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.
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)
I can give next to no actual helpful advice, but I’ll throw something into the void. I’m pretty sure the anticheat Apex uses isn’t supported on Linux, and I have no clue about O2
Both OW2 and Apex work on Linux. I don’t play competitively but I don’t think there should be any issues. Folks on ProtonDB and Lutris can confirm comparability as well.
Apex had been rock solid for me until about a month or so ago. Something’s happened and I get corrupt file issues and it’s unplayable now. I’m on PopOS.
It sucks. :(
edit:
Its back to working! I installed a few more updates and reinstalled, repaired the games folder, and it started working.
Arc won’t have proper game support until it’s using the Xe kernel mode driver (not until at least kernel 6.6) instead of i915. You can follow the progress of sparse rendering support for Xe here. Hardware AV1 encoding will with Xe, however.
If you want to stream your gaming (as long as it doesn’t require sparse rendering) and enjoy hardware AV1 encoding of the video you will have to disable Xe and revert to i915. You can choose one or the other.
There is a little hope for i915 to fake sparse rendering support (for games that don’t really use it, yet expect the feature flag). But you will still be stuck with last gen driver performance unless the optimizations are back-ported somehow.
As far as performance I found the A770 to fall quite far behind the AMD RX 6700XT for games (but no hardware AV1 encode for RX6700, the RDNA3 - RX7000 series can provide this). Who knows what the next gen Arc Battlemage will be like, but until the drivers mature I don’t think you will be unhappy with AMD.
The people in that a thread… How entitled can you fucking be. Holy shit.
Be patient and wait till the people working on the Xe driver enable HWEnc on DG2 my god…
If you wanted a known fully working product on Linux, you should not have bought a first-gen product (like, at all?) and certainly not one that’s known for its relatively poor support on even its primary target OS.
One less extra launcher my ass, they’re not giving up their drm for steam’s, it’s going to run in the background and find a way to prompt you about your account
Probably. And in the past the additional launchers often were the reason why a game didn’t launch with Proton and needed fixing by Valve, first. We’ll see…
Good news, but still no more wayland support, as e.g. overclocking / undervolting options. Sad that nvidia binds these panels and CLI commands for OC/UV onto xorg options for newer cards - guess I’ll stay further on x11 for now.
Yeah, I am waiting for the 545 drivers which should contain a few Wayland improvements. I am slightly annoyed that this new update ISN’T that, but I am just impatient hahaha.
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