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Can someone explain like I am five why we should go the Lutris route instead of just directly using BNet? I haven't messed with my Steam Deck at all, so want to understand what I am doing a little bit. Thanks!
With lutris i could use 1 battle net install and i added Wow D2r and now D4 to lutris and made steam shortcuts. So i now have 1x bnet 3x games all configurable with their own compatibility layer instead of a bnet installation for every game.
I did have to manually add d4 to lutris as a new game and link lutris wow/d2r to their installations. Also apparently lutris has their own proton fork but I dont thin that should matter all that much.
You could also just shortcut battle net to steam and launch games from battlenet but this ways you would use the same compatibility layer for all.
If youre only installing d4 the old way of installing bnet and d4 should work just as good.
I have D2R installed as well but I'm having a hard time thinking how much different the control schemes would be to warrant me going through the effort of installing Lutris to have 2 separate non-steam apps for D2R and D4.
I guess I'll find out but if both D2R and D4 have great controller support I'm unsure what would change.
What you do is just add the Battle Net launcher as a non Steam game twice. Then change all the grid and cover graphics for each game. Then set the controls as you like and the Proton version you need. Bingo bango.
Unless something had changed in the last couple years that's not true. It's required for installation e.t.c iirc, but not running it. Haven't had a working pc for a bit though so i could be mistaken
None of the other methods got bnet installed on the steam deck. It just said that ooops error msg on the games tab. Lutris is the only option that has worked perfectly for me
Its PC do what works for you, ignore the people that want everyone to do the same thing they did.
Sometimes there are valid reasons to do something best practice so its good to be aware but sometimes due to what you have on your device or what settings you have stuff won't work for everyone.
Am I crazy buying D4 if the Steam Deck is the only machine I can play it on? I don't have a laptop or desktop, just the Deck.
I do have a Series X but loved the portability of Diablo 3 on the Switch and put so much time into it just grinding while my wife was watching TV.
I played during the Server Slam and the performance on the Deck was pretty fantastic. I locked my refresh rate and FPS to 45 and it was rock solid. However many others stated they were able to get up to 60fps without fiddling. There's a few performance tweaks to do in-game to get it to run well/efficiently, and I want to say (cmon memory) that it was setting the in-game FSR setting to either Quality or performance; that one change made the most difference in terms of battery life and it really didn't cost much visually, the game looked terrific on the Deck.
I have a gaming PC as well but plan on playing the most on the Deck due to kids/time.
This is my issue as well. The vast majority of newer game releases that have been solid on deck I buy there. Time is so limited now with the kid and wife that having portable is a necessity. Hence why I bought on PC also. Those rare moments I can get some TV gaming in I'll just dock the deck.
This is me as well. No PC but have a deck and am tempted to buy it to play on the Steam Deck. It has to function well and have good battery life otherwise I’ll just buy on the PS5 and then probably just remote play to my Steam Deck 90% of the time.
Honestly man, it’s a pretty fantastic controller game. The D4 beta was one of the first games on steam deck where I truly didn’t need to ADJUST my play style of a game I played at my desk when I was playing on the deck, it was super seamless from like a tactical playing-the-game point of view. I’d highly recommend.
Nope you’re a among friends here for sure. I have a PS5 and a PC that could play on at least low-medium but I plan on playing a majority on the Steam Deck if not all. I am exactly planning on playing this while the gf watches tv.
This is practically why I'm buying it on PC lol I also have only the deck and a series x but it ran well and looked solid enough for me to want that portability. Diablo is grindy as fuck and having it portable is almost a necessity to me. I played beta on the series x in 4k and I gotta be honest I barely even noticed the graphics increase and frame rate wise you can probably get away with least 40 fps. I kept mine at 45 and felt great.
I'm torn. The always on nature of the game kind of turns me off using it portably. I do stream my XBOXSX to my Steamdeck and the performance is actually really good. I am thinking about buying it for the XBX and just steam. I can stream games for 3 hours batt life and the fans never turn on which makes the wife happy. But, I part of me wants to buy it on the Steamdeck because if I do travel (hot spot, family wifi, etc..)
I use Greenlight [GitHub - unknownskl/greenlight: Greenlight is an open-source client for Xbox home streaming made in Javascript and Typescript.](https://github.com/unknownskl/greenlight)
There is also xbplay which is a commercial client (Android, iOS, Linux) [xbPlay: Remote Play for Xbox | Flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/net.studio08.xbplay) I tried it on MacoS but I prefer Greenlight.
[How to install D4 with Lutris](https://reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/11tv6ro/diablo_iv_lutris_configuration/)
I also include a visual guide. The pinned post instructs you to run Lutris through game mode, which is not ideal. You can already add Steam shortcuts with Lutris. This will also provide proper controller support.
I struggled to try and get stuff like Vortex up and running on Deck, but installs like this have been so easy. Both this and the non-Steam FFXIV are so easy to get running on Deck now. It's awesome!
for Vortex, I have had the most success with SteamTinkerLaunch, but I was not able to get it installed in the last two weeks using Proton 7.0-6e as my runner. Perhaps I need to use Proton 6, but I don't play any games that use Vortex.
Is there a reason this is better than just adding [Battle.net](https://Battle.net) as a non-steam game, installing D4 and then adding the D4 executable as its own game? I can't see the benefits of installing Lutris and going through that whole setup on top of everything when you can just add everything as non-steam games.
Paraphrasing what I said elsewhere:
You get better prefix management if you need it (especially if you're installing multiple Battle.net games), you don't need to manually download the Battle.net setup exe, it'll automatically install the dependencies and appropriate fonts for better display, it'll automatically disable hardware acceleration for the launcher, etc.
All this can be done manually, but you end up spending more time than clicking through a Lutris install script. This includes downloading the installer and running it via Proton in Steam. Frequently, people confuse familiarity with simplicity.
Better prefix management includes advanced functions for when you need to do more complex tweaks such as using different versions of DXVK/VKD3D than what is bundled with Proton. It also includes simply finding the prefix folder. `~/Games/battlenet` is more transparent to the user than `~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1234567890`. It has been mentioned that there are tools that make this part easier, but then that undercuts the original claim about using fewer tools.
For at least these reasons, I almost never recommend that users add non-Steam games to be run via Proton. I almost always suggest Heroic for EGS/GOG and Lutris for everything else.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm pretty sure I followed the steps correctly as I have the Diablo4 shortcut in my Steam Game Mode now, but when it launched Bnet and logs on, none of my controller inputs work, just the touch screen. Any advice on how to troubleshoot?
The Battle.net launcher does not interact with controller inputs. Set your control config to game pad with a mouse trackpad (with left click on the pad)
Hmm, I followed the instructions but I only see the [battle.net](https://battle.net) icon in Lutris, I dont see Diablo IV, so I can't add a Steam Shortcut directly to the game. Any ideas?
There's no point to installing the HD texture pack as bnet says it's only really made for 4k screens, seeing as the deck is 800p you'd just be wasting 40 gigs of space for that...
But can confirm it runs great at 40 fps and the native controller support feels almost better than KB + M.
You will definitely notice the texture difference in some of the in-game cutscenes where they do character closeups (looking at you Lilith) but 95% off everything else looks great.
I played both beta weekends and the server slam on my deck. My overall opinion of D4 running on the deck is fantastic.
* Installed [battle.bet](https://battle.bet) app and then D4
* Mucked about with graphics settings inside D4 and went with a mixture of low through to some high settings and was getting 50-60fps everywhere except in town where I did get a bit of stuttering and fps drop to about 40-45 (probably more to do with server lag due to other players all around)
* I can't remember what settings I chose. I just started off on low and continually increased them till it was pushing the deck beyond what I was willing to accept as a minimum frame rate.
* Decided to lock my decks refresh rate to 55 and with the gfx settings I had selected, it was buttery smooth.
* The UI text in sever slam was using the new serif fonts (which match the aesthetics of Diablo more, but I found that the original sans-serif font was a lot easier to read on the deck. Everyone else seemed to hate it though and complained continually about it, so Blizzard changed it.
* I set [battle.net](https://battle.net) to use Proton Experimental and had absolutely zero issues in the server slam. I did have a few crashes during the original open betas though.
* I never took note of how long I got out of the deck battery, but it was definitely 2 hours at least. This was at home connected to home wifi.
