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Stray performance issues on Linux mint laptop (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by 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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[–] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s a mint problem. They still use really old packages and X11 for their display server.

If you tried again with a more modern OS and one specifically using Wayland, you may get better results.

Bazzite and CachyOS are built with gaming in mind.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Linux Mint being the top distro recommended by searching the internet really does not help the broader "year of the Linux desktop" goal. Like I think we are there for the right distro if you skip disk encryption and opt for home drive encryption, but that itself is not easy info to come by.

    For example:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1e2qo9v/im_thinking_of_switching_to_linux_what_distro/

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    So switch distros? Not everything will be perfect which means you have to figure what's best for your situation.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 hours ago* (1 child)

    Huh? I was implying Mint shouldn't be so highly recommend. But okay start being toxic. Why switch distros when I can just use Windows and delete Mint 😂.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    I mean you took a reasonable suggestion as toxicity, ok 🤷. Your suggestion to switch to Windows instead is also valid. To use Linux means you're willing to put up with relatively new issues. One issue being the choice of your "final" distro. But if that's too much then yeah, there's no shame with switching back to Windows.

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