Eyes on the road racing fans, as F1 2015 is currently going free to grab a permanent copy and F1 2017 has a free weekend with sale.
On the Humble Store, for little over a day left you can grab a copy of F1 2015. While Humble Store doesn't mention Linux support with a platform icon, it does support Linux (it's a Steam key) and they do list Feral Interactive as the developer and publisher for Linux.
Meanwhile on Steam, if you fancy something more recent (and much better overall) you can try F1 2017 for free for two days and it's also on sale with 70% off if you like it!
Pretty good weekend for those interesting in racing games but haven't checked out either yet.
Also, totally unrelated but you can also grab a copy of Lethal League for free from Fanatical.
Tried to run it from terminal, but nope:
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/F1 2017] $ ./F12017.sh
WARNING: F1 2017 not launched within the steam runtime
This is likely incorrect and is not officially supported
Launching steam in 3 seconds with steam://rungameid/515220
Running Steam on Linux 4.13.12-gentoo 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/F1 2017] 34s $
Any ideas? Is it the bug in the driver?
Quoting: TetsF1 2017 does not run. It spits some message about a bug in my nvidia driver (same as Hitman that runs fine) and then nothing, stops running.
Tried to run it from terminal, but nope:
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/F1 2017] $ ./F12017.sh
WARNING: F1 2017 not launched within the steam runtime
This is likely incorrect and is not officially supported
Launching steam in 3 seconds with steam://rungameid/515220
Running Steam on Linux 4.13.12-gentoo 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/F1 2017] 34s $
Any ideas? Is it the bug in the driver?
F1 2017 uses Vulkan API only so you'll need the Nvidia proprietary driver v384.90 or better.
Very temped to shell out for it. I haven't driven around with lot of games lately, but this looks very good.
Any ideas?
Quoting: mike44Tried it quickly but even with my GTX1070 and highest settings the text etc. is hardly readable.
Any ideas?
Change resolution :)
Plus, F1 2017 is so much better, this is the true F1 2013 successor.
But, what a F1 lover can do...it's like Football Manager, this year's iteration is one of the worst ever, but still I enjoy playing it.
Quoting: FredOQuoting: TetsF1 2017 does not run. It spits some message about a bug in my nvidia driver (same as Hitman that runs fine) and then nothing, stops running.
Tried to run it from terminal, but nope:
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/F1 2017] $ ./F12017.sh
WARNING: F1 2017 not launched within the steam runtime
This is likely incorrect and is not officially supported
Launching steam in 3 seconds with steam://rungameid/515220
Running Steam on Linux 4.13.12-gentoo 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/F1 2017] 34s $
Any ideas? Is it the bug in the driver?
F1 2017 uses Vulkan API only so you'll need the Nvidia proprietary driver v384.90 or better.
Thanks! That is it - I have driver version 390.42, but my system is compiled without Vulkan support. Time to recompile all the related packages :-)
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