CryoUtilities for Steam Deck updated to v2.0, adds Huge Pages and Clear Game Data features
Steam Deck users can rejoice once again, as the performance improving script, CryoUtilities by CryoByte33, has been updated to version 2.0.
If you are a Steam Deck user, making use of the CryoUtilities script is a must if you want to get the best performance overall for each and every game you play on the Deck. For those unaware, CryoUtilities is a script specifically tailored and developed to increase the performance of the Steam Deck by making changes to some of the default configurations that the SteamOS comes with. These changes give massive improvements to performance of not only default Steam games, but also can help in a lot of more resource-heavy emulators, like Yuzu/Ryujinx for Nintendo Switch. Some of the most important changes are:
- Modifies Swap file size from the default 1GB to a recommended one of 16GB.
- Modifies "swapiness" to be 1 as recommended.
- Enables Huge Pages for the Linux-based SteamOS.
- Enables shared memory in THP for SteamOS.
- Disables Compaction Proactiveness for SteamOS.
- Disables Huge Pages defragmentation for SteamOS.
- Sets Page Lock Unfariness to 1 as recommended.
- Sync game data to the storage device where the game is actually installed into (i.e. leave game data on SSD if installed on SSD, or move ALL game data to an external SD if it's installed on the external SD).
- An option to delete ALL game data for certain games, as currently the Steam uninstaller leaves remnants of some of the game's files, particularly shaders and some save files (this is certainly helpful for users with Steam Decks with only 64GB of internal storage).