If they still existed they would probably have moved into existing human-mined tunnels. Whether they’d wait until we abandoned them or chase us out, or help us build them, would depend on our relationship with them
Try another desktop environment. When I play AoEIV, the game would freeze after a bit when using KDE Plasma, regardless if I was using X or Wayland. I do not have such problems when running Gnome. Which is unfortunate, because I much prefer KDE. This is also within the Ubuntu distro.
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