{"id":122167,"date":"2025-11-04T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122167\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:31:09","slug":"steam-deck-adds-a-standby-mode-for-screen-off-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122167\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Deck adds a standby mode for screen-off downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Valve is bringing a helpful update to the Steam Deck, adding an option for downloading content while the screen is off. The company is <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/1675200\/view\/771930569635267984\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:calling;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">calling<\/a> it a display-off low-power mode. It will be enabled by default when the Steam Deck is plugged in. The handheld&#8217;s power settings can also allow it to be active while on battery power, although it will automatically revert to full sleep mode if the battery drops below 20 percent. If a user hits the power button while the Steam Deck is downloading content, a dialogue prompt will appear asking if the download should continue with the display off. A Steam Deck that reaches an idle timeout will also automatically go into the display-off low-power mode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In practice, this is similar to the rest mode modern consoles have that allows for downloads while the machine isn&#8217;t being actively used. This feature can be really useful if you&#8217;re playing an online competitive game and don&#8217;t want a big download infringing on your bandwidth. (I speak from experience here.) Nice for the Steam Deck to offer a similar convenience to its players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve is bringing a helpful update to the Steam Deck, adding an option for downloading content while the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,72708,80],"class_list":["post-122167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-steam-deck","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}