I can't believe Skyrim AE can run at locked60fps with ultra settings on my low end laptop, Linux and Wine/Proton is awesome

While I agree that Proton is awesome, running a game originally released for PS3/360 with enhanced visuals at 60 FPS (instead of 30ish) on a 1660 Ti is hardly anything to write home about.
- Do low-end laptops come with 1660Ti chips?
  
  If a laptop has a dedicated GPU, it's not low end.
  
  If op's mangohud is correct, yes
- Heh, my main machine still has 1660 Ti. I wouldn't say it's low end. It's better than 3050.
  
  ...my is gtx 750. Just. Every year, it becomes more disheartening to be on internet xD

Now do it with 200 gigs of mods. I would love to know how stable Skyrim is with mods under proton.
- i don't run 200, but I run 58. i play on a steam deck and I use MO2 as my mod manager of choice!
  runs just fine. i only get dropped fps in some dwemer ruins, but honestly? that might not be the modlist, that could be stock skyrim. lol.
  
  Considering Bethesdas sloppy implementation approach, especially with object collision, things might even get more stable using the correct mods.
  I remember using a mod on Fallout 4 that sets the fps in the loading screen to ~500 iirc bc they were somehow tied to the loading speed smh.
  
  How does MO2 work in proton? Is it one proton runtime that runs MO2 which then somehow launches another proton runtime to run the game? I can’t picture how it could be done
- It only takes 1 badly made mod to make Skyrim unstable. I'm not sure what information you would be looking to gain from that.
- 200 gigs... ? what. the. fuck.
  
  That's about the avg size of most mod packs on wabbajack!
- I'm in the process of doing that rn, probably not 200gigs but just enough to feel different from vanilla
- I've tried several lists over the years. The now defunct Thuldor's Skyrim, and my current Tempus Maledictum list, both experienced the same issue. They get installed and run just fine, but i'm about 60% of the fps short, compared to Windows. I suspect it's because of the vram overhead, and io bottlenecks in wine
  
  I've noticed stuttering issues in modded Empire War, but I also run heavily modded Stalker just fine with 60-70 FPS. Wine is a fickle beast.
  
  That was my general worry, i never got around to really testing it tho. Unfortunate to hear i wasn't too far off on the IO bottleneck problem.

Oh it’s the best. I can run just about any game now between proton, wine and other Linux tools for gaming like lutris or play-on-Linux. Gaming on Linux has come a long way.

To be honest I'd be surprised if it didn't. I ran the OG version on a 2011 MacBook air with Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics. On HD 4000 it actually ran quite well.

I booted windows on a 2012 MacBook Pro with a 650m gpu and that computer got HOT!
I know it’s been 13 years, but it doesn’t feel that long and now a phone can probably run that game no problem.
Mind sharing your specs?
- It's Ryzen 5 4600h and Gtx 1660ti
  
  Oh, I’d have loved to have that gpu back in the day.

If your laptop has more than 2 cores/2 threads and has integrated graphics better than HD 6xx it is not low end.
- Its a 1660Ti, so really not a low end laptop lmao

Skyrim is a pretty well optimized game, so this is not really that surprising.

On a 1660 Ti (MaxQ, I presume)? I can believe it. It's the exact range of game that card is made for. At a glance I don't see Skyrim AE benchmarks, but notebookcheck has it running Monster Hunter World, MGS V and Rise of the Tomb Raider maxed out at 1080p60ish.
Maybe I'm spoiled by just assuming Windows and Linux benchmarks are comparable by default? I guess it's no longer a surprise now, so... congrats, everybody?
Also, man, is there something you can do about those CPU temps? It makes me nervous just to look at that 28% utilization at 90C. I've been away from gaming laptops since handhelds are a thing and I'm not used to that anymore.
- at that 28% utilization at 90C
  It's probably all single threaded. Overall CPU usage isn't very useful in the day and age of 8-24 core CPUs. Especially hybrid architectures like Intel has.
  
  Sure, and with the GPU sucking up a bunch of juice that's plenty to get toasty.
  It's just I haven't been using laptops that do that in the past few years and coming from desktop world it feels so wrong now.

I was playing Nine Sols for quite a little while yesterday, and when I switched away for something I discovered that NixOS had decided to rebuild the kernel when I did an update and I hadn't noticed. It was sitting there with the load at 18, all the cores pegged in the red, just happily playing the game for me as normal the whole time.
Nine Sols is not some kind of graphical powerhouse but still I was pretty impressed.

Now do WoW on an Intel HD530 !

Nice!
Mine probably can't run Skyrim, but I'm surprised what my 8yo laptop w/ a Ryzen APU can still run.
- Not sure which one that is, but the first and second gen Ryzen APUs were fire. They were massively under appreciated at the time.
  
  Ryzen really shook things up when it came out. They were running on par, or nearly on par, with Intel's current offering for like 2/3 the price.
  
  Mine is a 3500U, which is pretty great for what I paid for it.

Im playing it on my steamdeck. Ugh just lost a thrall and could not find shadowmere for awhile after the soul cairn. I really wish the thrall spell would just set the thrall to the max level of the spell rather than fail due to auto leveling thing.