Overwatch keeps memory overflowing

[manic urchin]

I've tried running with proton, a bunch of launch options, with or without vulkan. turning graphics down. none of them seem to fix the issue where all my RAM and swap gets allocated in a spike and steam crashes.

[frail night]

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/17f1yaf/overwatch_2_heavy_memory_leak/

i had this problem too before

and the only workaround i found effective was to just allocate a huge amount of swap to tank the leak

it stops after a little

[manic urchin]

evil game

[twin geyser]

7gbs 😂😂 im not even able to even install or look at that game than

[manic urchin]

i have 16+4swap so im scared it might not fix it

ill try tho

[vital meadow]

honestly... this is kinda caused by windows....

many applicatios on windows have memory leaks, but microsoft goes out of their way to fix that memory leak from the OS/kernels side of things....

[spiral sand]

What can be done to implement the same kinds of features on the Linux side of things?

[vital meadow]

That would need to be done in kernel ...
And the kernel doesn't cater for individual applications

Linus has made his stance clear on that

There will be no kernel patches to fix people writing shitty code

People should learn to write code that doesn't leak instead of relying on the kernel to "fix" their problems

[spiral sand]

I agree, but from a user's perspective, windows works and Linux doesn't. So it's hard to convince people to use Linux without some of these solutions. Finding the middle ground from a usability perspective is hard, what might happen is a gaming Linux kernel might need to be developed which has these kinds of fixes. That might be a dumb thought but who knows.

[frail night]

overconsidering user's perspective is how software starts to turn shit

certain sacrifice needs to be made in order to keep the program workable in long term

such as ditching legacy compatibility after giving reasonable amount of time to migrate