Last night I was playing some Civilization 5 using steam link to stream FROM my steam deck to my computer (Because for whatever reason it will not run on my PC). Suddenly I thought my remote play connection crashed, but in reality my steam deck went to sleep. When I pressed the power button the game was right where I had left off… I am not sure why this happened. The deck was on charge so it wasn’t a battery issue.

This ended up happening a couple of times last night. Has this happened to anyone else? I am wondering if it is related to steam link because I have never had this happen while gaming on the deck itself.

I am running steam OS using the stable branch, and the steam link app to stream from the deck to my Linux gaming PC.

  • LennethWBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Just click on the battery icon in desktop mode and tick the option to halt going to sleep.

    • RexgrOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Thanks I will try this. I did not even think that this may apply to gaming mode as well.

      • LennethWBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        It does! It’s in settings, under display!

        If you do it in desktop mode it will persist until shutdown, I think instead game mode has a different set of settings!