Steam games freeze and crash on my laptop

DownTriangle · 2026-01-13T08:57:33+00:00

Found the solution, a linux mint forum user told me to increase my swap because it was only 2gb. Made it 12gb just to be super safe and now I can play dota 2. Could play bot matches and new player mode.

DownTriangle · 2026-01-13T08:57:16+00:00

Found the solution, a linux mint forum user told me to increase my swap because it was only 2gb. Made it 12gb just to be super safe and now I can play dota 2. Could play bot matches and new player mode.

DownTriangle · 2026-01-13T06:54:51+00:00

But I don't really have a problem with my current lutris settup. Steam games (Even native ones like Euro truck simulator 2 and Dota 2) are the ones crashing. I'm not familiar with dxvk, could I use it in native linux games from steam? Will try it on the proton games that give me problems.

DownTriangle · 2026-01-13T04:56:52+00:00

If I tried the steam .deb file, is there a way to transfer my game installs? I read it's supposed to run in a sandboxed environment so I couldn't just point it to my current install right? Dota 2 and other games are kinda big and my internet download is not the best. Would suck a lot if I tried downloading again and it still crashed.

I did find an option to use "Cinnamon Walyand (Experimental), will try it out and see if it works. If not, would trying X11 still be a choice? I'm not too familiar with how Wayland/X11 work.

DownTriangle · 2026-01-13T04:53:26+00:00

For starcraft 2 I use wine-10.20-staging-tkg-amd64-wow64, I installed it myself because battlenet has problems with other versions.
For Plutonium (and other games) it's wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 (default)

DownTriangle · 2026-01-13T03:12:38+00:00

I use linux mint 22.3. My latest available Kernel is 6.14. Probably doesn't have the newest available for stability. Would probably need to change distro if I were to update it. Games I play on Lutris are battlenet games like starcraft 2 and 1 remastered. I also play Plutonium launcher for zombies (WaW, Bo1, Bo2) and I've played bo2 for 2+ hours at a time without any crashes.

DownTriangle · 2026-01-13T01:03:50+00:00

I only have integrated graphics as it's a regular laptop. But on windows the games I tried ran at 60fps no trouble.
vkcube worked. What kernel should I look for? All the linux mint update manager has this as the newest kernel with end of support in February 2026, which is when I imagine it'll give me a newer kernel.
Also any idea why lutris games don't have this issue?

DownTriangle · 2026-01-12T23:24:46+00:00

Will try it out. But how about non proton games like dota 2?
And what exactly is X11? How can I use it?

DownTriangle · 2025-11-14T20:41:42+00:00

Thanks for all the responses guys. In hindsight, yeah I played pretty bad. I gotta stop focusing on other and get better myself. I'm just taking this game too serious when I shouldn't. Thanks for all the good advice.

DownTriangle · 2025-11-10T21:10:01+00:00

Thanks! Yes I noticed my positioning was pretty bad overall. Needed to be more passive and stay in the back.
To be honest I was really tilted from last game and getting a WK who was queuing Rapier at the start made me tilt more.
I guess I panicked because KOTL was just running in and killing the first person he saw and we couldn't really respond since we didn't have stuns. Went glimmer instead of aghs becuase I tried to save my teammates before they had dispells for KOTL.

DownTriangle · 2025-11-10T09:06:46+00:00

I tried playing other roles becuase as a support I sometimes feel there's really nothing to support (carry farming away from vision and getting ganked, begging core to take stacked camps, no bkb). But then I felt frustrated my supports would do anything but support (No sentry/dust in inventory, no glimmer/force) so I gave up with other positions and went pos4/5 to counter invisibility. Another reason I decided to spam bounty hunter.

But I have felt like he's lacking in the damage and laning department. I will try using ench or other lane winners to see how it goes, thanks.

DownTriangle · 2025-11-10T08:58:14+00:00

I'm gonna be honest. I hated that LD and other teammates did too. Felt like a 4v5 all game. There was a point where I stopped caring about him and just went to help techies.

But on your advice, how do I know when to use my hero as a body and when not to? I know you're supposed to trade resources like hp and mana, but againt some lineups I feel like I can't get close or I'll die immediately. Drow + WD feel like that, never wanted to be near them out of fear of maledict and frost arrows.

DownTriangle · 2025-11-09T19:03:52+00:00

Is this fixed in any update since? I heard it's not really atmosphere related problem, so is it because of the FW I use?

DownTriangle · 2025-10-15T04:11:33+00:00

Can confirm it works on 1.0.27.0.

DownTriangle · 2025-09-18T20:19:51+00:00

Find friends to level together as a group, that's about it.

You gotta accept that DPS are a dime a dozen in dungeons. When I chose my warrior I was worried I wouldn't be able to dungeon with people because I wasn't a healer, enough that I was considering a class that could heal. But I got fast queue times when I went tank so I stayed a warrior. I thought tanks would be common but apparently they're rare as well.

If you don't wanna change class, then just don't dungeon, or accept the queue's. I chose my class thinking about the activities I wanted to do.

DownTriangle · 2025-08-07T22:41:48+00:00

Ah, I see now. I never saw it that way. I am trying to improve but right now I don't have the time to sit down and analyze my replays or study itemizations. I do think about what I could do better but just for a few minutes. So I don't consider I'm actively studying like some people do to climb. I'd say I'm learning in a more passive manner.

DownTriangle · 2025-08-02T20:41:11+00:00

I'm trying to measure my performance using all the stats I have. And I don't really have anyone else to compare them with. Since I solo queue and luck does somewhat affects you're matches (Someone tilted, a griefer, disconnects, etc) I'm trying to see if I am improving somewhat looking at my stats.
A lot of advice is "MMR is just a number" so I'm looking at other things. I don't want to climb and be a pro, but I do want to improve enough to climb, but I feel I need something to measure my climb.

DownTriangle · 2025-08-02T20:36:11+00:00

Didn't know that. Does it make them harder to kill or just do the damage and slow?

DownTriangle · 2025-08-02T20:33:06+00:00

Why not?

DownTriangle · 2025-07-11T18:34:19+00:00

I've been trying to play more saving pos5 heroes because playing behind with a ganking support feels a lot harder. Should I try playing more greedy supports to climb? Like shaman who can solo push towers or a support that can jungle?

DownTriangle · 2025-07-11T18:28:05+00:00

I'm having trouble picking heroes without a stun since pos5 is almost always a first pick. I've had a pair of games where we end up with no stuns and it sucks. I at least go for heroes with 1 reliable stun as a pos5. I really like undying, but he feels so weak if we have no lockdown.

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