A game with a big memory leak problem like this should really not be listed as verified. Anyway, thank you so much for all of your work! You are amazing dude.
This is legitimately my favourite channel at the moment. Not just for making games play better but because I learn a lot about little nuances in performance such as the paging system of memory.
Thank you for continuing to watch the content! I hope that I can keep teaching more about all of this, I'm really happy for having the opportunity to do so ❤️
@@halo2bounceguy Thanks for watching! It depends what kind of games you like! For my favorite game of all time: Baldur's Gate Enhanced For a great, relaxing time: Breath of the Wild on Cemu For a VERY relaxing time: Dorfromantik For a showcase of what the Deck can do: Cyberpunk 2077 or Elden Ring If you like racing/cars: Forza Horizon 5 I hop games a lot, so it's really hard to pick just one 😅
Thank you for the super work!! Extremely beginner friendly, even though you provide the data to back it up. I particularly appreciate how detailed you are with the recommendations, like game settings versus deck settings.
Just wanted to say thank you. Stumbled on your channel and you are very knowledgeable with the deck and have shown me have to tweak this machine even more. Thank you my friend.
Just got back into God of War and you’re crushing the community get the most out of the Deck. I’m probably very biased but for the price point I find the screen and performance amazing. I can play on my Ryzen build then pickup anytime and continue and it’s a great experience. I paid $300 for mine. Absolute steal
That definitely checks out, Lake of Nine is notoriously difficult to run, but since so much of the game takes place there I decided to use it anyway. Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences!
Just applied your recommended and am feeling the changes! Stuff like this makes the difference for people like me willing to tinker and wanting to get every last drop this hardware has in it! Thanks again! inb4 10k!
Nice to see you here as well! 😁 I'm glad that it's helped your performance significantly and I'll keep bringing the recommendations! Only a few more left, counting down in the Discord 👀
Thank you so much for these videos, they are super helpful in understanding how to maximize performance! Everything I've tried so far has worked like a charm!
Just got my steamdeck and started playing GOW, was v frustrated with the performance! Stumbled onto your video, hopefully it runs smooth from now on :) thank you for ur work!
I’m new to PC gaming and the steam deck is my first real gaming PC type device. I’m just now learning about God of War’s problems on the steam deck and this memory leak sounds concerning to me. Though I haven’t experienced any major issues yet with the game, I’m aware that many people are saying that the game crashes with inevitable memory leaks. What exactly is a memory leak? And does it damage the device internally in any way? This video is great by the way! Someone recommended this video to me so I can get this game running well. When I have time, I’ll try these settings out
Thank you for watching! A "memory leak" is when a program starts using some memory and then doesn't "release" it when it's no longer needed. Eventually all your memory gets full and it can cause crashes, but it won't harm the device in any way. It can also cause performance issues, because the more "full" the memory is, the harder it is for the program to request new memory. Please feel free to ask any other questions you may have, or join the Discord if you're interested!
Playing this game on the go is insane, I wish I hadn't platinum'd it when it first came out. Also I was able to get cyberpunk at a near constant 30fps on basically high thanks to you!
Thank you so much for watching on release! It's still super fun to play if you want a recap pre-Ragnarok 😉 Glad to hear that C77 is still running perfectly, though!
@@cryobyte33 Hell yeah, Freedom Unite was so good. Also gave me the opportunity to emulate so much, go through an enormous amount of backlog or just to revisit some favorites. Switch is slowly moving into first place but I guess Steam Deck would be the true successor. I'd still pick up a new Sony handheld tbh.
Dude thanks so much for making god of war playable on the deck. Without you it would not be possible, literally. I was having crashes every 30 min, you saved me lmao. Keep up the awesome content and the deck support we appreciate it cheers
Hey man, were you able to use the console after game crashes or you had to turn the console off by pressing the power button? I’m just trying to understand if it’s my console’s hardware issue or just the game. Console just freezes permanently. Sometimes it turns off by itself during the game
Amazing and throughout video as always! Hoping for your success man! Also i have a suggestion, i think it would be really nice if you can make a video about tweaking the best settings of every popular emulators for steamdeck, like the best general setting per emulator because i noticed the settings of emulators are not really optimized for steamdeck by default. But I saw the switch game emulation video and it was amazing as well!
Thank you for watching! Don't worry, I'm going to work my way through all the emulators and do the same thing that I did in the Switch video. I'll start with the most modern emulators and work my way back to the older ones, so definitely keep an eye out for them! 🙂
Thank you for watching! Yeah, I think I have an idea of how they're porting them, at least, and some of the reasons they perform badly, but I don't think that we can do anything on our end above what I've already been doing. That said, it won't stop me from trying!
Thank You CryoByte33!! I was only able to play GoW on my Deck for 30-40mins until it crapped out. Played nearly 2hrs after watchin your tutorial and using the Reccomended settings. This video saved my game. Now, can you fix Destiny 2 PPPLLLEEAASSEE! lmao
I returned just to say that i followed your 'recommended' settings and the game now plays perfect for my taste. Stutters are gone. I hope you do more of this type of videos for other games. Once again, thank you.
Thank you for watching, and I'm glad that it helped! I've done a handful of others, but I'll be continuing to do these for quite a while so check my channel out when starting a new game and you might find some settings ready for you 😁
Hey man I've been watching since very early on and I just wanna tell you to keep at it, you're doing genuinely great work and I honestly see a very well deserved successful channel coming from this if you keep at it. A question though, because I might be incorrect but i was always under the impression that anisotropic filtering had negligible performance detriment even when maxed to x16 and on a lot of steam deck related videos I see people opting for x2 or x4, although in my opinion the cost savings are so negligible its just as well to have the increased fidelity at all times. Let me know your thoughts on if I'm incorrect I'd love to learn more
Thank you for being an avid supporter of the channel ❤️ Anistropic filtering cranked to max on a normal GPU is "free", but it does take some VRAM. That VRAM distinction is what makes lower values perform marginally better, particularly in lows, on the Steam Deck. Speaking directly to God of War, I noticed that some lag spikes were up to 14% worse with anistropic filtering maxed out, which I suspect is due to swapping assets out more often. Thank you again for watching everything, and I hope this helps!
@CryoByte33 hey I was doing some fiddling with Aniso just last night on RDR too and actually got a huge stability increase when playing RDR2 at 4x rather than me just habitually setting it to 16. I was playing through the beginning and even with the snow which tends to be a pretty stressful point graphically I was able to maintain a locked 45fps/45Hz refresh rate whereas I was teetering on 37-40 with Aniso set to max so being able to squeeze some last extra frames for stability was a huge surprise! And on such a small screen I guess it was the right call because my blind ass could not tell a single difference in visual fidelity at 4x haha thanks so much for the new info and I'll be sure to be fiddling around with this setting in the future more as a result. Thanks Kyle have a happy holidays!
@@cryobyte33 I don't have the same metrics as you, but I'm running it at 30fps. Before huge pages, it would go under 30 in busy areas and now it's pretty much locked at 30. Lowest I've seen it go is 29fps. I did notice that after a reboot, huge pages needs to be enabled again. Not sure if that's just me, but I find myself having to also toggle my CPU/GPU powertools settings as well.
