You are beyond clueless lol.

The fucking IRONY. Dude I’ve been a sysadmin devsecops engineer for 2 decades.

It’s fine if someone says that they don’t think CU2 is good and makes valid points with evidences to back it up

He has. That’s the thing: He has. You’re just too dumb to understand what’s being said. Multiple people have. What about this for a valid point: What use is a 16GB swap file if literally 0 bytes of it are in use?

On one hand you have a linux veteran with decade of experiences

All of us have decades of experience. Believe it or not, but there are actually lots and lots of people who’ve been using Linux for a very long time out there.

And none of us (including cryobyte) are anywhere near the top of the tree. Not even close.

it’s not even close to what Cryo does.

It’s actually interesting you say that, because it’s long since been pointed out that Cryo’s own videos don’t prove his point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5MiVEle_fE&t=821s

I’d like you to watch that video and provide evidence as to why he recommends a 4GB vram buffer. His own charts show it as slower… Yet he recommends it anyway.

just making a video showcasing 1 game with it isn’t enough

Here’s the obvious truth: There is no amount of evidence that will be enough. This German dude has benchmarked 120 fucking games for fucks sake, and this post is still littered with people refusing to acknowledge that there is no benefit to “CU2”.

Cryo himself said he tried to have a technical conversation with him back when CU came out but he was apparently being a total asshole.

I’ve spoken with him myself, and I can tell you now: He cannot explain why a 16GB swap file is necessary if it literally isn’t being used at all.

Not that I have any grudge nor disrespect for the guy, quite the opposite. His utility is a nice tool. The main issue I have is the “reccomended settings” part, because it obfuscates the good tweaks from the bad. And it’s not his fault at all, but his fandom is such that it OBVIOUSLY is hampering debate about what tweaks are valuable, which aren’t, and how to push things forward.

Just because you don’t understand what’s being said doesn’t make it “cringe”.

He deserves it. This subreddit can be extremely anti-intellectual and it drives away those with actual knowledge from bothering to contribute. If you don’t understand what the tweaks behind Cryoutilities do, surely it’s pretty obvious that you have little to add to the discussion?

People will justify their actions with bullshit excuses. “He didn’t provide evidence” - he has. “He wasn’t very nice about making his points” - he has been attacked relentlessly for months and has every right to be annoyed.

And it’s FAR from just Deathblade. There are actually loads of us who’ve raised concerns about some of the tweaks employed by the CryoUtilities tool. Setting swappiness to a low value? Sure, probably a decent idea. Turning on transparent hugepages? Probably helps some workloads, probably hurts others.

But setting a 16GB swap file on a 64GB deck was always downright a very bad idea, for example. Turning off memory defragmentation is obviously going to have consequences as uptime increases.

But why bother sharing knowledge on here and getting relentless downvotes and abuse? Honestly, ask yourself: Would you have bothered to speak up? I know I didn’t.

My main issue with “CryoUtilities” is the way that the application has become much bigger than the tweaks it employs.

It’s actually a really useful utility. It’s the blanket application of “recommended settings” that grinds my gears.

There are some settings that are likely to be broadly helpful: Swappiness for example.

Others are likely to help performance in some games, not in others: Transparent hugepages for example.

There are also some I don’t reccomend: 16GB Swap file for example.

The problem is that by bunching these disparate tweaks together, you obfuscate which are helping, which are hindering and which are doing neither. It’s just bad practice.

GTAV, Forza*, Assassins Creed, Hitman 3… Loads of games run better on Windows.

Cyberpunk, TLOU, Hogwarts, Doom Eternal… Loads of games also run better on SteamOS.

It is entirely down to the game you are playing. The only logical solution is to dual boot.

I’ll agree with one thing though. People need to stop spam posting their decks. Jesus Christ. We know what they look like.

OP is a bit of a mardy bum no doubt, but they (and you) are right about this. The moderation of this subreddit is dire. There are so many utter shit posts that they drown out legitimate/interesting discussion or news.

I’d love to unsubscribe but occasionally there are really great posts with valuable information that you won’t find elsewhere. I’ve learned quite a bit from clever folk posting to this sub.

I think this is true for quite a few modern games unfortunately - it’s quite problematic with only 1TB of NVMe storage.

Ratchet and Clank is a really obvious example, but there are quite a few others. Starfield ran much better from NVMe for me, modern Forza games, Cyberpunk and CoD also. As you say: It’s not just loading screens but texture streaming issues and stuttering too.

Windows 10 is better for certain online games such as Valorant, because on Windows 11 they require Secure Boot to be enabled which the Steam Deck doesn’t support.

But conversely Windows 11 offers better touch support than 10.

There’s not a lot in it in terms of performance.

I’ve had my Samsung ram overclocked for 6 months.

I repeat: This is just laughably authoritative considering you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.

Run: “sudo dmidecode” from a konsole window in game mode, and then scan through the output. You’ll see the make and model of the ram listed.

FYI though both Micron and Samsung ram is overclockable.

Though it’s the most unstable and easily brickable of all Steam Deck overclocks, so I wouldn’t, personally. If you do have Samsung RAM… don’t even think about it.

This is just laughably authoritative considering you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.

It’s not just that they’ve only given 7 day notice. It’s worse than that: They’ve actively been giving interviews very much suggesting - though not stating outright - that no new Steam Deck is coming for months, only to drop it with no warning.

I’ve had my deck for a year or so and personally I was really happy to see an updated model because it will only improve the community around the product. But I can totally understand why anyone who bought in recent months would be pissed off.

Where are you seeing this?

Eh. It would have been nice, but the higher the refresh rate the less VRR matters, because the vsync interval is more frequent anyway.

And as you’ve pointed out, usually VRR only works down to 40hz anyway, and you also need to apply a frame rate limiter to stop from exceeding the panel refresh.

Personally I’d say the bigger bummer is that the display is only 90Hz in the first place. The LCD screen can be overclocked to 70Hz so it’s really not that much better. 120Hz or even 144Hz would have been a much bigger improvement.