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Make DOOM II Look its Best! (GZDoom Tutorial) [OUTDATED]

By JDK319

Play DOOM how it should be played on modern screens, in beautiful 1080p with crisp, high-res sprites, and it's easy to do!

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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12 Apr, 2020 @ 11:23am

5 Feb, 2021 @ 9:16am

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Downloading GZDoom

Locate your Doom Folder

Setting up GZDoom

Booting it up and Tweaking Settings

Conclusion

Comments

Introduction

This tutorial is relatively simple, I am not very good at modifying a game's files and I had no problem with this. Just and FYI this works on all of the other classic Doom games EXCEPT Master Levels for DOOM II

Downloading GZDoom

Go to the GZDoom Website[zdoom.org] and download the appropriate file (most will be downloading the Windows 64-bit one) and put the file somewhere you will remember for now

Locate your Doom Folder

Right click your Doom game and select 'Properties'.

Go to the local files tab and press 'browse local files, you should end up in the location of your Doom game

Setting up GZDoom

Drag and drop all of files from GZDoom into the 'Base' folder

Delete the dosbox.exe file and rename the 'GZDoom' executable to 'dosbox', this is CASE SENSITIVE so spell it right!

Booting it up and Tweaking Settings

If you did everything right, you should be able to boot up Doom through steam, if nothing works, double-check the previous steps

Time to tweak the settings! This depends on how you like the game. To make the game feel modern, I recommend having alwaysrun on and turn on always mouselook so you can look up and down. Unless you like classic Doom controls you will also need to change the movement bindings

Conclusion

Thanks so much for taking the time to read my guide! Let me know if you are having any problems in the comment section. I plan to make more guides to make classic games look new in the future so make sure to drop a suggestion.

5 Comments

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phoenix™ 21 Oct, 2022 @ 8:01am

It's worked, thanks!

jared mccain 1 Jun, 2022 @ 6:34am

id rather play the unity port by bethesda than gzdoom

despacito 3 11 Sep, 2020 @ 6:13am

I know that bethesda recently brought over their.... New wrapper for the game. Might want to update this guide to take care of that. The new wrapper is nice, but still does not offer the online multiplayer capabilities that these do.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Doom 2\base
is where the old dosbox version is held, and with original WADS
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Doom 2\rerelease
is where new wrapper is.
If they ever do separate the 2 packages, the WADs still exist in the new wrapper under
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Doom 2\rerelease\DOOM II_Data\StreamingAssets

Shootist 13 Jul, 2020 @ 12:15am

Appreciate this. Truly!

Manami Sangaku 13 Apr, 2020 @ 11:36am

Thank's a lot, man!

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