Concerns about battery consumption and heat | Balatro | Page 1

cerulean eagle Sep 27, 2024, 6:51 PM

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Not sure about this being flagged as a bug, but I wanted to share my concerns about battery consumption and heat of my iPhone 12 Pro while playing Balatro.

I play with no reduced motion, shadows on, pixel arts smoothing on and CRT (30) bloom on.

The phone gets hot very quickly and the battery drains like very fast.

Is this some kind of optimization issue? Or absolutely normal behavior?

I have no problem with other games, but the heat is quite disturbing in the case of Balatro.
Am I the only one?

(Battery life of my phone is at optimal capacity - 84% according to iOS 18)

junior grotto Sep 27, 2024, 7:41 PM

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I’ve experienced the same thing. I’ve got an IPhone 14 Pro running IOS 17.7. In an hour and 10 minutes of game time I went from 66% battery to 46%. Battery health at 87%

broken heath Sep 27, 2024, 8:58 PM

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Thanks, this has been flagged by a couple of people.
Thank you for sharing the details - I will add this to our log along with the other reports.

fringe basalt Sep 28, 2024, 4:48 AM

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Drain happens also on Android devices (on my device it drops 1% per minute roughly)

junior grotto Oct 1, 2024, 1:08 AM

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Played another hour today and my phone barely heated up. Battery consumption was similar. Idk if battery heat was only related to first play time

broken heath Oct 1, 2024, 8:31 AM

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That's interesting! I know an update has gone out since you first reported but it wasn't designed to tackle this issue in particular!

cerulean eagle Oct 1, 2024, 12:59 PM

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I will test it tonight and let you know too!

cerulean eagle Oct 1, 2024, 7:17 PM

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@broken heath Nothing changed in my case. My iPhone still gets very hot while playing Balatro! Maybe it’s something related to the new iOS 18 update, I read online that several people had heat issues with other games after updating to iOS 18.

broken heath Oct 2, 2024, 8:23 AM

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Interesting, thank you for sharing that with me @cerulean eagle ! I'll ensure the team know that.

fringe basalt Oct 3, 2024, 2:58 PM

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broken heath Interesting, thank you for sharing that with me <@271727018276683776> ! I'll ens...

On this topic I forgot where I read it: on Android someone on a OnePlus phone used the OS Gaming mode optimization tool and saw a huge improvement with no performance downside. I don't know what this tool did, but I hope it can be found and replicated for everyone!

fringe basalt Oct 24, 2024, 7:46 PM

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@broken heath issue still there with latest update on Android. 1% drain per minute

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