OW 2 on Linux

linuxoverwatch.md

This guide is completely irrelevant! You no longer need to follow anything here—doing so may actually harm performance rather than helping it. Please tell whoever linked you here that they need to maintain their own guide, if they want to help people set up newer versions of DXVK / etc.

In summary, if someone got random crashes, you can try to disable both esync and fsync and clear the cache of shaders. In my case it removed all random crash issues. I launched the game for 24 hours and still 0 crashes for a week.

Is there any progress with recompiling shaders issue?

DXVK Async don't work for me

@PoSayDone no, not at the moment. i’m also still working on compiling data for the memory leak issue. things have slowed down quite a bit, and GE and the others still haven’t gotten a chance to look into what’s going on, afaik.

edit: dxvk async doesn’t mean you don’t have to compile shaders. all it does is reduce the performance of compiling shaders while you play.

edit2: i stand corrected. there are people (who are much smarter than me) working on it :)

GE boys are working on it currently. https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/xxexad/comment/iton0rq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Oh boy, no way, I'm switching to Windows to play in this time

@Miltonr87 it has been working for a while. the guide is actually fairly straightforward at this point, you only need to download and extract one extra thing.

BTW, this is fixed with GE. Right now, only Wine (Lutris) version is available, but I tested it myself. It works. No shader issues for 13 minutes, no crash. I'm waiting, personally, for the Steam GE Proton version to be released this weekend so I don't have to use Lutris, Bottles or anything other than a simple non-steam game entry.

it has been working for a while. the guide is actually fairly straightforward at this point, you only need to download and extract one extra thing.

Thanx mate!

@darkuni fixed

@Miltonr87 you now pretty much don't have to do anything extra

Is it normal to have cache recompiling each time I start the game? dxvk 2.0 async

Is there something worked on to fix launcher startup to have it launch each time normally?

It seems that async shader compiling do not work with this setup, did it on Bottles and its running much better

I think its not supposed to stutter when async is working, just is to pop the shaded models in the screen instead.
If the message "Compiling shaders" appears on the game, then dxvk-async needs to reinstalled/troubleshooted

@bruwyvn that is correct. You can use the environment variable mentioned in the guide to make sure DXVK Async is working. Make sure you also have DXVK_ASYNC=1