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We aim to answer these questions in this article with our look Doom 3 under Linux. We analyze Doom 3 with four generations of NVIDIA hardware. Why no ATI? Because it's not supported by id at this point for the Linux port. Now let's get into the numbers behind id's latest game and show what a week's worth of benchmarking produces. There's a lot here for both Linux and Windows users. Enjoy!

mooninite Unregistered

#57536 Posted on: 10/18/2004 09:28 PM It's not that id does not support ATi rather that ATi does not support Linux. It will run on ATi cards for a whole 2 minutes before it crashes from *EXTREME* corruption. Way to go ATi!!!! Woo hoo!!!! AWEXOME DRIVERS YO!

ewwhww01 Unregistered

#57549 Posted on: 10/19/2004 02:34 AM So sad that people want to run Windows games in Linux. I run Windows programs in Windows, and run Linux programs in Linux. Both run much better that way.

MB Member Posts: 26 Joined: 2004-05-21

#57551 Posted on: 10/19/2004 03:56 AM Maybe thats because its the Linux Version of the game. :rolleyes But youre right, why play games on PC when you can play em on the Gameboy. LOL

FailedCRC Unregistered

#57556 Posted on: 10/19/2004 09:56 AM what? it's not as if he emulated it, he ran it native - i'd call that a linux app

MagamiAKO Unregistered

#57559 Posted on: 10/19/2004 12:14 PM Yeah, Doom 3 from the ground up was built as both a Windows and Linux game (after all, it uses OpenGL which is supported on both platforms). Most, if not ALL id games have supported both platforms for quite some time. It's not about 'optimization' for this or that. The game simply runs slower on linux. Probably has to do with a lot of things but I'm pegging it mostly at driver-related issues and probably not as good of a sound core as Windows has with its Directsound.

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