Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter

By Liam Dawe - 15 Feb 2025 at 1:09 pm UTC

Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta Client update for February 14th, showing the love to battery life with a little extra juice. You need to be on the Preview / Beta channel to receive the update for testing.

Here's what's changed:

General

Fixed an error on the Downloads page when a Free to Play game is removed during installation.

Steam Input

Reduced polling rate while the Steam Frame Limiter is active to save additional power. This can save up to 6% on battery life when running at 30fps in a low-power game like HL2.

Fixed an error on the virtual menu settings when bound to gyro.

Great to see the Steam Deck just keeps on improving so many things years after release. That's one of the benefits of the Steam Deck compared with other hardware, Valve just keep on pushing out those updates.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Steam Deck, Beta, Steam, SteamOS, Valve

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Zlopez 7 hours ago

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Still my primary gaming device :-)

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Mohandevir 6 hours ago

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I'll take everything they give us in the battery department; my battery health stands at 70%, right now and it shows in my playtime.

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Benedolt 2 hours ago

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I'll take everything they give us in the battery department; my battery health stands at 70%, right now and it shows in my playtime.

Oooh, does SteamOS have a builtin battery health indicator or how did you get that value? Would be cool to know. :)

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damarrin 2 hours ago

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Oooh, does SteamOS have a builtin battery health indicator or how did you get that value? Would be cool to know. :)

KDE shows this is desktop mode.

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Mohandevir 2 hours ago

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Oooh, does SteamOS have a builtin battery health indicator or how did you get that value? Would be cool to know. :)

KDE shows this is desktop mode.

Exactly. The battery icon, in the task bar, will give you this info.

Edit: Right now, I'm in a full charge/ full drain (through bios) to see if I can get it to "reset" the battery health.

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