So yeah I’m kinda curious what game has given people the longest period they’ve been able to play on SD without needing to plug the charger in. For me, it doesn’t matter if it’s a AAA game, AA or some indie pixelated game that only a couple MB of storage. Most game last a couple minutes, maybe an hour, but it burns out pretty quick. It’s understandable because the SD is doing a lot and they can be taxing but I’m curious how long someone’s managed to last unplugged. Also if there are any ways to improve it outside of getting a portable charger

  • El_Radioaktivo@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I got the longest playtime with Darkest Dungeon without fiddling much. To reduce battery drain you can lower the max tdp for wattage, reduce refreshrate/fps und brightness, lower your graphics settings and maybe use some of the third party tools like cryo utilities (even though I don’t do that myself).

    • kraut98@alien.top
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      1 year ago

      I got around 6-6,5 hours of battery life with 7W TDP and 40 fps/hz refresh rate

  • GrittyBits@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can get 6 or 7 hours out of Stardew Valley. I’ll admit I care very little about graphics. I’ll do whatever it takes to get a steady fps. Which is kinda funny considering I’ve never got more than an hour or two at a time to play lmao. I crank most games down to low across the board right at the start and never look back. A few games need shadows on medium or they’ll look real wonky but everything else sits at low.

  • Droid_Rager@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    & the winner for most popular game mode played in succession is:

    AR Challenges in Arkham Knight😃

  • 1sanat@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was playing Brotato this weekend it is so fun and light. My SD can run it for hours.

  • Mohnchichi@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Snes emulation playing ff6(3). Played for an 7 hour car ride and only used about 20% battery.

  • Even-Tart-116@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    Yea lighter games I can run for hours. Games like Hades, Cult of the Lamb, Hollow Knight, etc. but bigger games I can get an hour to an hour and a half if I turn down the brightness a bit/lower visual settings a touch

    • bubba_169@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I recently beta tested a visual novel for someone on deck and battery life was amazing. It’s not a genre I’d usually play but thinking I might start playing more because of that. SD was predicting 9 hours and that’s without reducing any settings.

  • Bitter_Air_5203@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think I did vampire survivors almost all the way from Copenhagen to New York.

    I did lower the refresh rate and stuff, it didn’t effect the game at all.

    And if I remember correctly I had battery to spare when we landed.

    That being said my brain was quite fucked when we did land.

    10/10 would do it again.

  • Puncake-General@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I played a vn called subahibi and got it to go to 3.4w before which SD calculated the battery to last for 12-13 hours. The lowest I got for a game with some gameplay was probably Celeste (4-4.2w) at around 9-10 hours while keeping 60fps. Some things I do to increase battery life is by using powertools plugin, usually for indie games I’ll turn on the downclock ram option and reduce threads to 4 while leaving smt on. For AAA games I typically just use fsr and reduce frame rate to 40 or 30.