@@linklooklisten Someone else reported that HugePages were getting disabled after reboot, but I have something cooking up for that. In the meantime you'll have to re-enable that. As for PowerTools, there's a persistence option at the bottom of the panel that will set the changes per-game and also persist reboots. The wording is very confusing but that's what it does 😅
@@cryobyte33 thanks, I've had that persistence option on since day 1. It remembers the values but doesn't enforce them until I move the slider up or down, then it kicks in. Happens to me in every game so I'm used to it at this point, not a big deal to me.
Fair enough, but they're a good starting point for "vanilla Deck" performance, even I check them out if I just want to check a game out really quick 🙂 Thank you for watching, and I'll keep coming out with finely tuned presets for you guys!
The way you explain your benchmarking process is very therapeutic, and easy to digest for non-IT people like me. About cryoutilities, however, I heard that SteamOS 3.6 might make it obsolete since the swap file fix will be defaulted for the latest update. Do you have plans to update your software if that happens?
I hope more people catch on to using FSR to boost frames. I recommend choosing a resolution lower than 1280x800 native and then using FSR at 1-4 I’m currently playing GTA at 110-120 fps on high. I haven’t had any issues with God of War where I’m running just below native on High getting anywhere from 40-55 frames.
I've tested FSR in all of my videos, and most of my "smooth" and "battery saver" presets use them. God of War's FSR tends to be VERY messy when moving, so I don't recommend it for my "prettier" settings. Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences!
You're a legend! 5123 views at this point in time means we're the only 5123 Steam Deck users in the world who can play God of War without constant crashes. ;-)
Surprisingly I haven’t had more than 2 crashes on my playthrough of this game. I’d love to see a solution to Devil May Cry 5 since that game seems to crash very often for me
Very interesting, it could be that there's more to the issue than just a memory leak 🤔 Thank you for letting me know, and I'm not sure if I have DMC5, but I'll see about getting it for a deep dive at some point 🙂 Happy holidays!
I'm very surprised by your video, since I never encounter any crashing problems, even using ultra settings..... I used the DXVK-ASYNC trick but as you said the perfs were the same...so I stay with this simple settings wich is working for me 100% of the play time: Graphics on standard, screen at 720p, no vsync, no fsr. In steam is menu: set to 30fps, and no tdp limiter... Just simply doing this I get a 30fps lock all the time, no heat on the SoC and no fan noise problems... (For info my deck is toggled on 4GB vram in bios) And that's all for me ;)!
It seems like some people can play just fine, and many can't for some reason. ProtonDB has dozens of people reporting crashes, and I had over 50 requests for God of War, most of them citing the constant crashing, so I wasn't surprised when I had them too. After making the video, 3 people, yourself included, said they hadn't had any crashing issues, but I'm not sure why there's a discrepancy at all, but as long as you can play the game how you want to I'm happy 🙂 Thank you for watching!
Nice. Any chance for a dive into Dolphin Emulator? Performance is weird and apparently requires using power tools to turn off cpu cores to avoid stutter? Also, congrats on 10k subs. Ps a video on sd cards and their performance would be cool too
I'll definitely be covering Dolphin in the future! I'm working my way from newer systems to older ones, but I only have 3-4 emulators to get back to Dolphin so hopefully it won't take too long 😄 Thank you for watching!
thank you for this info. this helps a lot. keep up the good content. hoping for more like this. ohhh and i also experiencing this "memory leak" on Ghost Recon Breakpoint due to recent OS update of the deck. can you also make a fix for it. thanks a lot
If it was caused by a recent OS update, then chances are we need a Proton version to fix it. That said, you may want to try using CU2 as it'll at the very least stave off any memory crashes. Thanks for watching!
Keep up the awesome work!! You save me soo much time trying to get my games running smooth! Planning on optimizing Satisfactory in the future? I feel like your ram optimizations will come in very handy at this game.
Thank you for watching! That one's actually on my personal list since factory builders are a pastime of mine, but I'll add it to the viewer requests lists as well 🙂
Was waiting for this. One thing about the memory leak. On Desktop PC its different story, GoW runs butter smoooth. So this looks like some mischief of Proton maybe? (Just guessing). Also comparing GoW and Horizon which one you think is better? In relation to Steam deck performance/visual achievable vise? As well another top notch video!
Welcome back to the channel! I think that they use DX11 in an odd way, relying on Windows' GC (garbage collection) to take care of the memory for them, rather than actually programming the game to do it manually. I've heard that the PS4, where these games were originally published, automatically does GC for you and it's slightly more efficient that way. Unfortunately, if your PC isn't a very specific spec or you're running through Proton then the GC doesn't work properly and it basically loads the entire game into memory. I have a lot of theories and musings on it, better served in a Discord or dedicated video, but in general I think that they're a bit sloppy as ports go 😅 As for which I think is the better port, I'd say Horizon, even with the dips we could usually get a solid lock and it didn't light the CPU on fire in the same way, despite having more complex AI. As always, thank you so much for being a longtime viewer, and I'm glad that you enjoyed the video! 😁
@@cryobyte33 Beautiful and informative answer! For the Deck I agree from what you presented Horizon looks better but on PC personally I would say GoW is much better.
Your recommend preset exactly meet my preset in GoW that I am already playing for a week with your fixes. 30 fps is too low to be comfortable and difference in graphics not worth it. This huge pages something new. Will try it. No idea how many hours you spend to test all of these but thank you for helping us with your content!
Thank you for watching, and I'm glad that the settings are perfectly tuned 😁 For this video I spent about 12 hours testing and 10 hours parsing results and coming up with possible solutions, after scripting, recording and editing about 32 total. I appreciate every view, I'm just very happy to help others play how they want!
Hello, I have a question to ask (I'm not really tech savvy so forgive me if I get anything wrong) In most of your deep dive videos, I noticed that putting a 30 fps cap would help flatten the frametime graph Is it safe to assume that most games would have a similar flat line if you cap the game at 30fps due to the extra breathing room for frame pacing? As always, thanks for the excellent content!
No judgement here, I'm here to help! That's correct. The GPU has a certain amount of "work units" or "operations per second", let's say. Limiting frames lets the GPU start working on the next frame a tiny bit earlier, so the frames get out right on time rather than "as soon as the GPU can get it done". Overall, it maintains a much more solid experience. The human mind is better at dealing with an exact interval to react, rather than a fluctuating one, so limiting frames really helps there. Hopefully this helps, thank you for watching!
Recently found your channel and love the videos you're making. Are you doing most of your testing off the NVME? I'm curious if you've seen any differences with some of these harder to run games loading from the SD card.
Thank you so much for watching and subscribing! Before testing each game I check if the SD card makes any difference to gameplay, but the only difference that I've noticed during my deep dives is loading times. Having a game installed to SSD tends to speed up game boots and loading by between 5-20%, depending on the game, but the performance boost from having the files on the SSD is cancelled out by swapping that happens during those situations. That said, my SD card is middle-of-the-road, so results might be different on worse, or better, microSDs and I haven't had the opportunity to test that yet 🙂 Hopefully this helps!
