I’ve been running it with Genshin Impact for a month now. 90fps at very pretty graphical settings, and still barely warm to the touch. Given how I have to play with 200ms+ latency anyway it’s just free real-estate!

Yet to get it working with Control with HDR though.

Much like people who craft their games with human hands aren’t really serious about AI generated art.

And yet, even on stable everything, Decky did break with the update thanks to TabMaster regressions :(

Well obviously.

Even still, it is perfectly feasible for Valve to implement an install queue that we can add to from a phone that starts downloading only when a given Deck turns on. Maybe even put a device’s required or scheduled game updates on that interface too for us to manage and for the Deck to pull on wake.

Secondly, the Deck’s might not actually have any hardware to turn itself on on a schedule like phones do, but at least if it had a remote download queue, we could automate sending our own Decks WoL packets every now and then and have them automatically install new games.

Plus, the Decks can turn themselves on from S4 when plugging in at least, so maybe even with the current hardware there are things Valve can do here that I can’t imagine.

Having a power-saving download mode is only the first step. There’s still a lot of useful features we’ve long been requesting left to do that can be achieved, and I’m hopeful more of them will!

Hopefully this leads to being able to queue game installs remotely without the Deck having to be on. And if it can wake up when charging to do the same, even better!