I always pause and save then turn put it in sleep but not actually close the game

I force myself to save before putting it to sleep, but no. No need to

Generally yes, I try and properly shut down the game. Not because I’m worried about it or anything. I do it so that the cloud save syncs just in case I decide to pick the game back up on my PC instead of the deck, which I often do. But putting the deck to sleep while a game is running doesn’t phase me in and of itself.

I have been leaving games in sleep mode since I got my Deck over a year ago. Never had an issue.

Yeah I do, there’s a pretty common audio bug where the game audio keeps stuttering after I power back on if I left the game open when in sleep mode. I always close the game cuz that bothers me

Nah i leave those babies running in sleep for several days straight

I’ve probably rebooted my deck about five times since I got it a couple of years ago. I completed baldurs gate over the course of several months with probably closing the game maybe once or twice, just sticking the deck in sleep/suspend every time. This is absolutely what the deck is designed to do and doesn’t cause any issues. It’s more or less the only reason that I can still game so regularly as a parent.

Nope. Power button and I’m off to the next hustle.

I usually never do I just put the decksto sleep and keep playing. Recently been playing Gears 5 for 4 days now never closed it

No, but I always save if I can

No because the point is I can resume my game instantly

If I’m going right back to it, no. If I’m going to be a few hours, usually

putting deck to sleep and pick it up continuing playing immediately is one of the core selling points of a handheld

Always, I like accurate gameplay time and don’t trust it to not record the sleeping time.

The 3.5.x update on LCD, and now of course on OLED has solved so many of the sleep stability issues I had. I never had a game itself crash or fail to handle resuming from sleep, but prior to 3.5, the deck OS would not be responsive. So far on 3.5 sleep has worked beautifully, and Bluetooth audio automatically reconnects every time too. Tested with NoMansSky and Snow Runner so far numerous times for both. I commute via train daily, with a Train transfer mid commute and rely on that sleep function. 3.5 has so far solved all my issues in this use case.

One funny bug I think may still exist is that games left running while in sleep, count towards your steam play time. I have some absurd hours in a few games because of it. Looks like I played train sim 4 for 168hrs straight one week.