Steam Deck - How to Install & Setup CryoUtilities 2.0 - Full Guide

what's up guys welcome back to the channel so I  finally got a chance to check out cryo utilities   2.0 I know this came out a couple of weeks ago  there's a lot of great videos out there already   for this testing a lot of games and I've seen  some interesting improvements when it comes to   some performance stuttering and load time so I  definitely want to get into how to get this set   up here on the channel so the first thing we're  going to do is over on game mode make sure that   if you haven't run Trim in a while um that you go  ahead and do that it will help the process when   you go to use cryo utilities later so I went ahead  and ran this mine hadn't been running a little   while didn't take too long to do and then that  allowed me to have cryo utilities do its thing   pretty quickly we'll talk about that more when we  get further into the video so I advise doing that   ahead of time if you haven't already now we're  going to go over to desktop mode now here in   desktop mode another thing if you've not already  set a user or pseudo password this is something   you're going to need as well when you launch cryo  utilities after it's installed so if you have your   password great if you haven't set one yet you  can click here and you can go ahead and set up   yourself a password make sure you remember what  it is so that you can use it but anyways make sure   you do that first so I like to do the trim thing  in game mode and I like to go ahead and make sure   the password's set up ready to go here in desktop  before we do anything now over in cryo utilities   there's another thing you're going to going to  want to do with vram if you've been watching my   channel you know I do like to run four gigs of  vram which is changed over into BIOS and this   is the only manual thing that you need to do so  we're going to shut down and then we're going to   hold the up volume button turn on power and keep  holding that up button this is going to bring us   to our boot menu where we can get into the BIOS  and make the necessary change so here we go   we're into our boot menu I'm going to go ahead  and zoom Us in here we're going to go over to   setup utility this is going to bring us into  our bios and you can see your main page right   here we're going to want to go down to Advanced  and then we're going to scroll over and go to   Uma frame buffer size this is defaulted to 1G  we're going to change that to four to give us   the max dedicated vram amount and that's one of  the only things that you need to do manually for   cryo utilities other than that it's going to take  care of everything else so you're going to want to   open up your browser and go over to the steam deck  utilities page for cryobite33 I'll have a link in   the description and also to his video he's got a  fantastic video If you want to get much deeper in   understanding this utility so I'll link that and  also support crowbite33 in any way that you can   for such great work but we're going to go down  here to the install section I'm going to right   click this and go to save link as and just to make  things fairly easy on myself I'm going to go ahead   and install this right out on the desktop so I  can just double click it and install it once we're   done so change this over to desktop we'll go ahead  and click save and we'll get that downloaded ready   to go and then you can just minimize or close  out your browser once you download is finished   all right now I have installed cry about utilities  I'm going to double click on this and then that's   going to go ahead and automatically open up I'm  going to go ahead and continue it's going to open   up console which I don't have expanded yet I'll  do that here in just a second but it's going to   go ahead and do a little download here and I'll  just all real time it's very fast install for the   crowd utilities here all right we'll maximize this  and by the time I do it's already finished up in   the console and it'll tell you your install or  your upgrade is complete for cryo utilities all   right now we have everything installed ready to go  ready to open up and apply all the settings here   so let's go over and open up cryo utilities we'll  just double click this and you'll get a little   pop-up about their responsibility and damage and  that type of thing just read through that I'm   going to click yes and here's where you'll need  that password we were talking about so I'm going   to go ahead and put my password in here and now  we're into cryo utilities now on the first page   for a home here you've got recommended settings  which is cryo bytes recommended which is what   we're going to use and you can also easily just  go right back to stock settings if you want to   do that as well which is great for testing back  and forth or if you're having any issues now the   things in red here are the things that need to be  changed or haven't been optimized yet so I haven't   run the recommended settings yet you can see here  everything just in the red now over in storage we   have sync game data and delete game data we'll  come back to that here in just a minute and then   vram is in the green because you can see we've  already changed that over to that 4G in the Bios   from one otherwise that would be in a red and  it would say one gigabyte so we did that ahead   of time makes things a little bit easier I'll  click the recommended and this is the part that   if you already did the trim to your SSD will go  much faster so we're done there now if you look   at these again we are changed over to the green  settings showing that we are optimized here for   cryo utilities very quick very easy to do this you  can do everything manually as well if you really   want to tweak things and again cryobites video  that I will link in the description goes over   all of that in depth if you want to go check that  out now for sync game data I don't have an SD card   in here but if you did sometimes when you install  and Run games data gets put on the SSD and SD and   this will move it all off or one way or the other  or over to your SD to clear up space and and keep   that all together pretty cool and handy thing and  then we also have clean or delete game data so   you'll see games that have been uninstalled or  whatever the case here stale game data and you   can either click and choose and pick what you  would like to remove here or you could simply   delete all uninstalled and it's just kind of  helpful to clear up a little bit of space and a   pretty safe way to remove some stuff so I'll just  delete all uninstalled here very quick process   and then that'll finish up so click yes and there  we go process complete and that's cryo bite or   cryo utilities 2.0 basically very simple once  you get everything in and installed and getting   things maximized so that you can hopefully get the  most out of your game so let's take a quick look   at just one game Hogwarts Legacy unfortunately  I didn't get much improvement in this game I   have seen others say or show that they've gotten  five six seven FPS difference in some areas and I   will say that even though these areas I tested  pretty much had the same performance though I   will say frame times and stuttering was better  over with crowd utilities on so I may not have   seen a huge increase in fps but the game did feel  a bit better and a lot of the harder to run areas   I will say in the castle in some other areas I  did feel like there were times I hit 60fps more   often than I used to but I'll definitely have  to do a lot more testing when it comes to the   games I've seen some great charts and videos out  there showing some good improvements in a lot of   games so I'm definitely going to be testing crowd  utilities on quite a few games and I have some   future videos here coming out where we'll really  get in and see what kind of performance gains we   can get using and not using crowd Utilities in  different games in Hogwarts again I didn't see   a lot of difference but it was a bit of a cleaner  experience with what I felt like was some more FPS   here and there but definitely a little bit  smoother maybe some better frame times but   anyways guys thanks a lot for coming to check  out the video how to set up and get going with   cryo utilities 2.0 and a quick little look at  Hogwarts here and I'll definitely have more   videos testing out performance differences for  this in the future alright guys thanks a lot for   coming to check out the video as always I really  appreciate it and I'll see you in the next one

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Length: 7min 10sec (430 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 08 2023