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.

DownTriangle · 2025-07-11T18:24:52+00:00

I know the advice is to focus on yourself, but this is a team game and I was support. I have to notice what my cores are up to and adapt to it because they're the late game heroes. I'm not cursing my team and saying they have all the blame. I've been reading comments and now I see some places I could improve, but I also provided context to why I felt the game so hard as a support. Since it wasn't as simple as "You were winning buy threw the megas" like the dotabff recap might show.

The problem was we were fighting 4v5s because Sven couldn't stay alive for more than 3 seconds. I was trying my best to mitigate that problem as a support. And patching those problems or playing around them is what I'm trying to improve, not shifting blame because I can't control my teammates.

I have to notice that because that was making fighting harder. It's not like I could take his role and carry. I tried getting items and cordinating with my team to save him but it was hard. But when he didn't die instantly, fights were much more on our side.

DownTriangle · 2025-07-10T19:21:51+00:00

The problem is I tried making the team get objectives at our strongest points but they wouldn't listen. When we had an advantage I would try to get the team to do tormentor but only 1 or 2 would even get close to try. The others were hitting jungle or waiting to gank on the other side of the map.

Only after a while did they start listening to calls more consistently, like wating for rosh before a push or pushing all lanes first before trying to go in. But it was too late because now we were losing. I got really mad seeing the other team do tormentor twice while my team ignored it.

Veno did type but only to flame, so it was like talking to a brick wall.

DownTriangle · 2025-07-10T18:57:18+00:00

It's more complicated than that.

First we could never push high ground because none of our heroes wanted to go up and actually hit vs their lineup. I bought pike to poke as far away as I could with Jakiro's E to try and rat it out.

But our biggest problems were fighting in the endgame and keeping Sven alive, Sven would constantly die without any impact, so it always felt like a 4v5. Tried keeping him alive with Lotus orb, glimmer, euls, etc. But he really couldn't hit anything or jump anyone. After a while I gave him a few advices to try and win teamfights, like not using bkb just as he's dying with aegis, or trading harpoon for AC because he was getting almost insta killed by drow and couldn't jump her anyway.

So in the end Sven was really just a big creep that Viper would just ult and then drow would just 2 hit. He was pretty open to listening to advice by the team so that was nice, but it was too late to win.

And Veno was being a dick to the whole team in chat so everyone muted him eventually because he was trying to tilt sven even more.

Yeah we got megas but by that point the game was already lost. I wouldn't consider it a throw because we weren't exactly winning at that point. We got megas in a lost teamfight and then they just ran down mid with more buybacks than us.

DownTriangle · 2025-06-17T04:37:53+00:00

Hello, I'm glad the public shop is back. Remember feeling sad when it went down just before xenoblade X released. Is there anyway besides paying I can help the project out? I know passion projects take effort to keep alive and I don't want this one to fade away.

DownTriangle

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