So, I made the switch to Linux Mint about 2 weeks ago, and have been having some issues, specifically with gaming and art programs.

The issues seem to be related to memory. I don’t have the memory to open a large art file in either Krita or GIMP. My Coral Island game keeps crashing (OOM - kill process).

So, it would be easy to assume my computer just doesn’t have the memory for these activities, except . . . they worked fine on Windows. I could open my art files in Photoshop and Coral Island ran like a dream for months.

It’s disheartening because everywhere I look says the issue must be with my machine not having enough memory. But my machine could run everything just fine when using a different OS (with way more things installed).

Does anyone have any help or insight they might be able to provide? I have no interest in going back to Windows.

Thank you!

**SOLVED - increased the swap to 8 GB, which seems to have solved the issue for now. Thank you, everyone, for your help!

  • themoken@startrek.websiteEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    As lime mentions, look at swap. The Mint installer should have suggested it, but if not it’s pretty easy to setup after the fact (just use a swap file instead of a partition). Windows does this as well and it should pretty clearly deal with OOM.

    Coral Island has a platinum rating on ProtonDB so it should be absolutely no sweat to run if you have the resources.

    • LucyMcGoose@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Looks like increasing the swap worked! Played for ~40 mins without any crashing, freezing, or lagging. Thank you so much for your help!

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    how much memory do you have? how much swap? usually linux uses less memory than windows.

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        hm, not too much but not so little that it should cause a problem. maybe there’s something running in the background? i’ve not used mint for a while but i think you can see all running programs in the system monitor.

        • LucyMcGoose@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Didn’t see anything that stood out on the system monitor. Increasing the swap seemed to have fixed it for now, but I’ll probably do a bit more looking to see if I can figure out what caused the issue in the first place. Thank you very much for your time and help!

  • BartyDeCanterEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Have you ran a memory check? Linux and Windows use memory layouts pretty differently so you may have avoided the bad bits before that are now an issue. https://memtest.org/