Which engine for original Doom?

Guest2 · 17 Apr 2022 at 21:30

something daft already!! said:
I just installed this one and did a couple of levels. Looks very nice but could not run in 4k. Had to lower to 1440p and it still looks nice.

I tried this, plays very nice and think the CRT mode look really good. (Or DLSS on Quality)
Is there a way to turn down the brightess that I cannot find? Doom isnt supported to be bright light, it needs to be about 30-50% darker IMO

arc@css · 17 Apr 2022 at 22:01

I tried it on my laptop RTX3060 and got a playable frame rate, in theory...

Guest2 · 17 Apr 2022 at 23:10

arc@css said:
I tried it on my laptop RTX3060 and got a playable frame rate, in theory...

CRT mode RTX will look and probably still play great

Quartz · 17 Apr 2022 at 23:22

something daft already!! said:
I just installed this one and did a couple of levels. Looks very nice but could not run in 4k. Had to lower to 1440p and it still looks nice.

I brought up the help screen and got stuck. I also couldn't bring up a command line or screen to load other wad files.

arc@css · 17 Apr 2022 at 23:32

Guest2 said:
CRT mode RTX will look and probably still play great

Yeah, CRT and up to around 600p looked quite nice and performed fairly well, all considered.

Anything above 720 is a no-go.

Guest2 · 17 Apr 2022 at 23:56

arc@css said:
Yeah, CRT and up to around 600p looked quite nice and performed fairly well, all considered.

Anything above 720 is a no-go.

It looks nice but too ‘crisp’ for Doom. CRT looks nice, even on my 3440 x 1440 screen but just needs darkening a bit

Guest2 · 18 Apr 2022 at 08:03

arc@css said:
Yeah, CRT and up to around 600p looked quite nice and performed fairly well, all considered.

Anything above 720 is a no-go.

CRT mode and all poly lights. Just played about 6 levels, fantastic

arc@css · 18 Apr 2022 at 12:44

Guest2 said:
CRT mode and all poly lights. Just played about 6 levels, fantastic

Will give it another go later.

For some reason or other, it ran so much better this time. I must have made an error somewhere.

Although I like the CRT look, I also enjoyed using all the other options, and in the end, I decided on 1200p with RT set as high as it could go though, of course, I had to employ FSR (performance) to facilitate that.

I also tried running a benchmark just to see how it performed overall:
0.1% low: 64.9
1% low: 87.5
Minimum: 92.8
Average: 157.1
Maximum: 1334.2 (menu)

It feels a little strange playing on a laptop as I hardly ever use mine for games but I could feel myself begin to get drawn into it after a level or two. It's a shame I couldn't get the PSX music to run alongside it.