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?
Prior to the OLED, I had always been shutting down my LCD Deck between sessions. Starting with the OLED, while playing Hades (looks great on this new display) I decided to try the direct sleep route (with an active game session). However, I noticed I was getting audio crackles in game, after powering the device back on from sleep.
So, I’ve now just resigned to leaving the game, and sleeping the Deck from the home screen (this doesn’t appear to cause any audio bugs upon restoring).
It absolutely boggles my mind that Valve hasn’t fixed this bug after YEARS.
You mean 1.5 years of the steam deck?
It’s 15% of 10 years!
😆
Yup, just beat Hades on the Deck and it was very annoying that sleep doesn’t work. That’s one thing I still appreciate about playing my Switch.
Did you pause the game, then sleep? I always sleep with a game running and haven’t had an audio issue in a long time. I’ve always paused the game first though and it seems like a lot of people don’t? Haven’t played much hades on the deck though
Hmm, I feel like I wasn’t. Will give it a shot with the game paused.
If you’re not opposed to using Decky plugins, you could try the Pause Games plugin. Enable the option “Pause before suspend”. Haven’t had any audio issues with that.