Comment on [Discussion] How is your Steam Deck's battery holding up?
Sunbutt23@lemmy.world 2 days agoI do this too. I can get about 2hrs on most games which is great for keeping me from staying up all night. Alas, Factorio sips battery though… sometimes I still fall down the dark hole of growing the factory for many many hours at a time.
tunetardis@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I think I read somewhere that Factorio is more efficient running under Linux/Mac because it takes advantage of some quirk in the Unix forking mechanism that Windows can’t use? I don’t know if this means it would burn through battery even faster if the SD ran Windows, but it wouldn’t surprise me…
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Uh, that’s used to keep the game from pausing when it autosaves, like it does on Windows. I don’t think they use it any other time.
tunetardis@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Oh ok. Thanks for the clarification. I couldn’t remember the exact details.