Doom3 Linux client relased!

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For all you Linux geeks, Id has finally made Doom3 native client aviable for you. No more running WineX for all your Doom3 needs.


For others you can compare your Linux vs Windows performance, I guess. If your using a ATI card, it'll probably suck, but Nvidia users will probably be pleasently suprised.

here is the bittorrents put out by id


FYI on that page you have bittorrents for:
Doom3 Windows demo
Doom3 Linux client
Doom3 Linux Demo
Doom3 update patch for Windows
Enemy territory for linux
Wolf ET for Windows
Wolf update patch.

 

[drag]

Holy crap!

It only took 5 seconds to download the Doom3 linux client torrent!!! This is swapped with seeders!

I was getting 400+ KB/s.... That's BYTES..

As in I GOT 3+ Mb/s download, that's the fastest I ever downloaded anything, ever!! 3 T1's worth of download bandwidth.
Bittorrent rocks!

edit:

I decided to download the ET client for Linux, right now my connection is topping out at 498KB/s....

 

[xcript]

Sweet, at last! Thanks drag..

 

[The Green Bean]

Isnt downloading a Doom3 Client for Linux Illegal?

 

[imported_jediknight]

Originally posted by: drag
Holy crap!

It only took 5 seconds to download the Doom3 linux client torrent!!! This is swapped with seeders!

I was getting 400+ KB/s.... That's BYTES..

As in I GOT 3+ Mb/s download, that's the fastest I ever downloaded anything, ever!! 3 T1's worth of download bandwidth.
Bittorrent rocks!

edit:

I decided to download the ET client for Linux, right now my connection is topping out at 498KB/s....

Wow.. you have one phat pipe.. sweet.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: hatim
Isnt downloading a Doom3 Client for Linux Illegal?

No, it's just the linux binary.

It will ask for the CDs for all the data files.

 

[mattg1981]

Originally posted by: hatim
Isnt downloading a Doom3 Client for Linux Illegal?

why would it be?

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: hatim
Isnt downloading a Doom3 Client for Linux Illegal?

No, it's just the linux binary.

It will ask for the CDs for all the data files.

Well if it's illegal, thet it's very queer when you look at who is providing the bittorrent!!

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com:6969/




Also if you want you can have a nice fancy GUI installer from Loki installers for linux games, download it at here

I originally got the info from Linux-gamers.net

 

[klah]

Maybe Kristopher can update this article

http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2229

and compare performance to the Win version.

 

[EmperorRob]

Well I was hoping to post here w/some fps numbers but I segfault out of the demo

1.4 ghz t-bird
768 2100 ddr
ati 9500 pro (I know it sux)

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: EmperorRob
ati 9500 pro (I know it sux)

:Q

/covers his case

It's okay, he didn't really mean it.

- M4H

 

[mrbass]

the linux binaries is only 7MB
the linux demo is 462MB

trying to run the linux demo on simplymepis 2004.03 and get the following error:

mrbass@1[~]$ doom3-demo
DOOM 1.1.1282 linux-x86 Oct 4 2004 08:27:55
Hostname: mepis1
Alias: localhost
IP: 127.0.0.1
------ Initializing File System ------
Loaded pk4 /usr/local/games/doom3-demo/demo/demo00.pk4 with checksum 0x93fac1e4
Current search path:
/home/mrbass/.doom3-demo/demo
/usr/local/games/doom3-demo/demo
/usr/local/games/doom3-demo/demo/demo00.pk4 (12234 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------

Running in restricted demo mode.

----- Initializing Decls -----
------------------------------
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
--------------------------------------
5151 strings read from strings/english.lang
Couldn't open journal files
couldn't exec editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec DoomConfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
5151 strings read from strings/english.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
dlopen(libGL.so.1)
Open X display
Initializing OpenGL display
Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.2
DGA DirectVideo Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized
Free86-VidModeExtension Activated at 640x480
Couldn't get a visual
dlopen(libGL.so.1)
Initializing OpenGL display
Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.2
DGA DirectVideo Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized
Free86-VidModeExtension Activated at 640x480
Couldn't get a visual
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Fatal X Error:
Major opcode of failed request: 105
Minor opcode of failed request: 0
Serial number of failed request: 38
BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Fatal X Error:
Major opcode of failed request: 2
Minor opcode of failed request: 0
Serial number of failed request: 42
BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Fatal X Error:
Major opcode of failed request: 4
Minor opcode of failed request: 0
Serial number of failed request: 43
BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Sys_Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL

tuxracer 3D works fine on my geforce3 ti500.

 

[mrbass]

ok got linux demo to run ...I was in 16 colordepth
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/
read about glxinfo shows what color depth your currently running in

vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

DefaultColorDepth 16
change to
DefaultColorDepth 24
restart Xserver
doom3-demo
works...yea

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: mrbass
ok got linux demo to run ...I was in 16 colordepth
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/
read about glxinfo shows what color depth your currently running in

vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

DefaultColorDepth 16
change to
DefaultColorDepth 24
restart Xserver
doom3-demo
works...yea

Ya, that's a little gotcha that gets a lot of people.

 

[imported_jediknight]

Originally posted by: mrbass
ok got linux demo to run ...I was in 16 colordepth
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/
read about glxinfo shows what color depth your currently running in

vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

DefaultColorDepth 16
change to
DefaultColorDepth 24
restart Xserver
doom3-demo
works...yea

Geez.. and it's for reasons like that that I don't run Linux :->

 

[imported_jediknight]

Originally posted by: klah
Maybe Kristopher can update this article

http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2229

and compare performance to the Win version.

The only problem is the Linux drivers for ATI cards don't work with Doom3.. at least according to the FAQ..

 

[imported_pak9rabid]

from what i've seen in running doom3 in linux so far is that, like quake3, the max frame rate isn't quite as high as in windows, but it also does not fluxuate as much as how it does in windows. of course, my comparison was done using a geforce3 . anyone report similar findings with a 6800?.