@@cryobyte33 Thanks for the helpful reply. It's genuinely surprising to see the SD card not end up being a bottleneck in itself. Good luck with the channel! I know I'll be following along for sure.
Thank you for watching, as always! I haven't found a performance detriment for it yet, but I haven't tested it thoroughly enough to be able to wholesale recommend it just yet. I've also recently found out that the option I toggle on in System Toolbox resets when the Deck is shut down, so that's not ideal 😅
Thank you so much for covering this! People ask about this one so much on reddit so I'm sure that the community will be ecstatic. When I played through it about a month ago, I think I landed somewhere around your prettiest settings recommendations with a locked 30 and it rarely dipped to 28/29 for a very few instances throughout the game. Additionally, I think that you could also keep those same settings, but drop the res to 720p and lock the refresh rate to 40hz and have a similar experience as above at 40fps with rare dips to 38/39, although I hadn't tested that one as thoroughly as the 30 option, if you wanted to keep the "prettiness". I wanted to bring that option up in the event that someone preferred it for whatever reason, but you unfortunately wouldn't be running at native res anymore so there is a trade off. Not saying that it's better than your recommendation by any means, just offering additional insight, hope that's okay. I appreciate all of your hard work and the education that you provide so much! You're awesome. I look forward to the next one as I do every week! Waiting on the edge of my seat for The Witcher 3 update video lol
Of course that's okay, thank you for the insight! I did test lowering to 720p and it did help a bit, but the main bottleneck being the CPU really hurts our options, since a lot of the volumetric effects and AI are the same regardless of resolution 😞 Thank you for continuing to be a major supporter of the channel, I always look forward to hearing your thoughts and I hope to see you around for a while more. As for the Witcher update, trust me that it's a major priority for me to cover as soon as possible 😉
Proton/Wine will not load the native d3d11 + dxgi from a game directory, instead it'll load Proton's/Wine's built in libraries which can be changed but seems a bit redundant
Ah, I completely forgot about that in the installation section, crap. Thank you for pointing it out, I used WINEDLLOVERRIDES in my actual testing but missed it in the script 😓 Regardless, thank you for watching, and I hope the advice still helps!
That's... Bizzare. I mean, I know I'm an old school player and I'm content playing a game at 30fps with some dips here and there, but in my 18 hours with this game I played so far with a generally stable 30fps setting everything to Original, no fsr, native resolution and 100% render scale with a 10 Watts tdp. It generally stays at around 16-17Watts of power consumption with roughly two hours and a quarter of playtime. 🤷🏻♂️ And it only crashed once so far, requiring me to force restart the machine.
Also, I don't notice stuttering, even if I have the Compdata and Shader Cache folders on the MicroSD along the game, even if everyone tells me my game should run very poorly this way. 😶
Interesting, even ProtonDB mentions constant crashing in most of the reviews 🤔 I haven't heard of someone besides you with good performance, and this was the most-requested game for me to cover (over 50 votes!) because of all the issues. I'm not sure what magic you used on your Deck, but if you feel like sharing it I wouldn't be opposed 😅 Regardless, thank you so much for watching and sharing your experiences!
@@cryobyte33 does the game showing under the performance overlay Gamescope instead of Dxvk make any difference at all? Does a picture of said Performance overlay help in any way? By the way, is there a way to get a graph of the frames per second of a game over a defined amount of time using the Steam Deck alone? 🤔
@@azzart979 Nah, that just means I'm using MangoHUD rather than the built-in gamescope. They have identical performance, gamescope just uses Valve's custom layout. You can definitely show me a picture, but IDK if it would help, I don't know why perf is so different 😅 As for getting the FPS, I use MangoHUD's built-in logging to get all the metrics for my graphs. Check out MangoHUD on GitHub and check under "FPS Logging". As for actually graphing it, they have a fairly limited site that can graph the generated logs, but I programmed my own log parser and render the graphs myself directly from the .csv files that are generated.
decky-loader is an addon you need (assumed you have here) and it doesn't not function in beta mode than after all that system toolbox plug in errors out and looks like never going to be updated.
Thank you for watching! If you want the whole spiel, check out my video "EASY & SAFE Health & Performance Boosts". If you just want to set it, you can just boot into BIOS and set the UMA Min Frame Size Buffer to 4G.
Hey Cryo, great video as always. I have a request, can you take a look to UV the steamdeck? Aparently it can be done, a few days ago there was a post on reddit showing how to do it at a BIOS level.
Heya, thanks for watching! I REALLY want to do that, but it requires Smokeless_UMAF, which has a small-but-not-zero chance to brick your Deck completely. I'm confident that I can do it, but I can't take a risk on it with only 1 Deck supporting this whole channel. As soon as I can get another Deck, I will 100% be doing UVs, OCs, and PID tuning. Thank you for the suggestion, and sorry I can't get to it immediately 😓
@@cryobyte33 oh no problem man, i completely understand because while i love UV and tuning my pc to be more efficient i also only have one deck haha. Cheers cryo, thanks for the good content, you fill a niche that other tech and gaming channels dont.
I've noticed that the Decky plugin for System Toolbox, the setting for Linux Huge Pages does not stay on. I don't know if the setting just doesn't save at all but if you turn it on and reboot, it will revert to OFF every time. Is there a way to do this manually in desktop mode to force it on all the time?
Interesting, mine has stayed on through reboots, maybe you have a sticky value somewhere? As for doing it in Desktop mode, you'd need a custom sysctl unit or to modify /etc/sysctl.conf directly and add: vm.nr_hugepages = NUM Replace NUM with the number of pages you want the max size of a hugepage to be. This is a good idea for an improvement to CryoUtilities, though 🤔 Thank you for watching and for the idea!
Thank you for watching and subscribing! My next few videos are called for, but I just bought Spider-Man in the sale today for this reason 😉 Happy holidays!
Unfortunately no, since it's a BIOS setting. In theory, it shouldn't be necessary to set at all, but until AMD updates the firmware we're stuck fixing the default behavior 😞 Regardless, thank you for watching!
Yup! I mention it briefly in here, but referring back to it constantly would make the video 3 minutes longer, sorry about that 😅 Thank you for watching!
@@cryobyte33 I posted a video of this game crashing (link below). Is this how the Steam Deck behaves during a crash? Note: This is before applying your fix. th-cam.com/video/mU23Yrsi8rQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Qz7JwpVH3WgJXOal
My friend, tonight i noticed that in forza Horizon 4, if i use overlay screen 1 (only frames) i have a lot of stuttering, if i use overlay 4, It disappear!! How Is It possibile? The framepacing when i switch from 1 to 4 became instantanely smooth like butter!
@@cryobyte33 os 3.3.2., Proton 7.0.5. i understand that seems incredibile, but when i use the complete overlay (4) the game runs a lot Better (maybe with 0 Is still ok, but not like 4).
