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Feral Interactive have released the specifications required to run DiRT Rally that will release on March 2nd for Linux. See their news here.

Minimum:
Intel Core i3-4130T or AMD FX6300 processor
Ubuntu 16.10 (64bit) or SteamOS (2.0 : 2.110)
8GB RAM and a 1GB NVIDIA 650ti/AMD R9 270 graphics card* or better.

Recommended
Intel Core i7-4770 processor
8GB RAM
4GB NVIDIA 970 graphics card* or better.

*NVIDIA graphics cards require driver version 370.28. AMD graphics cards require MESA 13.0.2 or better.

It's fantastic to see another Feral Interactive port with day-1 Mesa support, so this should keep the AMD crew happy.

I'm hoping to have a review and port report ready for release as usual, so stay tuned for that.

Will you be picking up a copy? I look forward to livestreaming it with some of you! Going to be a fun game to get a tournament going in. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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elbuglione Feb 6, 2017
VR Support???
FredO Feb 6, 2017
Quoting: Frank DrebinPardon my noobish question but I have Ubuntu 16.04 and the game requires 16.10. Is there a chance I could run the game on 16.04? I don't feel like upgrading my perfectly working OS because of one game...

Only Feral can answer that for sure, but I can tell you that I'm still on 14.04 and I've played every game that Feral has released so far, and I'll be playing Dirt Rally too. The graphics driver version is the important thing.
titi Feb 6, 2017
Maybe feral can tell us why they force SSSE3 support in their last games? Is it really such a big speed difference? CPU-Speed wise I never had a serious problem with my phenom 2 X4 yet but now I am forced to wait for Ryzen to play the new fancy stuff :-/
Gryxx Feb 6, 2017
@Corben, @Frank
In short yes. At worst case you will have to manually provide some libraries. I think that installing few updated packages will do the trick. Of course you can be lucky and have it running out-of-box.
g000h Feb 6, 2017
Quoting: Frank DrebinPardon my noobish question but I have Ubuntu 16.04 and the game requires 16.10. Is there a chance I could run the game on 16.04? I don't feel like upgrading my perfectly working OS because of one game...

Don't you just need to run a system update, e.g.:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

You can check the current version with:

cat /etc/debian_version

From my perspective, 16.04 is the release version. And 16.xx is what you get after running updates.

e.g. On my PC at work, Debian 8.0 is what I originally installed, and now it is up to Debian 8.7
TobiSGD Feb 6, 2017
Quoting: g000h
Quoting: Frank DrebinPardon my noobish question but I have Ubuntu 16.04 and the game requires 16.10. Is there a chance I could run the game on 16.04? I don't feel like upgrading my perfectly working OS because of one game...

Don't you just need to run a system update, e.g.:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

You can check the current version with:

cat /etc/debian_version

From my perspective, 16.04 is the release version. And 16.xx is what you get after running updates.

e.g. On my PC at work, Debian 8.0 is what I originally installed, and now it is up to Debian 8.7
This is what it is like on Debian, but not on Ubuntu. 16.04 is an LTS version with 5 years support, 16.10 is an interim version with only 9 months support. Both are different releases.
Quoting: Frank DrebinPardon my noobish question but I have Ubuntu 16.04 and the game requires 16.10. Is there a chance I could run the game on 16.04? I don't feel like upgrading my perfectly working OS because of one game...
It sounds like others are optimistic, but it would be nice to have clarification from Feral. Xenial can use the 4.8 kernel (hwe), but different libraries may be a stretch.

For me, there is exactly 0% chance I am going to upgrade from a 16.04 LTE base (neon) until 18.04.1 LTE is out.

EDIT: Liam, it might be an interesting survey question for the ubuntu-based distributions, for users to enter the version they are running. Perhaps that would be useful info for developers.


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j_c_p Feb 6, 2017
Quoting: titiMaybe feral can tell us why they force SSSE3 support in their last games? Is it really such a big speed difference? CPU-Speed wise I never had a serious problem with my phenom 2 X4 yet but now I am forced to wait for Ryzen to play the new fancy stuff :-/
The same for me (Phenom II X6).
Linas Feb 6, 2017
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Man, I don't think I can run it. My trusty Quadro K1100M may not have enough juice for it. I am tempted to try though. It's not a gaming card, but is supposedly more optimized for OpenGL. I managed to play Shadow of Mordor, Tomb Raider, and Alien: Isolation on it fairly comfortably, so maybe there is hope? Right? :S:
Nasra Feb 6, 2017
Quoting: Xpander4770 as recommended cpu.. that means my FX-8320@4,5ghz wont have nice time cranking everything to max?

Ryzen is not far away though :D

Same thing for me, and my 970GTX wants to have some powerfull processor to eat much data !
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