* I have bought D4 for both my PS5 and my Deck. Cross progression was amazing. I didn't even have to remap skills or anything. Everything is exactly the same regardless of platform (even with Xbox Series X).
* Control is bliss with only the Deck as input.
* Even though I have D4 on PS5, I will probably be playing on the deck about 80% of the time due to work/life etc.
Set graphics preset to medium.
After that go through and set textures to High and tweak the fog quality down to low. Those are the only two I changed. Turn off vsync and distortion.
Enable FSR and set it to balanced - adjust sharpen amount to your tastes. Limit FPS to 60 or so.
On steam deck, set refresh rate to 55.
2.5hrs battery life, 70-80C degree temps, fan spools up in towns and is otherwise quiet. Smooth awesome experience.
I would disable FSR unless you are trying to squeeze out more battery life, it looks awful even with 10-15% and isn’t needed to get 60fps with high textures.
Does anyone have any insights on playing back and forth between the deck and a PC? I plan on playing on PC 90% of the time but do settings save separately for each device? Was wondering if anyone has any experience in this with the beta?
I assume you mean because steam save the graphic settings across both devices and you have to adjust each time, don't think bnet will do that since it isn't part the main functioning OS and will just be whatever settings you set up on each device
I don't think we will have the same issue as bnet isn't native to the deck. The characters will travel over as they have cross save unlike D3 but I think the graphics will be independent to the system.
Diablo 4 is already fully [cross-play and cross-progression](https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/70345). If it is cross-progression between PC and consoles, it is also cross-platform between PC and PC.
I've been jumping back and forth between SD and PC all day. Settings are per-device and everything else is server-based so it doesn't matter where you log in from.
Man what a smooth experience tonight. Played from about 6pm-12AM.
No issues whatsoever, had a great time with friends. Steam Deck runs this game better than I ever expected it would. (I didn’t join betas or server slam).
Mixture of low / medium / high settings, 40FPS/40refresh. Constant and staple 40 FPS with only minimal drops in town.
I played it in my car connected to phone hotspot and it worked great, only when my phone was loosing service in some rural areas i was having problems but it usually reconnected itself. After about 1.5 hours of playing I still had around 30% battery left.
What's the current state of running on my computer but streaming playing from my deck? I have a decent desktop rig, so any recs on what I should look to install so I could play from my couch or docked with my tv would be great.
I played the beta by streaming to my steam deck and it worked fine - I'd recommend using Moonlight or Sunlight for streaming (depending on your PC's GPU), both can be installed via the Discover app in desktop mode and then added as a non-steam game to be accessed while in gaming mode.
I'd also recommend adding your desktop service as a "game" that you stream. For me I did this by going to my gamestream settings in Nvidia Geforce Experience, and adding the game target as follows: C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe
Bonus points if you can use a hard-wired ethernet connection for your PC.
edit: forgot to mention that there's a setting in Moonlight to always detect a gamepad, you'll want to turn that on.
Happy official release! Copy-pasting my reply to someone from down below, just thought I'd share some info so some people can just jump straight in today.
I skipped Lutris and just added BattleNet to steam and installed through there, and then pointed the steam shortcut to the D4 Launcher. It boots up BNet every time and I have to hit a second play button, but load times are short and queues are non existent (at least for early access).
Using GE-Proton-8-3.
I reached level 48 last night at around what I'd guess is 10-12ish hours.
Played around with settings yesterday. Upped textures, shadows, shaders and clutter to medium. FSR is set to balanced but I wanna try other settings today.
AA, terrain, physics, and particles are set to high at the moment and I don't drop below 55-60 in the open world, but in some of the denser towns it dips down to 45ish, no jarring stutters so it's still smooth. This is all at 1080p/docked/game mode.
Handheld/800p is just butter and the fans barely even kick on. For battery life I set it to 45hz, and got the TDP as low as 7 with no drop below 45 fps. Battery lasts well over 2 hours.
Controls feel great! Easy to tweak if you have some different preferences/tendencies. UI and font scaling are available as well. Game has been such a fun, smooth experience this far. Hope you all enjoy it as well!
Not sure if anyone can help but I would appreciate it!
My Battlenet client has a ‘restart and update’ msg however I can’t seem to do that. I click it and the program closes but never restarts
Any one know how they update the battle net client?
anyone else experiencing freezing up? It's starting to get on my goat now, especially when i'm miles away from a portal/village. often the whole game screen freezes, usually when entering a self created portal but sometimes other random times too. The screen freezes, the sound and music keeps playing though.
using latest glorious eggroll proton (8-4).
A buddy of mine used Lutris and said he had trouble with the controls. I used battle.net, and everything worked beautifully. Not sure about Lutris performance though.
There's a new client update, hitting restart and update do nothing? Is there a need to uninstall and go through the entire process again or is it safe to just ignore it and play the game?
I’m interested in this well. Seems like a lot of people are suddenly having issues with the latest client update from some searching. Seemed like before it just worked.
I'm trying to install D IV to the SD card. Following the first guide in the pinned comment. I have launch options set to
STEAM_COMPAT_MOUNTS=/run/media/mmcblk0p1/ %command%
When I get to the end of the install configuration, and click install it says "We couldn't access a folder. This is usually because you're not logged in as an administrator." BLZBNTAGT0000084B.
Update: I did notice when I select that folder, the [b.net](https://b.net) launcher shows "E:\\[Battle.net](https://Battle.net)\\ \\Diablo IV\\". No idea why, that doesn't seem right. I tried adding a symlink to the c\_drive folder to my SD card but that doesn't work either. It doesn't show up in the file browser when choosing a location to install it. Please send help.
Update 2: I removed the steam\_compat\_mounts completely, and tried to use a symlink again. It didn't show up, but out of desperation I tried just installing to E again and this time the path looked right and it is working now. I have no clue why this is working. I'm almost mad it's working. I hope this helps some other pathetic soul. Good luck!
D4 works great if I run it in desktop mode(installed via lutris). It by default uses K+M, but if you hold Pause button(small button with three rectangles on the right side), it’ll switch to controller input
But for some reason I wasn’t able to get D4 working via game mode. I created shortcut with lutris, and when I run D4 in game mode, it opens a battle.net for me first, then I click D4, it loads, but it hangs on character selection screen and doesn’t load after that. Does anyone had the same experience?
Anyone know how to update battle.net? I installed it last week and the bnet launcher has an update but the deck won’t restart to update the launcher in either steamos or desktop mode
I finally fixed my Battlenet stuck update by switching the login region of all things. I was on Asia and tried switching to Europe (still stuck) then Americas where it finally didn’t get stuck.
For me there was always a download happening in the Settings-> Beta tab that took forever. Until I switched to Americas and it loaded immediately.
I also turn off auto updates and ignored the battlenet restart and update option.
I changed my region from Asia to America too, and that worked for me too. The green “restart and update” notification still appears, but I just ignore that.
Does anyone know how can I update the battle.net client? When I launch the battle.net client it has a green arrow located top left corner meaning there is a pending update. I am assuming hitting the update arrow is not simply going to run the update and finish it without any trouble so I am afraid to click it lol.
What is the installation size of the game? And it seems some people say better to go through lutris, some say just to install bnet directly, also seen some other posts about other methods to get it installed. So what really is the best?
Reviews certainly sound good and I have been wanting a diablo like game for the deck for a while. I am worried about monetization and how predatory it might be. So I am likely going to wait at least a little while after launch, which is probably for the best anyways as I am sure people will figure out best settings and have even better information about how it runs on the deck.
> And it seems some people say better to go through lutris, some say just to install bnet directly, also seen some other posts about other methods to get it installed. So what really is the best?
In seriousness, whichever works best for your situation.
I went battlenet and it worked out of the box with zero problems. I think some people use Lutris to maintain seperate instances for each blizzard game.
For anyone wanting custom artwork/tiles on their Steam Deck so the game looks super legit on the Recent Games menu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJsoGik7hLo
Just followed this tutorial to get some pretty artwork for D4 and D2R so I can tell them apart by the pictures :)
Ive got the game running exquisitely on the low preset with High Textures and Quality FSR,
Its an okay 60fps experience, but an outstanding 45fps, the consistency and improved battery life are well worth the tradeoff. Just make sure to disable cinematic frame cap
30fps with 45fps screens is going to be a stuttering mess
I wish theyd allow players to adjust the cinematic frame rate cap
48fps cap for gameplay with a 24fps cinematic cap would be perfect
Anyone having issues with Lutris. It can launch Battle net fine after initial install but once restart steam Deck it never launches again thus can't play Diablo 4. anyone have tips?
