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Competitive gaming on linux? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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i’ve been interested in switching to linux for gaming but i’m not sure how the games i play run; i like to play Apex legends and Overwatch 2 competitively. can linux run these games with low latency and high frame rate? i’m looking into the Nobara project and pikaOS distros

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Usually the games can run as solid as on windows. Only issue tends to be anti-cheat software not playing nice. Apex seems to function well via Proton. Checkout ProtonDB for a list of what's working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thanks for the suggestion i’ll be checking that out!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Overwatch 2 works very well in lutris.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

also saw the news that OW is coming to steam soon! hopefully makes things easier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Well... sometimes I run across some bugs with OW2 playing in Linux, for example:

  • Battle.net freezing before login
  • Everytime that I died the game stop detecting keyboard inputs, but after alt + tab the game detect again.
  • Random performance drops

Is nothing big but I not playing competitive anymore, I imagine if I was playing competitive I'll be pretty pissed off if a bug like that occurred during a match(the battle.net case only if I had to restart the game/PC during a match)

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