Competitive gaming on linux?
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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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.
thanks for the suggestion i’ll be checking that out!
Overwatch 2 works very well in lutris.
also saw the news that OW is coming to steam soon! hopefully makes things easier
I get basically the same performance on OW2 with Lurtis and Garuda versus Windows. It's pretty much competitive now.
what’s garuda?
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.
awesome thank you!!
League of Legends works too!
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.
i’ve seen and heard nothing but good things about it as well. just so many distros to choose from
choice can be overwhelming for sure, but you can change a lot of the defaults so don't stress over it too much :)
nothings stops You from trying. Linux gaming is fantastic nowadays.
you’re 100% right, i just got a new ssd today to dualboot for starters :)
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.
noted. going to install nobara later today and tinker around and see how it goes
Keep your games on an NTFS disk or partition, and both OSes can access it.
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
Apex uses the version of EAC that works on Linux actually, it should work.
February 2022 they put out an update that enabled Proton support for EasyAntiCheat. Apex and Overwatch 2 both work.