Doom 3 binaries and demo!

breezewax · 10-28-2004, 10:09 PM

okay i got a nVidia RIVA TNT2...Pent II / 350mhz / 384 RAM (5 yrs old)...should i even waste my time trying to get this to run? if not...is it even feasibly possible? thanks...

Itami · 10-29-2004, 03:52 PM

I truly hate to say it, but it really isn't worth your tinme trying. Even if the game were to start up somehow, you wouldn't get any playable experience out of it. Sorry.

Linux.tar.gz · 11-10-2004, 08:02 AM

New ATI drivers are out!!! And Doom3 is playable!!! Champagne!

cythrawll · 11-20-2004, 09:34 AM

hokay, I am running Doom3 in slackware 10 with 2.6 kernal and fglrx 4.3 driver

I can get it to start up and looks great, but as soon as I get to a certain point in the game, it crashes my whole system

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mat_uk111 · 11-20-2004, 10:55 AM

Okay, I am new to linux and it takes me awhile to sort things out in Linux. I bought a copy of Doom 3 and I would like to get it to work on my linux machine, I have an ATI mobility radeon X600 PCI express/64MB VRAM. I have a feeling that I can get Doom 3 to work on my machine if I just knew how. I had a look at the link that was posted before and I have to say that it didn't mean much to me at all. Is there a simple and I stress simple set of insrtuction to get Doom 3 to work?

Simple in the sense of:

1) Enter command
2) Enter another command...

I am looking forward to Doom 3 but if I can't get it to work then it might as well go back to the shop.

Mat

AFI_Flame · 11-20-2004, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cythrawll
hokay, I am running Doom3 in slackware 10 with 2.6 kernal and fglrx 4.3 driver

I can get it to start up and looks great, but as soon as I get to a certain point in the game, it crashes my whole system .

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/

Doom III is hitching on 2.6.9 kernel

There is a bug in 2.6.9 kernel causing kswapd to stall the system. See http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...10.3/0086.html. Thanks to roothorick for pointing this out.

That's probobly your problem. The CK patch fixes this and it's fixed in 2.6.10-rc2.

mat_uk111 · 11-22-2004, 07:45 AM

I didn't understand any of that... I need a couple of layers more easily explained.

Mat

AFI_Flame · 11-22-2004, 05:42 PM

OK time to explain in newb sence (no offence). I need to know a couple things about your system to know how to say this.

1. What distro are you using?
2. What version of the kernel are you using? (to get this type "uname -r")
3. What version of the ATI drivers are you using (or do you even have them installed)? (type "fglrxinfo" it won't do anything if you don't have the installed)

spuzzzzzzz · 11-28-2004, 06:19 PM

Yay! I've been waiting for surround sound before buying the game. From the announcement:

Quote:

There are new GNU/Linux binaries for Doom3 on the ftp[1] and the BitTorrent tracker[2]. This build is compatible with the previous release, brings a number of bug fixes and new sound code. Alsa[2] and multichannel sound output are now supported.

No GUI changes were made in order to remain compatible with the first release, you will need to set some cvars on the command line to configure your sound:

set s_driver to best, alsa or oss. (best will just try alsa and fallback to OSS otherwise )
set s_numberOfSpeakers to 2 for stereo, 6 for multichannel sound ( whatever your actual number of speakers may be ).

For instance:
doom3 +set s_driver alsa +set s_numberOfSpeakers 6
will start doom3 using the Alsa sound backend in multichannel mode

This was announced on friday but I just noticed it now (and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else). The new files can be downloaded here. The torrent is here

Linux.tar.gz · 11-28-2004, 10:29 PM

I got weird sound with alsa. I got an ICE1712 sound chip.

Lenard Spencer · 11-29-2004, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by cythrawll
hokay, I am running Doom3 in slackware 10 with 2.6 kernal and fglrx 4.3 driver

I can get it to start up and looks great, but as soon as I get to a certain point in the game, it crashes my whole system .

I remember reading in another thread somewhere about this being a problem with the 2.6 kernel, not with DooM3. Supposed to be fixed with 2.6.10, though, so I'm willing to wait for the stable release....

berrance · 11-29-2004, 11:01 AM

hi im trying to get doom3 working on my laptop as it is the only thing without an ati card

it is 1.4GHz pentium 3m and i arnt sure what graphics it is althou i know it has 512mb of ram init and i am running suse 9.1 it is a gatway laptop from when my dad lived in the states

the game installed ok and i cpied the filles with no problems of the dvd but when i go into my k menu and click on applications there are 4 doom3's and nonwork it iether fails to start or goes to a black screen

does anybody have any ideas?

thanks

mat_uk111 · 11-30-2004, 06:00 AM

I am using Mandrake 10.0, the core is 2.6.3-7.mdk

Mat

mat_uk111 · 11-30-2004, 06:07 AM

I tried to download the ATI stuff from their site and when I tried to install I got this message file

/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx-4.2.0-3.14.6 conflicts with file from package libxfree86-4.3-30mdk

Anyone know whats going on??

Mat

Linux.tar.gz · 11-30-2004, 04:20 PM

Put your distro in your profile, plz.