Comment on Solving Steam Deck Shader Storage with a 61.44TB SSD

• BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Steam has an update schedule so only updates a couple games at a time unless you force the updates.

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  • skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    More frequently, I boot the Deck and immediately start a game so it has no time to download anything, and then put it to sleep when I'm done playing. So when using what I would expect to be the standard use case, the deck downloads nothing at all ever until I actually take the time to wake it up and then let it cook for an hour or two, or manually force an update on a game I want to play but can't because there's an update out.

    I find it hard to believe that Valve expected people to just keep their Deck sitting around with the screen on for multiple hours doing nothing but updating. My Switch downloads updates on sleep mode when plugged into power. The PS5 and Xbox do it. The PS4 did it. Why can't the deck at least have a toggle option for it?

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    • Stampela@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doing it the PS3 way could be the least complex option: just auto turn on 30 seconds to check if there’s updates every day, download if needed. On the deck it would also require a power check (just don’t if it’s not plugged in) and a further check if it’s a connection marked as having limited data. Still a decent solution imo.

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