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

  • Fubar91@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    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.

        • ZeroHora@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year 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)

  • gutter564@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I get basically the same performance on OW2 with Lurtis and Garuda versus Windows. It’s pretty much competitive now.

  • CarlosCheddar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Performance should be comparable to Windows, maybe slightly worse. Usually online games with anticheat don’t work on Linux, but OW and Apex do work.

    Nobara is pretty good, I’ve heard nothing but good things.

    • unrightful@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      i’ve seen and heard nothing but good things about it as well. just so many distros to choose from

      • Monologue@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        choice can be overwhelming for sure, but you can change a lot of the defaults so don’t stress over it too much :)

      • lal309@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        This is the answer. Dual boot for awhile and experiment a bit. Sometimes games work out of the box, other times it needs a bit of tinkering which most of the time someone else has already identified what you need to do to fix your issue.

        Things like Lutris, Steam, Wine and ProtonDB are in all invaluable to gaming on Linux.

  • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • HamBrick@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    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

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Apex uses the version of EAC that works on Linux actually, it should work.

    • jaykstah@waveform.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      February 2022 they put out an update that enabled Proton support for EasyAntiCheat. Apex and Overwatch 2 both work.