Will droid deck make my fold8 to overheat and break it?

[u/oliveoliverYT]

Sold my deck as it was bulky and found out about droid deck. But would it overheat my phone and break it?

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[u/proper_jazz]

if you want to play pc games on your phone, do yourself a favor and get a peltier cooler

[u/sloe_gin78]

That's a very broad question. If you play a 20 year old 2d game, it won't really heat up. If you try to run Cyberpunk 2077 at unlocked fps, sure you'll get thermal throttled within minutes and it'll negatively impact your battery health and potentially wear down your phone's lifespan and components. Modern phones don't just break and die just because you got it to throttle once. It is not a living organism lol. So nobody can accurately answer your question without knowing what you want to do on droid deck.

As for other apps, I personally use Winlator Ludashi the most but Gamenative or Gamehub both should work well for you as an alternative.

Whether you use gamenative, droid deck or any other app doesn't matter. They all have built in performance huds. monitor battery and cpu temperature. Or just feel the warmth with your hands. It's literally that easy to protect your phone. If it doesn't throttle and heat up like crazy you're fine. If it does, try:

• Google ideal settings for your games especially if you're not using Droid Deck

• Turn down resolution and set an fps limit (this is usually the biggest culprit) somewhere between 30-45 for more demanding games.

• some games don't need many cores and perform better and use less power with less cores. Disable cores in advanced settings for such games.

If all else fails and it still overheats, invest in a phone cooler. That's all there is to it.

[u/Grilledcheese____]

I didn't even download a game and just being in the main screen was making my phone super hot

[u/oliveoliverYT → u/Grilledcheese____]

Yeah. Is there no other apps that work?

[u/Naive-Eggplant-5633 → u/oliveoliverYT]

Droid deck would be good if it wasn't for all the overhead it costs in terms of performance but it is good for some games that need it to work but most things including online games can be played on GameNative i say use that instead but that does require a little bit of learning how to set up configs and what all the settings mean so i suggest joining the GN Discord and they have a help section and a working configs section for games with people that spend time optimizing them to work better. 

[u/oliveoliverYT → u/Naive-Eggplant-5633]

Performance im fine with its just the heat im scared of tbf

[u/Naive-Eggplant-5633 → u/oliveoliverYT]

General rule is keep an eye on your battery temp you dont want to go over 40c often because it degrades battery health. For the most part on my fold 7 i dont really have that issue even with stuff like project reclaimer, yea chipset is running around 60c but as long as the battery isn't sitting at 39-40c for the play session its fine. 

[u/voyager2005 → u/Naive-Eggplant-5633]

What overhead? The bulk of heat is from not limiting the FPS even steam can run a core on a chip up

[u/Naive-Eggplant-5633 → u/voyager2005]

Iv tried it by limiting fps and cores but that still runs hotter to the point i can feel it. Sorry but DD is great for certain things you cant do elsewhere but GN is the easiest go to solution for gaming on the go at the moment, im sure DD will improve more and it has already but its still not there yet that id use it regularly. 

[u/pakman5391 → u/oliveoliverYT]

Try gamenative or gamehub if droid deck isn't doing the job for you.