Doom3 Binaries for Linux are out!

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:01 pm

Great news! ID has released the new Doom3 binaries for Linux! They have their new Linux based site here. I also noticed this article over at The Inquirer where they wrote this:

Interestingly, the system requirements for the Linux version are lower than the Windows version. Whereas Windows requires a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 and 384MB of RAM, the Linux version, according to id, will quite happily trundle along on a 1GHz Pentium 3 and 256MB of RAM.

This is also my experience when running other games like Enemy Territory for instance. I know the game itself isn't as fat on Linux as it is on Windows. I don't remember any numbers for the game itself but I can give you numbers on the dedicated Enemy Territory server. When running A dedicated ET server on Windows it will gobble up a bit over 200 megabytes of memory. When doing the same thing on Linux, the process will gobble up a bit under 100 megabytes.

Lets face it. Windows is bloatware and so are the apps that run on it

Btw, my BP6 gets ET server duty once a week and it works just fine for that purpose.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:30 pm

Thanks for that purrkur!

[InactiveX digs out a spare HDD and Linux distro just to try it out...]