Will GZDoom Ever Come To Retropie????

jcook84

@edmaul69
Using the latest release of Valiant? I ran through the the first few levels without any remarkable performance issues. (as an unrelated aside, it seg faulted Prboom for me after the test tubes open in level 1-1)

edmaul69

@jcook84 when was the latest release? Are you playing on default difficulty? I didnt have an issue yet except for 12fps for like 3 seconds si i have to finish the level and retest. Playing less than the default difficulty im sure you wont ever have an issue as its an issue with how many people spawn. I still need to test further for him but this weekend is busy for me.

edmaul69

@jcook84 also you said pr-boom. Are you playing it onpr-boom or zdoom?

Brigane

@jcook84
What script did you use to get this work with valiant.wad?

RetroFreak89

This is getting frustering for me...
How the Heck are you guys running Valiant So smooth?
For me during the first level when you reach outside for the first time just a bit after that you Will face there hordes of monsters there is super laggy for me like my aiming will be all stuttery..
Alot of parts in that map make me lag especially outside...
Inside is completely fine
I thought it was a SD card issue So i bought a Samsung evo+ that didnt help
I thought it was a AC adapter issue So i bought a 3amp Samsung AC still didnt Fix it..
Not sure what to do im even running the lowest resolution oh and my pi and zdoom are updated..

Any ideas?
Whats causing this

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69 yes please do so...
go to the part when you first reach outside then Just a bit ahead you will face these bunch of monsters and a couple large ones outside on this upper platform it will lag like crazy.??
If you can just play the first whole level and let me know how it went

RetroFreak89

@jcook84 well for me it works fine inside buildings
But outside lags for me in Valiant
Idk what to do anymore ..

Below i wrote what i tried to fix the issue
Non of them helped

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69 i hope this link works So u can show you where i lag exactly

Ok between min 7 and min 8 or so do you see that area and all those monsters there outside?
Thats the part exactly where its pretty damn laggy..

edmaul69

@retrofreak89 yeah the two cannon guys starting at 7 minutes wasnt an issue. What difficulty are you on? Default was in the middle somewhere. I chose the difficulty it was selected on when you start a new game.

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69

Well damn...
Because that part with all the monsters lags bad
And i also have it default when i play Valiant i dont change any diffeculty..

Now in rly wondering why its running such crap can you check what fps u get at that spot?? Ill check the same..

jcook84

@edmaul69
this version: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/valiant
I'm playing it on Zdoom, the Prboom test was just a tangent.
At 640x480 I get dips into the teens at that rough part in the video (while spamming rockets) It's just a bad spot with lots of enemies spawning in and a long/complex render distance behind them. At 320x240 it dips into mid 20's at the problem spot. (stock clock and memsplit w/ fan)

@Brigane
I'm doing it the way the wiki suggests:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Doom#how-to-launch-doom-iwads-and-mods-pwads-from-emulationstation-using-zdoom

edmaul69

@jcook84 yeah if that date is correct i am definitely using that one. I am playing at 1024x768. I got a few dips in the teens today but i didnt experience any noticeable lag as they didnt last long enough to see slowdown.

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69 hmm ill check in a min to see my fps there also stock and 640x reso

Also whats the difference between prboom and zdoom does prboom play mods and wads as well??

RetroFreak89

@jcook84 So for you Valiant runs pretty crappy too some parts of the levels??

edmaul69

@retrofreak89 no. Pr-boom plays doom games only.

Brigane

@jcook84 Well.. The wiki suggest many different things depending on which iwads are used. Would you mind pasting the script here.
I got the other iwads working except valiant.wad
Thanks

edmaul69

@brigane are you using gzdoom or zdoom?

Brigane

@edmaul69
zdoom

edmaul69

@brigane i will post the cofig when i get home

edmaul69

@brigane if you put doom2.wad and Valiant.wad (notice valiant has a capitol V as caps and lowercase have to match) in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/ , then this would be the emulators.cfg for valiant

default = "zdoom"
zdoom = "/opt/retropie/ports/zdoom/zdoom -iwad /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2.wad -file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/Valiant.wad"