ADVANCED guide to GZDoom, ZDL, ReShade, & Brutal Doom 

it's called a good teacher. it's not called a corporate greed angel.

That is what I expect when I go to RU-vid. Spare me introductions, get me to the action.

Probably has to do with the WAD I have loaded up at the time, depending on what part you're talking about. Either Smooth Doom or Brutal Doom or something.

@@ketarel I always come back to this vid to make needed adjustments, you're amazing man, thank you!

No sound on the video?

@@ketarel nope in the game

@@AndryRoblox Game sound is on by default. In Options > Sound Options > turn Master Volume up to 1.00. Make sure "Sounds volume' and "Music volume" are also up. If that doesn't work, it's probably an issue with Windows. Make sure you've selected the right playback device in Windows by left-clicking the speaker button on the far right side of the taskbar in Windows.

@@ketarel ok thanks but no thanks

@@ketarel linear with xbrz 2x is better than none

Turning off filtering should help

Dhtp master doesn't work with my gzdoom. Where did you download yours?

I'm not sure what you're asking.. there's no one file with Brutal Doom, Tomtefar's, DHTP, and Doom Metal Vol.5 (44k kHz). You have to download those all separately. The GitHub link to DHTP is a little confusing; under the "download" section you want to hit the "Zdoom" link, which should redirect you to a mega.nz link and download "zdoom-dhtp-20180514.pk3", and that's the latest DHTP version. Alternatively, you could download something like the Doom Enhancement Project ( www.moddb.com/mods/doom-enhancement-project/addons/doom-hd-textures-pack ) which has the DHTP textures, as well as some from AltDHTP, Hoover1979's HD texture pack, and others. Personally I don't really use texture packs much these days, unless it's something simple like the Neural Upscale ( www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/99021-doom-neural-upscale-2x-v-10/ ) or similar with Project S.I.D.E. ( forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=67699 )

If your craving for some doom eternal action action sir then I must suggest trying thee embers of armageddon mod alongside brutal doom monsters only mod.Criticals mod and the rpg light mod with damage numbers mod are also cool additions which may scratch the fallout rpg itch a bit, cheerio...good day sir

"Mr Wayne" Could you provide links to these mods? I looked them up but I didn't find anything with these exact names.

oh shit thanks for the heads up. Well you can still get it from here: mega.nz/file/01IESYQJ#OnJIvkQPl6YWZwJExCr3L8vTfG5VqbMP0VL5A73Y6_U (zdoom version) Also the github page is still up here: github.com/KuriKai/DHTP - You can build it yourself with git, or check the wiki tab for direct links like the one I posted above

you should choose hardware accelerated in the display settings, it will fix those visual "warps". about the textures, maybe try running in opengl?( just don't use opengl es, it disables most of the special fx)

@@itsallaboutgaming885 yeah, that did it.

Sure! Where can I find it?

@@ketarel it's in my channel if link got filtered

@@ketarel www.moddb.com/mods/unreal-gold-remake-in-gzdoom

Lzdoom it pretty much gzdoom settings. So anything he does should work for lzdoom

I have no idea. I wouldn't even be sure of how to test for that aside from setting up a VM or something. I assume it should be fine for 32 bit PCs, but I can't say that with any certainty, sorry.

Mine isnt working. Why?

Sorry, my mom told me never accept money from strangers on the internet unless it's for THIS JOKE HAS BEEN CENSORED BY RU-vid FOR NOT BEING ADVERTISER FRIENDLY! Something something Elsa-gate, pet "rescue", nude yoga, etc. Anyway I'd be happy to do it for free. Hit me up when your laptop arrives and I'll help ya out, no prob ;)

@@ketarel 😂🤣 thank you so much!!!!!!

Same as rebinding any other key; select "reload" in the key bindings menu and hit enter, then hit "mouse button 4" on your mouse. Note that not all mice have a "mouse button 4" button, typically it's a "thumb" button on the side of the mouse. EDIT: Well that was a reply for the wrong comment, whoops. In response to your question, I'm not very familiar with Delta Touch, but it claims to bring the latest version of GZDoom to Android, so everything I do in GZDoom should be doable in there.. though due to hardware limitations on your device you may not want to crank everything up, especially multisampling/lighting effects/etc. Loading custom WADs I'm not so sure about, Delta Touch may support it, or it may be possible through writing custom batch files or something, I'm really not sure. Also I don't think reshade is supported on anything other than windows so that part is totally out.

It's possible that your GPU isn't OpenGL compatable. I'm not sure what would happen if trying to use reshade in this case, but if you're following all of the steps correctly this is the only reason I can think of as to why it may not work.

