Brutal Doom help

[Unknownno]

Hi I'm trying to get Brutal Doom to work with the steam overlay so it counts my hours and i cant seem to get it to work here is what I did:

I got gzdoom put all its files in the Ultimate Doom base file in steam directory deleted the Dosbox Exe and renamed gzdoom to "Dosbox".

I can play regular Doom with the steam overlay But I cant figure out how to play it with brutal doom I tried dragging it to the renamed Gzdoom exe and it works but the steam overlay will not show up and no hours are count.

So there is my problem help would be wonderful thanks.

[Heidrocj]

You have already renamed "gzdoom" to "dosbox", so you are halfway there.

In your Doom-> base folder, make a new folder named "Skins"
In this "Skins" folder you made, put the brutalv20.pk3 file.
Rename "brutalv20.pk3" to "brutalv20.wad"

Now when you choose to play doom through steam, it will now automatically load brutal doom and count your hours. This method works for automatically loading other mods too, such as project brutality.

[Unknownno]

Originally posted by Heidrocj:

You have already renamed "gzdoom" to "dosbox", so you are halfway there.

In your Doom-> base folder, make a new folder named "Skins"
In this "Skins" folder you made, put the brutalv20.pk3 file.
Rename "brutalv20.pk3" to "brutalv20.wad"

Now when you choose to play doom through steam, it will now automatically load brutal doom and count your hours. This method works for automatically loading other mods too, such as project brutality.

Yep Tried that when I click play on steam it only loads normal Doom up I must of did somehting wrong But cant figure out what. I Gzdoom 1.8.02 and Brutal Doom v20.

[Unknownno]

Wow this is such a pain.

[Heidrocj]

If it isn't loading gzdoom from square one when you try to launch from your steam list, then the issue is how gzdoom was set to be launched.

So I would look into:

From the gzdoom package you downloaded, are you copying and pasting *all* of its contents into the doom base folder? (not just the application)

When all these are pasted into your base folder, have you renamed the gzdoom application (it has a doom marine icon) *exactly* as the dosbox application is named, to include the proper case? (ie, no capitalization)

After these, did you rename or delete the original dosbox application?

All in all, if you deleted dosbox and gzdoom was not renamed precisely, when you try to start through steam, steam will just redownload dosbox(because that is what it is coded to look for) and launch doom through that. This may be where your problem is.