Ultimate Doom - Fullscreen?

[St. John from Des Moines]

Hi!

I purchased Ultimate Doom in the Classic Doom Bundle the other day. It opens via DOSBOX, and it opens in a small window, which I cannot resize. I was really hoping to play the game in full-screen, so is there anything I can do to make this so? I would kinda feel like "Thumbnail Doom" would be a bit of wasted money.

Anyway, if anyone knows how to do this, it'd be great! :-)

Thanks!

[Kaiser Ducky]

Press Alt+Enter. Or if it's not too small to read, you can activate fullscreen in the options.

But Ultimate Thumbnail Doom is the best, you're reaaally missing out q:

[Tiny Trees]

Originally posted by MunicipalRose:

But Ultimate Thumbnail Doom is the best, you're reaaally missing out q:

Haha.

Kind of thinking of buing it. Sneaky of them putting old Doom maps in Doom 2016; very good advertising. I had forgotten it looked so playable.

[Kaiser Ducky]

Originally posted by Tiny Trees:

Originally posted by MunicipalRose:

But Ultimate Thumbnail Doom is the best, you're reaaally missing out q:

Haha.

Kind of thinking of buing it. Sneaky of them putting old Doom maps in Doom 2016; very good advertising. I had forgotten it looked so playable.

They did the same with Wolfenstein, so I guess it's a new tradition to include old maps. But if you're thinking about getting old Doom, you should - but wait a few days, since the Steam summer sale is coming up. I'll bet the Classic bundle will be on sale then, and it'll probably be around $5, or the same price as buying one of the games ;)

[St. John from Des Moines]

Hi!

I tried alt+enter, and it seemed like it tried to go full screen, but then it'd revert back to the small window. Doom 1 is in what I'd guess is 640x480, which is an annoying, but livable screen size. Doom 2, on the other hand, is half whatever Doom is, so probably 320x240, and so that one is just undoably small on a 1080 display.

Also, they're both emulating the Ad-Lib version of the soundtrack. While I'm a fan of FM in video games at large, most Ad-Lib soundtracks in my opinion, and definitely the Ad-Lib renditions of Doom are just not very good. Is there any way to configure the DOSBOX emulator instance to emulate the MIDI soundtrack instead?

Full-screen and MIDI and I'm good! :-)

Thanks!

[Kaiser Ducky]

Originally posted by Winnie_The_Shizzy:

Hi!

I tried alt+enter, and it seemed like it tried to go full screen, but then it'd revert back to the small window. Doom 1 is in what I'd guess is 640x480, which is an annoying, but livable screen size. Doom 2, on the other hand, is half whatever Doom is, so probably 320x240, and so that one is just undoably small on a 1080 display.

Also, they're both emulating the Ad-Lib version of the soundtrack. While I'm a fan of FM in video games at large, most Ad-Lib soundtracks in my opinion, and definitely the Ad-Lib renditions of Doom are just not very good. Is there any way to configure the DOSBOX emulator instance to emulate the MIDI soundtrack instead?

Full-screen and MIDI and I'm good! :-)

Thanks!

Go into the "Set Video Mode" in the options, and you can change the resolution. It can be tedious to find the perfect setting, but just keep messing around with it, and you'll find something that works for you!

As for the soundtrack - I haven't played vanilla Doom in a long time, so I'm not sure if you can configure that. I use a source port, specifically GZDoom, and replaced Dosbox with it. GZDoom fixes tons of bugs and issues with Doom, plus it adds tons of other features, such as ability to jump, crouch, freelook... and you can play tons of mods that are unplayable otherwise.

If you're interested, you can download it from here: http://gzdoom.drdteam.org/

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

Here's the official fix:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dooms-19-winx64/

This is just episode one (Shareware), unless you have legit DOOM and copy the IWAD into the PrBoom folder. No plasma rifle or BFG9000 in shareware either.

[Comissar person[FIN]]

talking about midis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34SBJRHV9sU

[AmethystViper]

If it's DOSBox you're talking about, look for a file called "ultimate.conf" or "ultimatem.conf" and open it with a text editor, then look for this line:

fullscreen=

it will likely be set to "original", change it to "desktop" and it should fit the native resoltuion of your display. You might also want to look for these and make the following changes (highlighted in bold):

output=openglnb or opengl ← better compatibility than "surface"
fulldouble=false ← SUPER important and the cause of the game locking up in DOSBox in fullscreen
aspect=true ← Also important for correct aspect-ratio
scaler=normal2x or normal3x ← for Windowed mode when using "windowed=original"

[St. John from Des Moines]

Thank you Vpr! This is excellent info! It might be tomorrow night before I'm on my PC next, but I will definitely give this a try! :-D

Do we know of any way to change the emulation support from Ad-Lib to MIDI?

Thanks!