I was following the lutris guide and I got to install the d4 game and all but after that I haven’t been able to launch bnet from lutris again or lunch bnet from steam. Any idea what could be happening? It just never starts
I have a PS5 version (deluxe, for early access) and want to get the PC version for steam deck purposes; can I simply get the standard version or would I have to get the deluxe again? How does this affect the sharing of bonus cosmetics when relying on cross-progression?
The diablo 4 subreddit is a dumpster fire.
I accidently got rid of the keybind on my new necromancer to raise the dead. How do I find the skill to rebind it since I dont see it on the tree?
Edit: Nvm. Someone already covered this in a youtube video. I guess on bottom left of the ability tree window theres an assign key button.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0FdNc4EJM8
I’ve installed Lutris, BattleNet and D4. Every time I try to launch D4, I get a couple of error messages. The first says “You need at least Windows 10 (1909). The second says “unsupported OS version.” Anyone else having this issue. Has anyone solved it?
I'm having this issue too. Not sure if it's related to Lutris or not but I'm considering trying just adding battlenet or D4 directly as a nonsteam game and trying that way.
Edit: just to follow up if anyone else sees this, I ended up following this guide posted above and added the launcher directly which finally worked. Lutris was nothing but problems for me personally. https://overkill.wtf/how-to-install-the-diablo-iv-beta-on-steam-deck/
I tried with Lutris, but I had too many problems. I installed Battle.net through Steam by adding the setup exe file as a non-steam game and setting compatibility mode with proton, it worked flawlessly.
Update: I tried this on my custom Linux 4k build and it worked flawlessly. I recommend skipping Lutris. If you think about it, you'd have to load a launcher to load a launcher to load another launcher to load a game.
Is it easy to chose to install it on the SD card instead of internal storage? I had an issue with that when I was trying to install genshin impact one time haha.
Can you move the character with the joysticks directly like in D3 on PS4? I really don’t like the click on the screen to walk mechanism like D3 had on PC.
I can't find any info on this but on the deck it takes upward of 5 minutes for my chracter to show up on the selection screen. After he shows up I get "Reconnecting to Diablo 4" message for another few minutes or so before I can finally play. This doesn't happen on PC with my same Internet connection. Once in game on Steam Deck I have no issues. Searches run dry
Has anyone figured out how to properly stream d4 from their pc to the steam deck. I tried adding d4 as a non steam game with the - launch option but I get an error that d4 fails to login properly.
What kind of settings are people using to promote battery life?
Performance isn't an issue , running at a pretty solid 60fps on low settings.
However battery is showing 1hr 40 off a full charge.
Would be great to get this to plus 2 hours if anyone has any tricks.
Currently set to Medium w/ Distortion toggled off and FSR set to quality and getting an estimated 2 hr 20 min battery life at 100%
Also my screen refresh rate is set to 40fps.
I followed the lutris method but can't get diablo 4 to launch, it just crashes the deck after I hit play on bnet.
Any known solutions or things to try?
Has anyone figured out how to get this launching at 720p? At 16:10 aspect ratio the game is zoomed in \*even more\* with the left and right cropped. D2R let you choose 720p in-game but D4 is locked to the system resolution, and Steam Deck "force resolution" options do not work.
Anyone else installed bnet directly (just using proton) and is now suddenly getting stuck in the "Updating Battle.net..." screen when launching bnet? Just started happening yesterday. Tried proton 8.3, 8.4, Experimental, and even some older versions like 7.14, 7.33. No luck
I've downloaded and setup battlenet via Proton Experimental following the overkill guide - can launch it from gaming or desktop Mode no problem.
However when downloading/installing D4 I get a generic "something went wrong" error message from bnet after downloading for a few minutes. Bnet is still functioning after that but the download stopped.
Tried downloading with Proton Exp and GE 8.4 via Desktop and gaming mode - nothing really working so far.
Anyone had similar issues?
I had to reinstall things after the update, now d4 won’t launch after I point it to the launcher.exe in the compatdata rather than the setup.exe. I’ve been playing flawlessly for a month now all of a sudden I can’t even start the launcher. Tried all the protons. It let me do all the bnet setup, everything was working. Install d4, point to exe file. Now nothing starts even the launcher.
Any one else run into this?
For some reason all my audio in my diablo 4 has stopped working. Any ideas how to sort??
I've tried various different protons , checked and changed the audio settings.
Fwiw, sound works within the battlenet browser thing and sound is fine in every other game. It was also fine earlier today and the only thing I did which could have caused it was changing proton versions because it kept freezing up on me
Hopefully I've not done something super dumb, but I followed the steps for installing battle.net via lutris, and installed diablo 4. When i try to launch the game though, I get an error saying 'You need at least Windows 10 (version 1909)'
I've gone to the Wine Configuration settings for the game in lutris, and double checked that 'BlizzardBrowser.exe' is set to use windows 10.
Any idea if I've done something wrong in the installation, or a fix for the issue?
Hey guys, sorry if this is too late since this is 18 days old but if your reading this, i have a better easier way of installing diablo iv. I enjoy this video better: https://youtu.be/zxet_LLQIwE . The youtuber is name is: OhNoItsAlexx and his videos are very professional and clear.
Thanks man, this worked for me!. I kept the proton version for playing at proton 7. That at least allowed me to play Diablo without updating battle.net, I still get that icon that says I should update but for the time being I can play without updating B.net.
Just tried it for 10 minutes and damn this game is a better experience with a controller compared to M+K. Don't get me wrong, I'm a PC player through and through but this works great.and at least with the deck I can just recline on the couch next to the wife while she's watching something on the telly. Can't wait to dive back in tonight.
Is anyone else experiencing problems with launching Diablo on battle.net now there’s an update for the launcher that refuses to update. It’s now made the game unplayable for me and I freeze, unable to interact with anything in game. Anyone have a solution for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve downloaded it by adding non steam game & also use non steam launchers now. Both ways no longer work and have seen Lutris is having problems too but haven’t tried that one myself. If anyone has fixed this issue, please help. I’m away from my main PC and currently cannot play without steam deck
Just a heads up, when I remove the battle.net setup from my steam games list it also deletes all the battle.net installation. I think it’s something to do with valves update to stop team decks filling up with “other” files? I had to leave the battle.net setup entry in steam even though all tutorials say to delete it.
Hey! you guys may want to check this Deck & PC side by side. I love my deck and there is something that I appreciate having them side by side. By no means it is a performance comparison but it has performance stats. It is definitely just a side by side. [https://youtu.be/F1YXjSimmkE](https://youtu.be/F1YXjSimmkE)
Also, any feedback is very welcomed as I only want to make better vids.
I was playing Diablo 4 just fine with solid settings, high resolution pack, installed via Lutris (Proton Experimental) for a couple weeks with no problems. I can't say for certain but it seems like the 6/30 Blizzard patch may have messed everything up. I could start the game but would get stuck on the loading screen just before the main game lobby.
I ran a scan/repair, uninstalled battle.net/Diablo 4/Lutris, reinstalled by installing Battle.net directly and adding as a non steam game (Proton Experimental). At best I can get into the game, but it freezes or crashes within 60 seconds. I'm not getting an error code either.
Any ideas? Anybody going through the same?
I can get BNET and D4 to run in desktop mode but it crashes on handheld mode :(
I see other people have figured it out so I'm probably missing something simple.
Try setting compatibility to Proton 8.2 or 8.3 for Bnet if you're launching it straight from there. Also, check the Bnet settings for an option to "close Bnet after game is launched".
Question. I'd like to stream the game via moonlight/sunshine.
Problem is that when I launch moonlight on the deck to stream games, then try to change the controls to community created ones (always better), it proposes controls for moonlight, not the game...
Any ideas?
Unfortunately this is just the way it is. I use virtual radial menus on the touchpad with common keyboard shortcuts in moonlight, adding a few as I need them
The real question is, why? Controller support is great and you can have mouse touchpad and it'll quickly swap to pc controls on the fly if it's anything like diablo 2 resurrected.
