Last time I tried to play Stray on Linux Mint on my laptop while connected to 4k TV, I ran into severe degradation unrelated to thermal throttling. I had to tweak the resolution down a lot and even the graphics. I recently went back to using Windows on the laptop because of an unrelated network speed unreliability problem on Mint, and when I tried Stray, there were no issues. Before this, I had even installed Stray on my gaming PC to stream from the laptop because of how laggy the performance was.
Specs
RTX 3080-Ti Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX Linux Mint latest 16GB RAM
EDIT:
Okay so I suspected it was thermal throttling, even though I have a cooling fan. Turns out not using a cooling fan is better than using a cooling fan at the lowest setting. At the highest setting, the cooling fan is too loud but the game performs still slightly worse than on Windows.
I mean on the PC i built in December, I learned my lesson over the 5+ years of distro hopping and I’ve been the least disappointed with fedora KDE.
Unfortunately I had my dual boot Linux setup from years ago on this laptop and just didn’t want to nuke it till now (slow internet speeds that needed 3 reboots, no drag n drop, this gaming throttling issue, hard drive filesystem corruption). And now windows 11 is working as desired so I’m just going to single boot till I need Linux desktop on an old gaming laptop.