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v 2.3x Assigning control keys

TheOneTrueRobb — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:30:04 +0000

So, I'd really like to have a working Jump key, but alas, I scroll down to Jump, hit the J key, and I don't get a working Jump key. Any clues?

Doomsday Suddenly Won't Load

EarlyMemphis — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:03:45 +0000

I have no idea what has happened. Doomsday was doing fine. I was almost finished playing Final Doom-TNT Evilution when it wouldn't load. The screen message mentioned not being able to load something in the Plutonia Saves - but I wasn't playing Plutonia yet. Why would it be looking for a Plutonia save?
I have tried turning the computer off and on - no change - and I have checked the Doomsday.Out Log File (found nothing I could point to). Here's the Failed Message (I have a screen grab, but Isee no way to upload it):

"App init failed:
[CreateDirError] (in NativePath::createPath) Could not create: C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Deng Team\Doomsday Engine\runtime\savegames\doom2-plut\Final Doom[Plutonia Saves].lnk\1-Hold"

Any ideas?

MacOS 15.4 breaks v.2.3.1, 2.3.2

TheOneTrueRobb — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:38:24 +0000

I was tooling along blissfully blasting ghouls, and then I upgraded MacOS to 15.4. Now, v. 2.3.1 crashes the machine. I am sad. Anyone know what the deal is here?

v. 2.3.2 crashes as well

Doomsday crashes on game launch since upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04LTS

JaimeC — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:08:20 +0000

Doomsday worked fine under Ubuntu 22.04LTS, but since upgrading to 24.04LTS it crashes every time I attempt to launch a game (Doom, Doom2, Hexen or Heretic). It doesn't matter whether I'm using Xorg or Wayland. What information can I provide to help you diagnose what is happening?

Doomsday Engine with Nvidia G-sync (on Windows)

cowbutt — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:20:54 +0000

I'm running Doomsday Engine 2.3.1.3685 with default settings on Windows 11 23H2 with the current 572.47 Nvidia drivers and App 11.0.2.337, and an RTX 4070. I have a Dell G3223Q 144Hz monitor that works with G-sync with every other application and game I have tried.

I have configured default 3D settings according to https://blurbusters.com/gsync/gsync101-input-lag-tests-and-settings/14/ - global settings of: Gsync enabled, vsync on, maximum frame rate of 141 FPS. With these settings, Doomsday Engine periodically causes the screen to blank: this is often a symptom of the application going outside the Gsync range of the monitor. The global maximum frame rate of 141 FPS configured in the Nvidia Control Panel or App prevents this from happening with other applications, but does not seem to be the case with Doomsday Engine. If I set an application-specific maximum frame rate for Doomsday.exe, this seems to take effect, but even limiting it to 108 FPS seems to still cause this periodic black screen to happen, albeit less often. At 72 FPS, I haven't yet observed it happening at all.

Using the Nvidia App to set the Monitor Technology for Doomsday.exe to Fixed Refresh: 144Hz, or using the Nvidia Control Panel to set the Preferred refresh rate to "Application-controlled" instead of the default of "Use global setting (Highest Available)" also seems to prevent these periodic black screens.

If I enable the Gsync Indicator in Nvidia Control Panel->Display->Set up G-Sync->[Display drop-down menu->G-SYNC Compatible Indicator], then it shows Doomsday Engine isn't using G-Sync.

Is this known and expected behaviour, perhaps because Doomsday Engine uses OpenGL rather than Direct3D?

PowerA Controllers

Harley56 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:20:28 +0000

Is PowerA Controllers Compatible with Doom

Linux Wayland.

antoniovandre — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:34:39 +0000

Doomsday works perfectly on Xorg, but not in Wayland.

After Crash, Doomsday Engine 2.3.1 Refuses to Open

sullstyle — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:51:37 +0000

I had hard crash a couple days ago trying to link game data file, after this doomsday refuses to open. I get the splash screen then it goes away, then nothing... I've uninstalled and reinstalled and tried older versions. Nothing is working. I know i'll be asked for a log file or the like, not sure where this is located though, kinda new. Any suggestions?

Doomsday windows vs linux

cyberseb — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 06:21:55 +0000

Hi !
sorry for my English.
I've been playing Doomsday with my friend for years but I switched to Linux. Is it possible to play doom online ("IP to IP") using doomsday knowing that my computer runs Linux and my friend runs Windows?

How to configure mouse sensitivity

mikegonzalez2k — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:51:20 +0000

I was wondering where the option to change the mouse sensitivity is.
I thought there used to be an in game slider when I ran Doom or Doom 2.
I no longer see that slider and am wondering how to lower the sensitivity of my mouse.
I've checked the console settings from the main screen and don't see a mouse config option.

