Longshot717_

13 | a day ago

Poe2 and all handhelds do not work well together. GeForce Now is your best bet on hand held.

backpacks645

1 | a day ago

How do they compare to an Xbox series s performance tho , and would I use GeForce now on whatever handheld I buy ?

Longshot717_

1 | a day ago

GeForce Now would work on any windows handheld. It might work on Steam Deck as well. But you would need to check Steam to confirm. Is GeForce Now available on Xbox through the Edge browser?

If you want to go handheld, I’d go with the Legion Go base model.

backpacks645

0 | a day ago

Major of my time at home is spent sitting around with my phone or switch watching one of the kids , I can’t just sit on a console but I could use the handheld to do maps most of my evening before he goes to bed , my idea is to get a good handheld to map with

Longshot717_

1 | 21 hours ago

The trick is to play before they get up or after they go to bed. IMO playing before everyone gets up is the best strategy. Sometimes I’d get up at 4am to play a couple of hours undisturbed. Then the rest of the day you aren’t waiting to play a game.

Legion Go base model is the way to go arpg on handheld. It’s all about the big screen.

backpacks645

1 | 21 hours ago

I work 7-6 and he gets up and most mornings he’s up at 4 and it’s all gas no breaks so I can’t super do that but I’ll look into the legion , locally the only thing available is the a rog ally

Longshot717_

1 | 20 hours ago

I see, hang in there. POE2, working, and parenting is a rough combo.

Sevr022

4 | 21 hours ago

I play Poe 2 on my ROGAlly and it runs great, perfect for traveling. Just need a hotspot/wifi connection and you’re good to go. Highly recommended

backpacks645

1 | 21 hours ago

Ok awesome thank you

Sevr022

1 | 21 hours ago

They announced the new Xbox handheld is basically going to be a better ROGAlly. Will run off a barebones windows so you can play all your Xbox games, steam games, battlenet, epic, all of it. Comes out end of year I believe. Might want to check it out

backpacks645

1 | 21 hours ago

I did see that but I was hoping to pick something up next week or at least before the next league

Sevr022

1 | 21 hours ago

ROGAlly x is the way to go then. I feel like it’s one the best purchases I’ve made in a long time.

backpacks645

1 | 19 hours ago

Can you run awakened poe trade on it ?

Sevr022

2 | 19 hours ago

Yes, tho you might need to connect a keyboard/ mouse for it to work. It runs just like a regular windows PC for the most part.

QBleu

3 | a day ago

I love my steam deck, but it 100% cannot handle poe2 at all. Everything lowered and its still single digit fps in fights while also looking like shit.

Poe2 is dope but man it’s funny that D4 is optimized so much better.

backpacks645

1 | a day ago

I don’t have the fps chart up on my Xbox but it definitely is very bad on there also , textures sometimes disappear when you go to your inventory and you literally just have a blank screen mid map till you load out running at 5fps , on death effects don’t load in a lot of times either , still pushed into T3 bosses and juiced mapping tho

Guthix_Hero

2 | 20 hours ago

PoE and PoE 2 run fine on my OLED Steamdeck. I had to do something in the bios to unlock the full 4 GB of VRAM. Obviously it’s better on PC, but I play on my Steamdeck when I’m on the go.

Obvious-Jacket-3770

1 | a day ago

I play it on my AllyX. Works well with Lossless Scaling.

I use a massive screen wipe flicker mark build so it gets laggy but it catches up fast.

If you can stream from your desktop then that’s ideal overall.

backpacks645

1 | a day ago

I don’t have a deck top I have an Xbox series S that’s what I play on I’m going to get a laptop soon but I want to play on the handheld as well , major of my time is spent sitting around the house not able to sit on my Xbox but I could play on a handheld

Obvious-Jacket-3770

1 | a day ago

I would go desktop over laptop, just better there.

As for handheld you really won’t go wrong with an AllyX, it’s solid. If you want to wait, the new one will be out in the winter. I use my AllyX all the time, when home I stream from my desktop, when away I can run most of what I want.

backpacks645

1 | a day ago

My son has severe autism he will smash a desktop I can’t really have a setup that’s why I’m getting a laptop to play when he’s asleep so I can hide it but that playtime is maybe an hour or 2 a night , I primarily want the handheld for mapping while I’m watching him while he’s awake so I’m not just doom scrolling

Obvious-Jacket-3770

1 | 18 hours ago

Ahhhh totally understand you there.

Yeah AllyX is great for your use case then. My daughter does great with solo play and often asks me to play then tells me she wants to try on her own, which can be hours sometimes. Use mine for the same purpose. Sitting there if she needs help or doesn’t want me to play at that moment so I blast a few maps and pause as needed.

It will have some difficulty when there’s a ton on screen at once, probably not worse than your Xbox I would say, that’s from hearing people talk about it as I never bought it on my Xbox. Absolute must is the Lossless Scaling app for $7 as well, it helps a lot of the performance issues you will have especially opening strongboxes and a lot of things happening at once. I flicker so it really sees some things when voltaic mark goes off.

YouTube has some great guides on lossless, just look for ones on the last 4 months since those are recent updates. Also rogallylife.com, I think is the site, they have some great game by game guides for settings including Power draw.

Go with the X or Z1E at the least. You may also want to buy an Anker 25000mha charger for it so you don’t have to worry about battery. I bought a 10ft cable and brick a while ago for my laptop for my couch and I use it to plug in and play there so I don’t have to worry about battery.

Feel free to ask me more. Been using mine similar to you for 6ish months for POE2 and Last Epoch.

AeonChaos

1 | a day ago

Steamdeck can’t handle poe 2. FPS is on the floor.

backpacks645

1 | a day ago

So probably go with a rog ally it seems then

webwebweb88

1 | a day ago

It’s definitely extremely rough. I got to maps playing on 24 fps absolutely terrible graphics dropping hard frames. I was just waiting on my pc really, now I stream it via moonlight and it works pretty good. Never tried gamepass.

option_walker

1 | 21 hours ago

Poe2 doesn’t work well on steam deck save the money for something else

Zawson

1 | 21 hours ago

I own series X and mainly play remotely on my Logitech g cloud, local streaming is crazy good.

stangg187

1 | 19 hours ago

I played PoE2 on my steam deck using GeForce now while travelling for work and it ran great.

I don’t think it’ll run very well at all on any native handheld because of how poorly it’s optimised for the cpu, you might get it to run on minimum settings but you’ll lose so much clarity.

The only annoying thing is having to verify your account every time you log in because it’s always a new instance.

MrTytanis

1 | 19 hours ago

Finishing the campaign on the steam deck is doable but the end game is too much for it. Constantly below 30 fps

Sorpl3x

1 | 19 hours ago

Played 0.1.0 on the steamdeck, story works well, but once you hit mapping it becomes worse and worse. Its “playable” but during breaches and the like in t15s i got consistant 10-15 fps. Swapped to pc after that.

Rob ally VS Steamdeck for poe2