Doom 3
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Mezron Mar 13, 2020
Hi all. Picked up Doom 3 via of Steam but I would like to play it natively. I ran this

doom3-linux-1.3.1.1304.x86.run

but I get this error

file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
Unknown command 'vid_restart'
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg

Can anyone link me or assist me?
sr_ls_boy Mar 13, 2020
Try dhewm3, a source port.

You're using ubuntu. So, you can just install it with apt.

ubuntu package

Last edited by sr_ls_boy on 13 March 2020 at 4:36 pm UTC
wvstolzing Mar 13, 2020
Where do you get the ' doom3-linux-1.3.1.1304.x86.run' binary, though? It doesn't come with the standard installation. Or is there a native linux version on steam now?

In any case I also recommend dhewm3; if not the game runs perfectly under proton in any case.
mrdeathjr Mar 13, 2020
In my case dhewm3 works ok and sound is awesome



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtRwl9zrnkU

^_^
damarrin Mar 13, 2020
Quoting: wvstolzingWhere do you get the ' doom3-linux-1.3.1.1304.x86.run' binary, though? It doesn't come with the standard installation. Or is there a native linux version on steam now?

In any case I also recommend dhewm3; if not the game runs perfectly under proton in any case.

The dhewm3 page has a link to the download.
Mezron Mar 13, 2020
Quoting: wvstolzingWhere do you get the ' doom3-linux-1.3.1.1304.x86.run' binary, though? It doesn't come with the standard installation. Or is there a native linux version on steam now?

In any case I also recommend dhewm3; if not the game runs perfectly under proton in any case.

I got it from here - https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-iii/downloads/doom-3-131-linux-x86
wvstolzing Mar 13, 2020
That executable seems to be a patch (to something, I'm not sure what); but for the Steam version you don't need any patches at all.

As already mentioned, the best option is to install dhewm3 using your package manager; ubuntu seems to have it on the standard repos (fedora has it in rpmfusion-free).

When you launch 'dhewm3' from the command line, it looks for the game assets here: ~/.local/share/dhewm3/
All you need to do is to define symlinks from the folders inside $YOUR_STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/common/Doom 3 to that folder -- namely, the 'base', 'd3xp', 'Docs', and 'pb' folders.

Here's the official FAQ on linking to the assets: https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3/wiki/FAQ#where-do-i-need-to-put-the-game-data-files

Last edited by wvstolzing on 13 March 2020 at 7:38 pm UTC
damarrin Mar 13, 2020
I have Doom 3 on CDs (I also have the expansion, but haven't been able to find it just yet) so I got the tar.gz from the dhewm3 website, unpacked that, then copied the required files from the CDs and unpacked the files from the patch into ~/dhewm3/base and the game just ran. Excellent job to everyone involved. I think I'll play some more tonight. :-)
Mezron Mar 14, 2020
Quoting: Hamish*cough*

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/playing-doom-3-on-linux-in-2017.10561

That's what got me interested. So I picked up the game and now I got this error when running dhewm3

WARNING: couldn't load mod-specific base.so, defaulting to base game's library!
shutting down: couldn't load game dynamic library
Shutting down sound hardware
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
Sys_Error: couldn't load game dynamic library
shutdown terminal support
Hamish Mar 14, 2020
This looks relevant:
https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3/issues/140

"make sure to install both the dhewm3 and the dhewm3-doom3 package - the latter contains the base.so"

Last edited by Hamish on 14 March 2020 at 3:30 am UTC
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