https://www.youtube.com/live/dv7XR5RduLg?si=mRKwpEZ-t2SYVA3r

Creator of the tech tool showed on a live stream that the performance improvement is negligible

No performance benefits with this tool and 4gb of VRAM bios tweak also doesn’t improve performance like it used to.

Mostly due to the 3,5,5 bios update it seams. Still a good tool for saving space but I’m going to skip when my oled arrives

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    Popping in to give my 2 cents, as the person who hosted the stream and developed the tool.

    TL;DR: The results in the stream were largely good, with 1 game having slight negatives and the other 2 games being better with CU2. Saying “it’s dead” is an extreme overreaction, especially considering I tested games that have historically benefitted very litte from CU2. The entire reason I chose those games is because I wanted to make sure that the “worst” ones would still not suffer, further testing with games that should actually benefit is necessary.

    Here are the exact numbers, in the order I tested them:

    Red Dead 2 got better performance with CU, even WITH the 200/1040 bug on the CU runs:

    Default Preset had a substantially better minimum, and was much smoother:

    Without CU:
    Min - 22.0081
    Max - 63.9321
    Average - 49.8511

    With CU + 1GB VRAM:
    Min - 28.6349
    Max - 63.2811
    Average - 50.6368

    “Prefer Quality” Preset was slightly better across the board:

    Without CU:
    Min - 19.3353
    Max - 59.8151
    Average - 46.3316

    With CU + 1GB VRAM:

    Min - 21.7967
    Max - 59.4665
    Average - 47.0571

    Cyberpunk 2077 had minor losses, but it seems that it is at least partially the fault of having less RAM with 4GB of VRAM, needs more testing:

    Steam Deck Preset lost about 1FPS:

    Without CU:
    48.61

    With CU + 4GB VRAM:
    47.88

    High Preset also lost about 1 FPS:

    Without CU:
    43.87

    With CU + 4GB VRAM:
    42.88

    Horizon Zero Dawn had gains nearly across the board:
    Original Preset was within margin of error:

    Without CU:
    9/50/97

    With CU + 4GB VRAM:
    8/51/99

    Ultimate Preset had gains in both highs and lows:

    Without CU:
    9/36/70

    With CU + 4GB VRAM:
    12/36/76

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      Thanks for the post! CU made it so I could actually play through the Marvel Xcom style game. Before using CU it would crash every time I went to sleep in the game when on the Steam Deck. I was then able to beat the whole game on the SD thanks you CU. Thanks for all your hard work, I have not uninstalled it because I have not had any issues while using it and also because the Marvel xcom game was such a good experience, until I have an issue I will leave this installed.

      Thanks for the post and all the hard work you do!