Adding Custom Profiles to Doomsday Server Shell's GAME MODE Drop Down List

Jody — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:11:44 +0000

I have setup some Doom Custom Profiles that I can run using Doomsday Engine GUI. I'm asking if there is any way to add these Custom Profiles to the Server Shell's GAME MODE Drop Down list under Start Local Server tab so they can be played on a LAN as COOP games? Currently, my GAME MODE Drop Down list appears to only contain Shareware and Retail games.

Thanks,

J. Barber

Help me to Fade corpses in 3d?

DonJohan — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 02:27:46 +0000

Greetings to everyone.

I wanted to know if there is any option or addon that removes corpses or provides me with a block of code to paste into the Doomsday Engine or any other option. I use 3D models in custom WADs with many monsters, and the performance decreases significantly. I know there is the option of LOD (Level of Detail) and maximum visible distance, but the models are not visually compatible, and I don't like how it looks. I prefer the 3D models of the corpses to disappear.

I'm using Doomsday_2.3.2-build3869_x64.

Thank you very much in advance to all who respond.

Silent crash on splash screen.

ZeroWan — Sun, 07 May 2023 14:10:13 +0000

I want to test all Doom source port engines for a project, and Doomsday.exe is the only one that resolutely refuses to run on any of my systems since I moved from XP to Seven. I tried it on all my systems, and on all of them, it crashes on the splash screen.

Is Doomsday.exe compiled against OpenGL?

There are off-forum instructions that say "To find the crash log, click :hamburger-logo: , but I can't get to the main menu.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

My current system:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
AMD RTX 6700 10 GB VRAM
16 GB RAM

Animated textures in Heretic

Starman — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:35:05 +0000

Hi There... I have been poking around in here everywhere (except where I would find the answer without asking) I would love some help with animating some textures If someone could spare me the time. I have seen it and had success in GZDoom using ANIMDEFS and the same textures I want to use in doomsday... but who wants to use gzd anyway? When searching the Doomsday manual, I found that doomsday uses .ded files instead.

I did get it working enough to where I can tell that doomsday is reading and loading my .ded file, but I must still be doing something improperly. My results are... instead of displaying texture 1 then changing to 2 then 3, I just get flashing between black then texture 1. It never does change to 2 or 3, just black, tic tic tic texture1 then repeats. If I change the TIC count, the flashing is just slower or faster. It does recognize the flag first_only because my second test unit in the map, of the texture using texture 2 in the map keeps it from animating properly as it is described in the manual.

I am loading the .ded file like I would add a pwad. The loading order is the JHRP package, then my .wad file, then the .ded file.

The following is the script in the .ded file.

Group {
Flags = first_only
Texture { ID = "WALL10" Tics = 9 }
Texture { ID = "WALL11" Tics = 9 }
Texture { ID = "WALL12" Tics = 9 }
}

This particular texture is mostly transparent but I have also tried it on a texture that has no transparency with the same results. I hope there is someone there that can throw me a bone... Thanks for the help and a BIG THANKS to the entire DENG team for taking on this doomsday project in the first place. The work you have done is awesome.

Launcher not rendering/black screen upon clean install

sis15 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:58:08 +0000

I am trying to run doomsday on a Windows 11 pro (10.0.22621) with a Ryzen 5 5600x and RTX 3090. Upon launching the executable (whether it be versions 2.3.1, 2.3, 2.0, x86, x64 architecture, or zip, or msi installer), the launcher loads with nothing being rendered. It is a black screen. However, buttons appear to work, and clicking on where buttons are supposed to be shows ui elements.

When clicking where the exit button should be, the application exits and states: .
I also cannot enter verbose logging mode.

Black screen:

Unrelated audio errors:

UI elements showing as if there was no black screen:

I have tried restarting my pc, updating it, updating my gpu drivers, and trying different architectures and versions of doomsday.

Steamdeck Control problems

novusvir — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:07:32 +0000

I've been trying to get Doomsday to work with my Steamdeck's controls, but they don't seem to register when setting the controls. Has anyone been able to remap the controls for Steamdeck?

disabling flashing light of the skull keys

KuriKai — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 23:39:35 +0000

@skyjake
Do you know how I could disable the flashing light for the blue skull key or change it to suit my timing?

