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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 3 days ago

[Deck] Issues playing games while installing/downloading games on SD card?

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[Deck] Issues playing games while installing/downloading games on SD card?

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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 3 days ago

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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.

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Yeah I just assumed I’d drop a few frames. Guess I’ll stick to playing Celeste or something like that if I’m playing anything while downloading.

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