Thank you for watching! It won't be too far off, but my patrons voted for something else first, sorry! I'd love to upload 2-3 times a week, but with a day job I can't do that just yet 😅
One last thing. We need to talk about people's reviews on protondb. Im tired of seeing verified or platinum game only for the review to say 10/10 all fine and then, just in passing, mention that it hard crashes all the time. Like its a minor thing. Marvel Midnight Sun HARD crashes your deck after every mission and people had raised its rating to PLATINUM by just giving it thumbs up and mentioning the consistent unavoidable crashing as if it was nothing. Others dont mention it at all so i guess they are only doing quick benchmarks and not actually playing the games which can give them the wrong impression
Agreed, I never actually listen to the ratings because of this, I always go and read the reviews themselves. I'm hoping that eventually I'll have reviewed enough games that people can use my videos as a compatibility score, but that's a long time away 😅
@@cryobyte33 i dont trust the verification anymore. Too many people are giving games ratings based on a quick glance instead of long sessions. Conversely some games have bad ratings because they require fixes and people dont read how to apply them (Atelier games require a dll to work with proton or they are a slideshow, i dont know why GE doesnt incorporate that fix but here we are) or are old games which requiere fixing on pc as well. I wish steam had a sort of workshop for community fixes or configs where we could apply community patches directly from steam like we do control mappings.
There's a tradeoff here. The in-game limiter has worse frame pacing, but very little input latency. Using the overlay limiter has really good pacing, but very high latency. Which one I recommend depends on the game, and I found that having higher input lag with the combat in God of War was a death sentence, whereas the frame pacing hit wasn't as detrimental. That said, if you prefer one over another then definitely choose the other, thank you for watching!
The Steam Deck's resolution is actually higher than the switch OLED, but OLED panels have different heat and voltage properties, so a simple screen swap probably isn't possible. That said, check out the VibrantDeck decky plugin. It makes the colors MUCH better, and is a game-changer. Thank you for watching!
This shit wasn’t freezing for the first 17 hours but now at the end of the game its crashing non stop. Just wanna finish the game at this point, on the final boss now.
A game with a big memory leak problem like this should really not be listed as verified. Anyway, thank you so much for all of your work! You are amazing dude.
Verified doesn't mean it needs to run perfectly but meet steam verification requirements
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This is legitimately my favourite channel at the moment. Not just for making games play better but because I learn a lot about little nuances in performance such as the paging system of memory.
Thank you for continuing to watch the content! I hope that I can keep teaching more about all of this, I'm really happy for having the opportunity to do so ❤️
Well said! I couldn't agree more.
Absolutely. I recommend this channel to absolutely any new steam deck owner I know
I am hoping more steam Deck owners find this channel and not miss out in your content, thanks like always for your awesome help.
Thank you for watching as always! It's because of people like you that I just hit 10k subs and I'll never forget that ❤️🙏
Thanks a lot for your analysis. Having your analysis helps a lot for having a playable setting for steamdeck
Thank you for watching and for supporting the channel! ❤️🙏
You are an absolute legend. Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to the steam deck community
Thank you for watching and the kind words! I'm just happy to help however I can ❤️
Thank you for the deep dives, the great explanations and your continued steam deck support.
Thank you so much for the support, it means so much to me that people like my content this much 😭❤️🙏
Damn that's pretty fat haha thanks from the rest of us
@@cryobyte33 Thanks for all the tips man. Is there a favorite stream deck game you'd recommend?
@@halo2bounceguy Thanks for watching! It depends what kind of games you like!
For my favorite game of all time: Baldur's Gate Enhanced
For a great, relaxing time: Breath of the Wild on Cemu
For a VERY relaxing time: Dorfromantik
For a showcase of what the Deck can do: Cyberpunk 2077 or Elden Ring
If you like racing/cars: Forza Horizon 5
I hop games a lot, so it's really hard to pick just one 😅
Thanks for all your hard work man! Great to have you as a big part of the deck community!
Thank you so much for watching! This community is great and I hope to keep the content coming 😄
Thank you for the super work!! Extremely beginner friendly, even though you provide the data to back it up. I particularly appreciate how detailed you are with the recommendations, like game settings versus deck settings.
Thank you for watching, subscribing, and for the thoughtful reply 🙂 I try to keep it interesting and informative for everybody!
Just wanted to say thank you. Stumbled on your channel and you are very knowledgeable with the deck and have shown me have to tweak this machine even more. Thank you my friend.
Thank you so much for watching and subscribing! I hope to see you around 🙂
Your content, sir, in my opinion, is the single greatest steam deck "accessory" anyone can ever ask for, and you provide it free of charge.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the kind words, subscription, and for watching! I'm happy to help 😁
Just got back into God of War and you’re crushing the community get the most out of the Deck. I’m probably very biased but for the price point I find the screen and performance amazing. I can play on my Ryzen build then pickup anytime and continue and it’s a great experience. I paid $300 for mine. Absolute steal
Thank you so much for watching, and I agree that the Deck has been nothing but amazing!
Amazing job again. My steam deck is almost shipped and GoW is already in library ^^
Thank you for watching, I think you'll have a great time with these settings 🙂
Thanks for this, I enjoyed playing through this on my deck...I had it running around 55 in closed areas with low 40s in open areas...
That definitely checks out, Lake of Nine is notoriously difficult to run, but since so much of the game takes place there I decided to use it anyway.
Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences!
Just applied your recommended and am feeling the changes! Stuff like this makes the difference for people like me willing to tinker and wanting to get every last drop this hardware has in it! Thanks again! inb4 10k!
Nice to see you here as well! 😁 I'm glad that it's helped your performance significantly and I'll keep bringing the recommendations!
Only a few more left, counting down in the Discord 👀
Thank you so much for these videos, they are super helpful in understanding how to maximize performance! Everything I've tried so far has worked like a charm!
Thank you for watching, I'm happy to have helped! 😁
Loving the content and not surprised to see you now pass 10k subscribers. So proud of you man!!
Thank you! Hopefully it convinces you to get a Deck soon 😉
Just got my steamdeck and started playing GOW, was v frustrated with the performance! Stumbled onto your video, hopefully it runs smooth from now on :) thank you for ur work!
I’m new to PC gaming and the steam deck is my first real gaming PC type device. I’m just now learning about God of War’s problems on the steam deck and this memory leak sounds concerning to me. Though I haven’t experienced any major issues yet with the game, I’m aware that many people are saying that the game crashes with inevitable memory leaks. What exactly is a memory leak? And does it damage the device internally in any way?
This video is great by the way! Someone recommended this video to me so I can get this game running well. When I have time, I’ll try these settings out
Thank you for watching!
A "memory leak" is when a program starts using some memory and then doesn't "release" it when it's no longer needed. Eventually all your memory gets full and it can cause crashes, but it won't harm the device in any way. It can also cause performance issues, because the more "full" the memory is, the harder it is for the program to request new memory.
Please feel free to ask any other questions you may have, or join the Discord if you're interested!
thank you man, this video really help me, i was ready to unistall but this really helps with the sudden crashes.
I have binged all your videos. Can't wait to get my steam deck this Christmas :D
Thank you for watching everything ❤️
I can't wait for you to get it either, it's such a great device!
