Deep Pause Aims To Give The Steam Deck True Quick Resume Features (steamdeckhq.com)

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Plugin is in development, not fully ready yet.

There's also the plugin "pause games" that can suspend a game, stopping it from having any CPU/GPU load while you play something else. However it doesn't free up used memory, and sometimes controls don't work when multiple games are open, with one game intercepting inputs meant for the other games. So this would be pretty cool if it works out.

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[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

when I download games they still aren’t ready to play upon first startup, they need additional downloads/connectivity upon first launch

This specifically bite me in the past. Despite me knowing this being an issue, I completely forgot when preparing for a longer offline session. Some games need to run once to play them in offline mode, but I believe this is not required for all games. It's not an issue with the Steam Deck specifically, but with Steam in general.

Maybe instead running the game automatically, there should be an indicator ("green dot color" and not ready as "gray dot color") that the game didn't run and is not ready for offline play (at least from side of Steam). And even further, the indicator could stay at "No Offline Play" ("red dot color") showing the game cannot be played offline. This would be a setting by the publisher to show its not possible.

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026

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