Just curious what other people do. I always save and close my games before putting the deck in sleep mode. Not sure why exactly I’m just afraid something will go wrong.
Does anyone leave games open in sleep mode all the time? If so have you ever had any issues?
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No, but I always save if I can
depends on how soon I plan to play it again. but either way I always save before putting it to sleep. rarely have had issues outside of a few rare games having audio issues that require you to restart the game. I even do it with emulators which I’ve seen people claim would crash.
I never do unless it’s an online only game. Sometimes it janks up logging back in after.
Nope, I put it to sleep with my game running all the time. I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky, and I wake it up most mornings and evenings to tend to my freighter.
Sometimes the audio gets stuttery after a sleep cycle. Maybe twice over the past year, the deck didn’t wake up and instead rebooted.
I usually never do I just put the decksto sleep and keep playing. Recently been playing Gears 5 for 4 days now never closed it
Nope. Power button and I’m off to the next hustle.
Nah i leave those babies running in sleep for several days straight
No because the point is I can resume my game instantly
I used to shutdown my Steamdeck. So I want to save energy as much as possible.
Main reason I like the deck is to put it to sleep and pick right back up when I turn it on
The 3.5.x update on LCD, and now of course on OLED has solved so many of the sleep stability issues I had. I never had a game itself crash or fail to handle resuming from sleep, but prior to 3.5, the deck OS would not be responsive. So far on 3.5 sleep has worked beautifully, and Bluetooth audio automatically reconnects every time too. Tested with NoMansSky and Snow Runner so far numerous times for both. I commute via train daily, with a Train transfer mid commute and rely on that sleep function. 3.5 has so far solved all my issues in this use case.
One funny bug I think may still exist is that games left running while in sleep, count towards your steam play time. I have some absurd hours in a few games because of it. Looks like I played train sim 4 for 168hrs straight one week.
Always, I like accurate gameplay time and don’t trust it to not record the sleeping time.
If I’m going right back to it, no. If I’m going to be a few hours, usually
Pause the game or press “escape” so the game stops or pauses then put it to sleep. Occasionally I get an audio bug but it works itself out after about 5-10 minutes. So no I never exit a game.
Never. Sometimes issues happen but it is very rare… it is one of the biggest advantages to the deck.