I Have Doom ]|[

[username17]

Wooohoo

Just took a break from work and bought two copies.
I'm @ work, so I cannot play for another 4 hours.

I just inserted the first CD (there are three), no .sh files, if anyone wants me to look elsewhere, I can look on the other CDs.

I cannot wait to load this tonight, gonna boot to my WinXP HD I guess.
I'm shaking, I've been waiting on this game too long!
-Jason

Anyone else looking forward to this game as much as I am?

[MorphiusFaydal]

linux binaries wont be available for a little bit

with any luck, they should be avail. in a few days/weeks

but not months :)

[username17]

Yah, I'm willing to boot to windows for this game.
Once DOOM ]|[ binaries are release, I'll only have one reason to boot to windows, a MMO that I play.
Almost fully migrated, now I'm looking forward to HL2.

-Jason

[angelfly91]

lol same here here 3D Studio Max, IDA Pro, and Doom 3 are my only reasons. I love every second of it. I try only to play at night with all lights off and speakers blasting. It'll scare the hell out of you lol

[username17]

I'm pretty much limited to my headphones.
I have good 5.1 Speakers, but my computer is so loud, I would have to seriously crank up the sound, to hear the game over my pc.

I am installing it not, I cannot wait!
-Jason

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by username17
Almost fully migrated, now I'm looking forward to HL2. I HIGHLY doubt that HL2 will have a Linux client.

Sierra / Valve / whoever seem to be MUCH more interested in the unholy animal of Direct3D (as a part of DX) than they are interested in the actual open standard of OpenGL (which incidentally works MUCH faster, since it don't have all the overhead of COM vtables). The problem with that is, OpenGL has been castrated at an old version in various Windows versions for a while now, mostly because Microsoft wants game developers to start using its own proprietary API.

Doom 3 uses OpenGL, so it is possible to get good performance (well... no, I should say "a lot of eye candy" ;)) out of it on Windows, but it's easier to get good performance out of DX. The problem is, DX isn't portable off Windows (and as pointed out above, D3D is inherently slower than OpenGL, due to vtables).

ATI's drivers have always performed poorly at OpenGL also -- they don't seem to care all that much about the actual standard either.

[username17]

I don't see HL2 being ported, they didn't even port HL.
Of course, some emulator will probably figure out how to run it (like HL) and that'll be the end.
I'll boot to windows to play HL2 if I need to.
I am about 98% migrated over to Linux, just a few things keeping my windows partition alive.
-Jason