Doom3 Binaries for Linux are out!

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purrkur
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Doom3 Binaries for Linux are out!

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Great news! ID has released the new Doom3 binaries for Linux! They have their new Linux based site here. I also noticed this article over at The Inquirer where they wrote this:
Interestingly, the system requirements for the Linux version are lower than the Windows version. Whereas Windows requires a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 and 384MB of RAM, the Linux version, according to id, will quite happily trundle along on a 1GHz Pentium 3 and 256MB of RAM.
This is also my experience when running other games like Enemy Territory for instance. I know the game itself isn't as fat on Linux as it is on Windows. I don't remember any numbers for the game itself but I can give you numbers on the dedicated Enemy Territory server. When running A dedicated ET server on Windows it will gobble up a bit over 200 megabytes of memory. When doing the same thing on Linux, the process will gobble up a bit under 100 megabytes.

Lets face it. Windows is bloatware and so are the apps that run on it :)

Btw, my BP6 gets ET server duty once a week and it works just fine for that purpose.
2x533MHz@544MHz, 2.0V
640MB PC100 memory
Realtek RTL-8139 NIC
Maxtor 6Y080L0 80GB hdd
Debian Linux stable with 2.4.8 kernel
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Post by InactiveX »

Thanks for that purrkur!

[InactiveX digs out a spare HDD and Linux distro just to try it out...]
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