02:16 You don't need to press the 3 dot button. Just press and hold the Volume Up button and press the Power button. You can release the Volume Up button immediately after pressing the power button..
Installed that and performance tools and it’s legit a ball changer. Without them Undisputed a boxing game recently released was running at 10-15 fps now it’s locked at a perfect 30. Amazing.
In my limited testing, this utility shines the brightest when the interconnects between the parts are heavily loaded - IE when large amounts of shader comp or other data streaming is going on. Dead Space and Horizon would be good examples of this. These tiny tweaks to memory handling allow the CPU to spend more time feeding the GPU in those cases. That's where those unusually high boosts to average FPS come from. In lighter games the primary benefit will probably be a slight boost to your 1% lows - basically any situation where a higher latency memory task occurs.
I wish every single tech video on RU-vid was as good as this one. Clear, concise, I was able to follow along step by step as it played! Thanks for such a great video, I look forward to testing CryoUtilities out!
These kinds of tweaks are awesome. I play pretty much all modern games at 30 FPS on mine to preserve battery life (even at 30 FPS and a mix of low and original a game like God of War clocks in at about 2 hours, I wouldn't want to push it further) but for someone who is pushing for 60, especially if someone is docking their deck, this is an amazing utility.
@@deckverse I have! It’s what got me interested in making the changes in the first place. This video was just the right bite-sized nudge I needed to make it happen.
Just installed this a week ago! I got almost 10 fps in Hogwarts Legacy with some tweaking, and it eliminated a ton of the stuttering, especially in Hogsmeade. Great video!
@@MrSmegmasteve no the settings in cryoutilities are global for all games. Hogwarts Legacy did get a good performance boost using it and also using proton-ge version 49+
been watching you for years.... ypu helped me build custome pi arcade cabs and much more. ive been away for awhile, but just got an oled deck, so ill be going through your great deck vids
I’ll say this just made my steam deck more snappy. Mine would take a few seconds to exit games and now it exits so much faster. The game proformance has been a bit better not not crazy gains. It’s definitely worth doing.
Just getting demanding games to 45fps is more than enough let alone 30 depending on the game. Some might hit 60 with adjustments. Long as it’s playable and a good experience, that’s what fundamentally matters.
@@starscream6629 oh for sure 45fps doesn’t feel much different than 60fps but sure as hell is noticeable compared 30 lol. I like games to be at least 40. That’s very enjoyable to me.
The only thing I'd recommend before doing this is making sure you have enough free space on you SSD. I believe the recommend Cryo setting will want enough of free space to increase the swap file, I think the defult is either 8 or 16GB.
Current version is 2.1.4 by the way. There was a recent steam OS update as well, so performance is even better. Did a benchmark on shadow of the tomb raider maxed out on every setting with 37 fps average min 30. So if that’s what ultra max AA gets you, tweaking settings can get 60fps. It is game by game as well as what proton you’re using as well as your steam settings but the gains over stock or standard is quite obvious especially when it comes to stutter. I would imagine this would reflect in emulation perhaps as well.
My steamdeck has become a bit of a Fallout76 machine of late.... This improves the performance noticably so. Running much smoother at a mix of medium to high settings at 40fps. I wouldn't go as far as to say locked but it running a lot closer to 40 than 30 prety darn consistently and has definitely reduces the stutter that was occuring when new chubks of the map are being loaded in (or what I assume are new chunks being loaded in !). Thanks for the clear guide as always ETA, much appreciated ;)
Great tutorial! It made Treypang 2 run a lot better. I was looking up, tutorials to just get Treypang to work better, but this is a great asset to have on the steam deck for multiple games. Thank you for this great scrip. 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🙏
Ok, so this is if you don't have it installed? I don't have this on my SD yet, but I've been noticing issues with games, but I'm late to the party. The videos I were looking at I guess I thought it was if you already had Cryoutilities installed. This has been a very simplistic explanation and I definitely appreciate it bc I am not the most tech savvy, but don't know anyone who is, so I don't want to mess my SD up. So it's been taking me some time to do this. I appreciate the clear and concise instructions.
i JUST picked up my deck after ignoring it for some time, thought i'd find tricks on youtube and to my surprise an eta prime video dropped 17 minutes ago
My biggest kind of open question about CryoUtilities is "Why didn't Valve make these the system defaults themselves?" The only thing I can think of, at least as far as the swap file size change is concerned, is that they expected the 64GB model to be the top selling SKU and didn't want to take 16 GB of that space away. But some of the other things, like 4GB dedicated VRAM or the swappiness settings seem like they should still be doable on the 64GB one.
