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Have had problems with heavy frame rate drops after about 30 minutes in the game after the 7.39 patch. Audio stutter problems.
Sometimes audio would be completely broken when launching, which sometimes would be fixed by rebooting. Was fixed by switching to Proton Experimental.
All good, but after 20 to 30 min fps drops from 155 (my cap) to 60 even below sometimes...and game starts to flicker very bad. Like its 60hz
Flickering
After few minuts fps just drops and it starts lagging ...fps randomly after 20min drops from 155 (capped) to 90 and then to 60 and even below 60...i have strong pc tho
Game works but you probbably need to spend a lot of time to find perfect launch options...Plus im using hyprland and maybe its related to that and its tiling and fullscreen
Roda de forma excelente. Os problemas que tive aparentemente foram resolvidos com os comandos no launch. Não vi eles se repetirem.
__GL_GSYNC_ALLOWED=0 __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 vblank_mode=0 MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE=mailbox SDL_AUDIO_DRIVER=pipewire gamemoderun gamescope --expose-wayland -f -r 165 -w 1920 -h 1080 -- steam -applaunch 570 -novid -nojoy -novr -vulkan -console
O áudio era perdido aleatoriamente depois de algumas partidas. Com esse comando foi resolvido. Não vi acontecer mais.
FPS caia de 120 para 100, aleatoriamente. Depois de 100 para 60, algo assim. Com esses comandos aparentemente foi resolvido, não aconteceu mais.
OBSERVAÇÃO: -r 165 é referente à taxa de atualização do meu monitor. Talvez você deva alterar esse número para uma taxa equivalente ao seu monitor.
Native my ass!
After a while your audio just cuts out and lags your entire system
Crashes, freezes, complete system lag...
CRASH
CRASH
Crash after like 30 minutes of playing
It's insane to me that even after the deck being out for so long, issues that have been here for half a year are STILL HERE! Unplayable with frequent crashes. Currently to "fix" theese issues you need to patch your kernel.
-vulkan
Game is freezing and crashing. Not working as of 7.38
Freezes then disconnects
Tried with some launch options recommended here but it didn't solve the issue
-high -novid -novr -nojoy -map dota -vulkan_disable_steam_shader_cache
Text input causes freeze.
Dota was patched to 7.39 as of 23-May-2025 and the error with graphs has been resolved. The problem with text entry freezing the game remains.
7.39 update made it impossible to play
-vulkan -console
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota2-Gameplay/issues/25802
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota2-Gameplay/issues/25769
any game interaction may lead to crash
Whenever I press 's' to stop my hero, the game crashes. Since the update my game just freezing and crashes
game-performance prime-run %command% -console
Whenever I press 's' to stop my hero, the game crashes in the new update.
Since the update my game just freezing and crashes
Dota is playable with very annoying freezes when using text input as described. This can dramatically slows the use of the shop.
-high -novid -novr -nojoy -map dota -vulkan_disable_steam_shader_cache
Graphs and charts do not work and trying to interact with them will crash the game.
Problems with text entry. Opening, closing the text chat in game, replay, or demo mode will cause game to freeze. Game can be unfrozen by clicking with the mouse. Text entry in the shop to search for an item recipe will cause the same problems.
Game will rarely crash when using the menu to look at hero pages after 2+ hours.
I tried tinkering many different settings including drivers, mesa, plasma vs wayland. Could not solve problem with graphs or text input. I recommend using Windows unless significant updates are released by Valve.
MOBA players: Stay on Windows
I tried all of the usual terminal lines. Game crashes on boot without any response. Terminal-Steam reports sending a dump to Valve but the support cannot help either. Proton would start but VAC prevents playing anything online.
0/10 I realy wanted to make it work! I did everything but it doesn't even give me a decent log/error-code.
If you want want to play a MOBA you have to stick to Windows. I jumped because I thought Valve had my back. Nope! They don't. If I have to stay on Windows, than I can keep playing LoL with that crazy Kernel-Driver anyway.
LD_PRELOAD="" gamemoderun mangohud SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pipewire %command% -vulkan -novid -high -sdlaudiodriver pipewire
Sometimes when window loses focus the game has a chance to lose the sound, restarting it fixes
Game runs almost the same on both windows and linux, fps's a little higher on linux
Without major problems, you can play
Sometimes it happened that when you minimized the game, the sound did not work. Restarting(the game) will fix it
-console
I have better framerate and frametime on cachyos than windows
added -console to launch options to unlock framerate from 240 cap absolutely not needed but wanted to see how far system can push frames without caps
Every time Dota 2 closes in initial screen
--force-grab-cursor --expose-wayland -novid -nojoy -high -vulkan_disable_graphics_pipeline_library
I started the game in several ways, with the general settings and with the settings recommended by the ProtonDB community, but always for the same reason: after a few minutes on the initial screen, the game automatically closes.
