Poe2 isn't device sleep friendly

Have you heard of the steam deck? I am sure you did. And this is not really a Linux issue. It could happen on any handheld PC device that relies on sleep to save battery. There are increasingly more of these, with a variety of operating systems.

Path of Exile 2 just doesn't handle sleep correctly. Any instance of the device going to sleep while path of exile 2 is open creates a soft lock that requires you to forcefully close the game.

- If the device goes to sleep while the player is on a playable map. It should be equivalent to pausing the game. Or at least to disconnecting. Instead what happens is that after you wake up, the game is softlocked.

- If the device goes to sleep while you are in town/hideout, it should simply go AFK.

Or at the very least, allow going back to character selection after the game softlocks.
Last bumped on Jan 7, 2026, 11:47:04 PM

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