GZDoom VS dhewm3

GZDoom

ZDoom is a family of enhanced ports of the Doom engine for running on modern operating systems.

dhewm3

dhewm 3 is a Doom 3 GPL source port, known to work on at least Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD.

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GZDoom is better than the official re-release. Linux.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GZDoom and dhewm3)

dhewm3

Data Dashboard

70 70%

Data Dashboard

30% 30

Games

74 74%

Games

26% 26

Marketing Platform

71 71%

Marketing Platform

29% 29

Project Management

52 52%

Project Management

48% 48

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Social recommendations and mentions

dhewm3 might be a bit more popular than GZDoom. We know about 11 links to it since March 2021 and only 8 links to GZDoom. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

GZDoom mentions (8)

Is there anything that proprietary software can do and has no open alternative?
GZDoom for Doom and many other games running on the same engine. Source: over 1 year ago
John Romero has released a new Doom 2 level for a €5 donation. 100% of the proceeds go Ukraine relief efforts.
For modern source port check GZDoom https://zdoom.org/index or Chocolate Doom (for higher framerates and stuff) - https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Chocolate_Doom. Source: over 2 years ago
How to I get the ID Build engine?
Also, if you want to make a shooter like those, you don't really want the original Build engine. What you want is a modern open source implementation of those engines. For Duke-like games you can try https://www.eduke32.com/ (Ion Fury was made on this) , for Doom try https://zdoom.org/index or https://dengine.net/. Source: over 2 years ago
O3DE: Open 3D Foundation announces first major release of Open 3D Engine
I don't know, but if you want a retro game you might as well use a retro-engine. Ion Fury (2019) used the EDuke32 engine and there are also modern versions of the original Doom engine, like GZDoom - with modern games like Brutal Doom or SIGIL (2019). Source: over 2 years ago
Why is this so complicated?
Because zDoom and GTA anniversary releases are a thing. Source: almost 3 years ago

dhewm3 mentions (11)

I had no idea Doom 3 is so gosh darned good
I played through it with dhewm3 recently. Really enjoyed it. Source: about 1 year ago
You can play Doom 3 in a web browser
There is a source port of Doom 3 if you want to play it on Linux or macOS. Source: over 1 year ago
What's the best way to play DOOM 3 nowadays?
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. Source: over 1 year ago
Has anyone installed Doom 3 (original, not BFG Edition or new bundled) from Steam on a Windows 10 system, and then copied it to their .steam folder on Ubuntu 22.04LTS and be able to play it with Wine without Steam?
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/. Source: over 1 year ago
Which version of Doom 3 is best to play?
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. Source: almost 2 years ago