You don’t know what you are talking about. In OP’s case the game is not loading effectively, but it is compiling Vulkan shaders, as it’s running under Linux. That process is normal to take a while.

Proxmox host running on a Dell Inspiron laptop with a 6th gen i3 and 12GB RAM, 120GB SSD

• Home Assistant
• Jellyfin
• Sonarr
• Radarr
• Prowlarr
• qBitTorrent
• Syncthing

Home Assistant runs in its own VM (HAOS), the rest run in a Ubuntu Server VM.

I think most people have misunderstood these changes. Drive letters are not removed, but the option “Show drive letters” in folder options is removed. By default, that option is enabled, so the drive letters will be shown, now if you want to disable them you’ll have to go to the registry.

Just like “Hide protected OS files” is enabled by default, it will remain like that, if you want to show them, you’ll have to fiddle with the registry instead of just changing an option.

Oracle Cloud Free Tier offers a lot for free, you need to add a credit card, but they have 2 x86 instances with 1GB RAM, and and up to 4 ARM instances with 24 GB cumulated RAM https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/