Steam Deck | 5 Tips For Better Battery Life + Performance

Here are my top 5 Tips & Tricks on how to improve your battery life and system performance on the Steam Deck!

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Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Disclaimer
1:04 - Tip #1
4:03 - Tip #2
5:13 - Tip #3
6:30 - Tip #4
9:17 - Tip #5
12:40 - Final Thoughts
13:58 - Outro
14:34 - Member Shoutouts!

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[Nicktechnoo]

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[nativerezmedia]

If you get a constant 40fps... change the TDP as well so you're gpu/cpu doesn't over work too, you'll get an extra 30-45+ mins.

[justarandomstranger]

For the past week since i bought my steam deck, what I only do is keep on tinkering on it and it's satisfying for me 😂

[ChiefSock]

Mine comes tomorrow, can't wait to try this!

[sinned]

currently playing the yakuza series on it and i needed something like this to save battery thanks!

[xpthegamerx]

Great information man am still waiting for my steam deck 😃

[vulcan]

These videos make me want to buy this immediately

[codyjaymz]

Soooo stoked for this thing, mine comes in two days 🎉

[Oyvind]

Great tips & tricks and video, love my steam deck😃👌

[mindesik]

Genius comparing FSR on resolution that is 1:1 screen pixels 🤦‍♂️

[frankiepoindexter]

I'm ordering my Steam Deck in a few days. I only plan on playing Quake (with Quakespasm) and Brutal Doom (with GZDoom) on this thing for the most part, as well as a few Retroarch games. So hopefully I'm able to get 6 hours of life out of this thing and I'll be happy. Thanks for the tips!

[ActionJaxonH]

Huh? You're not gonna see ANY change from 800p to 720p. They're the EXACT SAME RESOLUTION, but one is 16:10 and the other 16:9 aspect ratios. 720p just adds black bars at the top. That's it.

[Dracossaint]

FSR also supports 540p and I believe 480p.

[zombiejesus]

I was wondering if it would save battery for streaming through steam from a PC to the deck? I tried moonlight and my internet sucks (I think) and there was a lot of stuttering.

Tonight Ii am going to test streaming from my PC to my deck. The only problem I have with my battery is with Jedi Fallen Order. Every other game doesn't burn through my battery at all (running off the deck).

Fallen order, It seems like I burn 25% of the battery per 30mins or so

[-Crustyboi-]

@VicariousNick I have a weird question? Do you know approx. how long the Deck battery would last if it was on idle mode on lowest brightness and no wifi connected/airplane mode off?

Trying to download a game but I have slow hotspot and I don't want to turn off my Deck when I leave house or the download will restart.

[morganfreeman]

I bought a used steam deck yesterday, extremely happy with it. But i was playing spiderman and it died so quick 😭 leade to this video hope these tips help me

[AyaWetts]

I am not sure that footage was 1280x800... it had black bars on the top and bottom like 720p does because 720p is the wrong aspect ratio for that screen. I would prefer (if the game supports) to go all the way down to 960x600, and then FSR helps a lot, and you are giving it a nice performance boost, along with using less GPU/power.

[paulc]

Only thing I didn’t like was the wreck fest thing at the end where it was on an hour and 40 but your claiming doing every tip from start to finish you would get over 3 hours but never actually showed that massive jump

[keepitshort]

Does the power tool plugin work as there was a bug ? Updates actually break some plug-ins so wanted to know

[mohammedkadim]

Should you play with charger on or off?