F1 2017 system requirements for the Linux port have been revealed, NVIDIA & AMD supported

I hope the "NVIDIA & AMD supported" will become a standard on Linux ports !
And Vulkan support is also great.
I'm waiting for buying an AMD card, but it becomes better.

I wonder if Ubuntu 17.04 is a typo? Unusual to state a non-LTS release as a minimum spec, isn't it? Genuinely don't know, but I only run LTS releases on my gaming machine, so I guess I'll find out when I get this.

A bit scared about Vulkan, as Debian only features driver 375.82. Anyway bought the game from Feral Store as their other ports were awesome.

I wonder if Ubuntu 17.04 is a typo? Unusual to state a non-LTS release as a minimum spec, isn't it? Genuinely don't know, but I only run LTS releases on my gaming machine, so I guess I'll find out when I get this.

It's probably because of kernel and Mesa inside. You can get the same on an LTS with HWE, but it's not obvious.

I wonder if Ubuntu 17.04 is a typo? Unusual to state a non-LTS release as a minimum spec, isn't it? Genuinely don't know, but I only run LTS releases on my gaming machine, so I guess I'll find out when I get this.

It's just what we've tested most for this game.

A bit scared about Vulkan, as Debian only features driver 375.82. Anyway bought the game from Feral Store as their other ports were awesome.

I would strongly recommend installing newer drivers (384.90), using NVIDIA's own installer if necessary. We have known issues on older drivers.

Edit: To clarify, I'm only suggesting the installer if you have no better option to get that version like a PPA.


Last edited by aejsmith on 1 November 2017 at 8:58 am UTC

A bit scared about Vulkan, as Debian only features driver 375.82. Anyway bought the game from Feral Store as their other ports were awesome.

I would strongly recommend installing newer drivers (384.90), using NVIDIA's own installer if necessary. We have known issues on older drivers.

You've got to be joking, right? Installing drivers... from a website? Not having to deal with that, ever, is one of Linux's greatest joys.

More seriously, the last time I tried to install Nvidia's driver from their website, I gave up. It's a weird process involving downloading a tarball, extracting, setting executable, running, specifying a bunch of parameters, and the end result is... a DEB file! Which you have to install?! Which breaks your graphics driver PPA probably. And then you get a black screen and now what? Low graphics mode, purge nvidia-*, reboot, install stock driver. Or try again. So seriously, no thanks.

GTX 1070 as recommended :D... thats for 1080p?

I wont be able to max the visuals in the game on 1440p then :(

have to wait for new GPU's to come out some day next year to upgrade :D

You've got to be joking, right? Installing drivers... from a website? Not having to deal with that, ever, is one of Linux's greatest joys.

But when there are issues with the older drivers that can cause game crashes/system hangs? In some cases it's just not feasible for us to try to deal with that, and we have to require a newer driver.

384 is NVIDIA's current long-term support series, 375 is no longer even supported as far as I know. If Debian is shipping that, then they're shipping unsupported software.

More seriously, the last time I tried to install Nvidia's driver from their website, I gave up. It's a weird process involving downloading a tarball, extracting, setting executable, running, specifying a bunch of parameters, and the end result is... a DEB file! Which you have to install?! Which breaks your graphics driver PPA probably. And then you get a black screen and now what? Low graphics mode, purge nvidia-*, reboot, install stock driver. Or try again. So seriously, no thanks.

I installed the NVIDIA driver using their installer earlier today on Ubuntu and it worked fine? Disable the PPA driver first, blacklist nouveau, and then run the NVIDIA installer.


Last edited by aejsmith on 31 October 2017 at 10:31 pm UTC

Just go for the appropriate ppa and you're good to go. Works like a Charme. Should I google the link for you as well? (;

Just go for the appropriate ppa and you're good to go. Works like a Charme. Should I google the link for you as well? (;

Ooh that's a bit mean. I would understand if someone wants to run a LTS release and not add different PPA's. By way of "I'll install this and worry about system management/maintenance as little as possible".

Although that does mean situations like this pop up.

I wonder if Ubuntu 17.04 is a typo? Unusual to state a non-LTS release as a minimum spec, isn't it? Genuinely don't know, but I only run LTS releases on my gaming machine, so I guess I'll find out when I get this.

Why would you only use LTS releases for gaming machines? Gaming machines should be more bleeding edge than servers, which is really what LTS is for.

A bit scared about Vulkan, as Debian only features driver 375.82. Anyway bought the game from Feral Store as their other ports were awesome.

I actually run Debian Sid with the 'experimental' nvidia drivers at home on my desktop, and they work great. Even got SteamVR and Serious Sam VR working in it.

