has anybody got Overwatch to run smoothly on Linux yet?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Wendell showed Overwatch running on Linux with Wine in a video before, i'm just wondering how he did it. if i can run Overwatch on Linux i never have to dual-boot again... 

[ZihanYu]

Just get Chinese windows knock-off

[Radium_Angel]

21 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

Wendell showed Overwatch running on Linux with Wine in a video before, i'm just wondering how he did it. if i can run Overwatch on Linux i never have to dual-boot again... 

I assume you have tried to install it via wine?

[NelizMastr]

Supposedly it runs very well via Lutris and DXVK, try that. Pure wine is and will always be a disaster.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

16 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I assume you have tried to install it via wine?

It won't open the installer.

 

8 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Supposedly it runs very well via Lutris and DXVK, try that. Pure wine is and will always be a disaster.

I tried lutris and same thing. It won't open the installer....

[Radium_Angel]

2 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

It won't open the installer.

 

I tried lutris and same thing. It won't open the installer....

You are running the proper linux distro yes? I see manjaro on your sig...may not be fully fleshed out there...might need Ubuntu.

 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

3 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

You are running the proper linux distro yes? I see manjaro on your sig...may not be fully fleshed out there...might need Ubuntu.

 

what exactly do you mean?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

6 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

Supposedly it runs very well via Lutris and DXVK, try that. Pure wine is and will always be a disaster.

i didn't read properly and didn't install the dependencies before. it's now downloading Overwatch. fingers crossed it runs well.

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, firelighter487 said:

what exactly do you mean?

In other words, what distro are you running?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

24 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

In other words, what distro are you running?

Manjaro

 

7 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

Supposedly it runs very well via Lutris and DXVK, try that. Pure wine is and will always be a disaster.

ok with DXVK my cpu goes to 100% and max frame rate is 23fps, with loads of tearing and input lag. 

 

on DX11 mode it runs ok in the menu's but there's a lot of stuttering in game. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

ok i've taken out my rx460 because it was messing with the radeon drivers or something idk, and now DX11 runs much better, although still with stuttering... 

 

the DXVK version doesn't open now. if i try to launch the game it says no compatible graphics hardware found. 

[Radium_Angel]

2 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

ok i've taken out my rx460 because it was messing with the radeon drivers or something idk, and now DX11 runs much better, although still with stuttering... 

 

the DXVK version doesn't open now. if i try to launch the game it says no compatible graphics hardware found. 

Yeah, welcome to the world of running non-standard games in a non-standard way, on a non-standard OS.

In other words, you are probably on your own here....

[Guest]

14 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yeah, welcome to the world of running non-standard games in a non-standard way, on a non-standard OS.

In other words, you are probably on your own here....

If Windows would be a standardized OS there will probably be a serious monopoly antitrust issue. 

 

16 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

ok i've taken out my rx460 because it was messing with the radeon drivers or something idk, and now DX11 runs much better, although still with stuttering... 

 

the DXVK version doesn't open now. if i try to launch the game it says no compatible graphics hardware found. 

Probably because it is using another driver. Check the DXVK F.A.Q. for AMD card, you probably need to update mesa to the latest version, which driver are you using check MHWD? 

Also check the Lutris github overwatch page. https://github.com/lutris/lutris/wiki/Game:-Overwatch Check the "AMD" Section.

On my 1060 its running at 110 fps, the fact you are not even able to run the lutris installer is strange. Also check this https://github.com/lutris/lutris/wiki/Game:-Blizzard-App

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

47 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

Probably because it is using another driver. Check the DXVK F.A.Q. for AMD card, you probably need to update mesa to the latest version, which driver are you using check MHWD? 

mhwd didn't give me useful info. output from lspci -nnv:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii XT / Grenada XT [Radeon R9 290X/390X] [1002:67b0] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] R9 290X Gaming [1462:3080]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 127
    Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable)
    Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable)
    I/O ports at e000
    Memory at f7e00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
    Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: radeon
    Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
 

 

when i try to install mesa i get this:

 

warning: mesa-18.2.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) mesa-18.2.2-1

Total Installed Size:  47,94 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0,00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

 

is mesa up to date then?

 

47 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

On my 1060 its running at 110 fps, the fact you are not even able to run the lutris installer is strange. Also check this https://github.com/lutris/lutris/wiki/Game:-Blizzard-App

i got it to run, i didn't read the dependencies section on lutris  

i installed them and now the blizzard app runs, but Overwatch still has issues.

[Guest]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

mhwd didn't give me useful info. output from lspci -nnv:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii XT / Grenada XT [Radeon R9 290X/390X] [1002:67b0] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] R9 290X Gaming [1462:3080]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 127
    Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable)
    Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable)
    I/O ports at e000
    Memory at f7e00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
    Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: radeon
    Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
 

 

when i try to install mesa i get this:

 

warning: mesa-18.2.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) mesa-18.2.2-1

Total Installed Size:  47,94 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0,00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

 

is mesa up to date then?