Brilliant deep dive and recommendations, thank you for your always excellent work!
Thank you for watching, I'm glad that you enjoyed it 😁
Just in time! Bought it days ago, thank you for the content! And ya know what needs to be done next, them Valhallaz.
Thank you for watching, I'm glad to have been on-schedule for once! 😄
BOY! am I glad to have stumbled across a random reddit comment praising your work. Subbed and looking forward to future content.
Thank you for watching, I'm happy you enjoy the content. Welcome to the community 😁
You're a LEGEND man can't wait to get my own Steam Deck.
Thank you for watching, and I can't wait for you to get it either, it's such a fun device! 😄
Thank you very much for this video. I finally got to start enjoying this game today.
So much effort in these videos! Thank you so much😁
Thank you so much for watching, I hope it helps you get better performance!
Playing this game on the go is insane, I wish I hadn't platinum'd it when it first came out. Also I was able to get cyberpunk at a near constant 30fps on basically high thanks to you!
Thank you so much for watching on release! It's still super fun to play if you want a recap pre-Ragnarok 😉
Glad to hear that C77 is still running perfectly, though!
@@cryobyte33 with the latest frs 2.1 update and your fixes C77 is awesome now. Mind blowing that I can play it on high in the bus or plane on a go
With FSR 2.1 I get 40-60 fps (I capped to 40) with medium settings it’s so awesome :)
I’ve been requesting this thank you so much!!!!!!!
I remember you requesting it, so glad I could finally make good on it 😁
Thank you for watching, and being patient!
So good to listen to a fellow PSP/Vita enjoyer.
Thanks for watching, they were both way ahead of their time! I probably had 10k+ hours on my PSP, at least 50% of that in Monster Hunter 😄
@@cryobyte33 Hell yeah, Freedom Unite was so good. Also gave me the opportunity to emulate so much, go through an enormous amount of backlog or just to revisit some favorites. Switch is slowly moving into first place but I guess Steam Deck would be the true successor. I'd still pick up a new Sony handheld tbh.
Dude thanks so much for making god of war playable on the deck. Without you it would not be possible, literally. I was having crashes every 30 min, you saved me lmao. Keep up the awesome content and the deck support we appreciate it cheers
Hey man, were you able to use the console after game crashes or you had to turn the console off by pressing the power button? I’m just trying to understand if it’s my console’s hardware issue or just the game. Console just freezes permanently. Sometimes it turns off by itself during the game
You're a legend. I played for 100 hours with crashes. Setting my vram from 1gb to 4gb did it.
Amazing and throughout video as always! Hoping for your success man! Also i have a suggestion, i think it would be really nice if you can make a video about tweaking the best settings of every popular emulators for steamdeck, like the best general setting per emulator because i noticed the settings of emulators are not really optimized for steamdeck by default. But I saw the switch game emulation video and it was amazing as well!
Thank you for watching!
Don't worry, I'm going to work my way through all the emulators and do the same thing that I did in the Switch video. I'll start with the most modern emulators and work my way back to the older ones, so definitely keep an eye out for them! 🙂
Another excellent video man! You’re fantastic at what you do and I appreciate each video!
Thank you for coming back and watching new videos, I'm glad they're helping 🙂
Another incredible video from you. Amazing work. So sad to see that those ps pc ports seem to be rather bad. At least the two you checked so far.
Thank you for watching!
Yeah, I think I have an idea of how they're porting them, at least, and some of the reasons they perform badly, but I don't think that we can do anything on our end above what I've already been doing.
That said, it won't stop me from trying!
Good video, I'll keep this video on the side for if and when I buy this thing because mobile god of war is crazy asf tbh
Thank you for watching! I can confirm that it is both awesome and awe-inspiring 😁
we need more setting video like this on more game out there love it sir amazing work
Thank you for watching! Check out my Deck Dives playlist for more like this 😁
@@cryobyte33 already played every game with your optimized video sir ❤️ really usefull, easy to set up hope to see more of em coming sir ! 🥰
YESSS I've been waiting for this
Thank you for watching, let me know what you think! 🙏
I really like this video. Helps me enjoy GOW better.
Thank you for watching, I'm happy that you enjoy the experience 🙂
Thank You CryoByte33!! I was only able to play GoW on my Deck for 30-40mins until it crapped out. Played nearly 2hrs after watchin your tutorial and using the Reccomended settings. This video saved my game. Now, can you fix Destiny 2 PPPLLLEEAASSEE! lmao
I returned just to say that i followed your 'recommended' settings and the game now plays perfect for my taste. Stutters are gone. I hope you do more of this type of videos for other games. Once again, thank you.
Thank you for watching, and I'm glad that it helped!
I've done a handful of others, but I'll be continuing to do these for quite a while so check my channel out when starting a new game and you might find some settings ready for you 😁
Thank you for all your hard work.
Thanks for your content !
Maybe we see in the future some presets in-game like cyberpunk, the steamdeck preset
Thanks for sticking around and continuing to watch! 😄
I would love that, although I hope they put a lot of effort into it too 🙂
Hey man I've been watching since very early on and I just wanna tell you to keep at it, you're doing genuinely great work and I honestly see a very well deserved successful channel coming from this if you keep at it. A question though, because I might be incorrect but i was always under the impression that anisotropic filtering had negligible performance detriment even when maxed to x16 and on a lot of steam deck related videos I see people opting for x2 or x4, although in my opinion the cost savings are so negligible its just as well to have the increased fidelity at all times. Let me know your thoughts on if I'm incorrect I'd love to learn more
Thank you for being an avid supporter of the channel ❤️
Anistropic filtering cranked to max on a normal GPU is "free", but it does take some VRAM. That VRAM distinction is what makes lower values perform marginally better, particularly in lows, on the Steam Deck.
Speaking directly to God of War, I noticed that some lag spikes were up to 14% worse with anistropic filtering maxed out, which I suspect is due to swapping assets out more often.
Thank you again for watching everything, and I hope this helps!
@CryoByte33 hey I was doing some fiddling with Aniso just last night on RDR too and actually got a huge stability increase when playing RDR2 at 4x rather than me just habitually setting it to 16. I was playing through the beginning and even with the snow which tends to be a pretty stressful point graphically I was able to maintain a locked 45fps/45Hz refresh rate whereas I was teetering on 37-40 with Aniso set to max so being able to squeeze some last extra frames for stability was a huge surprise! And on such a small screen I guess it was the right call because my blind ass could not tell a single difference in visual fidelity at 4x haha thanks so much for the new info and I'll be sure to be fiddling around with this setting in the future more as a result. Thanks Kyle have a happy holidays!
Huge pages.... Time to test that out in Cyberpunk 2077!
I plan to cover it in a future 1.61/Phantom Liberty deep dive, so let me know how it performs 😁
Thank you for watching!
@@cryobyte33 I don't have the same metrics as you, but I'm running it at 30fps. Before huge pages, it would go under 30 in busy areas and now it's pretty much locked at 30. Lowest I've seen it go is 29fps. I did notice that after a reboot, huge pages needs to be enabled again. Not sure if that's just me, but I find myself having to also toggle my CPU/GPU powertools settings as well.