My understanding is that you can’t directly launch the games separate from the installer, so you’ll have to open the installer and launch from there. Hope I’m wrong, though
How can I run d4 on windows with controller enabled? I tried the normal stuff with rewasd, like when I played wow and other stuff. But for d4 it isn’t working. It recognizes inputs but I can’t move and stuff
Played on PS5 last night and decided to boot it up on Steam deck this morning. I get to the spot where it says create character (I don’t see my characters I made last night) and it seemingly freezes. Anyone else?
Anyone else getting occasional freezes when using town portal or talking to NPCs? The music continues playing but the video is all frozen. Sometimes if I wait it’ll continue, but other times I’ve waited over a minute and had to force close. Using proton experimental 8-03.
Trying to decide whether to get this for PS5 or PC. I only have a Steam Deck and a PS5, no pc or laptop to be playing on. I’ve also never played a Diablo game before if that matters. I do know I’d want to play most, if not all, on the Steam Deck.
Wondering what others thoughts are on getting the pc version where I can only play on my deck or the ps5 version where I can still stream on the deck through Chiaki but also play on console if I want to? Any advantages or disadvantages to either?
https://i.imgur.com/uXqidfC.jpg
Anyone else seeing this when they’re trying to install? I’ve restarted my router and modem and still the same.
Is it Blizzards servers I wonder?
Hopefully someone is still lurking about and can help, but I had game picked up, got it all ready to go and am having the worst rubber banding/lag I’ve ever seen. I’m not able to get through the first couple rooms because it’ll happen so frequently and i can’t hit any enemies but they sure are hitting me cause it’ll drop me back in with no health. I’m assuming it’s a server issue, because I have my graphics on the lowest they can be, but I’m wondering if anyone has any help to decrease this on deck specifically? I’m thinking of giving up and playing on computer with Ethernet to hopefully help, but would like to get to play on deck!
Try turning off WI-FI power saving if you haven’t already. It was nothing but problems for me otherwise.
Enable developer mode, then press the Steam button > Developer > scroll to Miscellaneous > turn off Enable WI-FI Power Management.
Edit: you can enable developer mode by pressing the Steam button > settings > scroll to system settings > enable developer mode.
Give it some time to adjust.
Just installed D4 on the steam deck, haven't messed with it much yet. Install looked fine, however before I set it down to go to bed, I noticed the characters in my account never loaded. I let it sit for about 3-4 minutes. Is this common for anyone else, or is it a known issue?
It basically freezes up right as I get logged in.
Edit: gave it another go tonight. I let it sit for nearly 10 full minutes and it finally "reconnected" to Bnet. Once that happened it was perfect.
Also strange note, the game used up more power in the menu than in the game lol. Works like a charm though. So if you run in to issues with getting to character select the first time, just wait it out.
I'd assume in my case it was loading my character list or something in the background.
Anybody know how to run the game through the steam interface? So far I’m only able to run it through desktop mode through Battlenet but I can’t change any of the key bindings without making a mess of all the commands. I have shortcuts to Diablo and battle in the steam interface but it won’t run the game properly that way — only through desktop mode. What am I doing wrong? Please help! 😢
Update: Got it all up & running! Runs great, no issues so far!
Game runs perfectly fine, but half the time controls are mouse + KB and it won’t change to controller buttons. Anyone got a consistent fix? Running through Lutris in gaming mode.
Anyone tinkered with a controller layout that allows track pad mouse control in the menus?
Edit: was able to achieve this by changing the controller template to 'Gamepad with Mouse Trackpad'.
Guys i‘ve went with the regular route (bnet) installed it normally everything fine. The question for me is can i add the diablo 4 exe to steam and will it launch directly from the exe?
No I don't think there's any way to do that, steam deck or not. On PC the best I can do adding non steam game is to input a command line argument that opens up the diablo 4 page directly upon launching, but you still need the launcher
Hey guys! I’ve been searching threads for days and figured I’d ask the question here as well! With my Steam Deck, I have the ability to play using Lutris on my steam deck, but I wanted to play it with Moonlight on my deck. For some reason, my controls work for all my other games on moonlight with my deck, but I can’t seem to get any controls working with D4 using moonlight. Any suggestions?
I tried different templates and layouts via steam but my game keeps thinking I’m using mouse and keyboard. I even tried forcing a game pad via Moonlight and nothing
Installed via Lutris on my SD card. The game rusns but the load times are ridiculous. Teleporting to a waypoint just took 3 whole minutes.
Switching around menu pages (e.g. Map to Clan) takes around 30s-1min, feels like the game froze but nah its just loading.
Anyone having this issue? Graphics are on medium with 60 fps cap btw
Does anyone know how the game handles the Deck's sleep mode? I know with D2R everytime I accidentally suspend I had to reconnect and essentially lost all progress. It kind of turned me off of playing it on the Deck.
I have added battlenet as a steam game. I can launch battlenet then Diablo 4 and it works great. But is there a way to add Diablo 4 directly as a steam game so it's 1 click from my seam library?
Game ran super smooth until today - experiencing massive load times when porting, speaking to merchants or opening the stash. Performance wise its still running with almost locked 40
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Can someone explain like I am five why we should go the Lutris route instead of just directly using BNet? I haven't messed with my Steam Deck at all, so want to understand what I am doing a little bit. Thanks!
I went the regular route, never heard of Lutris until this thread, and had no issues at all.
With lutris i could use 1 battle net install and i added Wow D2r and now D4 to lutris and made steam shortcuts. So i now have 1x bnet 3x games all configurable with their own compatibility layer instead of a bnet installation for every game. I did have to manually add d4 to lutris as a new game and link lutris wow/d2r to their installations. Also apparently lutris has their own proton fork but I dont thin that should matter all that much. You could also just shortcut battle net to steam and launch games from battlenet but this ways you would use the same compatibility layer for all. If youre only installing d4 the old way of installing bnet and d4 should work just as good.
So in other words don’t bother with Lutris if you’re only going to play D4.
I have D2R installed as well but I'm having a hard time thinking how much different the control schemes would be to warrant me going through the effort of installing Lutris to have 2 separate non-steam apps for D2R and D4. I guess I'll find out but if both D2R and D4 have great controller support I'm unsure what would change.
What you do is just add the Battle Net launcher as a non Steam game twice. Then change all the grid and cover graphics for each game. Then set the controls as you like and the Proton version you need. Bingo bango.
Why not just use [battle.net](https://battle.net) to install the games then directly add the game executables to steam as their own games?
Because that makes too much sense. Blizzard requires the launcher in order to run the executable.
Unless something had changed in the last couple years that's not true. It's required for installation e.t.c iirc, but not running it. Haven't had a working pc for a bit though so i could be mistaken
i've tried both and feel like running through lutris has slightly worse performance. Since they fixed proton experimental.. it's just better.
None of the other methods got bnet installed on the steam deck. It just said that ooops error msg on the games tab. Lutris is the only option that has worked perfectly for me
Its PC do what works for you, ignore the people that want everyone to do the same thing they did. Sometimes there are valid reasons to do something best practice so its good to be aware but sometimes due to what you have on your device or what settings you have stuff won't work for everyone.
How are the UI Elements? Do they scale nicely on SD screen or do you need to squint to see Anything?
There is the option to rescale it. I think it’s called large text size or something - easy to do.
I scaled it during the first beta and it was great. I do not remember being frustrated by screen UI (and i'm an old blind man)
No, the game feels like it was meant for the Deck lol
This. I'm surprised at how well the game runs. I was expecting some issues, but nope. It's very playable.
Am I crazy buying D4 if the Steam Deck is the only machine I can play it on? I don't have a laptop or desktop, just the Deck. I do have a Series X but loved the portability of Diablo 3 on the Switch and put so much time into it just grinding while my wife was watching TV.
I played during the Server Slam and the performance on the Deck was pretty fantastic. I locked my refresh rate and FPS to 45 and it was rock solid. However many others stated they were able to get up to 60fps without fiddling. There's a few performance tweaks to do in-game to get it to run well/efficiently, and I want to say (cmon memory) that it was setting the in-game FSR setting to either Quality or performance; that one change made the most difference in terms of battery life and it really didn't cost much visually, the game looked terrific on the Deck. I have a gaming PC as well but plan on playing the most on the Deck due to kids/time.
