hello, i've just got the linux binaries. bro is running winXP on his PC and ive now got D3 running on my slack10 box. but i cant get them to work together for multiplayer. when the linux machine serves, the winXP machine says 'server only accepts LAN clients', and when the winXP pc serves i just cant connect. pings it and the winXP can see it pingin git but it fails. in the linux console it shows the version number as being 1.1.1282 but the winXP shows 1.0.1282. the winXP machine already has the 1.1 patch in and in the doom3 directory the 'version.txt' shows it as being v1.1. hmmm. and cant reinstall the 1.1 patch as it can see its already installed.

has anyone else encountered this. we've tried various options withing the type of game settings, i.e. internet/lan/(with/without password)/pure/connection speed etc. both machines run on 192.168.0.x.

oh and the linux installation never asks for the CD key, but this hasnt come up as an error.

anyone?

How did you get the sound to work? I'm running Slack 10 also and have tried every trick I know to get it working and no go. I tried both a lighter window manager (xcfe) and the doom3 (and doom.x86) direct 0 0 trick. Any ideas?

Also, perhaps the config file in your .doom3 folder needs a similar entry to the one on the xp computer.

Your bro needs to update his Doom3 with a new patch that'll allow it to play with Linux clients. And for sound, if you have alsa, wait till the next patch comes out. For it only accepts OSS.

Or install the OSS compatibility library.

I have slackware 10, kernel 2.6.8.1. What i did was that when I recompiled my kernel, I took off ALSA support but enabled Sound support. After that I then downloaded the latest alsa driver and other things it needed from alsa-project.org and recompiled it for my system.

As for the LAN thing, if you go to http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom they tell you how to do it.

Im running Doom3 on an low end system. AthlonXP2000, 512mb ram, FX5200 128mb, and it runs much smoother than in Windows XP.. (i had slack installed and configured, deleted it all for Doom3 on windows XP the other day, and then i came back to Linux today when I found Doom3 for linux)..

For me, doom3 on linux runs much faster than on WinXP (optimized and tweaked, and video card OC'd of course).. On linux my average fps on the part where you first receive your PDA is around 40 fps.. on WinXP that was on 30fps.. But when I first ran Doom3 on linux, i was getting 10-14 fps.. And then I did some tweaking on the config files for Doom and found out that it was using a f'd up renderer for Doom3.. The r_renderer was on "best" and i was getting crappy fps.. Since i have an FX5200 which is supposedly an NV34 chip, i used that for the renderer and then I still crappy fps and now a crappier look..makes me go hmmm..maybe i got a bad card and or drivers eh? (it shouldnt be because my 3d app i use and quake3 runs fine).. I then changed that setting to NV20 and wowza, now things look good and smooth. =)

My settings on Doom3 are on Medium Quality so im pretty happy. though i really want to upgrade to play it super ultra high settings hehehe.. ok back to Doom3 i go! time to get scared like MESH! :P

ive just got a stock slack10 installation. standard 2.4.26 (not 2.6 anyway) and it has the default sound, which to my knowledge should be alsa with oss compatibility. when i saw the /dev/dsp mention in the doom3 console i knew what to do as slack 8.1 did it when starting kde. just go into the kde user 'manager' edit your default user, go to the groups bit and put a tick next to the audio group. with doom3 it seemed to benefit from a system reboot for the graphics anyway, maybe i did it for the sound too.

oh my fps on demo1 is about 34fps, but seems fine in-game.
my system;
athlonxp2200+, 512MBram (PC133),GF6800(128MB),gigabyte7zxe.

thanks orgee for the link, now i can play it multiplayer