As always thanks for the feedback everyone. :)

Quoting: rea987Cool article! Keep in mind the game's quake4-smp script executes SM accelerated quake4smp.x86 binary which provides more framerate.

Thanks for letting me know about this, although the difference it seems to make for me is minimal. I am pretty sure my frame rate is being bottlenecked by r600g anyway though, seeing as how scaling the graphics settings down seems to not improve my frame rate either. I dug up some old Phoronix articles for those interested into reading into this further:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=455&num=1 [External Link]
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTgx [External Link]

I should also mention that I actually played the game with 2x AA enabled as it gave me the best performance, but kept it at 8x AA for the article and when taking screenshots.

Quoting: rea987By the way, best way to solve the sound issues is to let the game use OSS instead of ALSA and install osspd-pulseaudio alsa-oss:i386.

Indeed there are multiple ways to tackle the sound issue, I just went with what worked well for me.

Quoting: rea987Will you cover other Linux supported id Tech 4 titles like Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Prey?

I was actually planning on making this a double feature with Prey to start with, but I ran into so many issues with Quake 4 it just made more sense to have it go out as its own article. So yes, that is definitely something I am open to doing in the future.

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Quoting: tuubiSpeaking of long games, Linux as a gaming platform hasn't had time to fail or succeed yet ... thanks to a whole bunch of companies and organisations working towards this rather recent goal of making Linux an awesome gaming platform.

Actually Linux has already had a long and turbulent history in the gaming market, even in the AAA market. Loki Software was at least as successful as Aspyr Media and Feral Interactive at porting big AAA titles to Linux, and arguably did even more than Valve to make Linux a viable gaming platform by shepherding the development of SDL and the like. When they and the hype around them died, it did take commercial Linux gaming a long time to recover. So yes, it has in fact "failed" once already, in one sense at least.

Quoting: tuubiTo me it's already a success though. No hoping or dreaming necessary. I can buy and play awesome games on my Linux system, and if that isn't success, I don't know the meaning of the word anymore.

On this though we can fully agree. ^_^

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Quoting: Lakorta

Quoting: SalvatosI guess I'll abstain from voting since I've only played maybe 2 games that came out in 2017...

You could still vote on things like "Favourite FOSS project", "Favourite fully open source game" or "Most promising Early Access game".

Yeah, being in the same boat of not having played any games released in the past year, I am going to be voting for my "Favourite FOSS Project", "Favourite fully open source game", and "Favourite Linux game porter of 2017".

I will be saving my hard voting for the Ganymede & Titan Pearl Poll...
http://www.ganymede.tv/pearlpoll/ [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestWhat "hexen-a-like" game? You have my interest...

I think he is referring to Apocryph:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gory-fps-apocryph-now-has-a-linux-test-build-to-try-pretty-damn-good.10925

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Another game with DRM free builds absent on Humble Store...

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Quoting: KetilI don't know how the game balance is, but I much rather meet a wolf than a moose when I am out in nature in real life.

I've encountered several moose while out on the farm or when going to bee sites, and as long as you are sensible and do not get too close and show them all due respect, you should be okay. Now, if you are unlucky enough to hit one them with a car it is another matter... my aunt had to ditch and roll her vehicle to avoid a collision a few months back. Then you have a problem.

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Sorry, I could not resist.

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I suppose my own patriotism to my own country and province and even "greater metropolitan area" is in doubt until I finally get off my arse and actually play some of my Beamdog games, especially the Enhanced Editions of Baldur's Gate that have been sitting in my GOG.com library for almost two years now.

To be honest though, I have spent way more time playing the work of you Finns. ;)

But seriously, where is Rochard?

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Quoting: liamdaweIt's not often you see a developer specifically ask for platform suggestions, so why not head to the Steam post and request a Linux version if you would purchase it.

I just feel the need to stress that last part of Liam's statement. Giving developers false expectations of future Linux sales serves no one. Please only make a request if you are willing to back it up with a purchase.

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On the off chance that anyone wants to try the original binaries (or the old Doom 3 demo installer) for themselves the fan website Quaddicted maintains an impressive backup of files from the old id Software FTP server.

The relevant Doom 3 installers for Linux can be found here:
https://www.quaddicted.com/files/idgames2/idstuff/doom3/linux/ [External Link]

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