{"id":48993,"date":"2025-05-29T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48993"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:25:03","slug":"supertuxkart-1-5-performance-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/supertuxkart-1-5-performance-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Kart Racing Game SuperTuxKart 1.5 RC Released with SSAA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SuperTuxKart, the free open-source arcade racing game, announced the release candidate for the next 1.5 release few days ago.<\/p>\n

It’s been more than half a year since the last Beta release. And, the new RC release includes primarily bug-fixes and minor new features.<\/p>\n

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The RC release added new egg hunts<\/b> on three tracks. They are Black Forest, Gran Paradisio Island and The Old Mine. And, it introduced Supersampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)<\/b> support, allowing to render game resolution higher than your maximum display, though it’s extremely heavy that may lower frame rate.<\/p>\n

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It also added spotlight support<\/i> and significant updates to the Vulkan renderer, though OpenGL remains the default renderer.<\/p>\n

Other changes include group karts in classes, and displays all tracks in screen without scrolling to view them, as well as animation improvements and graphical enhancements to the overworld.<\/p>\n

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Kart in Classes<\/p><\/div>\n

Compare to the last 1.4 stable, the release also features benchmark support<\/b>. As you see in the second screenshot, it added new “Performance tests<\/b>” option in “Graphics” setting page.<\/p>\n

By clicking on it will do an automatic racing, then print the test results on screen with ability to save as file. Which, is useful for comparing the performance on different hardware, or tuning graphics settings for better performance.<\/p>\n

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Besides that, it added new “Display” setting page, allowing to configure screen resolution options that were previously available in the Graphics page. And, it add options to configure camera, including field of view (FOV), distance, angle, and choose either split horizontally or vertically in split-screen multiplayer layout.<\/p>\n

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Other changes include:<\/p>\n