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 works perfectly.
The game just need to compile shaders at the first start and after an event update.
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
In game purchase.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Sometimes it still stuttering a little bit (In combat) but it's still playable and better than Windows.
Make sure to use X.org instead of Wayland. Also disable some DE Compositor to remove the input lag of Hero Selection and in game as well.
| 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 | |
| Current | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jan 20 2022 | 7.0-rc5-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Nguy?n Lâm | |
| Show | 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) | STAGED | 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 | [Overwatch] Saving highlights in MP4 format fails, needs mfreadwrite.dll.MFCreateSinkWriterFromURL | 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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