Valve Reveals Steam Deck - New Handheld Gaming Device

[Rush]

Valve has announced Steam Deck today for portable gaming. It's based on SteamOS and should be able to handle anything in your Steam Library on a 7 inch screen (16 by 10 with 1280x800 resolution).

Looks pretty good but it's quite pricey at £349 even for the entry-level model. The good news it will work with both Steam and the Epic Games store. It will start shipping in December with pre-orders being taken now.

More details here:

Steam Deck

Available now.

www.steamdeck.com

 

[snickersnack]

Has anyone had any success getting D2R to work on Steamdeck?

 

[Rush]

Apparently, this is the process to get it working.

• Hold the power button and select switch to desktop (or press steam and power and switch to desktop)
• On the desktop select the Steam app
• In the steam app select add a non steam game
• Select browse, and change the file type to all files
• Navigate to where you downloaded the exe
• Select the exe
• In steam right click the battle.net app you added and select properties
• Navigate to the compatibility tab
• Check the force the use of a specific steam play compatibility tool
• Leave proton experimental selected
• Start the app and install
• In the battle.net app select Diablo 2 and install
• Play game (note, you may get a loading screen that does nothing, just click around until it continues)

 

[snickersnack]

@Rush, thanks for the how-to. I don't have a steamdeck now, but I'm considering it. If I do get one, I'll post my D2R success/failure here.

 

[Rush]

Would be interesting to see how you get on when you do get one. I have thought about it but I just don't move about enough at the moment to warrant the expense of it. Plus, I am always wary of new Valve devices when they first come out.