I have this but it doesn't seem to work

title: DHMP Skull Keys
version: 20220908-1032
license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
tags: skull key pickup item

#requires 
defsPath = "defs"

defs/light.ded

	 # LIGHT DEFINITIONS

	 Light{
		State = "BSKULL"
		Size = 0
		Color { 1 0 0}
	 }

how to reset doom2 controls to default?

makis — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:58:00 +0000

Hi . Does any know how to restore doom2 controls to default?.
And something else.I play requiem.wad I load map6 and segmentation violation. Should I buy new pc or its a bug.Your work is amazing. Many many congratulations
Sincerely Gerasimos

Neural Upscale Textures for Doom White edge

3DMaster — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:42:46 +0000

So I finally after some experimenting managed to get the Neural Upscale textures working in Doomsday, however, although they show up, they often produce a white edge around it:

It's not just the moving enemies either:

Nor is it just the enemies:

Weirdly however, the Hexen Neural upscale uploaded right here on this Doomsday forum does not suffer the same problem:

So I don't know whether Doom's Neural upscale are just not good (which begs the question why no one mentioned this using gzdoom), or there is something else going on with Doomsday itself.

Anyone any thoughts on this?

(Also, I had to go to the manual to refresh my memory on how to make screenshots, and stumbled upon "renderer" settings, the screen shot shows both "renderer" and "3D and VR"; neither of those options show up in my 2.2 990 build of Doomsday and I don't remember seeing them, not for a long time at least. Are they just not present in the current builds or is something going wrong?)

Chrome blocks downloads

dosgamers — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:51:08 +0000

Chrome 96 blocks downloads from api.dengine.net, probably because the downloads have an http:// (non secure) prefix. Please update links on https://dengine.net/windows and other download pages.

Doom fast monsters not working

razcoina — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 10:12:04 +0000

Hello.
I am having a problem with fast monsters. I enabled this option on the game menu, it only applies after restarting the level. However, if I leave this option enabled and quit the engine (or the game back to the launcher menu), the next time I come back, the option still remains enabled but monsters are no longer fast.

Is there a way to tackle this issue other than manually setting this option every time I run the game?

System info:
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS x86_64
Doomsday version: 2.3.2 (candidate build 3869)
This is really the only version I can install. If I download any other, I get redirected to the snap store where this one is available.

Program error while opening

Tadkowskyy — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:26:49 +0000

how can i run doomsday engine??

Wayland: doomsday crashes when calling XRR* functions

thesourcehim — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:09:19 +0000

Like XRRQueryExtension. Maybe there's a platform independent way to get required data other than directly trying to use X11 when it's emulated via XWayland?

dhmp models not all loading during multiplayer

KuriKai — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:14:30 +0000

@skyjake
would you know the reason not all the models from the dhmp 2021.11.11 load in multiplayer?

I selected it to load in doomsday-shell

-file /home/dave/doomshare/github/built/com.hiriwa.dhmp.low.20211111.zip

and enabled the setting in doomsday to load local mods during mutiplayer.
the cacodemon, helath boxes, health bottles, shotgun sheels, weapon pickups don't load, but the pillars, candles candlebra do, hud models seem to load fine.

log here
https://pastebin.com/eV4VanvT

Mouse problem -- Roccat Burst Pro, Gentoo Linux

dkg — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 05:58:33 +0000

I'm having a problem where, when I move the mouse (Roccat Burst Pro) in any direction, the view moves up and to the left. When it gets as high as it can go, then it just spins around to the left. It doesn't matter which game. If I plug in a different mouse -- of the most basic cheap kind -- it's ok. Is there some setting I can tweak to fix this behavior? This is on an up-to-date Gentoo Linux system running DE v2.3.0. Log attached.

Can it be compiled on Pi4

ExarkunIV — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:44:04 +0000

i have looked around on the forum and seen a few ways of compiling this engine in Linux. so i decided to see if maybe i could get it working on my Pi4.

so far no luck on my end but before i post a whole bunch of errors and what not.

i might as well as ask if it might be able to be done to start with as i dont want to waste anyone's time here with something that cant be done

Graphical error in the menu

lovglomas — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 03:27:38 +0000

After a while the menu turns blue and there are texts that cannot be read, besides some sprites are not shown, such as the location of the character on the maps. The solution I found is to delete the contents of the runtime folder except savegame.
I did not find another solution.
OS: Ubuntu 20.04

Changing the Runtime Folder?

Searinox — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:25:04 +0000

Hello, I know this was possible in 1.x, but is there any command line, editable file, or anything else that can be used to point Doomsday to use a different runtime folder under Windows? Thanks.

segmentation violation

makis — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 20:36:47 +0000

I play requiem.wad via doomsday engine. When I get to map 6 of requiem.wad the game drops me out and receive the message segmentation violation, Any solution? Thank you

Server not being like vanilla experience, not sure why

tacgnol — Mon, 10 May 2021 06:20:12 +0000

Hello guys,

I recently (re)installed a doomsday server, but it seems that now the game place some weapons at some places that should not be there.

like in doom2 first level, there is almost every weapon available at the start including bfg9000...

I would like to get a vanilla experience ... is there a new parameter that we have to set to get vanilla without extra stuff ?

Thanks in advance !