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[Discussion] What games have you been playing on your deck? - September 2024 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

@Fubarberry I've started playing Cities:Skylines (the original one) again, and downloaded multiple mods from the Steam Workshop. It froze one day and I couldn't fix it in any way than to shut down my Deck. Every upgrades I did to that city were just gone.

Thankfully I managed to improve my public transit by adding more lines, more buses and changing some routes, as well as adding a few more metro stations as infill (sadly I have to redo all the metro lines all the time when I do this).

I play vanilla for now, as I want to make the most out of it without DLCs first. Then I think I will get the snowfall DLC in order to get trams going (as a European I don't understand why are trams, and partly even trolleybuses, hidden under DLCs but metros aren't, as in my country almost all larger cities have trams, yet only the biggest has a metro. But I digress).

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's unfortunate, full system freezes like that are sometimes because you ran out of ram/VRAM. If that was what happened, the SteamOS Beta uses zram which should prevent this once the change makes it to stable. In the meantime you could use something like Cryoutilites to increase your swap file size, which should also prevent crashes like that.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@Fubarberry Thank you. This seems like it should be useful for my situation 😁 Do I need to go through the process of setting a root/sudo account for this?

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

You'll need to set a password for Cryoutilites I think. In desktop mode you can open konsole and run the command passwd, then enter your password twice. After that you can just run the Cryoutilites installer.