when we reviewed the ASUS zenbook duo last year taryn said that having that
extra screen absolutely increased his productivity while video editing but
when ASUS sent us the new zephyrus duo with an Intel core i9 10988k and an rtx
2080 super we realized
we completely neglected to test out another kind of productivity
gaming that's not really productivity
look there's two screens on this thing all right so you know you could play a
game on your main screen and you could have you know steam friends or a browser
open on the lower one or you could live on the wild side and play two games at
once competitively wow you know what you
convinced me that sounds very productive thank you so we asked ASUS to send us
another zephyrus duo and now sponsored by ASUS we are going to be challenging
each other to play two games on two laptops head to head against each other
at the same time
what are we playing riley we want games that are competitive but not ones in
which you can get like one shot at or fall off a cliff or something because
that would obviously make for a kind of a lame competition so we're playing
dragon ball fighterz your favorite game Linus
and rocket league my favorite game so it's even right well one good thing
about that is that they're both designed for game pads so
we can just use a single input for both of them by the way yes sorry guys we
would have loved to be all keyboard mouse or die but it was easier to use a
controller for this because Windows really doesn't like sending keyboard and
mouse commands to multiple games at the same time
so but wait a second are some buttons mapped to one game and some
buttons mapped to the other game like is this my analog no man this is this is it
this i haven't changed the key mapping at all you have to literally control
both games at the same time apparently
steam will let you do that although both games have to be in windowed mode so
we'll be playing rocket league on the main 4k display in 4k and playing
fighterz on the secondary 3840x1100 display it's a touchscreen
display in 1080p and they both run
at the same time run fine i mean they're not demanding games but still that's two
games okay also dragon ball fighterz i
have never heard of this game what is this game
right button go on a quest but to be fair that what kind of game could i pick
where it would be like give you a fighting chance
well no that's not meant as a bird i'm just like what do you play like civ like
i have actually not been hands on with this laptop yet this is really smart
they've got the fan intakes under the thing and the screen flips up now yeah
man that's awesome that's the airflow i spent a bunch of time with the zenbook
version of it but i haven't seen the the the gaming rog version of it and this is
so what is it oh that is a slick hinge did i talk
about that elsewhere in the video well we can so
pick up your controller okay and that you should see a little
the controller controls both games yes what
that's the whole thing okay don't hit me yet
i don't think you can pause in this game wait okay Linus okay no
okay okay not yet
oh no but you ah what okay i didn't mean to do this is not i didn't mean to do
that all i can think of my feet okay private match is the idea that i'm
supposed to control both games at the same time or am i allowed to alt tab you
cannot alt tab i cannot alt tab i must control both the same game so
um right trigger is accelerate b is boost a is jump okay and uh kick okay
well we're gonna see who wins this puppy says power slide are you in
oh crap okay how do i how do i go fast in rocket
league oh there it is okay uh which color am i in that
oh that was so close what the goal yeah okay i don't know how
to jump okay i'm just button mashing now boys
come on oh man
okay you're not even looking to rock a league i'm looking at rocket like no
i just lost the other game too i really should have got somebody on
here who maybe maybe we'll get somebody else on who's like more
oh more what riley nothing oh oh you can
still say that
wow way to t-bone me okay
do you want like a little training session no i can do this wait which one
am i hey okay
all right i got this i got this right wait oh shoot i'm down in dragon ball
though dang it honestly i have no idea how i'm winning
in dragon ball cause i haven't been playing attention playing attention that's that's a new
one i've been paying attention to dragon ball at all i just don't even know what
character i am the colors changing trunks confusing your trunks like it's
confusing okay what's trunks oh you scored again yeah i
did oh my god
wait did you just win
okay okay i still got a chance this ain't over yet
baby he stopped paying attention but shoot oh he missed he missed he
missed okay
okay i think i'm gonna oh i think i just need to get you down one more time in
dragon ball
okay i wouldn't even be that excited but i was so far behind
okay that was horrible because i i was like i felt bad about how bad i
was winning so i like took it easy and then i'm like all right i'm gonna pick
it up now and i couldn't i am impressed with the machine too though yeah we were
playing two games while recording two
games they both ran great we're like getting
like basically 60 FPS at 4k on rocket
league the whole time this is not what we would recommend using this computer
for at all incredibly stupid not a very
good experience but if you're a streamer you want your obs
and your chat up here you want your game up there there is no other laptop quite
like this on the market super cool experience massive thank you to riley
for putting together this competition and being such a gracious loser
and of course thank you to ASUS for sponsoring this video it was a ton of
fun and this rog zephyrus duo 15 is an
incredible machine it's a little toasty it's a little toasty it's working hard
it's working hard yeah two games at once though i mean and recording yeah what
are you gonna do if you guys enjoyed this video and you like crazy gaming
challenges maybe check out the last scrapyard wars where instead of just
being about building a budget computer it's about building the best budget
computer then winning games we're losing them as it were