Thank you for the comment, pay no heed to the downvotes. I appreciate you watching the stream and for reading my comment here!

Thank you so much, have a great day!

Firstly, thank you for watching the content, and for using CU!

Secondly, it sounds like either GameScope or the Steam client failed to start properly on your way back into game mode. Nothing CU does (or the 4GB of VRAM) should cause that, so I think you’ll be fine as long as it doesn’t continue happening :)

Thanks for using CU on your new Deck as well, I’m happy that you’ve had good luck with it!

I’m hoping to start more extensive testing tomorrow, now that the weekend is over, stay tuned!

Thank you so much, it’s astounding to me that I’ve reached as many people as I have. I’ll keep doing my best to help :)

Thank you so much for the kind words, I don’t plan on stopping any time soon!

I’ll make a note of TW3, thank you for letting me know! I’m just happy that it’s still helping people :D

Popping in to give my 2 cents, as the person who hosted the stream and developed the tool.

TL;DR: The results in the stream were largely good, with 1 game having slight negatives and the other 2 games being better with CU2. Saying “it’s dead” is an extreme overreaction, especially considering I tested games that have historically benefitted very litte from CU2. The entire reason I chose those games is because I wanted to make sure that the “worst” ones would still not suffer, further testing with games that should actually benefit is necessary.

Here are the exact numbers, in the order I tested them:

Red Dead 2 got better performance with CU, even WITH the 200/1040 bug on the CU runs:

Default Preset had a substantially better minimum, and was much smoother:

Without CU:
Min - 22.0081
Max - 63.9321
Average - 49.8511

With CU + 1GB VRAM:
Min - 28.6349
Max - 63.2811
Average - 50.6368

“Prefer Quality” Preset was slightly better across the board:

Without CU:
Min - 19.3353
Max - 59.8151
Average - 46.3316

With CU + 1GB VRAM:

Min - 21.7967
Max - 59.4665
Average - 47.0571

Cyberpunk 2077 had minor losses, but it seems that it is at least partially the fault of having less RAM with 4GB of VRAM, needs more testing:

Steam Deck Preset lost about 1FPS:

Without CU:
48.61

With CU + 4GB VRAM:
47.88

High Preset also lost about 1 FPS:

Without CU:
43.87

With CU + 4GB VRAM:
42.88

Horizon Zero Dawn had gains nearly across the board:
Original Preset was within margin of error:

Without CU:
9/50/97

With CU + 4GB VRAM:
8/51/99

Ultimate Preset had gains in both highs and lows:

Without CU:
9/36/70

With CU + 4GB VRAM:
12/36/76