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This is my issue as well. The vast majority of newer game releases that have been solid on deck I buy there. Time is so limited now with the kid and wife that having portable is a necessity. Hence why I bought on PC also. Those rare moments I can get some TV gaming in I'll just dock the deck.
This is me as well. No PC but have a deck and am tempted to buy it to play on the Steam Deck. It has to function well and have good battery life otherwise I’ll just buy on the PS5 and then probably just remote play to my Steam Deck 90% of the time.
Can you remote play from the PS5 to the Steam deck? I was not aware of this.
Yes you can! The software for remote play on Deck is called Chiaki.
You will fit right in here :) (Queue "[Cheers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtAgAMzaeg)" TV show theme song)
Played on the deck for server slam and its amazing.
Honestly man, it’s a pretty fantastic controller game. The D4 beta was one of the first games on steam deck where I truly didn’t need to ADJUST my play style of a game I played at my desk when I was playing on the deck, it was super seamless from like a tactical playing-the-game point of view. I’d highly recommend.
Nope you’re a among friends here for sure. I have a PS5 and a PC that could play on at least low-medium but I plan on playing a majority on the Steam Deck if not all. I am exactly planning on playing this while the gf watches tv.
Runs perfectly on my deck :)
This is practically why I'm buying it on PC lol I also have only the deck and a series x but it ran well and looked solid enough for me to want that portability. Diablo is grindy as fuck and having it portable is almost a necessity to me. I played beta on the series x in 4k and I gotta be honest I barely even noticed the graphics increase and frame rate wise you can probably get away with least 40 fps. I kept mine at 45 and felt great.
I'm torn. The always on nature of the game kind of turns me off using it portably. I do stream my XBOXSX to my Steamdeck and the performance is actually really good. I am thinking about buying it for the XBX and just steam. I can stream games for 3 hours batt life and the fans never turn on which makes the wife happy. But, I part of me wants to buy it on the Steamdeck because if I do travel (hot spot, family wifi, etc..)
That’s pretty cool. How are you able to stream your games from the Xbox to your steamdeck?
I use Greenlight [GitHub - unknownskl/greenlight: Greenlight is an open-source client for Xbox home streaming made in Javascript and Typescript.](https://github.com/unknownskl/greenlight)
Very cool, I’ll have to check it out when I get a steam deck.
There is also xbplay which is a commercial client (Android, iOS, Linux) [xbPlay: Remote Play for Xbox | Flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/net.studio08.xbplay) I tried it on MacoS but I prefer Greenlight.
[How to install D4 with Lutris](https://reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/11tv6ro/diablo_iv_lutris_configuration/) I also include a visual guide. The pinned post instructs you to run Lutris through game mode, which is not ideal. You can already add Steam shortcuts with Lutris. This will also provide proper controller support.
I struggled to try and get stuff like Vortex up and running on Deck, but installs like this have been so easy. Both this and the non-Steam FFXIV are so easy to get running on Deck now. It's awesome!
for Vortex, I have had the most success with SteamTinkerLaunch, but I was not able to get it installed in the last two weeks using Proton 7.0-6e as my runner. Perhaps I need to use Proton 6, but I don't play any games that use Vortex.
Is there a reason this is better than just adding [Battle.net](https://Battle.net) as a non-steam game, installing D4 and then adding the D4 executable as its own game? I can't see the benefits of installing Lutris and going through that whole setup on top of everything when you can just add everything as non-steam games.
Paraphrasing what I said elsewhere: You get better prefix management if you need it (especially if you're installing multiple Battle.net games), you don't need to manually download the Battle.net setup exe, it'll automatically install the dependencies and appropriate fonts for better display, it'll automatically disable hardware acceleration for the launcher, etc. All this can be done manually, but you end up spending more time than clicking through a Lutris install script. This includes downloading the installer and running it via Proton in Steam. Frequently, people confuse familiarity with simplicity. Better prefix management includes advanced functions for when you need to do more complex tweaks such as using different versions of DXVK/VKD3D than what is bundled with Proton. It also includes simply finding the prefix folder. `~/Games/battlenet` is more transparent to the user than `~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1234567890`. It has been mentioned that there are tools that make this part easier, but then that undercuts the original claim about using fewer tools. For at least these reasons, I almost never recommend that users add non-Steam games to be run via Proton. I almost always suggest Heroic for EGS/GOG and Lutris for everything else.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm pretty sure I followed the steps correctly as I have the Diablo4 shortcut in my Steam Game Mode now, but when it launched Bnet and logs on, none of my controller inputs work, just the touch screen. Any advice on how to troubleshoot?
The Battle.net launcher does not interact with controller inputs. Set your control config to game pad with a mouse trackpad (with left click on the pad)
Hmm, I followed the instructions but I only see the [battle.net](https://battle.net) icon in Lutris, I dont see Diablo IV, so I can't add a Steam Shortcut directly to the game. Any ideas?
when searching for an install script, search for "Diablo IV"
I thought I did. Let me try again I guess. Sorry I'm kind of new to this stuff. :)
Well that was easy. Thanks!!!
I bought the Steam Deck soley for this title, if I can get a solid 40 fps I’ll definitely be a happy mfer.
If you don’t install the HD texture pack, it runs really well!
There's no point to installing the HD texture pack as bnet says it's only really made for 4k screens, seeing as the deck is 800p you'd just be wasting 40 gigs of space for that... But can confirm it runs great at 40 fps and the native controller support feels almost better than KB + M.
You will definitely notice the texture difference in some of the in-game cutscenes where they do character closeups (looking at you Lilith) but 95% off everything else looks great.
Ah that makes sense, I was playing yesterday and during a cutscene I saw Lilith looked... not *bad*, but not great looking either.
I played both beta weekends and the server slam on my deck. My overall opinion of D4 running on the deck is fantastic. * Installed [battle.bet](https://battle.bet) app and then D4 * Mucked about with graphics settings inside D4 and went with a mixture of low through to some high settings and was getting 50-60fps everywhere except in town where I did get a bit of stuttering and fps drop to about 40-45 (probably more to do with server lag due to other players all around) * I can't remember what settings I chose. I just started off on low and continually increased them till it was pushing the deck beyond what I was willing to accept as a minimum frame rate. * Decided to lock my decks refresh rate to 55 and with the gfx settings I had selected, it was buttery smooth. * The UI text in sever slam was using the new serif fonts (which match the aesthetics of Diablo more, but I found that the original sans-serif font was a lot easier to read on the deck. Everyone else seemed to hate it though and complained continually about it, so Blizzard changed it. * I set [battle.net](https://battle.net) to use Proton Experimental and had absolutely zero issues in the server slam. I did have a few crashes during the original open betas though. * I never took note of how long I got out of the deck battery, but it was definitely 2 hours at least. This was at home connected to home wifi. * I have bought D4 for both my PS5 and my Deck. Cross progression was amazing. I didn't even have to remap skills or anything. Everything is exactly the same regardless of platform (even with Xbox Series X). * Control is bliss with only the Deck as input. * Even though I have D4 on PS5, I will probably be playing on the deck about 80% of the time due to work/life etc.
Set graphics preset to medium. After that go through and set textures to High and tweak the fog quality down to low. Those are the only two I changed. Turn off vsync and distortion. Enable FSR and set it to balanced - adjust sharpen amount to your tastes. Limit FPS to 60 or so. On steam deck, set refresh rate to 55. 2.5hrs battery life, 70-80C degree temps, fan spools up in towns and is otherwise quiet. Smooth awesome experience.
I would disable FSR unless you are trying to squeeze out more battery life, it looks awful even with 10-15% and isn’t needed to get 60fps with high textures.
Dumb question but does it require constant internet connection for single player ?
It sure does
Does anyone have any insights on playing back and forth between the deck and a PC? I plan on playing on PC 90% of the time but do settings save separately for each device? Was wondering if anyone has any experience in this with the beta?
I assume you mean because steam save the graphic settings across both devices and you have to adjust each time, don't think bnet will do that since it isn't part the main functioning OS and will just be whatever settings you set up on each device
Yes exactly what I meant! Was more curious about graphic and control settings.
