Especially with the 3.5 preview/beta update I’ve been seeing a lot of people say that the stuff CryoUtilities does is wack and doesn’t really work, and one dude even went as far as to call it a placebo in a post where I mentioned it.

Does stuff like the swap file and swappiness, amongst other things, really boost performance and all that? Or is it just a waste of time and (storage) space?

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    Meanwhile Cryo when publishing his tools showed performance comparisons before and after

    The issue is that he’s really the only one who’s properly benchmarked his own tool. Given how prevalent it is I’d have expected someone else like DF to properly look at it.

    So, better question would be “I have issues with how game X plays on SD. Will Cryo help or make it even worse?”

    That’s the best way to treat it for me. The only game I’ve ever had to use it for was God of War, and I noticed no improvement with anything else I played.

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      Yeah, that’s surprising that people can argue whenever it works for months, but no one wants to actually put in the work to check. I guess it’s too small of a topic for DF. Maybe now when OLED will be out their cover it more, as their resident handheld gamers hated the old screen :D

      I liked that Cryo would sometimes make a vids for certain games to check which settings from his tools should be used, and how, to get most out of the game. Even Cryo doesn’t believe this is silver bullet that “fixes” steam deck.

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      While I am surprised that there aren’t more benchmarks out, this isn’t a paid tool. If you spend the 5 minutes it takes to try it, and don’t feel like it was worth it then simply uninstall like anything else.

      He’s not asking for money or begging for donations and I feel that makes a big difference on how much professional scrutiny is required

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      If there was an easy way to log data like the frame times on the Deck, then there probably would be at least a few people doing benchmarks.