A new version of SteamOS for Steam Frame has just landed. The company has fixed a few issues with the VR headset following its launch last week, which I'll get to in a bit, but one change stood out to me in the patch notes: Valve has added "substantially faster charging while unit is off / sleeping."
I found the Steam Frame to be slow to charge during my time testing it ahead of my review. It took over two hours to go from totally depleted to fully charged (you can see the full timings in the battery section of my Steam Frame review). When I installed a power meter between the charger and the outlet, it read just 11 W, which is much lower than the maximum output that could be delivered by the official power adapter, which is 45 W.
So, I reached out to Valve with my findings. Mostly to see if this was some sort of protection measure for the battery's long-term health.
Valve responded: "An empty battery takes ar...
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