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Stray performance issues on Linux mint laptop (lemmy.ca)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by elibroftw@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Last time I tried to play Stray on Linux Mint on my laptop while connected to 4k TV, I ran into severe degradation unrelated to thermal throttling. I had to tweak the resolution down a lot and even the graphics. I recently went back to using Windows on the laptop because of an unrelated network speed unreliability problem on Mint, and when I tried Stray, there were no issues. Before this, I had even installed Stray on my gaming PC to stream from the laptop because of how laggy the performance was.

Specs

RTX 3080-Ti Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX Linux Mint latest 16GB RAM

EDIT:

Okay so I suspected it was thermal throttling, even though I have a cooling fan. Turns out not using a cooling fan is better than using a cooling fan at the lowest setting. At the highest setting, the cooling fan is too loud but the game performs still slightly worse than on Windows.

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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Didn't you ask this exact same question yesterday? The post is now deleted though.

[–] elibroftw@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Key word deleted. I got down voted for not providing specs and distro.

And yeah I've been trying to abandon Reddit but I guess that makes me a troll. I posted a second question regarding my hard drive on reddit because the first post got too much Linux defenders. I'll probably post the question here too, to see which community is more helpful.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ah yep that makes sense. Forgive the suspicion, we have some "characters" here that repost the same question over and over, and delete their previous ones.

If you do decide to continue using Lemmy, just For Your Information: Downvotes don't really mean much here. There's no karma, and since the community is so small, people will still see your post even if it's "negative". In fact, some people specifically search for controversial and negative posts using the sort function as they're considered interesting. Generally we try not to delete posts, as it removes already limited content; some communities even have rules against it. Good luck with finding a solution!