I had issues with mints install a while back. Turns out that it was my flash drive failing during the install. I used a newer one with bigger capacity and it worked fine. Not sure if tried a different USB but it’s worth a shot.
EDIT: based on your comments you probably have a different issue. But this might help someone else.
What you got against Cold Play?
Temperatures closer to 100c and over are worrisome. But it depends on the environment and if it’s a laptop or desktop. Laptops run hotter, that desktops and its normal for them to be in the 80s for either GPU or CPU. As for usage percents. GPU usage should almost always be close to 100% for graphically Intense games, but there are variables such as resulotion and frame rate. Looking at your numbers you posted, I don’t see an immediate reason why it would be crashing so soon. The temps and usages were fine, so that would lead me to suspect software.
And did you try proton experimental?
Those numbers are pretty normal. Especially if the game is compiling shaders. But 71c on the CPU is a little warm 2s after starting the game.
Yes it is. And you can look up a video on how to install it too. There isn’t a GUI, just a text editor. And you set launch parameters for it to show up in steam. Or lutris has the option for it in settings.
I have almost the exact setup you have, except the RAM and I’m using heroic launcher. I have no issues with CP 2077 My go to with game issues is to monitor the components in game. Install mangohud, configure the OSD to show CPU temps, gpu temps, clocks and also usage. That will help narrow down if the issue is hardware or software.
I had the same question a while back. It’s not throttling, it’s just worded weird. I turned off that message in mangohud and never had issues