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Doom 3 Now Supports Surround Sound

Posted by Zonk on from the is-the-demon-there-or-there!?! dept.

nukem996 writes "DOOM 3 v1.1.1286 for Linux has just been released. ALSA has finally been implemented so Linux gamers can finally play Doom 3 with surround sound! Along with surround sound support this release fixes a number of bugs. You can read Timo's release notes here. As usual the release is up on the idsoftware ftp server and there is a torrent."

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  1. I totally agree by Makarakalax · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The fact that you an idiot makes your opinion pretty worthless. Enjoy having no karma. Fool.

    Here's the beef: they actually made a port, and they won't make any money out of it. People like you would have found something to moan about whatever! Like shit! You people obviously completely ignore the fact that visually this game is exactly the same as the Windows game, you can play it all the way through and there are no stupid linux-specific bugs! They obviously were thinking cross-platform the whole time when they developed it.

    But no. Dicks like you have to find something stupid to moan about to componsate for your tiny pricks. OSS is easy to develop for, ID had a working bug-free OSS backend already from previous games, and in order to get the game to Linux users quicker and with less bugs they shipped the port that uses OSS. Should I add that OSS is far more widely used than ALSA despite being marked deprecated? OSS has existed for years. People running even SuSE 8.2 don't have ALSA in their kernel! SuSE 8.2 is only 18 months old.

    Fuckwit.