PS: I am not using the most up-to-date NVIDIA version because of the issue where the computer screen freezes. This problem has already been widely reported by the community, and NVIDIA is working on a new FIX version.
Runs perfectly
In my case DOTA 2 runs way better on Linux than on Windows.
- On Windows I were getting somewhere around 90-120 FPS where the game would sometimes stutter (FPS spike).
- On Linux I am getting most of the time 140-160 FPS stable.
-novid
The sound feels like it is going up and down every few seconds but not totally noticable.
Icons and textures are sometimes missing
Sometimes the game froze while the sound was playing.
After playing 30 mins, the fps would drop a lot if I moved my mouse.
Runs good, some minor textures missing. If the game starts lagging when moving mouse, enable steam overlay.
Performance drop over time, from 200 fps to 20 FPS, dota 2 on linus is not playable!
Performance drop over time, from 200 fps to 20 FPS
Performance drops over time, from 200 fps to 20 FPS, however, if you run it through proton, fps is stable and even more than in native, but the game selection does not work, since the antivirus cannot identify the system
proton works well but doesn't allow online play, native doesn't start at all
running through proton works perfectly, everything is smooth but VAC doesn't allow you to play online with proton, the native version however seems totally borked, i have tried changing runtimes, waiting for driver updates and such but it crashes almost immediately on startup, i have found nothing to fix these issues yet
-novid -sdlaudiodriver pipewire
reports online say that audio will default to alsa sometimes when pipewire crashes. audio output will crash sometimes. havent tested mic input.
turn on anti aliasing to use FSR and run at native resolution. avg 40 - 60 fps
In general, despite the problems with fps discontinuities, it is possible to play the game, after performing the startup parameters I specif
-gamestateintegration -condebug -console -novid -noaafonts -nojoy -high -freq 60 -nohltv -gl +mat_autoload_glshaders -prewarm -map dota
Frequent use of alt+tab causes graphical artifacts related to missing textures and excessive effects
FPS drops from 100 to 40-60.
If you are a fan of smooth and stable game, I advise you to prescribe the launch parameters I specified earlier
Rodando perfeitamente em modo nativo depois de umas tentativas, pode ser que precise de um SSD.
Meu jogo travava na interface e nao carregava no lobby, usei o comando vulkan_disable_graphics_pipeline_library e não resolveu, mas quando passei os arquivos de um HDD para SSD resolveu o problema e agora roda tranquilamente.
Runs on native perfectly,
if I started it through lutris there were occasional chrashes when finishing a match. Few glitches in effects.
Most of the text is really small and unreadable on Steam Deck
I had keyboard/mouse connected when testing this out. It's hard to play on gamepad
Overall works very well. I experience particle bugs after 1-2 games that require me to relaunch the client.
While running via proton experimental, game will start to have visual bugs on particle affects, usually after playing 1 or 2 full matches. Requires a game restart to fix the problem. Seems to happen on multiple proton versions.
Не требуются никакие особенные настройки игры, или модификации протона.
I think this should work just fine on 99% of linux systems. Given how little of the 4% run OpenSUSE you'll be fine most likely.
Not sure if it is just Wayland or OpenSUSE being themselves, or maybe my Nvidia card being the issue (rather the outdated drivers provided by OpenSUSE), nonetheless there is some issues with the rendering of the UI because it will flash in and out whenever you may be overlaying some information like when you're demo'ing a hero.
This is also seen in Discord so I don't think this is a common issue with most distros or implementations and mostly just my setup.
Game most of the time works perfectly fine and has good performance.
Sound sometimes randomly stops working after some time.
Overall experience with Dota 2 on Linux very good :)
Since Dota 2 switched to Vulkan from OpenGL, many players have complained about artifacts appearing that can sometimes lose gameplay by distracting the player. The game is nevertheless playable. There is no indication that Valve wants to fix the problem.
gamemoderun %command% -high -vulkan -novid -perfectworld
每当游戏对局结束时，游戏会崩溃
游廊模式基本无法进去，就算进去以后延迟卡顿也特别严重
Nativ läuft ohne Probleme
works sometimes, stuff breaks after dota2 patches
Crashing
game crashes after uppdates, then starts working after patch- but now i have not been able to make it run again
i need to download shaders after each session
