It runs without compatibility mode, I haven’t tried without running as admin. And yeah, I know. It’s an older laptop and I think the build quality isn’t that great. Definitely not holding up as well as my even older Alienware Windows 7 laptop that I was using before. Not sure there’s too much that I can do, although it could be that I messed up something when I ran throttlestop. I played around with the turbo multiplier, maybe it’s set too high.