I’m a surgeon and was talking to one of the nurse practitioners in our clinic about what I’ll be doing while I’m on call if things are slow, and I tell her I’ll just play on my Steam Deck. I pull it out, press the power button and within 2 seconds Titanfall 2 was running fluently on it. She was like, “wait, how did it just start playing so fast?”.
That blazing fast pause/resume -now even faster on the OLED, is the one reason I simply cannot have a non-Steam OS handheld.
No sir. Your best shot on a Windows device is to manually change the settings so pressing the power button hibernates the device. It takes long, and then takes a good 20 seconds to wake up, that is if it works and doesn’t crash the game, as opposed to instant on/off on the Deck and picking up right where you left off.