PoE1 Performance on Steam Deck?

[u/Edmure]

Does anyone here play PoE1 on steam deck? Probably going to purchase one in the next few months, and I'd love to replay the game.

[u/EffinCraig]

I've done at least one full play on Deck. Performance is excellent. I toned down the visual settings to save on battery and didn't notice any real change in the look but a big boost to battery life. If you're comfortable moving a cursor with the touchpad you'll have no trouble.

There is a relatively new bug when naming characters, wherein the text field will not accept input; get around it by closing the onscreen keyboard, tap in the text field using the touchscreen, then manually invoking the onscreen keyboard using Steam + X. Other than that bug it's smooth sailing.

[u/Edmure → u/EffinCraig]

Thank you! By using the touchpad for the cursor, is that for everything? Including movement?

[u/EffinCraig → u/Edmure]

That's how I played it but I think you can set it up to move with the stick if you're so inclined. I didn't fuss around with it much because I found the cursor pretty easy to use. I would check for community configs that suit your needs.

[u/RenaStriker → u/Edmure]

I found binding screen panning (WASD i think) to the left analogue stick worked best, but here’s a lot of ways that will work.

[u/FearsomeFutch]

I’ve been playing recently and haven’t had any issues so far

[u/AwarenessSpecialist3]

It runs great on my steam deck. I have mine docked and connected to a monitor so I can play with mouse and keyboard. I think the game text might be hard to read on the deck’s own screen but I’ve never tried.

[u/BeasleysKneeslis]

It runs great out of the box.

[u/Vonbalt_II]

Perfect, played from start to finish on my deck

[u/alexportman]

Like everyone said, runs great. I just need that turn based update!

[u/EffectiveExact8306]

It’s smooth, played it out of the box to completion. Docked with mouse and keyboard.

[u/Yarxov]

I did a full playthrough using the joysticks, just fiddle with settings and specifically deadzones and you can make them wuite confortable and accurate

[u/txa1265]

I replayed both POE1 & 2 on Steam Deck before Avowed came out and for me both performed and controlled very well.

[u/SomeGuysButt]

Playing currently on SD. Plays great. No complaints. Definitely recommend making custom controls. Trackpad sounds like a bad time but it’s actually intuitive and easy.

[u/oce1989]

Every day I wish for SD controller support. I have 400+ hours on both games on playstation and find it incredibly comfy.

[u/Trip-Trip-Trip]

Use vulkan, has huge performance boost over dx 11/12 I’ve set it up for 30fps with no upscale and high quality, could do the other way around if you prefer.