The Dark Mod

[taknamay]

All maps, textures, models, def files, audio assets, and all other
non-software components of The Dark Mod are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license,
as specified at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- ... /legalcode
and described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Ah, thanks. CC BY-NC-SA is pretty good, so other noncommercial games can use it

[sirherrbatka]

Pulse Audio is the culprit

i have never faced linux audio problem that was not related to the pulse audio

[sirherrbatka]

Well, I wasn't able to launch the game on my machine (it is so old…) but main menu is so pretty!

[potatoesmaster]

The loading is quite long. My pc froze the first I attempted to launch the game, but I didn't have any problem after that (for that matter, no PulseAudio here, only Alsa). It runs pretty well on my 5 years old laptop (I expected it to be laggy, it wasn't , but it's not so surprising as Doom 3 was released 9 years ago, in 2004).

[ezzetabi]

Still there are games that look worse and go much slower...

[taknamay]

I was unable to run the game. I didn't check the hardware requirements but I am sure I do not meet them

[ezzetabi]

Ask in the tdm forum, they are friendly and helpful... usually.

[Okulo]

Pulse Audio is the culprit

i have never faced linux audio problem that was not related to the pulse audio

Fuck, that shit makes me rage. PulseAudio and that nouveau shit. Especially PulseAudio. Kernel panics out the ass. I have no clue why, but my hardware and those drivers just won't play nice. Except for Ubuntu with Unity I have never had a linux distro that kept itself in one piece for more than a week.

[potatoesmaster]

Apparently, it is possible to solve the sound delay problem on a PulseAudio system with these commands:

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# To know the sound card's name (DG in this example)
aplay -l

# Start The Dark Mod specifying the sound card to use
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.
exec ./thedarkmod.x86 +set s_alsa_pcm sysdefault:CARD=DG

These instructions come from an article about TDM being drafted (so only accessible to logged users for now) on linuxfr.org, a French website about Linux and free software.