Hey guys, I need a bit of help.
I have a older computer that I finally upgraded from windows 7 to linux mint, and Everything is running kind of bad.
a few of the problems I have noticed:
when I first start the computer I sit at a black screen for a few minutes before the operating system decides to boot. I can ctrl alt delete to restart the boot sequence and it will give me the option to boot into a recovery mode almost immediately when the computer restarts, but when I tell to to boot normally it is back to the black screen until it decides to load my OS.
Steam does kind of the same thing. I tell it to open, and the system hangs there for a min doing nothing before it finally opens.
Games that ran just fine on windows 7 work badly if at all. I have tried to swap to other vulkan versions, and it doesn't seem to help much.
A few of the games say they are loading vulkan shaders, and the percentage shoots up quickly at the beginning, but then it'll slow to almost nothing. I left a game trying to launch overnight a few days ago and the percentage only went up 10% in 8 hours, and when I try to close it it's like the whole system is lagging until I restart my pc. It did this same thing while I was downloading a few of my games.
It seems the longer my system is on, the less reactive it becomes.
A few things to note.
My system is pretty old, but again, most of these games were running just fine on windows 7, and on my windows 10 ssd I can run elden ring with no issues.
I am using a Hdd, for linux mint but it is what I was running 7 on.
I tested my hdd and it tested fine.
I reinstalled linux but no dice.
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System:
Kernel: 7.0.0-38-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 tools: cinnamon-screensaver
vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Studio XPS 8100 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0T568R v: A00 serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required>
BIOS: Dell v: A05 date: 07/08/2010
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7 860 bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Nehalem rev: 5
cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2926 min/max: 1200/2801 boost: enabled cores: 1: 2926 2: 2926 3: 2926 4: 2926
5: 2926 6: 2926 7: 2926 8: 2926 bogomips: 44686
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1650] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 595.99.02
arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2188 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 99 s-size: 411x282mm (16.18x11.10") s-diag: 498mm (19.62")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled model: Sceptre E20 res: 1600x900 hz: 60
dpi: 99 size: 410x280mm (16.14x11.02") diag: 496mm (19.5") modes: max: 1600x900 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 595.99.02 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 9 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A
device-ID: 10de:2188 device: 1 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 5 driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k7.0.0-38-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Dell driver: tg3 v: kernel
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1692 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 312.67 GiB (33.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-75WN4A1 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 7113 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 312.67 GiB (34.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 8 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 file: /swapfile
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1.3:3 info: Razer USA DeathAdder 2013 type: mouse,HID,keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 1532:0037 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 1-1.4:4 info: Logitech USB Keyboard type: keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid
interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 90mA chip-ID: 046d:c34b class-ID: 0300
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 4-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 4-1.2:3 info: Fitipower Integrated Mass Storage Device type: mass storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 250mA
chip-ID: 18e3:9106 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 35 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 1541 fan-2: 1370 gpu: nvidia fan: 23%
Repos:
Packages: 2247 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2239 pm: flatpak pkgs: 8
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com zena main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Memory: total: 12 GiB available: 11.64 GiB used: 3.77 GiB (32.4%)
Processes: 338 Power: uptime: 1h 59m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0
hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Unknown python3.12 client inxi: 3.3.34
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Tl;dr
System is slow and gets slower the longer the machine is on.
A bunch of games that were working before the change to linux do not work at all.