I just wanted to say how happy I am to see the improvements in this latest Bazzite update on my Nvidia rig. If you’ve tried it in the past or didn’t because a good chunk of people seem to have issues with running Overwatch on Linux, I’d give it a shot after this update. I’m assuming it was the KDE 6.3 update that did it?
I run Overwatch through Steam and used to have to use GloriousEggroll 8.32 (The latest build of the last major release) or the game would get laggier and laggier until after about 3 games, the whole PC would be frozen and REISUB couldn’t even help. The audio would freeze playing the last sound on loop and even the caps lock indicator on my keyboard wouldn’t work which from what I understand is a bad sign.
My monitor is 175hz and as long as I used the old GE version and gamescope, it would be mostly fine (Stable around 165 FPS on ultra settings) as long as I didn’t open anything else on the PC. This was very different compared to when i was running Windows where I could have a good amount of stuff open with no issues, maybe some frame drops if something heavy was going on which is reasonable.
Now I can use the latest GE release and it is sooooo buttery smooth, smoother than it ever was on Windows actually, my aim/tracking has even been slightly better. I think the VRR is doing more now, making everything look smoother. I use gamescope -w 3440 -h 1440 -r 175 -f --hdr-enabled --adaptive-sync --force-grab-cursor -- %command% as my arguments. Now I can have my 42 tabs and a few chat apps open with no frame rate hit! I’ve heard some native HDR progress is being made so fingers crossed I can ditch gamescope entirely soon.
I did have one hiccup when I was limit testing and opened a lot of programs while it was running. The game froze but the audio continued playing and I was able to open a terminal and type reboot blindly to have a more graceful exit than being forced to hold the power button down.
The DX12 beta Overwatch recently added still doesn’t work but that’s probably to be expected - it seems like people on Windows are having issues too. I play a variety of other games too but haven’t tried out much else yet (Really Overwatch was the most tempermental) but I’m hoping this is a sign that Linux gaming for my particular hardware is finally on par with my Windows experience!