@@linklooklisten Someone else reported that HugePages were getting disabled after reboot, but I have something cooking up for that. In the meantime you'll have to re-enable that.
As for PowerTools, there's a persistence option at the bottom of the panel that will set the changes per-game and also persist reboots. The wording is very confusing but that's what it does 😅
@@cryobyte33 thanks, I've had that persistence option on since day 1. It remembers the values but doesn't enforce them until I move the slider up or down, then it kicks in. Happens to me in every game so I'm used to it at this point, not a big deal to me.
I prefer your videos since they are much more thorough than the presets in SDHQ. I have a hit and miss with some of their recommendations.
Fair enough, but they're a good starting point for "vanilla Deck" performance, even I check them out if I just want to check a game out really quick 🙂
Thank you for watching, and I'll keep coming out with finely tuned presets for you guys!
Amazing work man, used your Elden Ring guide. Possible we could see Cyberpunk next?
I already did a C77 deep dive before the latest patch dropped, it should still be pretty accurate 😉
Thank you for watching!
The way you explain your benchmarking process is very therapeutic, and easy to digest for non-IT people like me. About cryoutilities, however, I heard that SteamOS 3.6 might make it obsolete since the swap file fix will be defaulted for the latest update.
Do you have plans to update your software if that happens?
Came at the right time that i decided to replay this on my steam deck. Fingers cross
It's a joy to play now, thank you for watching!
Great!! I would love to 100% this on the deck.
Thank you for watching! I definitely think that it's not only possible, but enjoyable with these settings 🙂
@@cryobyte33Thanks for being thorough with your testing with every game. The whole community appreciates it!
I hope more people catch on to using FSR to boost frames. I recommend choosing a resolution lower than 1280x800 native and then using FSR at 1-4
I’m currently playing GTA at 110-120 fps on high. I haven’t had any issues with God of War where I’m running just below native on High getting anywhere from 40-55 frames.
I've tested FSR in all of my videos, and most of my "smooth" and "battery saver" presets use them. God of War's FSR tends to be VERY messy when moving, so I don't recommend it for my "prettier" settings.
Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences!
@@cryobyte33 I think he meant the system wide FSR. Somehow it works way better than the FSR2.1 that comes with the game
@@KseRBanshee Ah yeah FSR 1 definitely performs better, but the tradeoff is that it looks a lot worse and affects UI elements as well.
Man these videos are great.
Thank you for watching, I hope it helps!
Another great upload. Thanks
Thank you for watching and being subscribed!
thx! It was hard for me but I did it and now I can play without crash!!!!
You're a legend! 5123 views at this point in time means we're the only 5123 Steam Deck users in the world who can play God of War without constant crashes. ;-)
Thank you for watching! Let's hope more GoW players see it so they don't think it's the Deck's fault 😅
Thanks, this helped so much!
Surprisingly I haven’t had more than 2 crashes on my playthrough of this game. I’d love to see a solution to Devil May Cry 5 since that game seems to crash very often for me
Very interesting, it could be that there's more to the issue than just a memory leak 🤔
Thank you for letting me know, and I'm not sure if I have DMC5, but I'll see about getting it for a deep dive at some point 🙂
Happy holidays!
I'm very surprised by your video, since I never encounter any crashing problems, even using ultra settings.....
I used the DXVK-ASYNC trick but as you said the perfs were the same...so I stay with this simple settings wich is working for me 100% of the play time:
Graphics on standard, screen at 720p, no vsync, no fsr.
In steam is menu: set to 30fps, and no tdp limiter...
Just simply doing this I get a 30fps lock all the time, no heat on the SoC and no fan noise problems...
(For info my deck is toggled on 4GB vram in bios)
And that's all for me ;)!
It seems like some people can play just fine, and many can't for some reason. ProtonDB has dozens of people reporting crashes, and I had over 50 requests for God of War, most of them citing the constant crashing, so I wasn't surprised when I had them too.
After making the video, 3 people, yourself included, said they hadn't had any crashing issues, but I'm not sure why there's a discrepancy at all, but as long as you can play the game how you want to I'm happy 🙂
Thank you for watching!
Nice. Any chance for a dive into Dolphin Emulator? Performance is weird and apparently requires using power tools to turn off cpu cores to avoid stutter? Also, congrats on 10k subs. Ps a video on sd cards and their performance would be cool too
I'll definitely be covering Dolphin in the future! I'm working my way from newer systems to older ones, but I only have 3-4 emulators to get back to Dolphin so hopefully it won't take too long 😄
Thank you for watching!
thank you for this info. this helps a lot. keep up the good content. hoping for more like this. ohhh and i also experiencing this "memory leak" on Ghost Recon Breakpoint due to recent OS update of the deck. can you also make a fix for it. thanks a lot
If it was caused by a recent OS update, then chances are we need a Proton version to fix it. That said, you may want to try using CU2 as it'll at the very least stave off any memory crashes.
Thanks for watching!
Love ur vids! I need these for Valheim and RAFT
Thank you for watching! Valheim just got bumped up a few places because of your request, and RAFT has been added to the list 🙂
Mate, you’re a fucking legend. Just discovered your channel and your videos are pure gold. Keep going, us plebs need ppl like you!
Thank you for watching, I really appreciate the kind words ❤️
Why didn’t you show us where to go to do all these settings? I have no idea where to go.
Another useful video for Steam Deck users, thanks!
Thank you for watching so soon after release!
Love the channel! Think you could tackle Death Stranding Director’s Cut at some point?
Thank you for watching! DS:DC is on my VERY short list to cover, so keep an eye out in the next month or so 😉
Keep up the awesome work!! You save me soo much time trying to get my games running smooth!
Planning on optimizing Satisfactory in the future? I feel like your ram optimizations will come in very handy at this game.
Thank you for watching! That one's actually on my personal list since factory builders are a pastime of mine, but I'll add it to the viewer requests lists as well 🙂
do death stranding, gameplay wise it sounds like a good fit for steamdeck being all chill delivering packages and stuff
It's already high up my list, but you just moved it higher, thank you for both watching and the vote! 🙂
Was waiting for this. One thing about the memory leak. On Desktop PC its different story, GoW runs butter smoooth. So this looks like some mischief of Proton maybe? (Just guessing).
Also comparing GoW and Horizon which one you think is better? In relation to Steam deck performance/visual achievable vise?
As well another top notch video!
Welcome back to the channel!
I think that they use DX11 in an odd way, relying on Windows' GC (garbage collection) to take care of the memory for them, rather than actually programming the game to do it manually. I've heard that the PS4, where these games were originally published, automatically does GC for you and it's slightly more efficient that way.
Unfortunately, if your PC isn't a very specific spec or you're running through Proton then the GC doesn't work properly and it basically loads the entire game into memory.
I have a lot of theories and musings on it, better served in a Discord or dedicated video, but in general I think that they're a bit sloppy as ports go 😅
As for which I think is the better port, I'd say Horizon, even with the dips we could usually get a solid lock and it didn't light the CPU on fire in the same way, despite having more complex AI.
