I have Doom 3 working almost perfectly under regular Wine.

I know that Doom 3 Linux is due soon, but I'm impatient! I'm also aware that id's promise to release the linux binaries "very soon" after the Win release might be 1 week or it might be 1 month (geez, would a rough date hurt?) So I bought the game and tried the Cedega and the Wine-CVS howto for Doom 3 (http://www.linux-militia.net/howtos/doom3/doom3.html) -- neither worked. I was about to give up when I thought to try regular wine, and, oddly, it works.

I'm running SuSE 9.1 with the default wine install (wine-20040213-41.i586.rpm), and the game runs fine. There's only a few problems -- the main screen doesn't display the Doom 3 logo on startup, the flashlight has a currupted graphic on the effect (it still works though), and many of the in-game computer screens display static (I assume most of them are meant to show graphics of some sort. All the important screens work ok though -- it's just the one's put in for scenery that seem to be naff.)

Nothing prevents this game from being playable. It works fine for me. I have heard people complain of sound problems with wine though -- I haven't had that problem.

That being said, it's difficult to say how much of a performance hit I'm taking. With an AMD XP 2000+, 512mb RAM, and a FX5700 I'm playing at 800x600 with High Quality. It looks great, but takes a big hit with two imps on screen -- especially in bigger areas. I'd say I'm average 35fps walking around, 20fps in gunfights, and about 10fps under heavy fire (ie, more than 1 or 2 enemies on screen.) This is about right, from what I've read. That being said, I can run the game in low quality and get almost zero improvement. I can bump up the res to 1024x768 and get only minimal performance hit on low quality. Nothing really seems to affect the overall framerate, which is odd.

Cheers,
Tim

Cool.

I hope the native game will run better for you.

I have been playing it on my friends Windows box now and then, and most of the computer screens in the game are scrambled or broken. . . but I do expect that to happen. . . I mean, hell did break lose.

Anyway, have fun with the game.

I've a dual booting system and I installed it on my windows drive first. I can run it fine, as you can, but I can't install it directly using wine. I get an error "fixmele:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {b3ede298-ae75-4a1c-ab7e-1b9229b77bbe}, hres is 0x80004005" don't make much of a difference though. How did you manage to install it? by the way, the performance I get is almost exactly the same between the windows and fedora installations, and I'm also running an FX 5700. MARGINALLY BETTER IN LINUX THOUGH!

Kev

I need some help! Newbie to Linux!

I got Cedega and installed it! Cool. Everything works!
I installed Doom, everything stillcool, instillation went fine, even put the icon on the desktop.
But when I try run it, you see it show a Doom3 task at the bottom with an hourglass (as if it were going to work) and then just exits!
What's up with that?
Am I supposed to do something else?
I'm using SuSE 9.1 by the way, and yes I got and installed all the newest drivers!
Although, I got an FX5500, and the drivers say that it is supported but when I select what graphics card I have, the closest thing was a 5200! That won't have anything to do with it though! Will it?
Just as long as Doom damn well works!
Please help!

WineHQ CVS has some fixes for Doom 3, you may want to try the very latest code. Also you may need an additional library if you're not using the nVidia binary drivers.

Well I got WineCVS.sh (from the link in the first post on the page) but I'n not quite sure how to install it! How?
Also, I tried right clicking on the exe and just opening it with wine, that kinda worked, but then it said "Unknown Command 'vid_resart'".
So what now?
And I got the latest drivers off the nVidia web site.

Ah that's WineX/Cedega CVS which is different to WineHQ CVS. I'm afraid I cannot help with that.