the Steam Deck is a fascinating device, which allows to play in a nomadic way to its pc games favourites. But the Valve machine has some youthful problems, starting with noise pollution.
A problem supposedly solved by the latest version of SteamOS, which prevents console fans from going into the towers too quickly and for no apparent reason.
The quieter Steam Deck with SteamOS 3.2
In addition to introducing a feature to cap the display frequency at 40, 20 or 10 frames per second to improve battery life, SteamOS 3.2 ensures that fan management is now smarter.
” The fan is [désormais] overall smarter, more responsive to events happening on and in the Steam Deck, and quieter, especially in low-use situations ,” reads the release notes.
Clearly, SteamOS 3.2 reviews the ventilation curve controlled by the operating system to prevent a runaway hitherto rather frequent, even on games that are not very greedy.
Jay Peters, journalist for The Verge, has put this new update to the test and finds that great efforts have been made by Valve. In the video below, you can clearly hear the fan in the first part. The second part adopts the new settings, and hardly lets hear the fan anymore.
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Source : Valve
Valve Steam Deck
Game consoles
release date: 2022
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