Hardware Requirements
One of our goals with PySoy is support games for everyday desktop and mobile users so our hardware requirements are quite low. Any video card with a driver providing the following OpenGL extensions should be supported by PySoy:
If your computer was manufactured in the past 5 years it should be supported. The following cards are considered "base line" in supporting the above extensions:
- AMD/ATI Radeon 9000
- Intel i915
- nVidia geForce2
Software Dependencies
OpenGL and OpenAL are provided by numerous compatible driver frameworks. These should already be installed on your system. For GNU/Linux we recommend:
- Mesa (7.6+) with direct rendering, test with "glxinfo|grep direct"
- OpenAL-soft (1.8) or any OpenAL 1.1 library, provides 3d audio and hardware abstraction
To provide robust and stable cross platform support, PySoy is built on Gnome Desktop libraries. Most GNU/Linux systems should already have these libraries installed.
- glib (2.18+) provides numerous thread-safe, cross platform functions and the GObject type system
- gdk (2.18+) cross-platform windowing and input handling, commonly packaged as part of GTK
- cairo (1.8+) 2d graphics library which we use for font and SVG rendering
- pango (1.8+) text layout and rendering library
