WATCH DOGS LEGION - LINUX [Lutris Wine DXVK] - Gameplay
Watch Dogs Legion gameplay with Lutris Wine 6.4 and DXVK 1.7.3 from Uplay/Ubisoft connect
Some test of the gameplay with different type of environments :
Inside building, in the street, Car Chasing, mission, at night ..etc ..
The game was tested during a free trial weekend on Ubisoft Store, so it 's just some samples of the game it doesn't go far in the story.
The game is running on a I7 3770 + GTX 1070 (see "PC CONFIGURATION" and
"GRAPHIC SETTINGS" below for details).
Remark:
To play the game with proton you need to disable Battleye and activate DirectX11 mode (instead of DirectX12)
Add the following options in Ubisoft connect/Uplay launch options for the game
(see Properties "Game launch arguments" section in the Ubisoft client)
-dx11 -BattlEyeLauncher
Note that my CPU is quite old and this game is VERY CPU hungry (in the streets) and not very optimized - meaning you need to limit your game graphic options. The settings here are sweet spot for a general 38-60FPS experience with my config. It could be better but the game optimization is really bad especially in open world during car chasing.
Note that this video is recorded with a cheap capture card .. The video image is not the highest quality but there is no frame loss during recording.
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CHAPTERS
(0:00) Parliament threat
(1:08) Intro
(2:29) Midnight car chase
(2:54) Fight the police
(3:19) Driving in London (daytime)
(4:17) Small Mission
(5:52) Cars in London (daytime)
(6:26) Running in the streets
(7:05) Bike in London (night)
(8:00) Night palace ride
(8:20) Other videos
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Fighting games on Linux: • Steam Play Proton - Fighting games on Linux
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PC CONFIGURATION
OS: Kubuntu 20.04 - kernel 5.8.0-48 - 64 bits
CPU: I7-3770 3.40GHz - 8GB of RAM
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1070 - driver: 460.56
TWEAKS
Disable the compositor .. in KDE you can do that with SHIFT + ALT + F12
In Nvidia control panel disable opengl settings : put "Allow Flipping" to disabled
Use game mode
or
set your scaling governor to performance
On intel CPU it is done with this command line :
"echo performance | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor"
Lutris Options
(NO GLSL checked only tested on Nvidia GPU)
REM To play on Linux
Add "Game launch arguments" section in the Ubisoft client)
-dx11 -BattlEyeLauncher
GRAPHIC SETTINGS
Display 1920x1080
Quality settings Medium customized
DirectX11
GEOMETRY High
ENVIRONMENT Medium
TEXTURE Medium
FILTERING High
SHADOWS Medium
HEADL SHADOWS Off
REFLECTIONS Medium
DEPTH OF FIELD Off
MOTION BLUR Off
BLOOM On
AMBIENT OCCLUSION On
ANTI ALIASING TAA or FXAA
TEMPORAL UPSCALING 90% (1821x1024 upscaled)
IMAGE SHARPNESS 50%
The game is rendered at 90% meaning 1821x1024 ... then upscaled to full screen. (see Temporal upscaling).
The settings are a sweet spot for performance between open world scenes like car chasing and mission interior scenes. So there is a big compromise in visual fidelity but it avoid stuttering during car scenes. If you want better framerate with a similar settings, you would need to lower the texture resolution or put Anti aliasing to FXAA ... cause with this game engine better texture and AA have a significant impact on CPU usage for some reason.
GAME
#watchdogslegion from Ubisoft store with #Lutris
Ubisoft store
https://store.ubi.com/us/watch-dogs-l...
Lutris Page
https://lutris.net/games/watch-dogs-l...
PCGamingWiki
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Wat...
Windows central: "Linux is now a viable gaming OS" :)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming...
WHAT IS PROTON
https://www.goodgearguide.com.au/arti...
SOFTWARE REFERENCES:
Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org/en/
Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/
Lutris: https://lutris.net/
Wine: https://www.winehq.org/
DXVK: 1.7.3
compatibility layer (d3d9-11 to Vulkan)
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