The Steam Deck Can Drain Its Battery in 90 Minutes If You Don't Cap Your Fps

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The Stream Deck can drain its battery in 90 minutes.

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As long as you make sure to tweak the right settings, battery life is looking good.

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You can expect between 2-8 hours of battery life.

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2 hours is not the absolute minimum for the Steam Deck’s battery.

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In a test it ran out of juice a full 33 minutes quicker.

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When the Devil May Cry 5 was uncapped and Vsync disabled, it lasted 87 minutes and lasted two hours with Vsync enabled.

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They ran intensive battery life tests to determine the worst case performance with the Steam Deck.

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If you turn Vsync off and have low settings and 90 fps, you can inadvertently have terrible battery life.

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Dead Cells got six hours of battery life with Vsync enabled.

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It is seen that older and less graphically demanding PC games will likely be able to run for several hours on the Steam Deck.

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They were able to get around four hours of battery life by locking the framerate to 30 fps in Forza Horizon 5.

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