14 DAY TRIAL // With only a couple of days until the launch of the F1 2017 racing game on the Linux platform, Feral Interactive is today announcing the official system requirements for playing the game.
Feral Interactive announced that it would port the F1 2017 racing game, developed and published by Codemasters, to the Linux platform on November 2, 2017, though it didn't present gamers with any details on the official system requirements for playing the game.
And today it did, announcing that Linux users will be able to enjoy F1 2017 on their favorite GNU/Linux distribution using either an AMD Radeon or Nvidia graphics card. Of course, the officially endorsed distro is Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus).
Also, your computer would have to be powered by at least an Intel Core i3-3225 processor and 4GB of RAM to play F1 2017 on Linux, and you should have an AMD Radeon GPU from the Volcanic Islands series or better, or a Nvidia 680 or better GPU.
"To play F1 2017, you will need a 3.3Ghz Intel Core i3-3225 processor running Ubuntu 17.04, 4GB RAM and a 2GB Nvidia 680 or 3rd Generation AMD Graphics Core Next (Volcanic Islands) graphics card or better," noted Feral Interactive in today's announcement.
Intel GPUs are not supported
According to Feral Interactive, you won't be able to play F1 2017 on your favorite Linux-based operating system with an Intel graphics cards, which aren't officially supported. However, no one stops you to a least try and see if you can play it on Intel, who knows.
But if you're a serious gamer, you need to have a supported Nvidia graphics cards with the latest long-lived Nvidia 384.90 proprietary graphics driver or an upcoming version, or a supported AMD Radeon graphics card with the open-source Mesa 17.2.2 or later drivers.
For best performance, Feral Interactive recommends Linux users to own a computer boasting an Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5Ghz processor, with 8GB of RAM, and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card with 8GB RAM, or better.