Comments on: Ubuntu Linux: Install Doom3 Game

By: karlie

karlie — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:23:58 +0000

Hey,
I installed the game and had it working just a few hours ago made a new game and had to leave for a couple of hours. When I came back and ran the game the audio was delayed by like 5-6 seconds which makes playing the game really strange (why does the monster sound like a gun…)

By: karlie

karlie — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:21:11 +0000

you need to type sudo cp then drag the file into the terminal and then the file you want it sent to

By: antikythera

antikythera — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:40:43 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I stumbled across it after reading about Doom 3′s engine going opensource and wondered if there was a Linux port.

It works well, however the game wouldn’t load until I carried out the chmod file permission command as posted by Vivek Gite in reply #19 above.

Then it loaded perfectly and coupled with a custom resolution, GPU memory setting tweak and widescreen fix I found elsewhere I am now playing the game again on my notebook running Linux Mint.

By: xaccrocheur

xaccrocheur — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:32:25 +0000

OH *and* the sound is choppy as hell, wich is really a shame since the sound effects and the music sound reaaly good too ; I’m on a 1.8Ghz core2 w/2Gb RAM – it maybe a bit short – kernel 2.6.33 on a KDE4/pulse sound system machine… I tried using oss but to no avail.

Please put me out of my misery.

By: xaccrocheur

xaccrocheur — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:25:58 +0000

Hi everyone, I actually own a copy of Doom but had to resort to some kind of crack to use it under linux whereas under winXP my CDKey is recognized, oh well.

The main problem is that I can’t save my preferences. Key bindings, resolution settings, I have to se it up at each start, this is a pita.

*AND* it’s damn *haaard* WTF ! I mean what are those creepy things running at you and shotting things ? I thought it was a fishing game no seriously how do you set the difficulty when you have bypassed the CDKey request (doom console : map game/site3) ? It feels like its set on maximum hell..?

But most of all, what file permission do I have to set in order to make my preferences permanent ? (gamestates, quicksaves work perfectly though) My gosh this game looks reaaly good, please help me I’ve been at this for days now ?!

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:47:15 +0000

I get the same message as Dave:
when ever i type doom3 i get the response:
Unknown command ‘vid_restart’
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Sys_Error: Couldn’t load default.cfg
what could i possible be donig wrong
Any solutions ?

By: dave

dave — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:38:58 +0000

when ever i type doom3 i get the response:
Unknown command ‘vid_restart’
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Sys_Error: Couldn’t load default.cfg
what could i possible be donig wrong

By: dave

dave — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:58:55 +0000

the pk4 files 000-001 keep saying that there is no “End-of-central-directory signature”
found and further more any attempt to over look it and launch results in general failure.

By: gabriel

gabriel — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:44:48 +0000

My problem its that i cannot paste de p4k files into de base folder on usr/local/games/doom/base folder…need help. ubuntu noob

By: jack

jack — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:58:47 +0000

After finished install ,i typed doom3, it seemed all right. But just few seconds later,the screen turned black and no response from keybroad any more,could you tell me why?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:37:00 +0000

I gave up on the x64 version of ubuntu because of problems I was having getting my nvidia to work and moved to the x32 version. Now I can get doom3-demo to run but the sound and video don’t sync.

By: NeptuneNavigator2001

NeptuneNavigator2001 — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:30:32 +0000

Oh, I got that problem figured out some time ago. I just had to install the ia32-libs package. Heads up to any of you who come across this problem. But now I’ve got another one – the game crashes when I try to start a new game. I already posted on the Ubuntu forums about it, and got nowhere, so I’ve decided to have a second partition on my machine for Windows games and stuff. Nothing I can do to get around that at the moment.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:45:38 +0000

Oh, the website I was referring to was: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=419975 which then refers to: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=416871.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:57:30 +0000

NeptuneNavigator2001 – I found a web page dealing just with the problem we were having, tried the solution suggested, and got Doom3-Demo to install. (problem had to do with lack of x32 libraries – ia32-libs) Then when I tried to run Doom, I ran into problems with my NVidia card. At that point, I went back to Ubunto x32, successfully installed Doom, but still had problems with NVidia. In replying to this blog, I’ve found that I lost the above mentioned web page. But a similar web page you might want to refer to is: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=521454.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:34:36 +0000

In testing Ubuntu 10.10 (x64) (booting from CD), I was able to install Doom3-Demo which I downloaded from FilePlanet yesterday and get it to run after some difficulties figuring how to install it. I then tested Kubuntu 10.10 (x64), couldn’t get Doom to install, and moved back to Ubuntu today. Now I’m getting the same error message as NeptuneNavigator2001. I sort of think that the problem might be the .run package I copied from FilePlanet — maybe it’s not complete. Yesterday when I got Doom to finally install, I had just re-downloaded the package from FilePlanet (I think). Any ideas?

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:49:38 +0000

Great tutorial!
I didn’t think there was a hope for playing some great FPS games on Linux.

Thanks again,
Jake

By: NeptuneNavigator2001

NeptuneNavigator2001 — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:37:35 +0000

Hello. When I attempt to install Doom 3 using the sudo sh command, it gives me the following error message:

Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing DOOM 3…………………………………………………………………………………
./setup.sh: 279: /home/aaron/.setup3539: not found
./setup.sh: 290: /home/aaron/.setup3539: not found

What does it mean? Can someone help? I’m running Ubuntu 10.10, the amd64 build.

By: Dusten B.

Dusten B. — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:48:38 +0000

@Kel

doom3 is one word, not two.

By: swahealy

swahealy — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:34:14 +0000

/path/to/pak*.pk4
refers to the actual pathway…..in mine…
sudo cp -v /media/DOOM3_1/Setup/Data/base/pak*.pk4 /usr/local/games/doom3/base

DOOM3_1 means Doom3__ disk 1

By: Kel

Kel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:07:50 +0000

I’ve followed all of the instructions. When I type “doom 3″ in terminal the game doesn’t run. I get incorrect command.

I’m running Ubuntu 9.10. Ideas?