I’ve been having random issues playing games (various) while downloading games to my SD card.

For example:

I’m downloading Mass Effect Legendary and wanted the game to continue to download in the background on my SD card. I play Cyberpunk 2077 for a bit, and after about 15 minutes the deck crashes and restarts.

I then tested the opposite, playing a game on my SD card while downloading a game to the SSD. Same issue.

Anyone else seeing this? Could be a bad or failing SD card. It takes ages for anything to write to it. I have reformatted it in the past and disabled WiFi Power Control under the dev settings to try to “fix” the hills and valleys while I install games on it over 2-3 GB.

  • ag10n@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    There’s an ssd mode in CP2077, try turning that off

    High-end games will hammer whatever storage you’re using, I have no issues running rimworld and downloading games, but wouldn’t expect CP2077 and downloading at the same time

    • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Ah it’s no big deal. Just a behavioral issue on my end then.

      I wouldn’t care if the SD card wrote a bit faster. I mean I get approximately 20-50 Mbps down from Steam. Taking ~12 hours to download 100 gigs to an SD card is a little insane.

      I can do the same process on my SSD in ~1 hour for what it’s worth.