Tweaking SteamOS For Better Steam Deck Performance
Xonotic was another lightweight game that did benefit from these published tweaks for the SteamOS / Steam Deck.
Outside of gaming tests on the Steam Deck, these tweaks did help SteamOS 3.5 Preview recover from some of the performance regressions previously noted in relation to SteamOS 3.4. With these tweaks the performance in some of the demanding CPU benchmarks were aligned to their higher performance seen back on SteamOS 3.4 stable/
See this article for more details on these unofficial SteamOS tweaks if trying to maximize your Steam Deck performance. Depending upon the games/software you mostly enjoy, for some areas these tweaks proved to be worthwhile.
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