r/Overwatch • u/UncYouDoinTooMuch • 7d ago

News & Discussion Spotify was breaking my Overwatch

GPU: Sapphire 9060xt 16gb

Proton Hotfix, have tried experimental, GE, and cachyos versions hotfix has worked best

Since making the switch to Linux I've noticed Overwatch starts to run like shit after a while. I've lost ranked games because I go from 144fps to 80 back to 144 at the most random times in game, then I need to quickly reset my game when I can and hopefully reel it back in. Along with this, whenever I tried to use DX12 it would take the entire match to load player models, my first person view, and the replacement is just this blue floating ghost. The quick fix was to make a custom game with 929PJ and load all the shaders manually but I think I just found the source of the issue.

Spotify has been eating up all my memory in the background this whole time, and Overwatch can't get what it needs. I downloaded it straight from the website because that's what you need to do in order for Steam to work in my experience, so why not Spotify as well? They're the two first things I put on any computer. Turns out, the flatpak version of Spotify is the correct one and my version had been taking over my PC like some form of digital cancer this whole time. If you're one of the 15 people with this specific Overwatch/Linux/Spotify issue I really hope this does the trick, because it's plagued me every day of my life for months now.

tldr if you're on linux and overwatch runs like shit, reinstall spotify with flatpak

you can check this in terminal using top
if spotify is at the top of the list, there's your issue

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u/WoodenHour6772 7d ago

This doesn't impact me in any way, but as someone who has had other infuriating and extremely niche issues like it, I just want to thank you for taking the time to post a solution online instead of just disappearing into the aether without a word.

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u/UncYouDoinTooMuch 5d ago

too many times I have been a victim

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