Linux Question - UD Won't Launch

[Dr. Toboggan]

Sup, I have installed Steam and Ultimate Doom, along with Shadow Warrior, on my new Ubuntu system. Steam library will launch Shadow Warrior with no problem. Ultimate Doom on the other hand... It just does nothing. It indicates on the Steam client that I am in fact playing Ultimate Doom, and the Play button is replaced with a Stop button. But I don't see the game. Anyone know what gives?

 

Thanks.

[m8f]

New Steam Doom update, which contains Unity launcher for Doom, doesn't work well on Linux currently. I managed it to launch via Proton v5.0-9, but I see a little reason to use the Unity wrapper when native source ports are available.

Just install chocolate-doom or prboom-plus (they should be in your repositories), or add some other source ports from this repository.

Chocolate Doom and GZDoom will even automatically find Doom files from your Steam installation. Not sure if prboom+ does that too.

[famicommander]

I just use GZDoom or Chocolate Doom. I'd recommend going that route instead

[Dr. Toboggan]

  On 9/13/2020 at 4:42 AM, m8f said:

New Steam Doom update, which contains Unity launcher for Doom, doesn't work well on Linux currently. I managed it to launch via Proton v5.0-9, but I see a little reason to use the Unity wrapper when native source ports are available.

Just install chocolate-doom or prboom-plus (they should be in your repositories), or add some other source ports from this repository.

Chocolate Doom and GZDoom will even automatically find Doom files from your Steam installation. Not sure if prboom+ does that too.

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Thanks for the info. Is UD capable of being launchable through steam with GZDoom as the sourceport? I was able to do this on Windows by replacing the dosbox executable with the GZDoom executable.

[m8f]

Yes, it is. Though you normally don't move installed files in Linux, and I'd recommend replacing DOSBox executable with a symlink to GZDoom or a shell script.

[Dr. Toboggan]

  On 9/14/2020 at 3:26 AM, m8f said:

Yes, it is. Though you normally don't move installed files in Linux, and I'd recommend replacing DOSBox executable with a symlink to GZDoom or a shell script.

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PERFECT. Thanks sir