This would indeed be amazing for battery life. I noticed the change was indicated only under the original LCD deck BIOS and not the OLED. Is it coming to OLED later? Already implemented on it and I didn’t know it??

This game looks pretty cool. Anyone play it and want to give their thoughts?

Wow. Might have one of the most eye catching art styles I’ve ever seen. The watercolor style in 3D is a feast for the eyes for sure.

This is a ridiculous steal. This game is one of the best if not the best deck building roguelikes of all time. The sequel is supposedly coming out soon though.

Looks cool, but unsupported on Steam Deck 😢

Not to mention battery life…

It’s new so reviews are just filtering out but it’s starting to look like SteamOS powered version of the Legion Go S (Z1 Extreme version) is a pretty great handheld that uses the latest AMD chipset with a sizable assist from Linux/proton efficiencies vs Windows to drive a 15-30% performance improvement which does make some more modern games more playable though it is significantly more expensive than the deck. I watched Retro Games Corps review of it yesterday. That said, if you’re okay waiting another couple years or so I bet there will be a Steam Deck 2 release but it seems like it mainly rests on AMD to deliver a significant (“generational”) leap with upcoming mobile APUs. Valve seems keen on not releasing a follow-up to the first deck until it is significantly better in every way and the chipsets available now just aren’t quite there yet it seems.

Interesting. I have always felt that the Steam deck loses quite a bit of battery percentage during sleep. I agree that it would be a fantastic quality of life update to enable to shut down or enter some form of lower power consumption hibernation state after a period of time at a certain battery level.

Thanks for the info. I don’t know a ton about them but I’m honestly massively impressed at the talent of the Proton devs. The fact that they have made most games run as well and some games run better on Unix operating systems through a translation layer than on Windows (the OS they were designed for) is ridiculously impressive. And this just shows they aren’t resting on their laurels but are being proactive in preventing issues before they happen which is immensely commendable and impressive.

Thanks for the context. I figured I must be missing something since performance increases like this for proton would be huge news and likely not possible.

Anyone have more context on this? These are some pretty massive increases if the games in the table are in any way representative of all games.

Can you clarify what the problem is that this solves? Your charging cable wiggles too much when it is plugged into the top? If so, I don’t appear to have that issue at least that I’ve noticed.

Yeah I have the Killswitch from Dbrand. It’s a great case and the travel cover makes the deck borderline indestructible. It is a bit pricey though at $75 but that also includes a kickstand (with built in microSD storage) and a skin of your choice. https://dbrand.com/shop/grip/steam-deck-cases