dhewm3 VS wine-nine-standalone

The installation is different from what you might be used to from your typical mod. Download dhewm3_1.5.2_win32.zip from the githup page, unzip it, then copy, as instructed by the WHAT_TO_DO.txt files in the base and d3xp directories of the unzipped mod the .pk4 files from the game directory over (d3xp is only there if you installed the Resurrection of Evil add-on first). You can then uninstall the game from Steam.

I played through it with dhewm3 recently. Really enjoyed it.

There is a source port of Doom 3 if you want to play it on Linux or macOS.

if you are going to play it on PC, then get the original 2004 release, with the dhewm3 source port since it can get to widescreen easily and is friendlier on modern devices.

Why do you want to run old, buggy code through wine when you could use native dhewm3 to play the original (non-BFG) version of doom3 with Bugfixes, OpenAL audio and proper widescreen support? https://dhewm3.org/

for me go for the original Doom 3 + dhewm3 source port since the source port can get to widescreen easily and is friendlier on modern devices. BFG Edition aint that bad but its very easy and lacking other content that the original Doom 3 had (especially ROE) and it has less enemy count.

[!->] Native Direct3D 9 will be unavailable. For more information visit https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone [!->] err:d3d9nine:d3dadapter9_new Your display driver doesn't support native D3D9 adapters

It's still getting updates as of last month, so I'd say it is supported just not as frequently used as DXVK these days.

If you happen to be using a gallium driver galliumnine can be a more performant alternative to wined3d for dx9 titles. This has been beneficial for my old laptops with Sandybridge and Ivybridge graphics.

Looking into it further, I don't know if Gallium Nine would work with your Nvidia GPU, but it sounds like your CPU has integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, which sound like they'll work with Gallium Nine Standalone. https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone

now for step two, for whatever reason winetricks mirrors are all down so i had to manually download latest gallium-nine, rename it to gallium-nine-standalone-.tar.gz and paste it on ~/.cache/winetricks/galliumnine/, very unnecessary but easier to use tbh.

One thing you could try is playing the Windows version with galliumnine (basically a native d3d9 implementation for gallium drivers). There's actually a way to get galliumnine working in standalone wine prefixes now rather than having to compile patched versions of wine. After you install both 32 bit and 64 bit libd3dadapter9-mesa libraries install this to the wine prefix. Unfortunately I don't have any terascale era hardware to try this with right now, but I can confirm it works pretty well with sandybridge graphics using crocus when I want to play WoW private servers on my laptop.

Download https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone/releases/tag/v0.8