 

i got it to run, i didn't read the dependencies section on lutris  

i installed them and now the blizzard app runs, but Overwatch still has issues.

You are using radeon, it is bad and old. You have to uninstall it, you need to use amdgpu. Check the Manjaro gui settings manager


It is a GUI like that, you have to install AMDGPU and remove Radeon (it is not necessary to use the proprietary AMDGPUPRO, just the open source amdgpu one

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

48 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

You are using radeon, it is bad and old. You have to uninstall it, you need to use amdgpu. Check the Manjaro gui settings manager


It is a GUI like that, you have to install AMDGPU and remove Radeon (it is not necessary to use the proprietary AMDGPUPRO, just the open source amdgpu one

i removed the one it was using and installed the other one, rebooted and i had black screens. xorg would no longer start. i logged into console and checked , i was using the amdgpu driver. i had to use the cli version of mhwd to install radeon again and now i can log into the gui again... 

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

i removed the one it was using and installed the other one, rebooted and i had black screens. xorg would no longer start. i logged into console and checked , i was using the amdgpu driver. i had to use the cli version of mhwd to install radeon again and now i can log into the gui again... 

Uh really strange, I'm absolutely sure that card supports the amdgpu driver, is xf86-video-amdgpu installed?
Yes you can revert back to another driver with mhwd, but for that card radeon is considered legacy, amdgpu supports all GCN AMD gpu's, I had an r9 280 in the past which perfectly worked with it, i used radeon previously but the performance were not great as amdgpu

Also, make sure the linux-firmware package is installed as well

 

also check dmesg for any amdgpu/video card releated error, if a firmware is missing, the solution is installing linux-firmware as I said above.

If nothing worked, try that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU read under Enable Southern Islands (SI) and Sea Islands (CIK) support (You got an SI card)

Try adding to /etc/default/grub 

• radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 

as a kernel parameter after 

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash ", so GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1"

 

Then update-grub and reboot

Edited October 12, 2018 by Guest

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

13 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

Uh really strange, I'm absolutely sure that card supports the amdgpu driver, is xf86-video-amdgpu installed?
Yes you can revert back to another driver with mhwd, but for that card radeon is considered legacy, amdgpu supports all GCN AMD gpu's, I had an r9 280 in the past which perfectly worked with it, i used radeon previously but the performance were not great as amdgpu

Also, make sure the linux-firmware package is installed as well

 

also check dmesg for any amdgpu/video card releated error, if a firmware is missing, the solution is installing linux-firmware as I said above.

i installed xf86-video-amdgpu and removed everything else. linux-firmweare is installed, and still it's using radeon. 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

i installed xf86-video-amdgpu and removed everything else. linux-firmweare is installed, and still it's using radeon. 

I edited the post, follow the other direction, that kernel parameter may be needed.

I remembered I did something like that in the past, however its strange manjaro don't do those things by default

Edited October 12, 2018 by Guest

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

5 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

I edited the post, follow the other direction, that kernel parameter may be needed.

I remembered I did something like that in the past, however its strange manjaro don't do those things by default

edited grub, still nope. it's still using radeon. 

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

edited grub, still nope. it's still using radeon. 

Uh wait, before you said it was using amdgpu..? 

lsmod | grep radeon, if you find radeon yes, it is using the old one

lsmod | grep amdgpu, it is using the amdgpu ones, if you put those kernel parameters you should be able to go

well actually both can be loaded, the first it just the one which is being used..

 

Oh anyway the arch wiki says:

"

Even when AMDGPU support for SI/CIK has been enabled by the kernel, the radeon driver may be used instead of the AMDGPU driver.

To make sure the amdgpu is loaded first use the following Mkinitcpio#MODULES array, e.g. MODULES=(amdgpu radeon)."
"

You know to do that, right? edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
in the MODULES section, add amdgpu and radeon. follow this particular order

you should have something like that

 

 

Now, rebuild the initramfs with "sudo mkinitcpio -P" then reboot

Edited October 12, 2018 by Guest

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

4 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

Uh wait, before you said it was using amdgpu..? 

yes, but then it wouldn't boot into xorg for some reason. 

 

6 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

Now, rebuild the initramfs with "mkinitcpio -P" then reboot

sudo: mkinitcpio: command not found

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

sudo: mkinitcpio: command not found

What...??? That program must be present on arch-like distros...Are you sure? Maybe you written that uncorrectly 

 

Edited October 12, 2018 by Guest

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

12 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

What...??? That program must be present on arch-like distros...Are you sure? Maybe you written that uncorrectly 

[Guest]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

Uh...Strange enough...How can you not use a ramdisk? sudo pacman -S mkinitcpio?