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>>Bender+(OP)
This might be hardware-specific, but I cannot actually run games on Windows anymore. My machine hard resets every 10 minutes of I do -- some sort of an overheat problem perhaps.

On Linux everything's just fine. With the added bonus of 90% less cruft from the OS.

>>darthr+SF
What's your hardware? I have the same problem that seems to come and go between driver versions. I have a AMD RX 6600XT. I've tried aggressively underclocking it, like you thinking it's some kind of thermal protection, but the issue resurfaces. And the Windows Event Viewer isn't helpful for debugging it. :/ Dual booting into Ubuntu and running the same games through Proton has no issues.

>>wildrh+jK
Asus Zephyrus G14 AMD from 2022. Some people suggested to me that this implies that Windows is able to actually the hardware, but that seems like a bullshit excuse to me. Especially when I'm seeing similar FPS on both sides. And it's not like the fans aren't running on Windows, they sure are.

>>darthr+PS
Uninstall Armory Crate and use G-Helper, use it's update tab to make sure you have all platform/driver updates, and to confirm you have the GPU preferences, and CPU+GPU fan curves set as you'd expect (or can reset them to factory defaults). I suspect you'll have a better time.

Even if you, the reader, are not having issues and have an ASUS gaming laptop, check out G-Helper. It's a huge QoL upgrade. (It's one of those tools that causes people to write the n+1th "I normally hate third party tools but G-helper is actually amazing" etc posts).

>>predic+KR5
Thank you for the ideas. I won't need them anymore since Linux is now strictly better than Windows for me. But perhaps that info will be useful for someone else.

>>darthr+Bg8
Awesome! I'm basically there too. Honestly I mostly keep Windows just to be able to stay on top of firmware updates (fwupdmgr can't take over the world fast enough!).

For Linux ASUS Gamers, y'all likely already know, but supergfxctl, asusd/asusctl/rog-control-center are your friends!