You have to understand that there is no rule of thumb when launching Windows games on Proton Linux or whatever. You have to resolve each on a case by case basis. Some Linux distros aren’t even officially supported on certain native Linux games, and many don’t even state it so.
As for shadow of mordor, well, I used to play shadow of war, I had same tanking performance issues, I sort of had to coax them into working normally:
Firstly I didn’t use gamemode, it would apply gamemode to the launcher, thus draining system resources away from the game itself
Benchmark mode is completely broken in Linux.
Then I had to dabble around the graphics settings, mainly trying different vsync combinations and window modes
In the end, it settled so, that I had to disable vsync, launch it in borderless window mode, disable vulkan shader precaching then simply wait at spawn for all the textures to load in while slowly panning the camera 360˚, which took about 60 seconds.
After that the game stabilizes with a few short lasting stutters while fast travelling.
Defer to the official proton page for tips as to how to get the game running best.
You have to understand that there is no rule of thumb when launching Windows games on Proton Linux or whatever. You have to resolve each on a case by case basis. Some Linux distros aren’t even officially supported on certain native Linux games, and many don’t even state it so.
As for shadow of mordor, well, I used to play shadow of war, I had same tanking performance issues, I sort of had to coax them into working normally:
Defer to the official proton page for tips as to how to get the game running best.