Dude you are a huge credit to the community, do keep testing and creating tools because most of us are paying attention and supporting you! We need more people like you 👍

I love how the misinformative post has more likes than the comment from the dev.

TLDR: very minor difference due to greatly lowering swappiness making a page file basically go unused (which yes the page file will decrease performance) while pretending other factors are in play and guaranteed to get worse performance the longer you play due to bad tweaks such as turning off ram defragmentation. meanwhile acting like a swap file can improve performance (impossible) and that other old build.prop tweaks are having any effect. I could provide some real tweaks such as turning off background services, preventing journald from writing to the disk, unmounting debugfs and tracefs, etc.

The first thing I did when I moved my 1TB over from the OG SD to the OLED is make sure Cryoutils still had all its tweaks applied. It made a big difference on the OG and I can’t see it being detrimental on 3.5. I’ve seen people saying they think it’s not needed as much anymore, but stuff like OP saying it’s dead, well, it’s just clickbait unfortunately. I’m glad you chimed in, and I look forward to seeing more extensive testing.

Thanks for the post! CU made it so I could actually play through the Marvel Xcom style game. Before using CU it would crash every time I went to sleep in the game when on the Steam Deck. I was then able to beat the whole game on the SD thanks you CU. Thanks for all your hard work, I have not uninstalled it because I have not had any issues while using it and also because the Marvel xcom game was such a good experience, until I have an issue I will leave this installed.

Thanks for the post and all the hard work you do!

Hey its you! Just wanted to say thanks for everything you’re doing for the community, you’re awesome man

Awesome thanks for posting the results. It was hard to keep track of them in the stream. Keep up the good work

I’d like to add onto this that anecdotally CryoUtilities did resolve a crashing issue for me in Warhammer 3 Total War. I’m on my new oled deck, latest firmware and stable release update, and was having persistent crashes after battles. I installed CU after watching your livestream, set it to the recommended settings, and since have finished several battles in the same campaign with no crashing.

I had a similar experience with CU fixing crashes in modded Rimworld and Cities Skylines. I suspect the swap file size change is the biggest factor since all 3 games would crash during loading. Even if the performance fixes were somewhat nullified by valve’s changes, it’s still great to be able to easily increase the swap file size to deal with crashes like these.

Anyway thanks for this incredible tool and I’d encourage anyone with loading issues (especially with the 3 games I mentioned) to give it a shot.

Keep the good work.

Thank you for all the work you do for this community. As soon as I ordered my OLED i was waiting on word for you on how CU holds up. Glad to hear it’s still worth having!

Also I don’t know if this would be the correct place to put this, but I did have a scary glitch occur. I just reinstalled the latest version of cryoutilities on my steam deck OLED, i then hit recommended settings and after that I turned it off from desktop and booted recovery mode to change the vram to 4gb. I rebooted back up, went back into desktop to double check that it worked, and went back to gaming mode (all pretty fast, i think before the deck really had time to boot up and settle in? Is that a thing?). As i switched to gaming mode the screen went black and these glitchy vertical green lines started creeping across my screen from right to left, while i could still move the sticks and get menu sounds. I ended up holding the power button down til it shut off and rebooted and everything seems fine? But I really thought i borked the whole thing for a minute there lol. Maybe this isn’t actually cryoutilities related but in case it is I thought i should tell you! That said I’ve turned it on and off multiple times later today just during regular usage and it seems fine now?

I’m still using the original 500 and whatever gb steam deck and probably won’t be upgrading. CU is still relevant to me 😅

Thank you for your hard work sir.

Just want to say as a fellow underappreciated dev; You rock and I appreciate the amount of effort you make, for free, with the simple purpose of improving your own gameplay and then sharing with us to do the same.

I am happy to see the benchmarks you provide alongside and have even in the early days validated some (Horizon Zero Dawn) having a significant impact (on my LCD Deck) on long term stutter and allowing me to enjoy the title entirely on deck. There’s literally nothing stopping people from playing stock, recording mango data, and then trying the tool themselves to compare.

Please ignore the detractors and keep it up.

This means nothing for now, since it was just the first test run. He will do his work and show the results in a separate video, as always.

Even without tweaks his utility still has functionality. I use it all the time for shader cleanup and moving stuff to and from SD card.