The secret is how sleep mode works. 15 seconds after you shut off the screen It powers down the entire system except for the dram, which runs on a low power mode. You can leave it off for weeks and still have battery left.
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When suspend on consoles work, it's amazing
- Thread starter nihilence
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I'm not going to lie, it took me a solid year to learn that you could actually straight up turn the Switch off. I thought sleep was the only option unless it died, haha.
This was basically what I was going to post. Never use it on XBO and PS4, rarely use it on Switch (outside of handheld mode).
Wait, what? PC suspend? Do you mean just putting the whole computer to sleep, or is there some magic "suspend a PC game" tool I don't know about? The only time I can ever suspend a game on PC is if I'm using, say, PCSX2 with savestates or something like that. Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 had suspend/resume functionality on PC as well, but that's because Durante is awesome and explicitly programmed it into the ports.
I found that especially early on in the Xbox One's life, suspend/resume was pretty glitchy. I remember you'd have to restart Forza Horizon 3 (I think? one of the Forzas, anyways) a lot of the time because eventually the sound would crap out. Other times I think the resume just failed completely, or the Xbox One would start up and pretend you'd never suspended a game at all.
The PS4 has been much, much more reliable for me despite not having suspend/resume at launch. Literally the only problem I've had with it besides online disconnections has been Days Gone, where once the audio desynced from the action after multiple suspend/resumes. But I've only had it happen the one time and I'm not sure if it's a common issue or not.
As for portable consoles: my OG 3DS was terrible at it (often, once I suspended a game, I couldn't get my 3DS to exit sleep mode at all without doing a hard shutdown), my New 3DS is pretty reliable, and the Vita has been rock solid. Switch has been pretty reliable too in my experience, but I have fewer hours clocked on it and the vast majority of it is in one game.
I don't know why but I never really use this feature ar all. I like to boot up my game everytime I play. I could see myself using it if I were to have a few quick short sessions during the day, but honestly I feels "irresponsible" like I'm just pausing the game and leaving it running.
Oh yeah thats not really the same. Im thinking of sleeping a machine with programs open.
If you're in Europe that's probably a EU regulatory thing.
I fucking hate suspending mk11 on PS4. Disconnects from servers (which is normal), but you cannot reconnect to the servers without closing and reopening the game so... Yeah. Suspension is useless in this case lol.
At launch, it didn't work. It took a few patches, and one or two more after other people said theirs was working before mine ever did. Since then, though, it's been glorious. I recently played through Demon's Souls again on PS3, and damn, the boot up and unskippable logos are so tedious now.
I'd call it the 2nd best hardware feature this gen, after #1: after-the-fact video recording.
I've been playing FFXII Zodiac Age on XBO and I'd say 9 times out of 10 it doesn't manage to resume from suspend.
Exactly. At launch there were some games that bugged out (like Bloodborne's AI would basically shit itself). Suspend mode was causing a lot of issues in the beginning.
Yeah I was going to say I've only dealt with in in a few games but in 99% of games its flawless
For my switch and ps4 its perfect, in fact I had a diablo game suspended for 3 months on ps4 and it worked perfectly when I went to play it again. I had intended to leave it a few hours but stuff happened. My og x1 is terrible and I just stopped using suspend on it but my s I have no problems on.
Australia, but as far as Sony is concerned we're Europe. I definitely had to enable it.
Suspend on the xone needs some improvement. Some games, like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, can not be resumed at all for no apparent reason. Worse performance after resuming is not uncommon and I've had issues with dissapearing sound in FH4 multiple times.