I have rtx 2080 ti, is that not open gl

@@glitchframe6784 ahh that should most definately be OpenGL compatible. Try uninstalling and reinstalling ReShade maybe? Make certain that you're selecting the gzdoom.exe when installing reshade, and that you have at least some (or all) of the shader boxes checkmarked when installing. The newer versions of ReShade are a little more straightforward than the one in this video. Make sure your Nvidia drivers are up to date as well, that might be causing issues. If all of that doesn't work I'm not sure what the problem could be :/

It does! Though you may encounter some issues with some shaders.

Indeed. Hopefully some day soon that might change.

Crashing is odd... there's nothing here that should make you crash at all. Did it crash before you edited anything? Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date. There's much newer version of GZDoom and ReShade since I made this as well, but I'm using the latest versions with basically the same settings as I detailed in this video without issue.. not sure what it could be without more info

@ketarel I fixed it I was running Vulkan on accident on gzdoom

@@JessMeliodas Ah, still odd that running Vulkan would crash it. I would assume it's either a driver issue or maybe ReShade freaking out because it's supposed to be doing OpenGL things. Happy to hear it's resolved in any case! See you in Hell :)

Don't blame GZDoom, 'e's an honest chap. The performance problems 'e gave you are wonderful, and you thank 'em for it. But in all seriousness, BD and PB are a cobbled mess of code and it's not GZDooms fault they cause issues at all. If you are experiencing performance issues, however, I recommend first entirely disabling multisampling. If issues persist, lower or disable texture scaling. Still issues? Start lowering/disabling lighting effects. Still? Wow ok, uh, like shadows and shit, turn your particle and decal count down to a couple hundred each (like 64 in the case of BD/PB), uhhh, after that if you're still having issues basically go through the display settings and turn everything off or down that you can. Try the Vulkan renderer, or the ...whatever the software one is called I can't remember. If you're still having issues after that, email whoever made the WAD you're playing and tell them to learn how to make a map. See a lot of the issues come down to how well the map and mod are written. BD and PB are notorious for causing performance issues. There's a few maps out there that are famous for the same reason. The Slaughter Spectrum, for example. Really cool WAD, looks amazing.. but at 1440p with everything turned up I'm lucky to get more than 30FPS in that map. If I play it with PB, my FPS maxes at around 6 when enemies start spawning. In vanilla Doom with the same settings I rarely dip below 200fps, and I average around 300 on most levels. Wow that turned into a ramble. Anyway if I wasn't clear there, you can configure GZDoom to play better than Zandronium in almost every scenario. Zandronium is just lacking a lot of features that you'd have to disable in GZDoom to get the same performance out of it. The only thing Zandronium does better than GZDoom, IMHO, is multiplayer. That aside, .bat files are a fine way of loading WADs. I personally find them more tedious than using ZDL, but if you have a certain loadout you play often I can see batch files being a handy thing. To each their own and whatnot. I'm drunk.

Costs like $1 if you wait for a Steam sale. Freedoom is a good option for most WADs, you can just google it. There's plenty 'a booty to plunder in the seven seas. For legal reasons I can't say much more than that.

Sorry, Delta Touch looks like it's for Android, which isn't really my wheelhouse I'm afraid.

Roswellian Future Don’t turn everything up to the max lol Also, gzdoom is pretty unoptimized, if you want max performance, use zdoom, it is outdated though.

Actually I fixed my problem by switching from opengl to Vulkan. My fps average from 78-105 with everything maxed like in this video.

@@roswellianfuture6778 wait how do you switch?

It’s in the video options somewhere. Under software or hardware, something like that.

@@roswellianfuture6778 oh ok thanks

make sure you installed it for OPEN GL!

Weird, it's working for me. All I can suggest is double-checking your settings

After you launch gzdoom at least once, a gzdoom-USERNAME.ini will be created. That's where all your gzdoom settings are stored, so to start from scratch you can just exit gzdoom, delete that file, then launch gzdoom again and everything should be reset. Also I think there's a "reset to default" option in the main options screen. I'm not at my computer right now so this is all off the top of my head :P

@@ketarel thanks buddy

I don't believe ZDL has that capability. I've tried online play with GZDoom, but was never able to get it working properly. I hear GZDoom works ok for multiplayer over a LAN, but I haven't tested that myself yet.

Gonna need a lot more information than that to help. What isn't working, and how isn't it working? Crashing? Won't load at all? Error messages? etc.