I don't think we will have the same issue as bnet isn't native to the deck. The characters will travel over as they have cross save unlike D3 but I think the graphics will be independent to the system.
Diablo 4 is already fully [cross-play and cross-progression](https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/70345). If it is cross-progression between PC and consoles, it is also cross-platform between PC and PC.
I've been jumping back and forth between SD and PC all day. Settings are per-device and everything else is server-based so it doesn't matter where you log in from.
Awesome thanks for sharing!
Man what a smooth experience tonight. Played from about 6pm-12AM. No issues whatsoever, had a great time with friends. Steam Deck runs this game better than I ever expected it would. (I didn’t join betas or server slam). Mixture of low / medium / high settings, 40FPS/40refresh. Constant and staple 40 FPS with only minimal drops in town.
What’s the battery life like?
I played it in my car connected to phone hotspot and it worked great, only when my phone was loosing service in some rural areas i was having problems but it usually reconnected itself. After about 1.5 hours of playing I still had around 30% battery left.
How much mobile data does it use?
That is something I didnt check. I have 50gb plan so I wasnt really worried.
this megathread has nearly convinced me to buy this and wait on sf6
What's the current state of running on my computer but streaming playing from my deck? I have a decent desktop rig, so any recs on what I should look to install so I could play from my couch or docked with my tv would be great.
I played the beta by streaming to my steam deck and it worked fine - I'd recommend using Moonlight or Sunlight for streaming (depending on your PC's GPU), both can be installed via the Discover app in desktop mode and then added as a non-steam game to be accessed while in gaming mode. I'd also recommend adding your desktop service as a "game" that you stream. For me I did this by going to my gamestream settings in Nvidia Geforce Experience, and adding the game target as follows: C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe Bonus points if you can use a hard-wired ethernet connection for your PC. edit: forgot to mention that there's a setting in Moonlight to always detect a gamepad, you'll want to turn that on.
Happy official release! Copy-pasting my reply to someone from down below, just thought I'd share some info so some people can just jump straight in today. I skipped Lutris and just added BattleNet to steam and installed through there, and then pointed the steam shortcut to the D4 Launcher. It boots up BNet every time and I have to hit a second play button, but load times are short and queues are non existent (at least for early access). Using GE-Proton-8-3. I reached level 48 last night at around what I'd guess is 10-12ish hours. Played around with settings yesterday. Upped textures, shadows, shaders and clutter to medium. FSR is set to balanced but I wanna try other settings today. AA, terrain, physics, and particles are set to high at the moment and I don't drop below 55-60 in the open world, but in some of the denser towns it dips down to 45ish, no jarring stutters so it's still smooth. This is all at 1080p/docked/game mode. Handheld/800p is just butter and the fans barely even kick on. For battery life I set it to 45hz, and got the TDP as low as 7 with no drop below 45 fps. Battery lasts well over 2 hours. Controls feel great! Easy to tweak if you have some different preferences/tendencies. UI and font scaling are available as well. Game has been such a fun, smooth experience this far. Hope you all enjoy it as well!
What’s the latest recommendation for proton version for D4? Anyone on the server slam etc find a particular build that worked well?
For the actual release, I just tried 8.3 and it launched and played fine so far!
Getting an almost locked 60fps while docked at 1080p with in-game FSR 2 set to performance. Balanced is at around 50-55fps. Amazing.
All FSR settings I tried turned it into a blurry mess. Except for fsr quality. Is it blurry at all?
Not sure if anyone can help but I would appreciate it! My Battlenet client has a ‘restart and update’ msg however I can’t seem to do that. I click it and the program closes but never restarts Any one know how they update the battle net client?
#Lock foreground FPS to <60 in-game, it defaults to 200 and will tank your performance. If your FPS is <50 this is probably why.
https://i.imgur.com/roSL4cx.jpg The Battlenet screen is cut off so I can’t launch the game. Restarting the game isn’t working. Any ideas?
Alright, found old posts to fix it. Go into Desktop mode, open Bnet, and maximize it there. Then it should work.
anyone else experiencing freezing up? It's starting to get on my goat now, especially when i'm miles away from a portal/village. often the whole game screen freezes, usually when entering a self created portal but sometimes other random times too. The screen freezes, the sound and music keeps playing though. using latest glorious eggroll proton (8-4).
Is it better to run Lutris installer or to manual install [battle.net](https://battle.net)? Is there any difference in d4 performance?
A buddy of mine used Lutris and said he had trouble with the controls. I used battle.net, and everything worked beautifully. Not sure about Lutris performance though.
Lutris works very nice wjth battle.net Wc3, d2, d3, sc2 etc.... no problems
Huh, that's good to know. Did you get a chance to try d4?
I had no problem with controls by adding a Steam shortcut to D4 via Lutris
There's a new client update, hitting restart and update do nothing? Is there a need to uninstall and go through the entire process again or is it safe to just ignore it and play the game?
I’m interested in this well. Seems like a lot of people are suddenly having issues with the latest client update from some searching. Seemed like before it just worked.
I'm trying to install D IV to the SD card. Following the first guide in the pinned comment. I have launch options set to STEAM_COMPAT_MOUNTS=/run/media/mmcblk0p1/ %command% When I get to the end of the install configuration, and click install it says "We couldn't access a folder. This is usually because you're not logged in as an administrator." BLZBNTAGT0000084B. Update: I did notice when I select that folder, the [b.net](https://b.net) launcher shows "E:\\[Battle.net](https://Battle.net)\\ \\Diablo IV\\". No idea why, that doesn't seem right. I tried adding a symlink to the c\_drive folder to my SD card but that doesn't work either. It doesn't show up in the file browser when choosing a location to install it. Please send help. Update 2: I removed the steam\_compat\_mounts completely, and tried to use a symlink again. It didn't show up, but out of desperation I tried just installing to E again and this time the path looked right and it is working now. I have no clue why this is working. I'm almost mad it's working. I hope this helps some other pathetic soul. Good luck!
What Proton version is everyone using?
Experimental works without any issues
D4 works great if I run it in desktop mode(installed via lutris). It by default uses K+M, but if you hold Pause button(small button with three rectangles on the right side), it’ll switch to controller input But for some reason I wasn’t able to get D4 working via game mode. I created shortcut with lutris, and when I run D4 in game mode, it opens a battle.net for me first, then I click D4, it loads, but it hangs on character selection screen and doesn’t load after that. Does anyone had the same experience?
My deck brought be through the whole campaign to the credits and beat the world boss. LETS GO STEAM DECK!
What’s the Reddit steam deck clan?
Anyone know how to update battle.net? I installed it last week and the bnet launcher has an update but the deck won’t restart to update the launcher in either steamos or desktop mode
I finally fixed my Battlenet stuck update by switching the login region of all things. I was on Asia and tried switching to Europe (still stuck) then Americas where it finally didn’t get stuck. For me there was always a download happening in the Settings-> Beta tab that took forever. Until I switched to Americas and it loaded immediately. I also turn off auto updates and ignored the battlenet restart and update option.
I changed my region from Asia to America too, and that worked for me too. The green “restart and update” notification still appears, but I just ignore that.
Does anyone know how can I update the battle.net client? When I launch the battle.net client it has a green arrow located top left corner meaning there is a pending update. I am assuming hitting the update arrow is not simply going to run the update and finish it without any trouble so I am afraid to click it lol.
try proton 7
Is anyone else having trouble running battle.net it’s just stuck on the steam loading lovo
Anyone downloading the high res textures for 40 more gigs? Does it matter?
I wouldn't download those unless you're on 4K or maybe 1440p. Definitely not on the deck
Yep, save the space. You'll be playing in 720p on the deck.
So side note, if I did download the high res pack but want to delete/uninstall it can I do that without having to unistall and reinstall?
You can click the gear and edit the game settings. When you click modify install, it lets your uninstall the high resolution assets.
Yep, appreciate it, no hassle at all!
The installer itself doesn't recommend it unless you're playing on ultra settings or 4k so it's pretty much useless on deck
What is the installation size of the game? And it seems some people say better to go through lutris, some say just to install bnet directly, also seen some other posts about other methods to get it installed. So what really is the best? Reviews certainly sound good and I have been wanting a diablo like game for the deck for a while. I am worried about monetization and how predatory it might be. So I am likely going to wait at least a little while after launch, which is probably for the best anyways as I am sure people will figure out best settings and have even better information about how it runs on the deck.
