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Playing Doom 3 on Linux in 2017
2 Nov 2017 at 2:33 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: wvstolzingA Vulkan renderer [External Link] for RBDOOM-3-BFG appears to be in the works.
Yeah. I'm very interested in that one.

Wine 2.20 released with more Direct3D work and more fixes
2 Nov 2017 at 1:03 am UTC

Quoting: KimyrielleHas anyone tried to run ESO or Fallout 4 with the newer WINE releases?
I was planning to play Fallout: New Vegas sometime in the future (got in on GOG sale). I've heard it's the best of the newer Fallout games.

Remastered adventure game 'Noctropolis' is now available for Linux
1 Nov 2017 at 12:31 am UTC

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?

Wine 3.0 expected this year with Direct3D 11, roadmap for future releases includes OpenGL Core contexts
31 Oct 2017 at 5:34 pm UTC

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.

Playing Doom 3 on Linux in 2017
31 Oct 2017 at 3:36 pm UTC

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.

Playing Doom 3 on Linux in 2017
31 Oct 2017 at 3:00 pm UTC

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.

Wine 3.0 expected this year with Direct3D 11, roadmap for future releases includes OpenGL Core contexts
31 Oct 2017 at 2:58 pm UTC

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.

Playing Doom 3 on Linux in 2017
31 Oct 2017 at 2:53 pm UTC

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.

Playing Doom 3 on Linux in 2017
31 Oct 2017 at 7:20 am UTC Likes: 2

Source ports don't require any keys.