Steam OLED freezes are a problem, I may have identified possible causes

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Steam OLED freezes are a problem, I may have identified possible causes

Post by Targ Collective »

I've been running a Deck OLED for some time and it's been tricky getting it to run without freezing with X4. I think I've identified what's causing the problem and if I'm wrong about the cause then optimising this would be good for everyone else so, I'm sharing what my intuition is giving me here.

The OLED is designed around suspend/resume for gameplay. I think the suspend/resume snapshot is continually updating but can't cope with duplicate frames and audio if there are too many duplicates, which is bad for anything that repeats, and weapon fire repeats a lot.

I have no idea what would fix this, but you need X4 to minimise lockups based on duplicate video and audio to cope with the Deck. Even if this is not the cause, having handlers for duplicate video and sound instructions would give a more stable experience for everyone else. In all probability you have such handlers already, but they need to keep up with the lower requirements of the Deck.

I've tried all the optimisations on my end I can get at, and have reached the point where fiddling with the Deck's settings won't get me any further. If you do a tearing catchup every thirty to sixty frames with video and audio then you might well be able to crack this. Depending on how frequent these lockups are you might be able to make these catchups less frequent but the Deck seems to need tearing for stability. Congratulations on getting verified back! I'm hoping the advice here will help you keep it. And congrats on 25 years, it must have been an amazing journey. :)
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Re: Steam OLED freezes are a problem, I may have identified possible causes

Post by CBJ »

I'm not sure what you mean by "duplicates" here or what you think the game can do about it. The latter applies to "tearing" too. Bear in mind that you may be talking about low-level stuff that is not under the game's control at all, and is handled at the driver or hardware level.

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