Spurred by the move to non-proprietary software I swapped out my Windows 11 for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and now 3 out of the 4 games I regularly play don’t work well enough to play. I haven’t checked games I only play occasionally, but I expect issues there too…

  1. Path of Exile via Steam - Works perfectly, in fact maybe slightly better than Windows
  2. Overwatch 2 via Lutris - Runs but with significant stuttering making it difficult to play
  3. Diablo 4 via Lutris - Cannot run due to “Graphics Initialization failed” error
  4. Melvor Idle via Steam - Runs but with minor stuttering and randomly breaks requiring complete re-install

I’ve Googled, and tried the most common solutions to these problems (like configuring Lutris to use VKD3D v2.8, running the script that Lutris provides with Overwatch, and add D4 to Steam and run from there) but no real positive changes.

For the most part, the rest of Ubuntu has been fine, but I don’t want to be locked out of doing things I want to do on my own machine… Would appreciate any tips before I get too impatient and go back to Windows!

Thanks in advance.

  • falsem@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Overwatch 2 via Lutris - Runs but with significant stuttering making it difficult to play

    Haven’t played 2, for 1 was notorious for this due to shader compilation. If you stick with it for like an hour it should clear. You can tell if this is the issue if you go into the training mode and it stutters the first time you fire an ability, but not subsequent times.

    Diablo 4 via Lutris - Cannot run due to “Graphics Initialization failed” error

    Quick Google suggests try downgrading VKD3D through Lutris options.

    • Anomandaris@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think it may be a shader compilation issue for OW2 but I saw reports of people not suffering this or being able to fix it so I hoped there had been progress.

      I did try downgrading VKD3D, as I mentioned in my post, but this didn’t help with D4.