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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Didn't you ask this exact same question yesterday? The post is now deleted though.
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RTX 3080-Ti Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX
If I understand correctly, does that mean you had two GPUs in the system? (Integrated GPU in the AMD chip + a separate NVIDIA GPU?) If so, were you maybe running on the wrong GPU? Also, did you install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers or just use the out-of-the-box open stuff? For NVIDIA usually you want the proprietary ones, and for AMD open is fine, but the kernel you're running really matters in my experience...
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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.
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I played Stray the other day and it was getting a bit choppy sometimes. My PC is powerful enough that it shouldn’t have any issues at all with that game. I think it’s just optimised in a way that the game doesn’t like.
I wasn’t bothered because I didn’t like the game all that much.
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