As always, thank you so much for being a longtime viewer, and I'm glad that you enjoyed the video! 😁
@@cryobyte33 Beautiful and informative answer!
For the Deck I agree from what you presented Horizon looks better but on PC personally I would say GoW is much better.
Congratulations on 10k subs, your videos rock!
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoy them and I wouldn't be here without all of you! 😁
Your recommend preset exactly meet my preset in GoW that I am already playing for a week with your fixes. 30 fps is too low to be comfortable and difference in graphics not worth it.
This huge pages something new. Will try it.
No idea how many hours you spend to test all of these but thank you for helping us with your content!
Thank you for watching, and I'm glad that the settings are perfectly tuned 😁
For this video I spent about 12 hours testing and 10 hours parsing results and coming up with possible solutions, after scripting, recording and editing about 32 total.
I appreciate every view, I'm just very happy to help others play how they want!
Hello, I have a question to ask
(I'm not really tech savvy so forgive me if I get anything wrong)
In most of your deep dive videos, I noticed that putting a 30 fps cap would help flatten the frametime graph
Is it safe to assume that most games would have a similar flat line if you cap the game at 30fps due to the extra breathing room for frame pacing?
As always, thanks for the excellent content!
No judgement here, I'm here to help!
That's correct. The GPU has a certain amount of "work units" or "operations per second", let's say. Limiting frames lets the GPU start working on the next frame a tiny bit earlier, so the frames get out right on time rather than "as soon as the GPU can get it done".
Overall, it maintains a much more solid experience. The human mind is better at dealing with an exact interval to react, rather than a fluctuating one, so limiting frames really helps there.
Hopefully this helps, thank you for watching!
Recently found your channel and love the videos you're making. Are you doing most of your testing off the NVME? I'm curious if you've seen any differences with some of these harder to run games loading from the SD card.
Thank you so much for watching and subscribing!
Before testing each game I check if the SD card makes any difference to gameplay, but the only difference that I've noticed during my deep dives is loading times.
Having a game installed to SSD tends to speed up game boots and loading by between 5-20%, depending on the game, but the performance boost from having the files on the SSD is cancelled out by swapping that happens during those situations.
That said, my SD card is middle-of-the-road, so results might be different on worse, or better, microSDs and I haven't had the opportunity to test that yet 🙂
Hopefully this helps!
@@cryobyte33 Thanks for the helpful reply. It's genuinely surprising to see the SD card not end up being a bottleneck in itself. Good luck with the channel! I know I'll be following along for sure.
Thanks for this great video, *BOY*
Thank you for watching to the end! Enjoy the many BOYs in the game for me 😉
I would love to see a deep dive performance and tweaking for death stranding directors cut
Thank you for the recommendation, I have a lot of requests for that game, so expect it pretty soon 😉
Thanks for watching!
Awesome stuff! Would you recommend turning on “huge pages” all the time?
Thank you for watching, as always!
I haven't found a performance detriment for it yet, but I haven't tested it thoroughly enough to be able to wholesale recommend it just yet.
I've also recently found out that the option I toggle on in System Toolbox resets when the Deck is shut down, so that's not ideal 😅
Best SD channel
Thank you for watching, and I'm happy to hear that you value the channel so highly! 😁🙏
Thank you so much for covering this! People ask about this one so much on reddit so I'm sure that the community will be ecstatic. When I played through it about a month ago, I think I landed somewhere around your prettiest settings recommendations with a locked 30 and it rarely dipped to 28/29 for a very few instances throughout the game. Additionally, I think that you could also keep those same settings, but drop the res to 720p and lock the refresh rate to 40hz and have a similar experience as above at 40fps with rare dips to 38/39, although I hadn't tested that one as thoroughly as the 30 option, if you wanted to keep the "prettiness". I wanted to bring that option up in the event that someone preferred it for whatever reason, but you unfortunately wouldn't be running at native res anymore so there is a trade off. Not saying that it's better than your recommendation by any means, just offering additional insight, hope that's okay.
I appreciate all of your hard work and the education that you provide so much! You're awesome. I look forward to the next one as I do every week! Waiting on the edge of my seat for The Witcher 3 update video lol
Of course that's okay, thank you for the insight! I did test lowering to 720p and it did help a bit, but the main bottleneck being the CPU really hurts our options, since a lot of the volumetric effects and AI are the same regardless of resolution 😞
Thank you for continuing to be a major supporter of the channel, I always look forward to hearing your thoughts and I hope to see you around for a while more.
As for the Witcher update, trust me that it's a major priority for me to cover as soon as possible 😉
Proton/Wine will not load the native d3d11 + dxgi from a game directory, instead it'll load Proton's/Wine's built in libraries which can be changed but seems a bit redundant
Ah, I completely forgot about that in the installation section, crap.
Thank you for pointing it out, I used WINEDLLOVERRIDES in my actual testing but missed it in the script 😓
Regardless, thank you for watching, and I hope the advice still helps!
That's... Bizzare.
I mean, I know I'm an old school player and I'm content playing a game at 30fps with some dips here and there, but in my 18 hours with this game I played so far with a generally stable 30fps setting everything to Original, no fsr, native resolution and 100% render scale with a 10 Watts tdp. It generally stays at around 16-17Watts of power consumption with roughly two hours and a quarter of playtime. 🤷🏻♂️
And it only crashed once so far, requiring me to force restart the machine.
Also, I don't notice stuttering, even if I have the Compdata and Shader Cache folders on the MicroSD along the game, even if everyone tells me my game should run very poorly this way. 😶
Interesting, even ProtonDB mentions constant crashing in most of the reviews 🤔 I haven't heard of someone besides you with good performance, and this was the most-requested game for me to cover (over 50 votes!) because of all the issues.
I'm not sure what magic you used on your Deck, but if you feel like sharing it I wouldn't be opposed 😅
Regardless, thank you so much for watching and sharing your experiences!
@@cryobyte33 does the game showing under the performance overlay Gamescope instead of Dxvk make any difference at all?
Does a picture of said Performance overlay help in any way?
By the way, is there a way to get a graph of the frames per second of a game over a defined amount of time using the Steam Deck alone? 🤔
@@azzart979 Nah, that just means I'm using MangoHUD rather than the built-in gamescope. They have identical performance, gamescope just uses Valve's custom layout.
You can definitely show me a picture, but IDK if it would help, I don't know why perf is so different 😅
As for getting the FPS, I use MangoHUD's built-in logging to get all the metrics for my graphs. Check out MangoHUD on GitHub and check under "FPS Logging". As for actually graphing it, they have a fairly limited site that can graph the generated logs, but I programmed my own log parser and render the graphs myself directly from the .csv files that are generated.
@@cryobyte33 thanks a lot, much appreciated! 😬
decky-loader is an addon you need (assumed you have here) and it doesn't not function in beta mode than after all that system toolbox plug in errors out and looks like never going to be updated.
Fantastic video as usual. You mentioned setting the ram to 4gb in bios....I'm drawing a blank, could you remind me?