I just tested it and had the same thing. Must be a bug. Lately I've been using DarkDoomZ ( github.com/caligari87/darkdoomz/releases/tag/v1.10 ) with just about everything. Really helps dial in the light levels in some of the darker maps, and especially if you're using some HDR settings with ReShade that can make things too dark to see as intended - (in DarkDoomZ advanced settings, adjust the pre/post gain to brighten). It adds a flashlight that has a lot of options (that you can find at the very bottom of the Doom options menu). I usually keep the flashlight type on "Helmet" because I find the sway kind of annoying, but I play around with everything else depending on the map. Note that the flashlight doesn't seem to be quite as optimized as Brutal Dooms in some cases, so you might see minor fps drops when using the flashlight on stacked blood splatter on some textures in some cases with certain settings. But yeah, hope this helps!

Like I said in a previous comment: you can still get it from here: mega.nz/file/01IESYQJ#OnJIvkQPl6YWZwJExCr3L8vTfG5VqbMP0VL5A73Y6_U (zdoom version) Also the github page is still up here: github.com/KuriKai/DHTP - You can build it yourself with git, or check the wiki tab for direct links like the one I posted above

Unfortunately my knowledge of Linux is limited to a few basic commands. Dual Booting seems like an extreme option if you just want Doom to look a bit better, but it's pretty easy to get Windows 10 when know your way around the seven seas... if you catch my drift :) Aside from that I'm afraid I'm not much help in this department, but I wish you the best of luck :)

Have you tried not using Wine? I'm no power user but it's just a suggestion, if you are using ubuntu or any other distro (like mint) you can find gzdoom in the software manager. And btw, if you have a dedicated video card it is better to install the proprietary drivers.

@@gabumonishida5712 Oh, look at we have here, a "Computer Expert". It's just what I needed! xDDD

Make sure you installed ReShade for OpenGL, and you're using the OpenGL renderer in GZDoom!

@@ketarel I installed for OpenGL and I'm using the OpenGL rendering, but it didn't work, but I tried with DirectX 9 and it works, despite using OpenGL as the renderer.

You don't need to do that when using ZDL. You still can, but know that EVERYTHING inside the "skins" folder will load every time you launch GZDoom. If you load it through ZDL, it's much easier to enable/disable certain packs, or rearrange the load order (which can be important). Also I find it easier to keep all my mods organized in a different folder when using ZDL, so if there's an update to GZDoom I can just delete my old GZDoom directory without worrying about accidentally deleting certain mods.

Ketarel Alright, thanks for helping.

saves are stored in the gzdoom~\Save directory, usually as saveX.zds, where X is the save number starting from 0. Make sure you have read/write access to that directory

Thanks but how do i read/write access to the directory

@@kinorad13 well I don't have access to a comp for the weekend here, but off the top of my head I think you right-click the directory (folder) and select "properties" then somewhere in there it says "read" and "write" and there should be checkmarks beside them. If not, you gotta contact your admin or hack the gibson

Nah it's still there, you just have to turn "Simple options menu" to "Off" in the initial options menu. I get why they did that, but I don't agree with it.

@@ketarel I still don't see it under texture options. I even used the command "gl_texture_usehires true" and it came up as unknown command. I guess they completely removed it. And looks like I'll be sticking with v4.3.3.

@@gjk2012 Options > Full options menu: Turn "Simple options menu" to "Off", then go to Display Options > Texture Options, and all of the resize options will be there. Hope this helps!

The grainy look is how it's kinda supposed to be... You can leave Trilinear filtering on if you like, but I'd say most people prefer it off. IMHO it makes everything look too blurry and washed together. I much prefer the crisp OG look. But, for the most part, all of these settings come down to personal preference :)

@@ketarel one more thing is that in the newer version of ReShade, I can't find the Filmic Bloom. What's the alternative to it?

@@AcielGamingTech I'm unable to check right now, but if you just search for "bloom" in the reshare menu, you should be able to find something similar (or adjust another bloom shader until it's similar). If not, you can install the "Legacy Shaders" package through the Reshade.exe, it's probably in there.

Hmm, that shouldn't be. Did you follow all the instructions just as I did them? Is there something different you're doing?

@@ketarel well i found out that i needed an older version of GZdoom to get it working

Same as rebinding any other key; select "reload" in the key bindings menu and hit enter, then hit "mouse button 4" on your mouse. Note that not all mice have a "mouse button 4" button, typically it's a "thumb" button on the side of the mouse. (note: replied to the wrong comment like a month ago about this, whoops)

Sure, GZDoom isn't perfect. Sometimes it fullscreens to the wrong monitor, sometimes there's graphical glitches. I've even crashed once or twice.

