papaschtroumpf Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 (edited) http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/ Tiny installer (7M). You of course need a retail copy of the game. For those that don;t have a copy, you can always try the demo. Edited October 4, 2004 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 (edited) Great news! will try it soon. BTW, the -minimum- hardware requirements for linux systems are lower than for window$ machines (which is great cause i dont meet the window$ reqs.): GNU/Linux system: * Pentium III, 1Ghz * 256Mb RAM Window$ (as stated in this page): * Pentium®IV 1.5 GHz or Athlon® XP 1500+ processoror higher * 384MB RAM Edited October 4, 2004 by feralertx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 Awesome!!! Servers are a bit full atm. I have it downloaded so if anyone wants a link, please pm me. md5sum (verified correct from the link above) is included in what I have (it's not on the servers, so I created one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 It's true! It runs much better on my machine, which is at the bottom of the requirements! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Cool I would like to try it, I just have to try Americas Army first then I would like to try out the doom demo....I'm probably going to like it and then buy it, depends on my hardware, not the best. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted October 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 if the FTP server is too busy, use bittorent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 cool! Allthough I'll never play it :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 cool! Allthough I'll never play it :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why not? Because you are scared of the intense, dark, vivid 3D monsters? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 (edited) cool! Allthough I'll never play it :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why not? Because you are scared of the intense, dark, vivid 3D monsters? :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, because I like 2D adventure games/RPG's and other weird games (e.g. strategy). Furthermore, I find 3D FPS boring and last, but not least: I suck at them! ;) Oh, and I'm someone who falls asleep bored when watching thriller/horror movies, so I doubt the dark, scary, pixelly monsters would frighten me... Edited October 5, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Do you need to have NVidia drivers? Reason I ask is cause I'm running Fedora on the kernal that "disagree's" with the NVidia drivers, so I'm running in Software mode. I don't even know if the issue has been fixed, as I haven't been able to connect my machine to internet to try and update it (joys of yum! :D) and can only just get away with reading this site during work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 W00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...I......mu..st........have... gasp!... '*'... Slurps the monitor Normally I don't play such games other than blood and blood 2 (anyone?), bit doom3 gonna be an exception! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 (edited) Furthermore, I find 3D FPS boring and last, but not least: I suck at them! ;) Oh, and I'm someone who falls asleep bored when watching thriller/horror movies, so I doubt the dark, scary, pixelly monsters would frighten me... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just completed the demo.... Well the game is really scary, but perhaps the sound has made it more so... I don't think it's bored, but it is not very fun either.... Maybe I will wait for RTCW 2 then. Edited October 5, 2004 by zero0w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 @darkelve: heck, open your mind, my three favourite games ever are Doom (FPS shooter), TIE Fighter (story-heavy space sim), and Grim Fandango (LucasArts point-n-click adventure). They're all great, in different ways. Games have the potential to be far more scary than movies, as well, as you have control and the outcome isn't predetermined. I found Doom a lot more scary to play through for the first time than any movie I've ever seen, it's a much more immediate experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 From the doom3linux.com forums, I see that I'm not the only one who's had this issue, so I'll share a fix: I started Doom3 and my screen resized itself to 640x480 and froze. Had to ctrl-alt-backspace to get out of X. After checking and modifying my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to make sure that 640x480 was a supported resolution, I still had the problem (although this time I could move the mouse around the screen). I even downgraded xorg from 6.8.1 to 6.7.0 and nothing worked. Turns out I had to just reinstall the nvidia drivers. Now the game works perfectly, and at a better quality than I could ever use on Windows (different computer/hardware, but still...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83mercedes Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Ya know, I'm a little disappointed. The game plays no better as far as quality or fps with these binaries than it did running with cedega. I can run it at high quality, 1028x764 and it still lurches a bit when lots of stuff is going on. Same as with cedega. I expected an improvement. This is the one game I know of that runs better in my XP partition than on linux. What's going on? P4 3.0 gHz 1.5 gig ram BFG nVidia 6800 GT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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