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Help with Cyberpunk 2077 on Mint
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I have almost the exact setup you have, except the RAM and I'm using heroic launcher. I have no issues with CP 2077 My go to with game issues is to monitor the components in game. Install mangohud, configure the OSD to show CPU temps, gpu temps, clocks and also usage. That will help narrow down if the issue is hardware or software.
Please in the future, add a number after the initials.
Would hate for that to be quoted out of context lol
Just the full sentence. With his UN attributed.
What you got against Cold Play?
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?
Yes it is. And you can look up a video on how to install it too. There isn't a GUI, just a text editor. And you set launch parameters for it to show up in steam. Or lutris has the option for it in settings.
Alright I got it installed. This was attempt 2, (Step 1 in another comment basically with no changes to get a baseline).
I installed mangohud and configured to show GPU load, CPU load, VRAM, RAM, GPU temp, and CPU temp. I booted the game again, and this time from pressing Continue and loading into the game, I didn't even have time to start the timer. I would guess maybe 2s before freezing. Onscreen stats from MangoHUD read "GPU 98%, 53C, CPU 64% 71C, VRAM 7.9GiB, RAM 9.0GiB".
CPU and GPU both shot way up from the baseline configuration example in GOverlay I used. Looks like this may be the issue. I'll try to get the temps down and retry.
Those numbers are pretty normal. Especially if the game is compiling shaders. But 71c on the CPU is a little warm 2s after starting the game.
Could you give a reference for what numbers may be abnormal/potential failures? So I can keep an eye on them while troubleshooting the issue.
Temperatures closer to 100c and over are worrisome. But it depends on the environment and if it's a laptop or desktop. Laptops run hotter, that desktops and its normal for them to be in the 80s for either GPU or CPU. As for usage percents. GPU usage should almost always be close to 100% for graphically Intense games, but there are variables such as resulotion and frame rate. Looking at your numbers you posted, I don't see an immediate reason why it would be crashing so soon. The temps and usages were fine, so that would lead me to suspect software.
And did you try proton experimental?
Yes I tried every Proton version on Steam