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Laptop with Nvidia mx150, gaming questions
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What laptop is it exactly? I've got that card in my Thinkpad T580 and it sucks big time. Not because of the card itself or because of Linux but because it has some insane thermal targets more or less hardcoded in the firmware.
Technically it's fine. It has Vulkan support. It can run Doom 2016 at 30 fps. But as soon as it starts thermal throttling (and it does so very quickly) it clocks down to the lowest value. That way it even struggles to run Quake 3 at more than 6 or so fps.
Having it on battery power can sometimes get it working for half an hour or so. But sooner or later it will get too hot and only stopping the demanding process for a few minutes will get it to cool down enough.
HP Envy 17
I switched to proton 6.x and dx10 and now it's running 😎
Just can't change any of the graphic settings without it crashing.
Running at 1280x720 at 60fps
All lowest settings though. Good enough.
Have you perchance installed the proprietary drivers? The open source drivers aren't any good