The linux version of Doom 3 has been released yesterday alongside a free demo. But if you are not a serious-playful penguin, then the latest demo might be something that you might want to try out atleast, that is if you can download the 460 MB binary.
Oh and don't bother if you pwn an ATi card.
"ATi drivers are not supported yet. New drivers are being developed ASAP at ATi"
Nuff said.
A great anti-great news along side a great news.
"No downloads for my penguin for now.", I hear many people say.
Much louder than the rest, is my voice.
I will let you in on somethings about ATi. Now if you don't own an ATi card and/or you have been living under a rock, you won't know that ATi announces a driver almost every month or so. And that those releases are covered as a main headline in many tech news feeds.
Given that fact, ATi also released a "Doom 3 Hotfix" driver well before schedule for its next installment of driver. (Infact, the hotfix was Catalyst 4.9 whereas the next expected driver version was Catalyst 4.8, and that too not until some weeks later!). This release coincided with Doom3's windows release.
My point is, ATi had obviously worked overtime to ensure windows compatiblity, but skimped with the linux version of its drivers. Actually, ATi doesn't devote a lot of developers for its linux team and even points out the fact next to a sentence pointing to other third party forums that are developing the drivers.
"Maybe it's because not a lot of its users are linux fans?", you think.
Maybe.
"Maybe linux doesn't need constant updates?", you say, proudly showing off your tux tatoo.
No, the drivers are for the 'ardware not the penguin! And considering that Doom3 won't run correctly in the current driver, think for youselves #!!@#.
It's not that I am a Linux fan and want to game in linux or die trying(swear, it's not a double-entendre!). Just couldn't leave this topic "unranted"©.
Read through this forum thread for links to demo and a lot of geek noise on carmack's latest port.
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