Getting dooms to work on my computer. Thread

Hello, and thanks ahead of time.

I recently found my old doom games while cleaning the attic a few days ago, and I just had to play them, so I installed them but they would not allow me to play; a message saying "The program can't start because DPLAY.dII us missing from your computer." I am not good at all with computers, and at that point I had no idea what to do, so that is why I am asking for help, if I am understanding the message correctly all I need is to get DPLAY.dII for doom to work, but I don't know how to do that. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Vladimir.

P.S.

If doom will work again I would like to get the Brutal Doom mod on there, how would I go about doing that?

Also, I don't know if it would make any difference, but the dooms I am trying to install are the Final Doom, The Ultimate Doom, and Doom 2.

I'm guessing you're trying Doom95. You need a more modern Doom engine. Since you're interested in Brutal Doom, you need the Brutal Doom files: Moddb.com

and a modern Doom engine: Gzdoom.drdteam.org

You can just install those to any folder you want (same folder) & copy your Doom/Doom2/Plutonia/TNT wad's to the same folder. Running GZDoom.exe will give you the choice of what game you want to play from all 4. To play Brutal Doom, drag/drop the "brtualv20.pk3" file to the GZDoom.exe file in Explore and it will apply that to the Doom game you choose to play.

I did that, and now it is telling me

OS: Windows NT (NT 10.0) Build 14393

M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
Using program directory for storageExecution could not continue.Cannot find gzdoom.pk3

or if I click on the short cuts for doom itself it tells me Doom 95 was unable to access the video card- Check your direct x installation.

If it isn't one thing its another, hopefully you will know what I can do, thanks for getting me this far.

gzdoom.pk3 is included with gzdoom. you must not of unzipped all of the contents.

I'd say just delete doom.exe/doom2.exe/doom95.exe. They don't work any more.

Ok, I will try that.

I did not find doom.exe or the others, I guess they weren't on my computer in the first place, but I deleted DPLAY.

I unzipped the contents and now this is what it is telling me:

OS: Windows NT (NT 10.0) Build 14393

M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
Using program directory for storage
W_Init: Init WADfiles.
adding C:/Users/Michael/Downloads/gzdoom-bin-2-2-0/gzdoom.pk3, 620 lumps
adding ./plutonia.wad, 2984 lumps
I_Init: Setting up machine state.
CPU speed: 3293 MHz
CPU Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Family 6, Model 42, Stepping 7
Features: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2
I_InitSound: Initializing FMOD
FMOD Sound System, copyright © Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd., 1994-2009.
Loaded FMOD version 4.44.61
V_Init: allocate screen.
S_Init: Setting up sound.
ST_Init: Init startup screen.
Checking cmd-line parameters...
S_InitData: Load sound definitions.
G_ParseMapInfo: Load map definitions.
Texman.Init: Init texture manager.
ParseTeamInfo: Load team definitions.
LoadActors: Load actor definitions.
DECORATE parsing took 30.55 ms
R_Init: Init Doom refresh subsystem.
DecalLibrary: Load decals.
M_Init: Init menus.
P_Init: Init Playloop state.
ParseSBarInfo: Loading default status bar definition.
ParseSBarInfo: Loading custom status bar definition.
D_CheckNetGame: Checking network game status.
player 1 of 1 (1 nodes)
I_InitInput
I_StartupMouse
I_StartupKeyboard
I_StartupXInput
I_StartupRawPS2
I_StartupDirectInputJoystick
Warning: 'Object' is freed outside the GC process.Execution could not continue.R_OPENGL: OpenGL driver not accelerated!

Also it says Final Doom Plutonia Experiment at the top of the window.

So I guess I need Open GL now? Either way it seems like progress is being made and I thank you for that.

or if I click on the shortcut for gzdoom, and don't go into the folder to open it, it still tells me

OS: Windows NT (NT 10.0) Build 14393

M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
Using program directory for storageExecution could not continue.Cannot find gzdoom.pk3

Turns out I did not unzip, not sure what I did, but I went back and unzipped again and now doom works. I cant get Brutal doom to work though, I did what you said and a message poped up saying:

Script error, "brutalv20b.pk3:blood.txt" line 610:
Expected ',', got 'l'.

Any ideas on that?