Overwatch is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Unveiled at BlizzCon 2014, the game emphasizes cooperative gameplay using a cast of various "heroes", each with their own abilities and roles within a team. The E-sports scene developing around the game over the years has gained tremendous popularity with the finals even being broadcasted on ESPN, DIsney and other mainstream platforms.
Application Details:
| Version: | Current Version |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | https://playoverwatch.com |
| Votes: | 17 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.6-staging |
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What works
Everything tested. Quick play and Comp play, plus multiple scenarios. 300+ hours played on Linux.
What does not
Framerate stutters until shader cache is built, this happens after every game update. After that, it is smooth and I can get 100+ FPS.
Workarounds
What was not tested
In game purchases with real money.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
I have found the game to work best with Wine runner "lutris-4.21-x86_64" but it does work with newer versions also. Also, performance is better while using DXVK (version 1.7L3322da4-2) and Esync enabled.
A Lutris script exists for this game also, for ease of installation to your WINE bottle.
Overrides: nvapi=disabled, nvapi64=disabled.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | KDE neon | Apr 13 2022 | 7.6-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | rebio | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Feb 13 2022 | 7.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Nguy?n Lâm | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jan 20 2022 | 7.0-rc5-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Nguy?n Lâm | |
| Current | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 20 2020 | 5.0.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Ewan | |
| Show | Slackware64 -current | Oct 09 2019 | 4.17-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | LD50 |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 29168 | Multiple games and applications need realtime updates to KSYSTEM_TIME members in KUSER_SHARED_DATA (Star Wars: The Old Republic game client, Blizzard games, GO 1.4+ runtime, Denuvo Anti-Tamper x64 #2) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 40479 | Overwatch: Crash on launch | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 40976 | Multiple games need d3d11_device_CreateTexture1D implementation | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42017 | Silence d3d11_immediate_context_OMSetBlendState spam at console | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42675 | [Overwatch] Phantom mouse input / view pulled up to ceiling | STAGED | View | |
| 43780 | Differents elements are too bright on differents games (overwatch, GTA V) | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 43781 | FPS drops, apparently matching with d3d_shader traces | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 44585 | Multiple applications and games need ntdll.LdrRegisterDllNotification/LdrUnregisterDllNotification implementation (Firefox 60+, Diablo III v2. 6. 1. 49286+, World of Warcraft, Overwatch) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 44650 | Multiple Blizzard games need dxgi and d3d11 dlls mapped without hole between two LOAD segments (Diablo III v2. 6. 1. 49286+, World of Warcraft, Overwatch) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 45148 | Overwatch: left control, left shift keybindings don't work | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 45622 | Overwatch crashes when trying to save highlights (needs mfplat.MFTRegisterLocal implementation) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 45623 | Audio cracking since 3.13 | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 45862 | Multiple applications need MFCreateSinkWriterFromURL() implementation (Overwatch highlights, RadiAnt DICOM Viewer, Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar Editor) | NEW | View | |
| 47150 | Overwatch freezes when new menu music starts playing | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 47265 | Multiple Blizzard games (Diablo III, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, Starcraft, StarCraft II, World of Warcraft) crash immediately on launch | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 47330 | Overwatch crashes on start | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 47457 | Mouse click-click-hold is treated as double click, causing gun jam in Overwatch | STAGED | View | |
| 49476 | Overwatch doesn't start with Wine version set to Windows 7 | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 49490 | Overwatch installer fails with new wine prefix | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 51123 | Overwatch constantly freezing | UNCONFIRMED | View |
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