F1 2017 is available for Linux

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Feral Interactive has made F1 2017 available for Linux. It is the first Vulkan-only game for Linux. The system requirements are therefore somewhat higher than for the version that runs on Windows.

Feral announces indicates that F1 2017 for Linux is available on the Feral Store and via Steam. The game was released on August 25 for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. To run the game, a minimum of a Core i3-3225 at 3.3GHz, 4GB of ram, and a third-generation Nvidia GTX 680 or AMD GCN card, such as a Radeon R9 285, is required.

Feral recommends using a Core i5-6600k, 8GB ram and Nvidia GTX 1070. In addition, driver versions 384.90 from Nvidia or AMD’s Mesa driver 17.2.2 or later are required. AMD Vega cards are not yet supported, support for integrated Intel video chips will not come at all. The system requirements are higher than with the Windows version, but that’s because it is a Vulkan-only release, Phoronix notes. Nvidia supports Vulkan in Linux drivers on cards from the Kepler generation; at AMD this is from the third generation of GCN.

So there will be no OpenGL version of the game. Vulkan is an alternative to Direct3D and OpenGL that offers, among other things, low-level access to the GPU.

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