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[BennyBlanco]

Today we are adding a new feature to Steam Deck, enabling it to complete all active downloads in a new display-off low-power mode, before going to sleep. This feature is enabled by default when Steam Deck is plugged in to power, and can also be enabled on battery power in Settings > Power.

Display-off downloads are accessible in two ways. While Steam Deck is downloading content, pressing the power button now brings up a new dialog, asking whether you'd like to continue downloading with the screen off. Select Continue, and Steam Deck will go into the new low-power download mode. In addition, Steam Deck will automatically go into this mode after an idle timeout.

While in this mode, if you press a button or move Steam Deck, a new status screen will be shown with download progress (see above). From here you can fully wake Steam Deck or let it continue downloading with the screen off.


When this feature is active on battery power, Steam Deck will automatically go to full sleep mode if the battery level falls below 20%.

This feature is now available on Steam Deck in the Beta and Preview channels.

Steam Deck - Display-Off Downloads - Steam News

Steam Deck now has a display-off low-power download mode

store.steampowered.com

About time. Damn.

 

[IFireflyl]

Next up: SteamOS for desktop. Get to it, Gabe!

 

[GHG]

Finally.

It was annoying to have to put it in to desktop mode every time I download a batch of games on the OLED.

Makes me wonder what the hell took them so long. I'd also like some kind of screensaver option if possible, it would be especially useful in desktop scenarios with OLED displays.

 

[kevboard]

one step closer to being console-like.

it should automatically shut down tho, not go to sleep. Xbox does it the best, if you download something and turn the system off, it will actually go into a low power state to complete the download and then shut completely off once it's done.

 

[jshackles]

This has been one of my biggest gripes with the Deck for years, glad to see they're finally tackling it

 

[Magic Carpet]

But I liked seeing my Steamdeck sitting on the counter downloading with the screen on. The Bigger the game the better.

 

[Quasicat]

Finally! I think I have it set up to run for like two hours once it hits the dock, but this more automatic! The Steam Deck has because my favorite handheld/emulation machine!

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

nice!

 

[64gigabyteram]

FINALLY

 

[kiphalfton]

Finally! I think I have it set up to run for like two hours once it hits the dock, but this more automatic! The Steam Deck has because my favorite handheld/emulation machine!

It is a great handheld. It deserves more praise honestly. OS just works, UI is good, and isn't a pain in the ass to deal with.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

 

[BennyBlanco]

It is a great handheld. It deserves more praise honestly. OS just works, UI is good, and isn't a pain in the ass to deal with.

Emulation beast as well. Whoever did all that free work on EmuDeck is a saint on earth.

 

[IDKFA]

It is a great handheld. It deserves more praise honestly. OS just works, UI is good, and isn't a pain in the ass to deal with.

I've heard a lot of great things, but holding out for the Steam Deck 2. Or the Valve home console/PC hybrid............or both.

 

[StereoVsn]

It only took 78 years!

Seriously though, I wonder why this functionality took this long. Is there something buried in Arch base that prevented screen off downloading?

 

[Quasicat]

It is a great handheld. It deserves more praise honestly. OS just works, UI is good, and isn't a pain in the ass to deal with.

It's made me want to get back into PC gaming, but running SteamOS or Bazzite instead of Windows. I like the customization of the system but not needing to update and maintain drivers.

 

[Durin]

Sweet!

Getting closer to the dream of just having system updates and game updates that get pushed to the device after it's already asleep doing the background downloading thing.

 

[bitbydeath]

But I liked seeing my Steamdeck sitting on the counter downloading with the screen on. The Bigger the game the better.

Ah, well.
Back to watching defragging then.

 

[CrustyBritches]

Nice. Took them long enough. Love my Deck, though.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Ah, well.
Back to watching defragging then.

That unlocked an old memory.

 

[Sept Terrion Of Nothing]

I was using black screen app from decky but this is much more effective. Valve taking slow, sure. But they deliver

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

At this point I'm not sure we should be congratulating them for something that so obviously should have been there from the beginning, but whatever - glad it's there either way.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Emulation beast as well. Whoever did all that free work on EmuDeck is a saint on earth.

Speaking of EmuDeck, there is no way to get Ryujinx canary updates except downloading manually on sites, right??

 

[BennyBlanco]

Speaking of EmuDeck, there is no way to get Ryujinx canary updates except downloading manually on sites, right??

Yeah you have to do it manually.

I recently ran EmuDeck on my desktop and had to do all the switch stuff on my own. It's crazy how smooth and clean that whole process is for free hobbyist software.