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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).

For a more in-depth analysis on what each and every one of the features from CryoUtilities do, please refer to CryoByte33's video about the latest update.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Would any of these changes affect battery life? I've been playing Yakuza 4 Remastered on my Steam Deck, and for some reason, even though it's not a graphically-intensive game or anything, it drains the battery from 100% down to 5% in an hour to an hour and a half. For some reason, the Steam Deck thinks it needs to go balls-to-the-wall full-force to run the Yakuza games.

That's not an issue of CryoUtilities itself, but rather poor settings on the Deck's options.
For each and every game, I suggest you use the option for setting Watts and GPU clocks manually from the Decks options menu.

Press on the 3 dots button while on Gaming Mode with Yakuza running.ok the background, then browse to the icon that has a battery icon.

In here, I suggest you enable the FPS viewer, so you can watch the FPS live, then go down to the Watts option and start lowering the Watts usage to a number that still holds the 60fps for that game, once you find the sweet spot, play a little and see if the 60 are maintained, if not, then set a slightly higher number of Watts. Once that is done, do the same for the GPU clock speeds.

I had a similar issue with all of the Resident Evil games, initially with RE0 which was getting temps around 70°C and around an hour and a half to two hours of battery time, but after tweaking the Watts and GPU clocks, I doubled the battery life and had the temperatures lower to around 50-60°C.

These options are KEY for most games to get the best performance possible for each and every game. And even better, if you toggle the "per-game profile" option, the settings you set are automatically applied on each game boot, so it's a one and done thing.

 

[trepp0]

Wish i knew about this before my play through of horizon zero dawn.

Post automatically merged: Feb 21, 2023

That's not an issue of CryoUtilities itself, but rather poor settings on the Deck's options.
For each and every game, I suggest you use the option for setting Watts and GPU clocks manually from the Decks options menu.

Press on the 3 dots button while on Gaming Mode with Yakuza running.ok the background, then browse to the icon that has a battery icon.

In here, I suggest you enable the FPS viewer, so you can watch the FPS live, then go down to the Watts option and start lowering the Watts usage to a number that still holds the 60fps for that game, once you find the sweet spot, play a little and see if the 60 are maintained, if not, then set a slightly higher number of Watts. Once that is done, do the same for the GPU clock speeds.

I had a similar issue with all of the Resident Evil games, initially with RE0 which was getting temps around 70°C and around an hour and a half to two hours of battery time, but after tweaking the Watts and GPU clocks, I doubled the battery life and had the temperatures lower to around 50-60°C.

These options are KEY for most games to get the best performance possible for each and every game. And even better, if you toggle the "per-game profile" option, the settings you set are automatically applied on each game boot, so it's a one and done thing.

For me i have discovered that watching the fps kind of ruins the immersion for me, i spend more time looking at it than the gameplay, might just be adhd tho

 

[ShadowOne333]

For me i have discovered that watching the fps kind of ruins the immersion for me, i spend more time looking at it than the gameplay, might just be adhd tho

You just have to watch the FPS while you're setting up the GPU and Watt settings, after that you can toggle it off and play just fine.
I leave it on in case I stumble into a case in the game where the FPS drops, then I bump up one of the two settings manually if desired, but that's it.

 

[CloudStrife190100]

Is it definitely worth doing this then when my deck arrives via post?

 

[linuxares]

Is it definitely worth doing this then when my deck arrives via post?

One word: yes

 

[CloudStrife190100]

One word: yes

Sweet hopefully it'll arrive sometime this week. Already purchased some games via the steam library already and a dock 😂

Feel like a kid waiting for Christmas 😂

 

[CoryPugh]

Really good! unavoidable for all Steam Decks.