Hello Kate. I hope you’re enjoying your time in Ireland, must be really tough.
One thing often useful (particularly for older games) is support for more video codecs. Due to licensing, valves proton supports less video codecs, which can sometimes cause cutscenes to be played as test-images instead.
It’s quite counterintuitive that it takes only 10 Minutes for the temperature to reach 75° inside when it is 75° outside, but it takes three times as long for the temperature to reach 75° inside when it is 75° outside. Thermodynamics are weird.