nyrna VS SDH-PauseGames

Someone pointed me in the direction of "Nyrna", which looks promising! https://nyrna.merritt.codes/ (Can download a free trial from the MS Store)

please try https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna and let me know how well it works.

It currently only works on X11 but Nyrna seems like it's made for this use case

Nyrna - Used for suspending the active application with a hotkey

If on PC, recommend using Nyrna : https://nyrna.merritt.codes/ . You can set the hotkey to the Pause/Break button on your keyboard, and it will force the current application (eg Hogwarts Legacy) to pause midcutscene and show the desktop till hit the hotkey again.

Here's an application for Windows: https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna

- Download the application "Nyrna" from https://nyrna.merritt.codes/. Download page located in the top right, select the version for your operating system (for this guide, I am using Windows 10)

But there is maybe a way to solve this problem. While looking for a solution i stumbled over the programm Nyrna which allows to suspend programs. You could in theory freeze the game at one point and send your computer in stand-by / hibernation and continue the next day. But i have not experimented much with it.

There is a 3rd party program, Nyrna. It lets you pause any game at any point, keep it in RAM without using up any other resources, then get back to it whenever you want to.

>Another thing is that games don't go on suspend mode once you go to steam menus like other consoles do. The game is still running in the background (with audio and everything). In fact there is no game-suspend functionality at all, only having the device fully going to sleep actually pauses the game.

For people that like to tinker a bit, you can install Decky Loader and the "Pause Games" plugin that can suspend games, even automatically on focus loss.

https://github.com/popsUlfr/SDH-PauseGames

Get Decky Loader and install Pause Games. Turn on pause before focus loss and pause before suspend. That solved this problem for me.

I like to use Pause Games from the Decky Plugin Loader. It seems to solve most issues regarding unresponsiveness of the sleep button. I can't garentee if it works 100% for GTAV though

The Pause Game plugin from Decky Loader resolves this issue! . https://github.com/popsUlfr/SDH-PauseGames

At first i tired loading https://beta.deckbrew.xyz/ from the test store option with in the decky settings but that never loaded. So I ended up finding the latest release on github and trying to install it via the manual url option. But even though it loads the url and gives me the option to install, it never shows up in decky loader.

On the Steam Deck, you can also use the Pause Games extension in Decky Loader for similar functionality.