[AmethystViper]

Originally posted by Winnie_The_Shizzy:

Thank you Vpr! This is excellent info! It might be tomorrow night before I'm on my PC next, but I will definitely give this a try! :-D

Do we know of any way to change the emulation support from Ad-Lib to MIDI?

Thanks!

I almost made a huge mistake; set "fulldouble=false", NOT to "true" or it would freeze the game when it tries to start (it usually happens with "ddraw" or "surface" but it's a gimped function anyway and it's best set off). As for the MIDI music, there's no SETUP.EXE to use in DOSBox, but you can use this guide to set it manually.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=143307877

[St. John from Des Moines]

Originally posted by AmethsytViper:

Originally posted by Winnie_The_Shizzy:

Thank you Vpr! This is excellent info! It might be tomorrow night before I'm on my PC next, but I will definitely give this a try! :-D

Do we know of any way to change the emulation support from Ad-Lib to MIDI?

Thanks!

I almost made a huge mistake; set "fulldouble=false", NOT to "true" or it would freeze the game when it tries to start (it usually happens with "ddraw" or "surface" but it's a gimped function anyway and it's best set off). As for the MIDI music, there's no SETUP.EXE to use in DOSBox, but you can use this guide to set it manually.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=143307877

Thank you again! I actually tried this last night (only with your earlier "fulldouble=true" advice) and it worked! No crashes, and the Ad-Lib OST is actually starting to grow on me again. :-)

However, when I tried making the same tweaks to Doom2 and Final Doom via their respective config files, the hack did not work, and they were still opening in their very small windows.

Besides my turning "fulldouble" to false, are there any tricks you can suggest to get those two rolling?

Thanks! :-)

[AmethystViper]

Originally posted by Winnie_The_Shizzy:

Originally posted by AmethsytViper:

I almost made a huge mistake; set "fulldouble=false", NOT to "true" or it would freeze the game when it tries to start (it usually happens with "ddraw" or "surface" but it's a gimped function anyway and it's best set off). As for the MIDI music, there's no SETUP.EXE to use in DOSBox, but you can use this guide to set it manually.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=143307877

Thank you again! I actually tried this last night (only with your earlier "fulldouble=true" advice) and it worked! No crashes, and the Ad-Lib OST is actually starting to grow on me again. :-)

However, when I tried making the same tweaks to Doom2 and Final Doom via their respective config files, the hack did not work, and they were still opening in their very small windows.

Besides my turning "fulldouble" to false, are there any tricks you can suggest to get those two rolling?

Thanks! :-)

"fulldouble=" needs to be "false"; that was a mistake on my part and that function is broken for some games on DOSBox. As for the other Doom games, try looking for the files that end with ".conf" and look for the ones that reflect the game's name in some way. I know for Doom II, the *conf files are "doom2.conf" and "doom2m.conf"; I'm not sure what the files are for Final Doom but it should be a file ending with ".conf".

[St. John from Des Moines]

Well, I've found the conf files for the others, and have adjusted them to match Ultimate Doom, it's just, they didn't work. Now, this was when I was still choosing true for fulldouble, so hopefully that is all it was. I'll give that a try and report back.

[Mr J]

Originally posted by AmethystViper:

If it's DOSBox you're talking about, look for a file called "ultimate.conf" or "ultimatem.conf" and open it with a text editor, then look for this line:

fullscreen=

it will likely be set to "original", change it to "desktop" and it should fit the native resoltuion of your display. You might also want to look for these and make the following changes (highlighted in bold):

output=openglnb or opengl ← better compatibility than "surface"
fulldouble=false ← SUPER important and the cause of the game locking up in DOSBox in fullscreen
aspect=true ← Also important for correct aspect-ratio
scaler=normal2x or normal3x ← for Windowed mode when using "windowed=original"

When I did this it worked, only problem is that my hud is missing and I think part of the screen is cut off, not badly enough that I can't play the game but it's kinda annoying cuz I don't have a hud. Any ideas on how I could fix this?

[Multihog]

Originally posted by Mr J:

Originally posted by AmethystViper:

If it's DOSBox you're talking about, look for a file called "ultimate.conf" or "ultimatem.conf" and open it with a text editor, then look for this line:

fullscreen=

it will likely be set to "original", change it to "desktop" and it should fit the native resoltuion of your display. You might also want to look for these and make the following changes (highlighted in bold):

output=openglnb or opengl ← better compatibility than "surface"
fulldouble=false ← SUPER important and the cause of the game locking up in DOSBox in fullscreen
aspect=true ← Also important for correct aspect-ratio
scaler=normal2x or normal3x ← for Windowed mode when using "windowed=original"

When I did this it worked, only problem is that my hud is missing and I think part of the screen is cut off, not badly enough that I can't play the game but it's kinda annoying cuz I don't have a hud. Any ideas on how I could fix this?

Just get GZDoom, and use that instead of DOSBox. Toggle freelook, jump, and crouch off, and you've got yourself vanilla Doom, only with better graphics and tons of options regarding them.