your support gives the project more time for careful development, broader testing and the work that keeps every release dependable.

Support Arsenal

Put your support behind the app you use.

Donations help cover the practical parts of keeping Arsenal healthy, without putting features behind a paywall or requiring an account.

  • DevelopmentNew features and thoughtful refinements
  • TestingCompatibility work and safer releases
  • HostingDownloads, documentation and update services
The project underneath Arsenal

Support G-Helper too.

Arsenal's Windows hardware layer comes from G-Helper by @seerge. If you would like to support the foundational work behind it, their project has its own support page.

Visit G-Helper support