• gerykelf@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I wish we could go lower. I use my steamdeck for studying on the go. Mainly PDF documents. I wish I could go as low as 1hz.

    • ZeldaMaster32@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      On top of what the other guy said, looking at PDFs on a display running at 1hz vs 40hz shouldn’t make a big difference in battery life. My understanding is the biggest battery drainers on a device like this are the display’s backlight, APU, and RAM

      So lowering your brightness would give a bigger improvement than refresh rate.

    • ZenDragon@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Latency might suck but the built in frame limiter seems to have overall more consistent timing than other ones I’ve tried.

    • Swallagoon@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yes of course, it’s unlikely that will ever be fixed. For now just bypass it completely and use Mango hud commands for an actually usable limiter with low latency.

      • brunomarquesbr@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Yes of course, it’s unlikely that will ever be fixed. For now just bypass it completely and use Mango hud commands for an actually usable limiter with low latency.

        Is there a way to shorten the command? Or make something default for all?

          • pwnedbygary@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Its an environment variable I believe, something like this:

            MANGOHUD_CONFIG=fps_limit=40, no_display mangohud %command%

        • TiZ_EX1@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Since the latency of Gamescope’s FPS limiter still seems to be a problem, and we’re still doing a pretty slapdash thing of using MangoHUD’s limiter instead, I went ahead and made a script that makes it just a little cleaner.

          After you save it and update your PATH variable as documented there, you can just use mangolimiter [-f FPS] %command% as the launch command.

          • brunomarquesbr@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            So FYI, the path addition did not work. The folder environments.d wasn’t there, and even after I created, nothing happened, it did not recognize it.

            So I ended up adding the following line to .bashrc directly. Also, “mangolimiter” is quite long to type in Deck’s screen, so I’ve shorten to “fps”. I’ll remove the -f parameter, probably, so in the end is going to be just “fps 40 %command%” , but thanks for it

            export PATH=“/home/deck/.local/bin:$PATH”

            • TiZ_EX1@alien.topBEnglish
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              10 months ago

              If you created the folder environments.d, then you did it wrong; that directory doesn’t have an s in it. It’s $HOME/.config/environment.d. That will be why it didn’t work. Also, you likely have to at least restart Steam after making a change there, because those configuration files are read at session start.

              • IsaacLightning@alien.topBEnglish
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                10 months ago

                Did i set it up wrong? my game keeps crashing when I try it. I made a mangolimiter folder inside bin, but was that just supposed to be the file itself? also its saved as a .sav that wouldn’t let me execute it no matter what, so I just did the chmod command

    • YoBoy467@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’m not sure, but it feels a bit better. At least for me. But I didn’t touch my deck for some time, so it may just be my imagination

    • TiZ_EX1@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Probably, yeah. There has been radio silence on the github issue about it for a long time.They haven’t shared any of the relevant issues in xwayland, which tells me they don’t want a bunch of angry tryhard gamers harassing the X.org folks. And you all shouldn’t harass the gamescope folks about it either; this issue is probably complex to solve because there are a lot of moving parts.

      It’s probably not even a consistent phenomenon. Some games are improved by having the frame limiter on. For example, SoulCalibur VI has absolutely garbage frame pacing without the limiter, and the latency increase from turning it on isn’t noticeable.

  • ir0ngut@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A picture with no description of the problem or the solution says nothing.

  • rkaycom@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Thank god, I was confused, it’s better to set refresh rate to 40 and use vsync in game then the steam deck’s frame rate limiter