The Official Steam Deck Thread

[farlaff]

Captain_Yuri said:

farlaff said:

Yeah, maybe that will happen to me as well, at least until a Switch 2 (Deck might make me skip a Switch upgrade). The only beef that I have with that is the fact the Deck won't be based on Arm technology and thus I probably won't be able to simply press a button, stopping the game altogether so that I can just forget it up till the moment I pick it up again.

The suspend and resume function isn't a hardware feature with Arm. Steam Deck actually has that exact feature if you continue to use it's default OS.

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware

"We’ve built a quick suspend / resume feature into SteamOS. Press the power button, and Steam Deck will suspend your game and go into sleep mode. Push the power button again and it will wake up right where you left off."

Awesome! I thought you needed Arm to make that happen easily, but I'm glad I did not know better. Thanks for the info!