Steam deck OLED Locking CPU to 3500 mhz

[thidguy]

Describe the bug

Im using an overclocked bios and powertools if that matters anyway I noticed that the steam deck OLED was getting rlly hot for some reason even when running nothing and downloading nothing and I checked the overlay and it's running at 3500 mhz and I have to use powertools to slow it down so it doesn't get uncomfortably hot to the touch also I use fantastic to crank up the fan because it just doesn't go faster when it gets this hot also the screen has a greenish light on the left hand side when I have an all black screen on maybe unrelated idk

What did you expect to happen?

I expected the CPU clocks to be a little bit more dynamic or at least the fan to ramp up to take control of the 65 degree Celsius

Output of rpm-ostree status

thid@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:672441d77dd40c6bf4f8282327b1202e4c25b082b6c404015166d602e3f9256d
                  Version: 40.20240726.0 (2024-07-26T22:44:59Z)
          LayeredPackages: 'dnf-command(config-manager)' build containerd.io
                           dnf-plugins-core docker-buildx-plugin docker-ce docker-ce-cli
                           docker-compose-plugin gnome-terminal
            LocalPackages: docker-desktop-4.32.0-157355.x86_64

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:9003c4e2f42c26a1a61db30b7acc2fae038b4f479712f146132c231ce2459ca6
                  Version: 40.20240726.0 (2024-07-26T19:04:04Z)
          LayeredPackages: 'dnf-command(config-manager)' build containerd.io
                           dnf-plugins-core docker-buildx-plugin docker-ce docker-ce-cli
                           docker-compose-plugin gnome-terminal
            LocalPackages: docker-desktop-4.32.0-157355.x86_64

Hardware

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Extra information or context

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[thidguy]

Ok so after doing a little more testing I found out that it just locks it on the main menu screen

[zqpvr]

I also have this on bazzite, try https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pull/1374 version.

[thidguy]

I also have this on bazzite, try #1374 version.

So do I just update or what do I do with this

[zqpvr]

ask in the discord https://discord.bazzite.gg/

[KyleGospo]

I am only able to reproduce this in gaming mode. Games scale frequency exactly as you would expect

[KyleGospo]

65° is also extremely cold for a deck, they don't even thermal throttle until 100°. I don't think you need to be worried about custom fan curves or any other stuff you're doing

[KyleGospo]

65° is also extremely cold for a deck, they don't even thermal throttle until 100°. I don't think you need to be worried about custom fan curves or any other stuff you're doing

[zqpvr]

games also have worse performance too compared to steamos, one example is rdr2

[thidguy]

65° is also extremely cold for a deck, they don't even thermal throttle until 100°. I don't think you need to be worried about custom fan curves or any other stuff you're doing

That's not the point the point is that it's running the CPU at 3500 clock speed on the home menu and it's still 10 degrees hotter than when I use steam os just sitting idle

[thidguy]

I am only able to reproduce this in gaming mode. Games scale frequency exactly as you would expect

It's on the home menu where the clocks are maxed out

[zqpvr]

it also wastes battery

[zqpvr]

3.7.0 has https://crates.io/crates/scx_lavd enabled, maybe it fixes performance. I rather schedul though

[zqpvr]

@KyleGospo do you think it would fix it?

[zqpvr]

@thidguy this has been fixed as of 3.7.0, I do still get low performance on rdr2 and gta v though