I do not know what Wayland nor X11 is. I’m running Linux Mint with Cinnamon(?).

Okay I’ll install that to try to get some monitoring in-game. Do you know if that’s available directly through Mint’s Software Manager?

This whole PC is brand new (built earlier this year), so I don’t want to have to replace a component so soon. Especially since it seems to work fine prior to swapping to Mint in general.

I did try to install Bazzite using Ventoy on an external drive, but it wasn’t working. Someone told me I should use a USB flash drive instead of an external hard drive and that may have been the issue, but I’ll keep this in mind if it fails again!

I haven’t been starting steam directly from the terminal but will try this when troubleshooting to read the logs!

Did you do anything special during setup? I couldn’t find many reports specific to this card on ProtonDB, but lots of people were using different Proton versions that weren’t available on Steam so wasn’t sure if that was it.

Okay I’ll give this a shot first to determine if it’s overheating. The air from the case doesn’t feel like it’s too hot coming out, and the game seems to run smoothly with no graphical disturbances until the moment of freezing or crashing, but I’m willing to try it out. I’ll be going through these suggestions one by one hopefully tonight and tomorrow and will try to reply/update as I do so!

Yeah when it updated to Windows 11 I also started noticing the news/ads on boot and in the start menu which were obnoxious. Another benefit to switch I suppose. And thank you! If I run into issues I’m sure I’ll be taking you up on that offer.

I built my desktop specifically to be pretty robust and future proof it for a few years: RYZEN 7 7800X3D, RTX 4070TI super, B650 Gaming Motherboard, and 64GB DDR5 RAM. It wasn’t having any issues playing games on windows until windows just started messing with the system unfortunately.