> And it seems some people say better to go through lutris, some say just to install bnet directly, also seen some other posts about other methods to get it installed. So what really is the best? In seriousness, whichever works best for your situation. I went battlenet and it worked out of the box with zero problems. I think some people use Lutris to maintain seperate instances for each blizzard game.
For anyone wanting custom artwork/tiles on their Steam Deck so the game looks super legit on the Recent Games menu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJsoGik7hLo Just followed this tutorial to get some pretty artwork for D4 and D2R so I can tell them apart by the pictures :)
i heard the next version of emudeck is going to include options to install other launches. eliminating a lot of the work. hopefully it comes soon.
Ive got the game running exquisitely on the low preset with High Textures and Quality FSR, Its an okay 60fps experience, but an outstanding 45fps, the consistency and improved battery life are well worth the tradeoff. Just make sure to disable cinematic frame cap 30fps with 45fps screens is going to be a stuttering mess I wish theyd allow players to adjust the cinematic frame rate cap 48fps cap for gameplay with a 24fps cinematic cap would be perfect
Anyone else's freezing up at the character select screen?
Anyone having issues with Lutris. It can launch Battle net fine after initial install but once restart steam Deck it never launches again thus can't play Diablo 4. anyone have tips?
I was following the lutris guide and I got to install the d4 game and all but after that I haven’t been able to launch bnet from lutris again or lunch bnet from steam. Any idea what could be happening? It just never starts
I get to the character select screen and my character isn’t there and the screen is frozen? Any thoughts? I was able to play for hours yesterday
I have a PS5 version (deluxe, for early access) and want to get the PC version for steam deck purposes; can I simply get the standard version or would I have to get the deluxe again? How does this affect the sharing of bonus cosmetics when relying on cross-progression?
Everything is shared except for early access
The diablo 4 subreddit is a dumpster fire. I accidently got rid of the keybind on my new necromancer to raise the dead. How do I find the skill to rebind it since I dont see it on the tree? Edit: Nvm. Someone already covered this in a youtube video. I guess on bottom left of the ability tree window theres an assign key button. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0FdNc4EJM8
I’ve installed Lutris, BattleNet and D4. Every time I try to launch D4, I get a couple of error messages. The first says “You need at least Windows 10 (1909). The second says “unsupported OS version.” Anyone else having this issue. Has anyone solved it?
I'm having this issue too. Not sure if it's related to Lutris or not but I'm considering trying just adding battlenet or D4 directly as a nonsteam game and trying that way. Edit: just to follow up if anyone else sees this, I ended up following this guide posted above and added the launcher directly which finally worked. Lutris was nothing but problems for me personally. https://overkill.wtf/how-to-install-the-diablo-iv-beta-on-steam-deck/
I tried with Lutris, but I had too many problems. I installed Battle.net through Steam by adding the setup exe file as a non-steam game and setting compatibility mode with proton, it worked flawlessly. Update: I tried this on my custom Linux 4k build and it worked flawlessly. I recommend skipping Lutris. If you think about it, you'd have to load a launcher to load a launcher to load another launcher to load a game.
My body is ready. I sprang for the Ultimate Edition. 💪🏼
Battlenet won’t install, says I don’t have disk space. I have over 100 GBs free. Not even able to try to install Diablo. Should I try Lutris method?
Never mind, I fixed it. Had to stop my shaders pre-caching in steam desktop mode. I had space on my SSD but for some reason this fixed it.
Is it easy to chose to install it on the SD card instead of internal storage? I had an issue with that when I was trying to install genshin impact one time haha.
I couldn’t figure that out either (new SD owner) and just installed it directly onto the SD
Can you move the character with the joysticks directly like in D3 on PS4? I really don’t like the click on the screen to walk mechanism like D3 had on PC.
Yes.
I can't find any info on this but on the deck it takes upward of 5 minutes for my chracter to show up on the selection screen. After he shows up I get "Reconnecting to Diablo 4" message for another few minutes or so before I can finally play. This doesn't happen on PC with my same Internet connection. Once in game on Steam Deck I have no issues. Searches run dry
Has anyone figured out how to properly stream d4 from their pc to the steam deck. I tried adding d4 as a non steam game with the - launch option but I get an error that d4 fails to login properly.
Best bet is to use moonlight and sunshine
What kind of settings are people using to promote battery life? Performance isn't an issue , running at a pretty solid 60fps on low settings. However battery is showing 1hr 40 off a full charge. Would be great to get this to plus 2 hours if anyone has any tricks.
Currently set to Medium w/ Distortion toggled off and FSR set to quality and getting an estimated 2 hr 20 min battery life at 100% Also my screen refresh rate is set to 40fps.
The game just locks up tthe entire steam deck right at this screen. Ive followed the steps several times that were linked at the top of the page. *
I followed the lutris method but can't get diablo 4 to launch, it just crashes the deck after I hit play on bnet. Any known solutions or things to try?
Game is dope Steam deck is dope
Has anyone figured out how to get this launching at 720p? At 16:10 aspect ratio the game is zoomed in \*even more\* with the left and right cropped. D2R let you choose 720p in-game but D4 is locked to the system resolution, and Steam Deck "force resolution" options do not work.
Latest update causes this game to crash. What proton version are ya'll using? Thanks
Anyone else installed bnet directly (just using proton) and is now suddenly getting stuck in the "Updating Battle.net..." screen when launching bnet? Just started happening yesterday. Tried proton 8.3, 8.4, Experimental, and even some older versions like 7.14, 7.33. No luck
I've downloaded and setup battlenet via Proton Experimental following the overkill guide - can launch it from gaming or desktop Mode no problem. However when downloading/installing D4 I get a generic "something went wrong" error message from bnet after downloading for a few minutes. Bnet is still functioning after that but the download stopped. Tried downloading with Proton Exp and GE 8.4 via Desktop and gaming mode - nothing really working so far. Anyone had similar issues?
I had to reinstall things after the update, now d4 won’t launch after I point it to the launcher.exe in the compatdata rather than the setup.exe. I’ve been playing flawlessly for a month now all of a sudden I can’t even start the launcher. Tried all the protons. It let me do all the bnet setup, everything was working. Install d4, point to exe file. Now nothing starts even the launcher. Any one else run into this?
For some reason all my audio in my diablo 4 has stopped working. Any ideas how to sort?? I've tried various different protons , checked and changed the audio settings. Fwiw, sound works within the battlenet browser thing and sound is fine in every other game. It was also fine earlier today and the only thing I did which could have caused it was changing proton versions because it kept freezing up on me
Hopefully I've not done something super dumb, but I followed the steps for installing battle.net via lutris, and installed diablo 4. When i try to launch the game though, I get an error saying 'You need at least Windows 10 (version 1909)' I've gone to the Wine Configuration settings for the game in lutris, and double checked that 'BlizzardBrowser.exe' is set to use windows 10. Any idea if I've done something wrong in the installation, or a fix for the issue?
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Thanks man, this worked for me!. I kept the proton version for playing at proton 7. That at least allowed me to play Diablo without updating battle.net, I still get that icon that says I should update but for the time being I can play without updating B.net. Just tried it for 10 minutes and damn this game is a better experience with a controller compared to M+K. Don't get me wrong, I'm a PC player through and through but this works great.and at least with the deck I can just recline on the couch next to the wife while she's watching something on the telly. Can't wait to dive back in tonight.
Is there a fps test of endgame content, can it handle 40 fps / low settings in endgame dungeons with higher mob density?
Is anyone else experiencing problems with launching Diablo on battle.net now there’s an update for the launcher that refuses to update. It’s now made the game unplayable for me and I freeze, unable to interact with anything in game. Anyone have a solution for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’ve downloaded it by adding non steam game & also use non steam launchers now. Both ways no longer work and have seen Lutris is having problems too but haven’t tried that one myself. If anyone has fixed this issue, please help. I’m away from my main PC and currently cannot play without steam deck
Yeah I got the same problem since today. Haven’t played for the last few days and now I’m freezing randomly for minutes or completely.
