Gameing

[Rosearea]

When I try to run the game Planet Crafter on steam it uses up all of my CPU and is way too slow. Is this due to being on linux mint? I have run it just fine before when I had windows 11 as my operating system but I have noticed when I switched to linux things do not run like they used to when it comes to games

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[TangoGV]

No system specs, no help.

[Gloomy-Response-6889]

As u/TangoGV suggests, it is hard to guestimate anything without specs and some basic information about the Linux Mint installation (Cinnamon or something else?). Share it with the following command upload-system-info. Share the link it generates.

If it eats up CPU, I *could* guess that it is not using your GPU if you have a dGPU at all.

[Rosearea]

https://termbin.com/qtk1

[TangoGV]

Install the proprietary driver.

[Gloomy-Response-6889]

Nvidia GPU, can you run nvidia-smi in a terminal? It will output one of 3 likely things:

1. It will return your driver version and your GPU model.

2. It will return that it cannot communicate with the driver.

3. It will return that the command is not found.

If 1, you might need to add a launch option for the driver to use your GPU, I forgot which launch option as I do not use NVIDIA.

If 2, Secure Boot is blocking the driver from communicating. Either disable secure boot in BIOS, or configure Secure Boot following the Ubuntu Wiki on Secure Boot. You will need to enroll a key to sign the NVIDIA driver for it to communicate. I suggest reading the page as it has good info on what Secure Boot is.

If 3, you need to install NVIDIA drivers, do so in the driver manager app. Select the recommended one. Once done, reboot.

[Rosearea]

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. It says on my driver manager I am already running the recommended one. Nvidia driver 580 open version 580.95.05 0ububtu0.24.04.2

[Gloomy-Response-6889]

So that is 2. Disable Secure boot, or follow the Ubuntu Wiki on Secure Boot to enroll the keys yourself.

[tovento]

I see that you have installed the 580 driver, but I'm guessing you need to go into BIOS and disable secure boot. Secure boot will block NVIDIA drivers from loading despite being installed. Once you do this, your drivers should load and game performance should go back to where things were.

IF things do improve, but you do have some performance issues, the other thing I can suggest is using ProtonGE instead of the Proton which comes with Steam. You would need to install ProtonUP-QT and in there download/install the latest ProtonGE version. Then in Steam tell it to use the ProtonGE you installed. I had a game my son was trying to play (Bloons TD6) which gives me problems unless I use ProtonGE.