@@ketarel when i put it to full screen mode it just frose my computer and i had to reboot it for every thing to work do you know a fix for that.

@@oogatheman5396 hmm that could be caused by a lot of different issues. First off I would update your graphics drivers. If you're running multiple monitors, see which adapter GZDoom is trying to use by typing in vid_listadapters in console while in game

@@ketarel thank you

MagicHDR Has a decent bloom built in. NeoBloom is a bit much if you use defaults but if you tone it down it's ok. qUINT_solaris is pretty good, but might be hard to find (gotta sign up for Marty McFly's Patreon to get access to ReGrade and such), the default qUINT bloom is pretty good as well. Blooming_HDR is good if you don't use any other HDR effects. Right now I'm using ReGrade and Solaris (need to sub Marty McFlys patrion to get, or get creative ;) as well as FGFX: :LSPOIrr [FGFXLargeScalePerceptualObscurancrIrradiance.fx] MagicHDR with Technicolor2 can look pretty good if you play around with the values a bit

@@ketarel This is my very first experience with Reshade or shaders at all. I don't care much about graphics in games at all, but since I bought this new laptop I want to take advantage of it as much as I can LOL

@@ketarel So what is HDR again? I noticed that HDR looks good, but it seems to interfere with my Bloom shader. Gonna find some new ones to experiment around.

@@ketarel For the moment, I recorded a video for you to see how my 1st Reshade tunings are looking like so far... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K53fuGqJblw.html

@@ketarel In the video I recorded, notice that I tuned Doom2 primarily on map12, if it looked good in that map I think it would look good for most other maps. I am trying to increase the "atmosphere" of stock Doom, but I'm finding that there's not that can be done in regards to the Lighting of the maps (maybe using the Dark Light Mode option... I'm using Doom Light Mode for now... my favorite is Software, but it interferes with Bloom)

Yep, just make sure to install reshade for whatever renderer you're using (OpenGL, Vulcan, etc)

@@ketarel It's weird because i've tried to install many and different reshades and it looks the same... Also the reshade menu doesnt show up when i press "home key"...

@@amadorbadillocesarivan4120 weird, double check you're installing to the right .exe

@@ketarel Yeah i apply it to the LZDoom.exe, then i go to ZDL for playing PB 3.0 and nothing happens... I've tried like three times

@@amadorbadillocesarivan4120 Hmm well again I'd make sure you're using the right renderer that you've installed reshade for.. I'll do some testing in my lab later today and get back to you

Only the mods you select with ZDL.

@@ketarel do you mean the ones that are blue ore the all the mods in the external files.

@@oogatheman5396 oh you mean IWADs? Just the one you have selected (highlighted in blue) will be loaded.

@@ketarel no i mean like the mods for an example:d4v.wad not like:Ultimate doom.wad

@@oogatheman5396 Oh then they'll be loaded if they're on the list, unless there's like a line through them.

Pretty sure LZDoom is discontuined.

Oh sorry that was ZDoom

A quick google search found this: www.moddb.com/games/doom/addons/psx-soundtrack-replacement-high-quality I haven't tested it myself, but it seems to be what you're looking for. Just load it up with ZDL like any other mod. If you have issues, make sure to put it at the BOTTOM of the list in ZDL :)

@@ketarel wow let me try, have you heard the PS1 music before, I'd love to know what you think.

@@ketarel Do I just remove DoomMetalVol5.wad and put this one in that folder?

@@G0nz0uk Sorry for the late reply, I must have missed the notification. I haven't heard the music, but I do sometimes use a mod called Sound Caulking, and it uses sounds from the PS1 version to make the monster noises more unique: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/71133-sound-caulking-now-on-idgames/

@@G0nz0uk Yeah I'd recommend disabling/removing DoomMetal if you're going to replace it with the PS1 soundtrack. If the PS1 soundtrack doesn't replace every track, you could still leave DoomMetal enabled and load the PS1 soundtrack afterwards, so DoomMetal should replace any track that the PS1 soundtrack doesn't.

What part isn't working?

I was in multiplayer mod. i get it now. sorry. great video really helped ;)

I had the same problem except I wasn't in a multiplayer mod.

uhh what's not working? Are you getting some kind of error message? I'm gonna need some more info if I'm to help ya :P

@@ketarel well when i try to use openGL it will not work

@@daise5172 Does your graphics card support OpenGL? Some older GPUs, and onboard GPUs may not support it.

@@ketarel how can i see if i have it? when i do it, say openGL driver not accelererated

@@daise5172 you could try using GLView: realtech-vr.com/home/glview