For playing it in VR there are mainly two options: is a relatively basic VR adaption with few features. It supports OpenVR and compiles and runs unmodified on linux, but for me it had very bad performance. Is doing a much more advanced VR port, but is using pretty bad, unportable style. It supports the Oculus SDK and OpenVR, but with no option to disable the former.

For compiling and running on Linux, a lot of changes to the code are necessary, which I have documented at and my fork /. The main problem remaining is that the buttons of the Vive controllers do not work, but I'm not sure why yet. Possibly something with the SDL Keycodes. Also the entire speech recognition part is ifdef'ed out because it uses the Windows API. Other than that it should be playable on Linux. So, if anyone wants to look into it.

HOW TO Install DOOM 3 BFG EDITION- SKIDROW. Copy everything from the SKIDROW folder into the game installation. Block the game in. Doom 3 Manual Installation Problem 3 Issues. How to download and run Doom. 3-BFG is an option for playing Doom 3: BFG Edition on Mac and Linux. Doom 3 and the BFG Edition are no different in this regard, both being open sourced and the original Doom 3 even receiving an official Linux port.

Doom Disks by Pelle Wessman CC By-SA and the are no different in this regard, both being open sourced and the original Doom 3 even receiving an. Spintires Key here. However, id never ported the BFG Edition to Linux. Predictably, this hasn’t posed a problem for the open source community, and bit of googling turned up a with support for Linux. The code relies on the SDL and OpenAL libraries to handle input and audio respectively, but once those dependencies were installed, it compiled for me on Ubuntu 13.10 and 12.04 LTS with no problems.

Alongside the resulting binary, to actually play the game requires the commercial data files, which aren’t distributed freely. Since the game’s distributed using the DRM system, you need to install a copy of the Windows Steam client, install the game, then copy the files in place. It’s possible to install the game files using, but I was using a laptop which happened to be dual-booting Windows so I installed the game as normal on Windows, then switched to Linux and created a symbolic link to the data files on the Windows disk partition. There’s a few caveats to note about the open-source version of this game. Firstly, trying to run the game with AMD graphics caused the game to crash with OpenGL errors. Reading bug reports shows that this may be a problem with driver compatibility (some people have gotten it working), but using a system with NVidia graphics worked flawlessly. The game also uses a couple of non-free components which can’t be included in the GPL code: the Bink video codec and the “Carmack’s Reverse” shadow stencilling technology licensed from Creative.

This means that the odd in-game video is missing, although this doesn’t really detract from the game-play as the audio still plays. The ease with which I was able to find a solution to play this unsupported Windows game natively on Linux is a real testament to the open source community’s ability and willingness to solve and share solutions to problems.