How is Diablo 4 on Steam Deck long term
Just curious how Diablo 4 / battle.net performs after installation on the Steam Deck. Do I have to fiddle with settings after every update or once I go through the setup steps am I good to go?
Just curious how Diablo 4 / battle.net performs after installation on the Steam Deck. Do I have to fiddle with settings after every update or once I go through the setup steps am I good to go?
Setup and you're good to go. The game actually runs fantastically well on the Deck. Medium settings with FSR 2 Balanced drains 15W in dungeons and the open world, 23W in town. Hits a flat 40fps so if you frame limit in-game and set the Steam Deck to run in 40Hz mode, you get ultra smooth gameplay.
Glad to hear, thanks!
What are the controls like? I'm used to playing Diablo type games with mouse and keyboard. How does it translate over to game pad? Or do you run anything special with the track pad?
Gamepad plays great! I’m actually much preferring it to mouse and keyboard for Diablo. It was designed for Xbox Series and PS5, so the controls are pretty intuitive. I prefer it because I can move my character with the stick rather than having to click around or hold the mouse down as I move
Which class do you recommend playing with for gamepad so it doesn't rely too much on auto locking or aiming?
I have been playing Sorceress exclusively with a controller and it's working out great so far. I'm level 59 right now.
it's pretty good. I have some gripes but overall diablo on controller is a good experience. d4 natively supports gamepad controls.
The game fully supports gamepads. Your basic skill and interact are mapped to A, core to X, skill 1 to Y, and the rest on LT, RT, and RB. LB is for potions. They're all remappable too, so you can configure how you like. Personally, I have basic and core on the triggers, and then the skills on my face buttons.
Honestly, it feels like playing a Gauntlet style game, feels very arcadey in a good way. The only downside is that if you're a caster, it's somewhat hard to aim your spells since you don't have a precise mouse cursor. This makes placing your hydras or your teleport destinations a little bit annoying. They're always placed at a constant distance away from you in the direction you're looking. For enemies, there's lock on targeting though.
I played 2 and 3 with a mouse and keyboard wasn’t too sure getting into 4 on PS5 but overall it’s been a great experience. You can definitely tell they took the time to design this game for controller support.
My only qualm is occasionally I attack an npc while trying to target another.
Been playing since first beta exclusively on Steam Deck. No issues on SteamOS. I’ve clocked 4-6 hours non stop during some sessions without a hiccup or crash. Once it’s setup in SteamOS you don’t need to do any further fiddling.
I didn't have to mess with anything once everything was installed. Plays decently, no hitches or slowdowns. Just don't bother with the high texture download. Hit level 30 so far.
Yeah. Agree fully with this guy. Once it’s setup it works. And with everything on low you get 60 fps.
The only issues I have are with the Battlenet launcher, it sometimes crashes during startup when first opening D4 seemingly at random but once the game is running I don’t have any issues. Currently running it on Proton Experimental.
As far as settings go, at default settings D4 seems to be extremely taxing on the GPU (constant >=97% usage, high temps, crashes regularly after running for a while), although this seems to be common to all systems including PS5/Xbox.
Locking refresh rate and in-game menu FPS to 50fps keeps the power and GPU usage much lower and I get stable performance with no crashes.
Same as the other two once it is setup it runs good on low I lock mine to 40 and no issues at all. Can do high level 30+ nightmare dungeons with no issues