[Deck] Issues playing games while installing/downloading games on SD card?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

I’ve been having random issues playing games (various) while downloading games to my SD card.

For example:

I’m downloading Mass Effect Legendary and wanted the game to continue to download in the background on my SD card. I play Cyberpunk 2077 for a bit, and after about 15 minutes the deck crashes and restarts.

I then tested the opposite, playing a game on my SD card while downloading a game to the SSD. Same issue.

Anyone else seeing this? Could be a bad or failing SD card. It takes ages for anything to write to it. I have reformatted it in the past and disabled WiFi Power Control under the dev settings to try to “fix” the hills and valleys while I install games on it over 2-3 GB.

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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Downloading/installing games actually has a significant performance hit. I would usually only recommend playing low performance impact games while downloading/installing.

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- TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah I just assumed I’d drop a few frames. Guess I’ll stick to playing Celeste or something like that if I’m playing anything while downloading.
  
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scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I think Steam downloads are heavily compressed, and decompressing them is CPU intensive. As soon as a download finishes, my PC`s fans crank up like a jet engine while the game or update is being installed. The Deck doesn’t have the same available overhead, so it can struggle while installing stuff.

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ag10n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s an ssd mode in CP2077, try turning that off

High-end games will hammer whatever storage you’re using, I have no issues running rimworld and downloading games, but wouldn’t expect CP2077 and downloading at the same time

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- TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ah it’s no big deal. Just a behavioral issue on my end then.
  
  I wouldn’t care if the SD card wrote a bit faster. I mean I get approximately 20-50 Mbps down from Steam. Taking ~12 hours to download 100 gigs to an SD card is a little insane.
  
  I can do the same process on my SSD in ~1 hour for what it’s worth.
  
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