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[–] M500@lemmy.ml 39 points 10 months ago (12 children)

The suspend feature is wildly important for me.

If I had to boot a game and shut it down each time, I’d only pickup the device when I had set aside time to game.

Since I can suspend and resume whenever, I pickup my steam deck all the time. I can play in the car and just suspend when we arrive or I can play for a few minutes while waiting for a meeting to start.

I can play while my wife gets ready.

Sometimes meets get canceled or there is traffic, so gaming sessions can really stretch out into a longer play time.

If I couldn’t suspend, I wouldn’t have played in those moments.

[–] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

My experience with suspend has not been good - causing glitching and requiring shutting the game down and reloading from a previous save whenever I suspended in a cut scene. As a result I haven't used it much due to those first couple of trials; maybe it's better now.

[–] lyam23@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you don't use suspend mid game, what do you do? Do you shut the device down in between gaming sessions? Or do you just save and exit the game and suspend the OS level?

[–] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Usually I just suspend in-game to the game's menu, then hardware-suspend. That's pretty reliable.

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