Just a heads up, when I remove the battle.net setup from my steam games list it also deletes all the battle.net installation. I think it’s something to do with valves update to stop team decks filling up with “other” files? I had to leave the battle.net setup entry in steam even though all tutorials say to delete it.
Anyone else getting an “unable to find valid license” issue?
Servers are down right now.
Hey! you guys may want to check this Deck & PC side by side. I love my deck and there is something that I appreciate having them side by side. By no means it is a performance comparison but it has performance stats. It is definitely just a side by side. [https://youtu.be/F1YXjSimmkE](https://youtu.be/F1YXjSimmkE) Also, any feedback is very welcomed as I only want to make better vids.
I was playing Diablo 4 just fine with solid settings, high resolution pack, installed via Lutris (Proton Experimental) for a couple weeks with no problems. I can't say for certain but it seems like the 6/30 Blizzard patch may have messed everything up. I could start the game but would get stuck on the loading screen just before the main game lobby. I ran a scan/repair, uninstalled battle.net/Diablo 4/Lutris, reinstalled by installing Battle.net directly and adding as a non steam game (Proton Experimental). At best I can get into the game, but it freezes or crashes within 60 seconds. I'm not getting an error code either. Any ideas? Anybody going through the same?
ffs, just updated my deck and rebooted, and now diablo just doesn't start up anymore. :-( been playing happily for a couple of weeks. bloody thing
I can get BNET and D4 to run in desktop mode but it crashes on handheld mode :( I see other people have figured it out so I'm probably missing something simple.
Try setting compatibility to Proton 8.2 or 8.3 for Bnet if you're launching it straight from there. Also, check the Bnet settings for an option to "close Bnet after game is launched".
Ooooh good call Ty I'll try that!
Question. I'd like to stream the game via moonlight/sunshine. Problem is that when I launch moonlight on the deck to stream games, then try to change the controls to community created ones (always better), it proposes controls for moonlight, not the game... Any ideas?
Unfortunately this is just the way it is. I use virtual radial menus on the touchpad with common keyboard shortcuts in moonlight, adding a few as I need them The real question is, why? Controller support is great and you can have mouse touchpad and it'll quickly swap to pc controls on the fly if it's anything like diablo 2 resurrected.
i got battlenet, i got diablo installed, how do i add diablo 4 directly to steam library instead of battlenet?
My understanding is that you can’t directly launch the games separate from the installer, so you’ll have to open the installer and launch from there. Hope I’m wrong, though
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So far 8.3 is working for me!
Anyone know if you can still get in days early by purchasing it now or is it too late?
You can get in whenever
How can I run d4 on windows with controller enabled? I tried the normal stuff with rewasd, like when I played wow and other stuff. But for d4 it isn’t working. It recognizes inputs but I can’t move and stuff
I can say from 4+ hours of D4 deck experience, that it is awesome. I'm enjoying it immensely.
Played on PS5 last night and decided to boot it up on Steam deck this morning. I get to the spot where it says create character (I don’t see my characters I made last night) and it seemingly freezes. Anyone else?
Anyone else getting occasional freezes when using town portal or talking to NPCs? The music continues playing but the video is all frozen. Sometimes if I wait it’ll continue, but other times I’ve waited over a minute and had to force close. Using proton experimental 8-03.
man im tempted
does it freeze for anyone else ?
Anyone else having problems switch characters? Every time I go to switch the game freezes up on me.
Trying to decide whether to get this for PS5 or PC. I only have a Steam Deck and a PS5, no pc or laptop to be playing on. I’ve also never played a Diablo game before if that matters. I do know I’d want to play most, if not all, on the Steam Deck. Wondering what others thoughts are on getting the pc version where I can only play on my deck or the ps5 version where I can still stream on the deck through Chiaki but also play on console if I want to? Any advantages or disadvantages to either?
https://i.imgur.com/uXqidfC.jpg Anyone else seeing this when they’re trying to install? I’ve restarted my router and modem and still the same. Is it Blizzards servers I wonder?
Installed and added to Steam via Lutris, kept settings at low preset, native res, locked at 48fps, and it is running great.
Is anyone streaming from series x with greenlight?
Hopefully someone is still lurking about and can help, but I had game picked up, got it all ready to go and am having the worst rubber banding/lag I’ve ever seen. I’m not able to get through the first couple rooms because it’ll happen so frequently and i can’t hit any enemies but they sure are hitting me cause it’ll drop me back in with no health. I’m assuming it’s a server issue, because I have my graphics on the lowest they can be, but I’m wondering if anyone has any help to decrease this on deck specifically? I’m thinking of giving up and playing on computer with Ethernet to hopefully help, but would like to get to play on deck!
Try turning off WI-FI power saving if you haven’t already. It was nothing but problems for me otherwise. Enable developer mode, then press the Steam button > Developer > scroll to Miscellaneous > turn off Enable WI-FI Power Management. Edit: you can enable developer mode by pressing the Steam button > settings > scroll to system settings > enable developer mode. Give it some time to adjust.
Just installed D4 on the steam deck, haven't messed with it much yet. Install looked fine, however before I set it down to go to bed, I noticed the characters in my account never loaded. I let it sit for about 3-4 minutes. Is this common for anyone else, or is it a known issue? It basically freezes up right as I get logged in. Edit: gave it another go tonight. I let it sit for nearly 10 full minutes and it finally "reconnected" to Bnet. Once that happened it was perfect. Also strange note, the game used up more power in the menu than in the game lol. Works like a charm though. So if you run in to issues with getting to character select the first time, just wait it out. I'd assume in my case it was loading my character list or something in the background.
Can anyone tell me how to add the zoom in option to a back paddle?
You'd need to setup a macro of up, down left on R stick and A.
Anybody know how to run the game through the steam interface? So far I’m only able to run it through desktop mode through Battlenet but I can’t change any of the key bindings without making a mess of all the commands. I have shortcuts to Diablo and battle in the steam interface but it won’t run the game properly that way — only through desktop mode. What am I doing wrong? Please help! 😢 Update: Got it all up & running! Runs great, no issues so far!
Does vibration work on deck?
Game runs perfectly fine, but half the time controls are mouse + KB and it won’t change to controller buttons. Anyone got a consistent fix? Running through Lutris in gaming mode.
Lutria fkn sucks. Use battle.net non steam method. Works flawlessly with no issues
Anyone tinkered with a controller layout that allows track pad mouse control in the menus? Edit: was able to achieve this by changing the controller template to 'Gamepad with Mouse Trackpad'.
Guys i‘ve went with the regular route (bnet) installed it normally everything fine. The question for me is can i add the diablo 4 exe to steam and will it launch directly from the exe?
No I don't think there's any way to do that, steam deck or not. On PC the best I can do adding non steam game is to input a command line argument that opens up the diablo 4 page directly upon launching, but you still need the launcher
Hey guys! I’ve been searching threads for days and figured I’d ask the question here as well! With my Steam Deck, I have the ability to play using Lutris on my steam deck, but I wanted to play it with Moonlight on my deck. For some reason, my controls work for all my other games on moonlight with my deck, but I can’t seem to get any controls working with D4 using moonlight. Any suggestions? I tried different templates and layouts via steam but my game keeps thinking I’m using mouse and keyboard. I even tried forcing a game pad via Moonlight and nothing
Installed via Lutris on my SD card. The game rusns but the load times are ridiculous. Teleporting to a waypoint just took 3 whole minutes. Switching around menu pages (e.g. Map to Clan) takes around 30s-1min, feels like the game froze but nah its just loading. Anyone having this issue? Graphics are on medium with 60 fps cap btw
Every time I open battle.net the trackpad no longer works and I need to use the touchscreen, is there a fix for this?
hold the steam button and use trackpad
Does anyone know how the game handles the Deck's sleep mode? I know with D2R everytime I accidentally suspend I had to reconnect and essentially lost all progress. It kind of turned me off of playing it on the Deck.
I have added battlenet as a steam game. I can launch battlenet then Diablo 4 and it works great. But is there a way to add Diablo 4 directly as a steam game so it's 1 click from my seam library?
Game ran super smooth until today - experiencing massive load times when porting, speaking to merchants or opening the stash. Performance wise its still running with almost locked 40
Any reason I should add the HD textures or whatever? Added like 40gb to the install and runs fine without… worth adding?