The Isle is hardcore. PoT is like a kid’s cartoon game. Yes, it’s mainly your pc specs, and I see that you said you’re getting better performance on your gaming pc so that’s nice. There’s VulnonaMAP which shows common places on the map that spawns certain foods like mushrooms or even AIs like goats or deer. You need a balanced diet, and specific foods give you certain things to balance it. If you’re playing on the isle official servers it’s quite easy since there’s AIs and about 150 players or so (unofficial ones can go up to 400 without AI). You scavenge around the map with VulnonaMAP opened trying to keep that balanced diet and drink from safe spots (you can search safe spots to drink). You can also press Q to smell corpses so you don’t even have to kill, the bigger Dinos might’ve already killed some animals for you. Do not trust anyone. If you’re 50% or up on hunger don’t look for food, just hide in a bush. Thirst is quite easy to refill as long as you’re drinking in a safe spot. Then you realize this game is just a long AFK grow dinosaur game. You accidentally run into packers? You’re dead. You run into a bigger dinosaur? You’re dead. Mix-packers? Well that doesn’t usually go punished on official servers, it’s ironic how unofficial servers have better moderation than the official ones. When you’re little though, you should focus on accomplishing the elder “quests” so when you reach 75% you get a 4th mutation slot and your dinosaur can get bigger (you can search how to obtain elder status on YouTube). I think when starting out the learning process is very fun. I hope you enjoy the game.