I think most people running Debian as a desktop should probably be running 'Testing' which is currently 'buster'. It's usually more stable than Ubuntu is. I don't know about anyone else, but Ubuntu tends to start having all these PPA repos installed, which add more to an already somewhat unstable mess. While it's based on Debian and they've made some choices to make it a bit more user friendly, in the end some of those choices and tweaks make it less stable, one for sure is that enable a lot of experimental drivers in their kernel.

Heh. I'll buy this, even if I'll just be watching an F1 sideshow montage on my terrible machine. Maybe one day I'll be able to run it in all its glory! Thanks for bringing it to Linux.

Surprisingly modest specs judging by the videos I've seen. My hardware is a few years old, but I could probably push this to high settings, assuming it's well-optimized.

A bit scared about Vulkan, as Debian only features driver 375.82. Anyway bought the game from Feral Store as their other ports were awesome.

384.9 appears to be on the way.

Just to agree with other posters here:

1) There is no way I will run anything but LTS releases. My machines are production tools, not hobby toys. I am too old and busy now to screw around with re-installing my OS every 6 months. Been there, done that.

2) There is no way I will ever install drivers from anything but a semi-official PPA. It is great that the Ubuntu graphics-drivers ppa exists. I have used the Nvidia web download in the past; See above comment about life being short. My spare time is for playing games, not periodically rescuing my operating system.

All that said, I am patient so I will just wait until the next LTS comes out and the PPA drivers catch up. By then there will be a steam sale. Not sure that is what Feral would want, though? People waiting isn't good for business.

Edit: Just to note, the graphics driver ppa does seem to be at 384.90 so it meets the specs. I was just responding to the casual suggestion to use the NVidia website.


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I installed the NVIDIA driver using their installer earlier today on Ubuntu and it worked fine? Disable the PPA driver first, blacklist nouveau, and then run the NVIDIA installer.

Why not using:
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

???

Serious question.

In my understanding, all I need is the 384.90 driver. I can get it through the PPA.

Which driver does Ubuntu 17.10 currently use?


Last edited by 0aTT on 1 November 2017 at 7:58 am UTC

I would strongly recommend installing newer drivers (384.90), using NVIDIA's own installer if necessary. We have known issues on older drivers.

You've got to be joking, right? Installing drivers... from a website? Not having to deal with that, ever, is one of Linux's greatest joys.

I share this view, and in your situation, I wouls install driver 384.90.2 from Debian experimental.


Last edited by Eike on 1 November 2017 at 12:36 pm UTC

I would strongly recommend installing newer drivers (384.90), using NVIDIA's own installer if necessary. We have known issues on older drivers.

You've got to be joking, right? Installing drivers... from a website? Not having to deal with that, ever, is one of Linux's greatest joys.

I share this view, and in your situation, I wouls install driver 384.90.2 from Debian experimental.

That's what I do. I rarely have to fight with bugs, though I've found a few in Gnome 3.26. I almost have to record a video of how odd it is.

So at home, I have three monitors. An old 1600x1200 Dell 2001FP (I use this for retro systems, but it mostly is connected via DVI to my main system when I'm not using any of the retro systems), and two Dell s2716dg which are pretty glorious. In the new gnome display settings dialog, I can move these around and align them correctly. Then we move to my laptop...

At work I had a 2560x1440 and 1920x1080 monitors, plus the 3840x2160 laptop screen. I usually disable this because the scaling is crazy small. But for some reason the display dialog is locked, I can't move any of the screens around to align things. the 1920x1080 doesn't have an adjustable stand, so I couldn't raise it up to the top where it was locked in Gnome. arandr to the rescue, right? Well, the funny thing is even if the laptop panel is disabled but open, it works, and I can adjust it. If it's closed, I can't. It was completely re-producible. No idea why it acts this way. I ended up replacing the 1920x1080 monitor with a 3840x2160 monitor (27" being much more readable than a 15" at that resolution) and it looks amazing, but still has that weird locking issue, except now I'm trying to align the 27" monitor to the middle.

Problem is, I think randr doesn't support monitor SIZE rather than resolution. Realistically there should be a nice way to tell it "I have two 27" screens at separate resolutions, please scale monitor 1 to bar, and 2 to foo. The scale buttons on the gnome-shell dialog also seem to do nothing.

Maybe randr does have that option, and I just need to find it.

Anyhow, maybe I proved my point why some may want to use LTS. Though to be honest, I think Arch Linux is probably as stable as any LTS and you get rolling updates. There definitely is the occasional breakage, but I've seen LTS releases blow up from a simple kernel update.

I would strongly recommend installing newer drivers (384.90), using NVIDIA's own installer if necessary. We have known issues on older drivers.

You've got to be joking, right? Installing drivers... from a website? Not having to deal with that, ever, is one of Linux's greatest joys.

I share this view, and in your situation, I wouls install driver 384.90.2 from Debian experimental.

Okay if I have any issue I install the drivers from experimental.