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Anime-Profile-Picture 6 Jul, 2024 @ 5:12am
Does the steam deck track playtime while in sleep mode
I could have sworne if doesn't, but steam is now saying I have almost 300 hours in the last two weeks in kingdom hearts 1.5/2.5. That's simply not possible. I have only been playing since last week and have only just reached the final boss of the first game. No way in hell is that almost 300 hours. I have quit the game much, just put my deck to sleep when I stop, but I thought that didn't continue to track in game playtime? Like wtf
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Yujah 6 Jul, 2024 @ 5:35am 
Title: Yes it would, and this is not specific to Steam Deck either. Just tested by starting a game on my desktop PC, putting the system to sleep for 5 minutes, waking up the PC and quiting the game and seeing its playtime increased by 5 minutes. I.e., simply "playtime += currenttime - starttime".
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pckirk 6 Jul, 2024 @ 6:03am 
anytime you launch the game exe, it counts as time "played" until you click on "stop" in the steam launcher. it has always been this way.
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Yujah 6 Jul, 2024 @ 6:06am 
Steam could supposedly hook into a sleep notification though and stop/adjust its playtime timer.

Probably rife with potential for abuse...
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Anime-Profile-Picture 7 Jul, 2024 @ 3:16am 
Originally posted by pckirk:
anytime you launch the game exe, it counts as time "played" until you click on "stop" in the steam launcher. it has always been this way.
It's just so weird I've never noticed this before.
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Hyper 16 Jul @ 5:38am 
yo so is this still an issue? or has there been a SteamOS update? I havent gotten a Deck yet and Im wondering about the sleep playtime thing
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Eagle_of_Fire 16 Jul @ 5:57am 
As plainly stated above, the only issue (if any) is that people expect an OS to do something different than it did for decades prior.
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Hi Im Swat 16 Jul @ 6:04am 
Why do people care about time played? Unless there are achievements for playing 'X' amount of time, there really is no reason to care about it.
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Katie 16 Jul @ 6:20am 
This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.
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