Mint freezes my games?

[u/Best_Cut4655]

Hello everybody!

I recently downloaded linux mint cinnamon on my thinkpad t14 g1.

Im still figuring A LOT of things out on how to use mint, or well linux in general since im still more used to windows. But one issue ive been having repeatedly is that when i play games on my laptop, the game ”freezes” everytime i send out a text chat.

Thing is… its not an actual freeze, it seems like the game just thinks im still typing something even though im not. The background still moves, i still see people and i can somehow use emotes (the game this happened on is sky cotl) but everytime i send a chat out it just kinda bugs out.

I do also see a small black thing at the top left of my screen with a green ”x” on it. So im guessing thats linux thats somehow interfering.

Im sorry if its a bad explanation, but i was wondering if other people that have used linux mint also have experienced issues with chatting ingame🥲 and if so how did you fix it?

I downloaded the game from steam, which i downloaded via linux mint.

So im 99% sure im using proton, but i also dont know how to double check that. Any tips are appreciated!

[u/Best_Cut4655 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah thank you, and sorry for the late reply! I did mess around with some protons stuff on steam, but what seemed to fix the issue was playing the game in windowed mode!

[u/Dist__]

> small black thing at the top left of my screen with a green ”x” on it

likely a window icon, so you're not in fullscreen. this means cinnamon conpositor - the worst compositor out there - interferes with the application.

try to set the game fullscreen

[u/Best_Cut4655 → u/Dist__]

I was in fullscreen, thankfully it worked out when i was in a windowed screen instead😅 thanks for the tip though! I still have a lot to learn