Will GZDoom Ever Come To Retropie????

RetroFreak89

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"

RetroFreak89

@edmaul69 i wish i could figure out why my doom runs worse than yall lol

Brigane

@edmaul69
Thanks, It runs quite well on my end, at least the first couple of minutes I've been trying it. I'm using an overclocked Raspberry Pi 2.

Edit: Now I also got trailblazer running. It's running pretty smooth imo

Brigane

Thought I'd would let you know I manage to setup Brutal Wolfenstein 3D as well by using the same method.

RetroFreak89

@brigane omg omg how the hell did u get trailblazer running i cant get it to run it crash in load... Plz help?

Also whats Ur fps on Valiant? Do vid_showfps true

Brigane

@retrofreak89
I'm not quite sure how I show fps in-game. But please fill me in, if you do.

This is how I got trailblazer working.

this is my config in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/trailblazer/emulators.cfg

zdoom = "/opt/retropie/ports/zdoom/zdoom +set fullscreen 1 -iwad /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/doom2.wad -file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/trailblazer/trailblazer.pk3"`
default="zdoom"

This is where I placed my wad file /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/trailblazer/trailblazer.pk3

My trailblazer.sh script to launch the game looks like this

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "trailblazer" ""

edmaul69

@brigane he has valiant working. He was asking about trailblazer. I havent tried installing it yet so i cant help him there.

Brigane

@edmaul69
Oh my bad. I'll change my post when I get home from work.

RetroFreak89

@brigane yeah trailblazer i cannot get it to work...
And i heard good things about it..
Also to show fps press the ~ on keyboard to open console and typ vid_showfps true ..
this will then show you the fps top right side of your screen
Oh if vid_showfps true doesnt work try vid_fps true.
Because i forgot which one it was

Brigane

@RetroFreak89
I've updated my post above with the correct info regarding trailblazer. About the fps I can tell you that I run around 28-35 fps through the game with less explosive guns like the handgun, shotgun and machine gun.
After picking up the rocket launcher I got some frame drops sadly. Overall I still think this is more than playable.
Keep in mind though that I'm running RPi 2 so RPi 3 might run this better.