Quoting: Luke_NukemFrom Ryan's blog:

Here's what you need to know about Nightdive: instead of shipping this in DOSBox or something, they rewrote the assembly to be portable, 64-bit clean C++11. Nightdive is hardcore like you wouldn't _believe_.

Holy shit! That's crazy... Sure, assembly is bare metal fast, if you're able to produce better code than a compiler can. Which I guess in the mid 90's probably wasn't unheard of.

Where can you find his blog?

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Just bought it on GOG.

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The last time I tried to use Wine was to play Path of Exile on my MacBook Air, which barely worked.

That guy should ditch MacOS and switch to Linux for gaming. MacOS is a dead end.

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Yeah, I expect it to be LAN multiplayer really for such games. Which is the proper multiplayer IMHO, not lock-in type.

By the way, it would work over WAN as well, so formally speaking it's not LAN multiplayer, but multiplayer that allows you running your own server instance.

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About multiplayer in the GOG version, see https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Doom_3:_BFG_Edition#Version_differences [External Link]

Despite the GOG.com version being single-player only, it is possible to play multiplayer by adding seta net_useplatformbackend 0 in default.cfg and use the console command connect in order to join the server.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotThe wayland part is what I don't get at all. Is wayland this broken still?

Wayland doesn't let one application manipulate windows of another, so Wine can't use the same method of mapping Windows abstractions into native DE windows and widgets, like it did with X11. What they can do, is to use virtual desktop on Wayland.

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Quoting: rea987Keep in mind, GOG release of BFG Edition lacks online multiplayer, just like GOG release of Quake 4

It really doesn't. You can use console commands to join multiplayer servers. It just doesn't work from the UI for some reason. Just search for this method, it shouldn't be hard to find.

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Source ports don't require any keys.

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After fiddling with RBDOOM-3-BFG, I made it work decently well, inclusing using the high res mod. You can also apply this patch [External Link] for proper XDG base directory support.

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Quoting: ziabicePlease, can someone explain what does it mean "OpenGL Core Contenxt"? Does it mean that I could finally run Rage or Wolfenstein The New Order using Mesa drivers? I'm totally wrong?

From what I understood, Wine can use core profile or compact profile already. But to use core profile you need to force it in the registry (that's what I'm doing for the Witcher 3 for example). What they mean is that it will use core profile by default in the future. I suppose they have some bugs to fix before that.

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