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After almost three years of development, SuperTuxKart kart racing game finally released new major 1.5 version few days ago.<\/p>\n
The new release of this game introduced Supersampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)<\/b> support. Meaning that it can render game resolution higher than current screen size (even over maximum display resolution). It greatly improved the graphics quality, which is however extremely heavy that may lower frame rate.
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You may enable this feature by going to “Graphics” setting page and set render resolution higher than 100%.<\/p>\n
As you can see in the screenshot above, the setting page also added new “Performance test of the current settings” benchmark<\/b> button. By clicking on the option, it starts a self-driving game with single loop track, and prints the performance test results, such as FPS, duration, and your current settings when it ends.<\/p>\n Besides that, the Vulkan support now goes stable. It added spotlight support<\/em> and significant updates to the Vulkan renderer. And, user can now go to “Custom settings…” under Graphics to easily switch the render driver to Vulkan.<\/p>\n SuperTuxKart 1.5 as well improved level of details (LoD) and shadow mapping logic, which significantly reduce the occurrence of the sudden or abrupt appearance of game elements. And, it improved sound scale allowing headphone users to easily pick the ideal sound level.<\/p>\n For the UI, the release added 6 new skins<\/b>. The previous skins are now grouped as Other changes in the release include three new egg hunts<\/b> in Black Forest, Gran Paradisio Island and The Old Mine, and three new official fields in soccer mode. They are Oasis<\/b> and XR-4R3N4<\/b> by CrystalDaEevee, and Hole Drop<\/b> by CrystalDaEevee & Sven Andreas Belting.<\/p>\n There are as well following changes in the release:<\/p>\n For more about the release, see the official announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new release packages as well as the source code are available to download via the link below:<\/p>\n For Linux, it’s a portable tarball. Download and decompress it, then run the “run_game.sh” script to start the game.<\/p>\n If you want to launch the game from app launcher<\/strong> (e.g., Gnome App Grid, overview search), then open Text Editor, create an empty document, then paste the following lines:<\/p>\n Here you need to replace the game PATH that’s in bold<\/b>, according to where you saved the folder to.<\/p>\n In my case, I created “MyApps” folder in user home, and put all portable apps\/games folders into there.<\/p>\n After that, save the file as “supertuxkart.desktop” into ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/skt-ssaa.webp\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nClassic<\/code> with 5 variants, while a new Desert<\/b> variant is added in this release. Cartoon<\/code> theme now has five new variants, and each of them come with a background picture showing a scene from one of STK’s tracks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
How to Install SuperTuxKart 1.5 in Ubuntu<\/h3>\n
\nDownload SuperTuxKart<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n[Desktop Entry]\r\nName=SuperTuxKart 1.5\r\nIcon=supertuxkart\r\nGenericName=A 3D open-source kart racing game\r\nExec=\/home\/ji\/MyApps\/SuperTuxKart-1.5-linux-x86_64<\/b>\/run_game.sh\r\nTerminal=false\r\nStartupNotify=false\r\nType=Application\r\nCategories=Game;ArcadeGame;\r\nKeywords=tux;game;race;\r\nPrefersNonDefaultGPU=true<\/pre>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n.local\/share\/applications<\/code> directory. NOTE: .local<\/code> is hidden by default, press Ctrl+H in file chooser dialog to view\/hide it.<\/p>\n