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.

  • scutiger@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I think Steam downloads are heavily compressed, and decompressing them is CPU intensive. As soon as a download finishes, my PC`s fans crank up like a jet engine while the game or update is being installed. The Deck doesn’t have the same available overhead, so it can struggle while installing stuff.

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

      Interesting. I wonder if that’s why my SD card has issues installing then. Trying to download and unpack at the same time and it’s just not feasible.