Steam Deck: Fix Stutter+Crashes In Large Open World Games With a Bigger Swap File

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Published on July 8, 2024 1:00:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUHya4YIN_c

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Large open world games like PalWorld, Witcher, RDR and others may suffer from high memory allocation and leaks - meaning that eventually (after about 45 minutes to an hour) the game begins to stutter - and you know a crash is about to happen.

While the swap file won't fix EVERYTHING, it can really help with certain games - and you probably came to this video because someone recommended it for a particular game.

In this video, we TEACH as well as DO, so the first half will help explain what is going on - the second half is the actual tutorial.

COMMANDS SEEN IN VIDEO
passwd
sudo steamos-readonly disable
cd /home
sudo swapoff -a
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1G count=4
sudo mkswap swapfile
sudo swapon swapfile
sudo steamos-readonly enable

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