Thank you for watching! If you want the whole spiel, check out my video "EASY & SAFE Health & Performance Boosts". If you just want to set it, you can just boot into BIOS and set the UMA Min Frame Size Buffer to 4G.
@@cryobyte33 I think I followed this video tutorial before I'll have to rewatch. Thanks so much
thank you goat
Thank you for watching, and being a subscriber!
Hey Cryo, great video as always. I have a request, can you take a look to UV the steamdeck? Aparently it can be done, a few days ago there was a post on reddit showing how to do it at a BIOS level.
Heya, thanks for watching!
I REALLY want to do that, but it requires Smokeless_UMAF, which has a small-but-not-zero chance to brick your Deck completely. I'm confident that I can do it, but I can't take a risk on it with only 1 Deck supporting this whole channel. As soon as I can get another Deck, I will 100% be doing UVs, OCs, and PID tuning.
Thank you for the suggestion, and sorry I can't get to it immediately 😓
@@cryobyte33 oh no problem man, i completely understand because while i love UV and tuning my pc to be more efficient i also only have one deck haha.
Cheers cryo, thanks for the good content, you fill a niche that other tech and gaming channels dont.
Amazing content. I hope you make days gone, callisto protocol soon too :))
Thank you for watching, and both are already on the list 🙂
I've noticed that the Decky plugin for System Toolbox, the setting for Linux Huge Pages does not stay on. I don't know if the setting just doesn't save at all but if you turn it on and reboot, it will revert to OFF every time.
Is there a way to do this manually in desktop mode to force it on all the time?
Interesting, mine has stayed on through reboots, maybe you have a sticky value somewhere?
As for doing it in Desktop mode, you'd need a custom sysctl unit or to modify /etc/sysctl.conf directly and add:
vm.nr_hugepages = NUM
Replace NUM with the number of pages you want the max size of a hugepage to be.
This is a good idea for an improvement to CryoUtilities, though 🤔 Thank you for watching and for the idea!
Great video! Would love to see you tackle Spider-Man next.
You earned a sub though :)
Thank you for watching and subscribing! My next few videos are called for, but I just bought Spider-Man in the sale today for this reason 😉
Happy holidays!
@@cryobyte33 Well regardless I look forward to the upcoming vids! Keep up the good work and happy holidays to you as well~
Wow. I like your channel. You have great...maybe the best contents about the deck yet! i give u a sub!
Thank you for watching, I'm happy you enjoy the content! Welcome to the community 🙂
any way to customize the amount of v-ram per game profile? lovely video as always. cheers!
Unfortunately no, since it's a BIOS setting. In theory, it shouldn't be necessary to set at all, but until AMD updates the firmware we're stuck fixing the default behavior 😞
Regardless, thank you for watching!
It would be helpful to have links to all the setting setups in the description! I presume it’s in your SAFE video as well? Gonna look now.
Yup! I mention it briefly in here, but referring back to it constantly would make the video 3 minutes longer, sorry about that 😅
Thank you for watching!
I was about to RMA my Steam Deck thinking it was defective. Didn’t realize the issue was with the game itself.
Nope, the PlayStation 4 ports just tend to have this issue, thankfully we can mitigate it quite a bit 🙂
Thanks for watching!
@@cryobyte33 I posted a video of this game crashing (link below). Is this how the Steam Deck behaves during a crash?
Note: This is before applying your fix.
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Omg yessssss GoW optimisations and testing!!! Today is going to be a good day
Thank you for watching, I think you'll really enjoy the outcome 😁
you do really cool videos, please keep them coming
Thank you for watching them, I’ll keep them coming!
Thanks Bro, you are awesome
Thank you for watching, I hope it helps!
My friend, tonight i noticed that in forza Horizon 4, if i use overlay screen 1 (only frames) i have a lot of stuttering, if i use overlay 4, It disappear!! How Is It possibile? The framepacing when i switch from 1 to 4 became instantanely smooth like butter!
@@m.s.9816 Does the stutter happen when the overlay is completely off? Also, which version of SteamOS are you using?
@@cryobyte33 os 3.3.2., Proton 7.0.5. i understand that seems incredibile, but when i use the complete overlay (4) the game runs a lot Better (maybe with 0 Is still ok, but not like 4).
@@m.s.9816 I swear I heard about this being an issue but I can't find where. I THINK it might be resolved in 3.4 🙁
Of course this video comes out a week after I finish the game. 😆
Sorry about that, it was a lot of testing! Thank you for watching!
Great video. Looking forward to your Death Stranding video in the future.
Thank you for watching! It won't be too far off, but my patrons voted for something else first, sorry! I'd love to upload 2-3 times a week, but with a day job I can't do that just yet 😅
No rush! All of your videos are great and helpful.
One last thing. We need to talk about people's reviews on protondb. Im tired of seeing verified or platinum game only for the review to say 10/10 all fine and then, just in passing, mention that it hard crashes all the time. Like its a minor thing. Marvel Midnight Sun HARD crashes your deck after every mission and people had raised its rating to PLATINUM by just giving it thumbs up and mentioning the consistent unavoidable crashing as if it was nothing. Others dont mention it at all so i guess they are only doing quick benchmarks and not actually playing the games which can give them the wrong impression
Agreed, I never actually listen to the ratings because of this, I always go and read the reviews themselves. I'm hoping that eventually I'll have reviewed enough games that people can use my videos as a compatibility score, but that's a long time away 😅
@@cryobyte33 i dont trust the verification anymore. Too many people are giving games ratings based on a quick glance instead of long sessions. Conversely some games have bad ratings because they require fixes and people dont read how to apply them (Atelier games require a dll to work with proton or they are a slideshow, i dont know why GE doesnt incorporate that fix but here we are) or are old games which requiere fixing on pc as well. I wish steam had a sort of workshop for community fixes or configs where we could apply community patches directly from steam like we do control mappings.
Excellent work, keep up the great performance dives!
Thank you for watching and being a big supporter of the channel ❤️
DO NOT use ingame fps limiter, i find it cause pretty bad frame pacing issue
There's a tradeoff here. The in-game limiter has worse frame pacing, but very little input latency. Using the overlay limiter has really good pacing, but very high latency.
Which one I recommend depends on the game, and I found that having higher input lag with the combat in God of War was a death sentence, whereas the frame pacing hit wasn't as detrimental.
That said, if you prefer one over another then definitely choose the other, thank you for watching!
@@cryobyte33 i personally use mangohud to limit the fps, it is somewhere between these two options
@@polly_2526 That's fair, if it gets easier to configure I may suggest that someday in the future.
Do you think steamos can handle the resolution of a switch oled? The color representation on the stock steam deck screen sucks
The Steam Deck's resolution is actually higher than the switch OLED, but OLED panels have different heat and voltage properties, so a simple screen swap probably isn't possible.
That said, check out the VibrantDeck decky plugin. It makes the colors MUCH better, and is a game-changer.
Thank you for watching!
amazing !!!!!
This shit wasn’t freezing for the first 17 hours but now at the end of the game its crashing non stop. Just wanna finish the game at this point, on the final boss now.