@@chrisperrywv there’s no need to explain everyone knows, they made the steam deck only to test their little science project skills just like they usually did with all of their hardwares and they didn’t expect it to be this popular
@@jamesmiles3341 This is one of the crazier takes I’ve seen on this lol. They didn’t include them in order for there to be no major performance discrepancies between the 64 GB model and the higher ones from a marketing perspective, due to the size of the drive being a factor regarding the swap size and swappiness, and the additional space taken up by going beyond the 1 GB default especially on the lowest model.
Cryro utilities was developed by a Linux Dev with 20 years of experience. His fix was the only fixed that worked for me. I highly recommend his work. Everyone else is just randoms compared to him.
If anyone is curious about part of the theme he is running. Its the Pip-Boy theme that i appart in creating. You can change the colour to whatever you want. Have fun!
After installing and using the recommended settings, I lost the statistics screen where it shows fps. After restarting the game mode, it appears, but as soon as I start changing the value, it disappears and does not appear until I restart the game mode. Tell me how to fix this
Cryoutilities sounds interesting! Maybe i'll check it out. And i turned my steamdeck into an emulator that's what I use it for. I do play some steamgames though shooter looters like borderlands or JRPGs.
Hey I’m a little late, but I’m certain this works. I’m currently playing Elden Ring on a standard Steam Deck (slight performance increase with the OLED) and before Cryo, the game would run around 30-35fps in the overworld and 45-50fps in closed areas. After installing Cryo, I’m getting 35-40fps in the overworld and a more consistent 45-50 fps in closed areas. So you’ll see a decent boost for most games, just don’t expect a crazy boost to your games.
Hi and Merry Christmas to you. I just watched this video on CryoUtilities 2.0 Guide. Great video and thanks for explaining on how to install it. But can you point me in the right direction. You have a utility icon on the top of your deck showing the battery, gpu , cpu, Ram. Can you tell me what is is please.
Eta can you do an Undervolt guide for the Steam Deck? There is another youtube video that shows an Undervolt done via the Bios(!), and it grants some noticable performance increase and better power efficiency.
I wanted to watch this review by you. When I started watching his youtube channel. Immediately old memories from you (a few years ago) came back to me, a dejavú… I’ve watched this before. His channel somehow reminds me of yours. BTW thanks for not pronouncing Kyro, instead of Kryo.
You don't wanna set the vram to 4gb all the time if u do a game using 1gb of vram will constantly have 4gb of vram set aside for it decreasing ram u have available dropping performance the steam deck has 16gb of ram in total so if u set the vram to 4gb u only ever get 12gb of ram on a game that uses 1gb of vram
yo also i tried doing all this and when i got the cryoutilities downloading it said no update necssary idk wht to do its not showing its installed so i cant complete the rest of the steps
Damn, I can't wait to get my Deck, as it just keeps getting better and better with each new month. And I didn't have to deal with its early adoption issues either, now I get a mature device that's way better than it was just 6 months ago.
I dont notice FPS increases but Jedi Survivor seems to not crash so far since installing. Before i would crash after maybe 1hr of gameplay. Or in cutscenes.
Hmmm seems perfect for RPCS3...gonna test this. Gonna get a new ssd anyway so might as well test now. EDIT I don't believe it, sly 4 on rpcs3 ran like a stuttering mess even with a 30fps cap, now...with the GPU AT 200MHZ, it's a flawless 30fps. Running at 800mhz just to give it proper overhead for heavier scenes that may come up. 2gb of vram usage, 5gb ram usage. I should set it back to 60, before it was hovering over 45 ish.
Hey ETA Prime, So Ive recently upgraded my Pc's CPU now I just have an 3400G lying around and I want something to do with it. I have an idea to make a mini diy pc for extremely cheap all I would need is the motherboard and power supply But I don't have any luck finding any options. I was wondering if you have any Ideas of your own that could help me out to find a new home for my 3400g.
