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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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[–] rozodru@piefed.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

when I first switched to linux it was on a hybrid laptop also and it was with Mint. Nothing but issues. once I switched distros (cachyos) no issues.

Why? x11/wayland. X11 has issues with hybrid setups. just doesn't work right at all. for me if I was playing a game and tabbed out of it and back it would either just show a black screen or simply show the desktop while hte game was still running. Once I switched to CachyOS (and thus a wayland DE with KDE or a wayland WM) no issues.

[–] elibroftw@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

I mean on the PC i built in December, I learned my lesson over the 5+ years of distro hopping and I've been the least disappointed with fedora KDE.

Unfortunately I had my dual boot Linux setup from years ago on this laptop and just didn't want to nuke it till now (slow internet speeds that needed 3 reboots, no drag n drop, this gaming throttling issue, hard drive filesystem corruption). And now windows 11 is working as desired so I'm just going to single boot till I need Linux desktop on an old gaming laptop.