packages VS dhewm3

Switch to using Steam Linux Runtime - Sniper for the built engines. This provides newer tooling for builds, which should make future development easier, for example being able to build qt 5.15 and have gcc 10 available. The 100+ engines have been re-built. Note that previous clients should still work on the older soldier, but any new updates will only happen to sniper (this client and above). If you run into any issues with the engines, please open a new issue in the packages repo.

What happened here is the Luxtorpeda is now allowing normal ScummVM to launch this game (this commit). I think before you needed the separate Roberta layer to do this.

Luxtorpeda OpenMW is currently broken, there’s a performance bug. https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/840

1) Then download and extract this to somewhere else.

I'm the maintainer of luxtorpeda-dev. It currently does not support cloud saves, but it's something that I'm working on (you can see progress as I make it here: https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/645)

Daggerfall Unity will likely be in Luxtorpeda soon, there'a a PR for it: https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/pull/651

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.