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As lime mentions, look at swap. The Mint installer should have suggested it, but if not it's pretty easy to setup after the fact (just use a swap file instead of a partition). Windows does this as well and it should pretty clearly deal with OOM.
Coral Island has a platinum rating on ProtonDB so it should be absolutely no sweat to run if you have the resources.
Looks like increasing the swap worked! Played for ~40 mins without any crashing, freezing, or lagging. Thank you so much for your help!
We have increased the swap and will try to play again after dinner. Thank you!
how much memory do you have? how much swap? usually linux uses less memory than windows.
8 gig memory, 2 gig swap
hm, not too much but not so little that it should cause a problem. maybe there's something running in the background? i've not used mint for a while but i think you can see all running programs in the system monitor.
Didn't see anything that stood out on the system monitor. Increasing the swap seemed to have fixed it for now, but I'll probably do a bit more looking to see if I can figure out what caused the issue in the first place. Thank you very much for your time and help!
Have you ran a memory check? Linux and Windows use memory layouts pretty differently so you may have avoided the bad bits before that are now an issue. https://memtest.org/
Thanks for the resource!
The other thing to do would be to see what is using so much memory. You can use
htop
And sort by memory use.