PoE2 for Steamdeck?

Hello I bought steamdeck OLED only for PoE2 , my question is will the early access support the steamdeck on 6th December.

I doubt steam deck could ever run such "heavy" game with current specs.

I'm pretty sure this question was asked of Jonathan in at least one of the recent round of interviews. The response IIRC was that PoE2 was not officially deck-verified but ran fine; its Zen2/RDNA2 APU met the game's minimum specs, and the main issues were with UI elements that were a little on the small side for the handheld's screen. The best way to find out for sure is to just try it, though, which is a thing I was planning to do anyway (although maybe not on the 6th).

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ERROR502#6840 wrote:

I doubt steam deck could ever run such "heavy" game with current specs.

D4 runs fairly well on the Deck, 60+ FPS with high settings, when you overclock it and use FSR3.
I only play on the Deck.

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SmokinGun#9729 wrote:

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ERROR502#6840 wrote:

I doubt steam deck could ever run such "heavy" game with current specs.

D4 runs fairly well on the Deck, 60+ FPS with high settings, when you overclock it and use FSR3.
I only play on the Deck.

Bad example. Because poe has much more things to calculate,more variable monster,more loot drops,more loot varies,has better graphics and animations. Not to mention the game is still on its old ass engine,which has its own problems.

Eveything of it requires good machine to calculate. Ofc you ,might try poe 2 on steam deck,but as i said earlier,it either won't run or run very poorly.

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ERROR502#6840 wrote:

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SmokinGun#9729 wrote:

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ERROR502#6840 wrote:

I doubt steam deck could ever run such "heavy" game with current specs.

D4 runs fairly well on the Deck, 60+ FPS with high settings, when you overclock it and use FSR3.
I only play on the Deck.

Bad example. Because poe has much more things to calculate,more variable monster,more loot drops,more loot varies,has better graphics and animations. Not to mention the game is still on its old ass engine,which has its own problems.

Eveything of it requires good machine to calculate. Ofc you ,might try poe 2 on steam deck,but as i said earlier,it either won't run or run very poorly.

Jonathan already said they received steam deck recently in the office and the game runs smoothly at 40 FPS. What settings that is, who know knows.

thats actually really good news !
40 fps is fine to be fair as long as its on the steamdeck handheld it will definatly be joy to play

We don't know how POE2 will run on any handheld, because it's not out yet.

Reasons to be encouraged about how it will perform include:

* The monster count is *smaller* in POE2, as a result of the combat design being a bit more intentional and engaging.

* POE1 and POE2 run on the same game engine, and POE1 runs decentl well on steamdeck.

The one thing that appears to be more expensive on POE2 is the model polycount and the spell/skill effect polycounts. And this is Early Access, so these might not be as optimized as they could be.

Also, afaik POE2 is not releasing for linux-steamdeck, so you'll be using proton windows emulation, which has some performance cost.

THis is just my subjective opinion, but I think with low-to-mid quality settings you should be able to get playable framerates out of steamdeck, it's just unlikely to be 60fps.

Beyond that, you'll know in a few days. :)

Longest two days :))

worst case scenario, I'll remote play into my Steamdeck like I did for PoE 1.

I'm hoping it will run fine out of the box.