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

FX and phenom CPUs have pretty much half of the IPC compared to say Skylake or Ryzen, so that is what makes the performance so bad on OpenGL which is really not multithreaded enough.

so with a FX cpu for example you would need a 7Ghz clock to match 3,5ghz Skylake :)

ofc everything is not so 1:1, but you can get the picture why its like that

Of course Xpander, but F1 2017 is a Vulkan game and the Phenom II X6 is a quite capable CPU (mine is overclocked of course) with a better IPC than FX processor.

The only drawback of that X6 processor is the lack of the "modern" instructions like SSE3.


Last edited by j_c_p on 1 November 2017 at 3:59 pm UTC

Quoting: j_c_pOf course Xpander, but F1 2017 is a Vulkan game and the Phenom II X6 is a quite capable CPU (mine is overclocked of course) with a better IPC than FX processor.

like i said its not so 1:1
Vulkan isn't the magic bullet that makes all the cores more usable. your phenom has 6 cores, i5 has 4, even if the game uses all those 6 cores to full potential, those i5 4 cores are still faster cause of the IPC.
Vulkan is more multithreaded in theory yes, but it has to be programmed that way as well. IPC still matters more sadly. And then ofc there are all the other capablilities of CPUs, like SSE4 and so on which your phenom doesnt have.

Anyway you can buy the game to test it out, if it doesnt work then refund if you played less than 2 hours within 1 week after purchase

See my edit about the SSE* instructions ;).
Otherwise, I can buy the game at "release" to try if it works, but I don't have a high speed network and I prefer to be sure that the game is compatible before buying it.


Last edited by j_c_p on 1 November 2017 at 4:03 pm UTC

Quoting: j_c_pSee my edit about the SSE* instructions ;).
Otherwise, I can buy the game at "release" to try if it works, but I don't have a high speed network and I prefer to be sure that the game is compatible before buying it.

Don't get me wrong, i still think phenom 2 and even FX cpus were pretty good when they released, price to performance.. just not so for singlethreaded gaming. But with todays standards they are both quite weak. Its a bit better situation under windows, cause dx11 has some tricks for better threading and not pulling cpu that much, but even there those cpu's show its age and are not really great for todays games, unless you are heavily GPU bound :), in which case your performance will suck anyway.

Quoting: ageresMaybe they should, but it doesn't mean they would. Many Feral games perform poorly with my FX-8350, including Grid Autosport, Mad Max, Life Is Strange. Newer games perform better than older ones, but still much worse than their Windows versions.

Sorry, I didn't expect that. I've upgraded from a old Phenom II. Great CPU but I had trouble playing newer titles due to the lack of some instructions (SSSE3 or whatever). Older titles were running "okayish", IIRC.

Edit: I'm late, this topic has already been discussed as it seems xD


Last edited by crt0mega on 1 November 2017 at 4:12 pm UTC

Well, have a look here !
I know it's under Windows ... but, I hope that Feral will do his best in order to well convert the game under Linux.

Quoting: j_c_pWell, have a look here !
I know it's under Windows ... but, I hope that Feral will do his best in order to well convert the game under Linux.

yeah its probably a bit better with dx11, but still if you look at it closely, at the start where lots of cars are in the range, fps will drop down to 40 and so on, because of the cpu has to calculate all the AI stuff..

but yeah usually dx11 is around 20% faster than opengl on the same hardware. there are few exceptions here and there though ofc. Vulkan is yet to be seen, there are some games like Talos, where CPU isnt used much anyway, that runs superbly compared to opengl and then theres games like Ballistic Overkill that run a bit worse in Vulkan than OpenGL.

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: scaineI 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.

Simply because life is too short to dick about rescuing a black-screened system due to a borked upgrade. Or the fact AutoFS configs have totally changed (14.04 to 16.04). Or re-installing Nemo, because PPAs are disabled during upgrades. Or discovering that Gnome-shell doesn't have a Compiz-style zoom function. Or that my PPAs (such as OBS) doesn't have an Aardvark build yet.

And so on. Non-LTS releases give me none of the benefits of upgrading an O/S and all of the risk. PPAs keep everything that matters up to date anyway, and in the short-term, ironically, even more up to date than the new release, until PPA builds catch, which is normally within a couple of weeks of course.

But on the whole, it's just not worth the hassle. Especially the way Ubuntu releases HW-stacks occasionally, to keep even the Kernel up to date with non-LTS releases.

Honestly, these days, I just don't see the point in non-LTS releases except as a preview of what's coming to the next LTS. I run 17.10 on this laptop, but for gaming? No way.

Hmh, so it will run on my RX460 too?