Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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- Follow the rules of Sopuli
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- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
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I really hope that all the work that has been going into the process freeze/unfreeze functionality on Linux at some point leads to the ability to have universal save states for every game.
Would be so cool to just restore to one of the last savestates in any game, no matter how crappy the save system in the given game might be.
Sadly I don't think that's possible. Modern games are much larger and more complex than the traditional games that you could use save states in.
Not only would you need to save several gigs of RAM to disk, you also need to somehow capture the state of things like graphics cards and potentially the filesystem and other devices, none of which are trivial.
I'm fine if it works only with smaller/older/simpler games.
GPU is the reason CRIU can't do it which is a shame...
It could potentially work like save states in emulators do. Even if its only a single state like on XBOX, it would be so good if this works reliably someday.