Dhewm3
Dhewm 3 is a source port of the original Doom 3 (not Doom 3 BFG, for that you may want to try RBDoom3BFG). It's known to work on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and AROS, but it should work on (or be easily portable to) any system that supports OpenGL 1.4 with ARB shaders, SDL and OpenAL.
Compared to the original version of Doom 3, Dhewm 3 has many bugfixes, supports EAX-like sound effects on all operating systems and hardware (via OpenAL Softs EFX support), has much better support for widescreen resolutions and has 64bit support.
It only supports old Mods if they either don't require their own game DLL or have been ported to Dhewm 3 - see the Mods page for more information.
Mod-binaries who are supported, are bundled with Dhewm 3. External data is still required.
Note that while the Doom 3 source code has been released under GPL, you still need to legally own the game and provide Dhewm 3 the game data to play. See the How to Install section for more information.
GitHub Download Dhewm3 Website Dhewm3 Bugtracker Dhewm3 Help
Usage
Dhewm3 is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
Running Dhewm3 on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Behold! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the Dhewm3 AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
chmod +x ./*.AppImageThen double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing Dhewm3
If you want to restrict what Dhewm3 can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating Dhewm3
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new Dhewm3 AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see Dhewm3 and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing Dhewm3 in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the Dhewm3 AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the Dhewm3 AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/Dhewm3 if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.
If you would like to see a donation link for the application here, please include one in the AppStream data.