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I tried to check it out, but it was taking forever to load. Downloading the assets at only ~500 KBps on a 150 Mbps link. Also only got maybe 10% through the download before I gave up, and the Chrome tab was already using 500 MB of RAM.

This might be an interesting POC, but seems very impractical in reality.

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This website might just be getting the HN hug of death if it can’t even serve you the game at full speed. It doesn’t seem like it’s related to how practical it is.

Yeah, seems likely. I'll have to come back and check this out later.

I recently found my Doom 3 CDs and tried installing it on Win10, but apparently doesn't work out of the box on 64-bit (crashes at start) without manually patching for using > 2 GB of RAM from the cursory googling I did.

If this does work later, will have to show it to my 11 year old step son. Was hoping to freak him out with Doom 3 when I found my disks (he loves shooters & scary movies, so thought he might get a kick out of it).

You can also get a Doom 3 Steam key right now from several places for less than $2.

That's the BFG Edition, though, which, in my opinion, isn't nearly as good as the original. I liked the dynamic of needing to use the flashlight and some of the other tweaks made to the BFG edition ruin the feel of the game a little. That being said, it did also make some improvements but to each their own.

I believe Steam has both editions. There are certainly different store entries for "Doom 3" and "Doom 3: BFG Edition".

You are correct! I didn't realize you could get the original edition on Steam. It wasn't on there for a while.

Sidenote: The Doom 3 BFG edition also gives you the original Doom games although they've been nerfed a little from the original. (e.g., the stimpacks no longer have the little crosses on them because of a lawsuit from the Red Cross)

Even though its a mere $2, on the principle of the matter, I dont want to pay it as I still have my original CDs, plus the expansion.

Yeah, it loaded in about a minute when I found it.

Local HN submitter ruins everything :(

For those waiting and wondering, it's a ~370mb download

Which makes absolutely no sense for distributing games, unless they can be saved to a reliable location that can be managed by the user.

Why doesn't it make sense? You don't redownload it every time.

Yes you do, if your browser cache gets removed then so does the game.

You don't redownload it every time. If your browser cache gets removed then so does the game. Is your browser cache getting removed every time? This just strikes me as a really strange thing to say.

Yes it does get cleared frequently because it is not part of my standard file system.

It might help to put the assets on one of those mirroring CDNs, or to implement some lazy loading scheme (assuming they are loading all assets for all levels at once currently).

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