TWW3 on Steam Deck

[Erchorus]

¿Can I play this game on STEAM DECK? Thanksss

[Ocean]

Definitely not. So far, the game is only playable on PC.

Total War series games always require frequent controls by mouse and keyboard. You can hardly do that by the joysticks, tiny touchpads and the very few buttons of Steam Deck.

Secondly, checking unit stats from unit cards is a must during battle. Obviously, the screen size of Steam Deck is too small.

[Vic_Vega]

I remember lying in the hospital and playing on the tablet using the Steam Link and Steam Controller, you can play, but the pleasure is dubious

[Dalnor Drengskapr]

one month ago i saw a video of someone playing it on steam deck on youtube , it's definitly not friendly like on a PC , but it seemed playable , i will try to find time to try it this week-end and if i can i'll give you an update ( but i usually don't do the battle so... the deck will be more friendly for me lol ) ^

[Eisen]

you can, use Low grafic an A Docking Station with Mouse & keyboard

[Dalnor Drengskapr]

Originally posted by Eisen:

you can, use Low grafic an A Docking Station with Mouse & keyboard

Yeah but i think the point of nearly all people who ask and want to play it on deck is on the couch without monitor and mouse/keyboard ( at least it's my case :D )

[Dalnor Drengskapr]

So i tried tonight mortal empire , when all spec at minimum ( only unit size in ultra ) Mortal empire launch , you have 30fps i think and it's playable , not the best way , but playable ^^

Edit : i did more test , and you can use cloud save from windows to deck and the other ways too.

My deck just crash one time on 2 load of campaign.

Not the best but doable

[Night]

Originally posted by Ocean:

Definitely not. So far, the game is only playable on PC.

Total War series games always require frequent controls by mouse and keyboard. You can hardly do that by the joysticks, tiny touchpads and the very few buttons of Steam Deck.

Secondly, checking unit stats from unit cards is a must during battle. Obviously, the screen size of Steam Deck is too small.

Just commenting to say this is not true.
The steam deck has amazingly customizable controls to a huge degree.

Regarding checking the unit cards.... the steam deck has a magnifier option but frankly I don't find the unit cards hard to read. The SD screen ismassive for a handheld and I can read the unit cards just fine even in 40v40...

There are so many buttons and context options and customizable elements on the steam deck controls you can absolutely play any game on the planet with it hands down (just requires someone to make a suitable control scheme).

At this point I'm just as proficient playing on the deck as with keyboard and mouse.
It's that good.

I've been playing Wh3 immortal empires on the deck with minimal problems.
It could use a little official love to be even better but the controls are a complete non issue.

Currently the game isn't optimized at all for steam deck. The battles run fine but if you try and run it off the deck natively you'll have to fiddle with some proton compatibility options to get it to work. Something in the games architecture is causing it to crash when run off of the deck on the campaign map layer.

it's definitely not the graphics, because I can run more taxing games like W3, GoW, RDR2, cyberpunk 2077 on good graphic settings with no issue.

The problem is absolutely under the hood where something about the campaign layer causes a crash on the deck specifically.

[Welp]

TWW2 is playable on steam deck so eventually 3 might be as well but I haven’t tried it

[Outfoxed]

Hope so! I was looking forward to playing while on the plane and train.

[Darth Vrabstin]

I don't understand where people are saying it's unplayable. This is the second game I've tried on the steamdeck, and it's playing great. I didn't even change anything to match protondb other than using a control scheme. I started at lowest settings, realized things were a bit silly bland looking, raised most up to medium and it's running great so far. I hear some mode crashes, hopefully there's a workaround of some kind. I'm necroing because I feel other people may read this conversation and be scared away from a pleasant experience.

[Dak'kon]

I wouldn't have tried this without prompting from this thread, so thanks guys.
Edit: to be clear, wouldn't have tried this and then been so happy with the result~

[Aleera]

I don't even know what a steam deck is x)

[Nico]

How do you adjust the settings before the game launches on steam deck? Mine just goes to the CA Launcher and crashes. I can't fiddle with any settings to get the game to launch.

[dingbat]

Originally posted by Nico:

How do you adjust the settings before the game launches on steam deck? Mine just goes to the CA Launcher and crashes. I can't fiddle with any settings to get the game to launch.

I just play it in linux native. I found it’s quicker and smoother than proton.
The only downside is that linux is still on version 3.1 - you can’t play shadows of change or get the latest tweaks.

[Raiden]

Originally posted by Ocean:

Definitely not. So far, the game is only playable on PC.

Total War series games always require frequent controls by mouse and keyboard. You can hardly do that by the joysticks, tiny touchpads and the very few buttons of Steam Deck.

Secondly, checking unit stats from unit cards is a must during battle. Obviously, the screen size of Steam Deck is too small.

You understand that various TotalWar games have been ported to iOS, right? It doesnt compare to playing on PC but while out of the country for travel I was able to enjoy myself playing Rome TW on my iphone lmao. I have to imagine the experience can only be more enjoyable on the deck.