Can we play Fortnite on Linux?

The answer is yes the game can be played with minimum video settings, powerful machine and VMware player:

  • the game is installed without problems on Windows 10 64 bits
  • the game is started without problems
  • use minimum video setup ( in order to prevent / minimize freezing and stuttering )
  • video setup
    • Textures -- Low
    • Effects -- Low
    • Post Processing - Low
    • Shadows - Off
    • View Distance -- Low
    • Anti-Aliasing -- Off

Hardware Host

  • AMD Ryzen 7 17000 x 8
  • GTX 1080
  • 16 GB RAM

Hardware Setup guest

  • 6 Cores
  • 2 GB Video card
  • Accelerated graphics
  • 6 GB RAM
  • 60 GB hard disk

fortnite_linux

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