Ethereal Breakdown for Doom 64 Remaster & EX (33 new levels! OUT NOW!!!)

[Immorpher]

Ethereal Breakdown has been updated to version 1.2! The links at the original post now download the latest version.

Changes for Version 1.2
    - Press kit added to help with video thumbnails
    - General sprite updates with alpha and defringing
    - Blood Temple - Blood pool switch update
    - Consumitur Insania - Gameplay rebalanced, maze and alert softlock fix
    - Death Gate - Graphical updates and fixes
    - Deja Vu - Special effects and missing spawns update
    - Diverged Fates - Intermission screens updated
    - Frostwave - Intermission screens updated on remaster
    - Fragmented Memories - Music update
    - Haunted Eye - Missing texture fixed
    - Hollywood Holocaust - Thing alert and remaster mirror update
    - Mephitic Aqueduct - Damaging floor fix and music loop update
    - Putrid Palace - Exit fixed
    - Residence of Evil - Secret skip for remaster fixed
    - Rubic Chaos! - Stuck enemies reduced for EX fixed heights
    - Waterlogged Castillo - Pillar & soul sphere softlock and secret fixed

[Immorpher]

The download has been hotfixed to fix a rare missing texture on Frostwave, redownload if you wish! :)

[Immorpher]

We will be continuously hotfixing Ethereal Breakdown as it seems to be small bugs at this point. At the pinned original links, the Spawning Factory secret number got fixed.
 

@United VirusX is doing a 100% playthrough so he will likely find a lot of small bugs to be corrected as he forges on!

[nickxcom]

The Doom 64 EX PLUS link is still broken. Can anyone share a link to a working copy?

Edited December 15, 2022 by nickxcom

[taufan99]

34 minutes ago, nickxcom said:

The Doom 64 EX PLUS link is still broken. Can anyone share a link to a working copy?

It's already there (I've made sure I put the proper download link). The clickable link, however, gets messed up and brings you back to this thread for some reason.

[nickxcom]

Strange!! Thank you so much!

1 hour ago, taufan99 said:

It's already there (I've made sure I put the proper download link). The clickable link, however, gets messed up and brings you back to this thread for some reason.

 

[Immorpher]

Huh that is indeed strange! I am glad @taufan99 is back helping the community! I have DMed @Neigh Winny about the link being weird.

[NightFright]

I see there is a new version updated on Dec 13. Any significant changes or just minor bugfixes?

[United VirusX]

8 hours ago, NightFright said:

I see there is a new version updated on Dec 13. Any significant changes or just minor bugfixes?

we're been hot fixing it whenever a bug gets discovered I know the last updated fixed some soft locks 

 

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

On 10/28/2022 at 12:13 PM, Immorpher said:

If anyone needs help getting this running, I am here! :)

I downloaded the game and tried linking Doom 64's remaster exe with ZDL.  Upon clicking the launch option nothing happens.  I tried the Doom 64 ex source port, but when I try launching that it tells me that the executable doesn't work.  Any advice? I really want to check this out.

[NightFright]

I got it working with Doom Runner, but doom64.wad needs to reside in the port directory. (This goes for the GOG release only, mind you.)

Edited December 25, 2022 by NightFright

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

41 minutes ago, NightFright said:

I got it working with Doom Runner, but doom64.wad needs to reside in the port directory. (This goes for the GOG release only, mind you.)

I'm using the steam version.  Oddly enough when I click launch nothing happens. 

 

[NightFright]

The Steam version won't run without the Steam API. You need to use the GOG version or Steam must be running.

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

6 hours ago, NightFright said:

The Steam version won't run without the Steam API. You need to use the GOG version or Steam must be running.

Steam API?  What's that?  How do I use that?

[NightFright]

You use it automatically when launching Steam. Bottom line is: Doom 64 for Steam doesn't work without Steam, only the GOG edition does. And that's the only one that would work with an external launcher without having the Steam client open.

[Immorpher]

On 12/25/2022 at 11:47 AM, Undeadmerc3@aol.com said:

I downloaded the game and tried linking Doom 64's remaster exe with ZDL.  Upon clicking the launch option nothing happens.  I tried the Doom 64 ex source port, but when I try launching that it tells me that the executable doesn't work.  Any advice? I really want to check this out.

It should be able to boot up in the Remaster automatically via running the "#RUN.bat" it comes with. Let me know if that works for you! 

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

On 12/26/2022 at 12:07 PM, Immorpher said:

It should be able to boot up in the Remaster automatically via running the "#RUN.bat" it comes with. Let me know if that works for you! 

Thanks!  Finally got it working by dragging it to my steam folder for Doom 64.  

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

I finally got around to playing this.  There seems to be alot of weird texture bugs.  Are there plans for a patch in the future?

[NightFright]

I didn't see any of these. Are you sure you are using the right version for your port? At least the one for the Remaster works fine, even if I didn't try the more recent updates.

Edited January 6, 2023 by NightFright

[Immorpher]

12 hours ago, Undeadmerc3@aol.com said:

I finally got around to playing this.  There seems to be alot of weird texture bugs.  Are there plans for a patch in the future?

We continually patch it, and currently have all known fixable bugs fixed, but this is the first time we're hearing about texture bugs. Which port are you using and which version of the mod?

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

 

On 1/6/2023 at 11:45 AM, Immorpher said:

We continually patch it, and currently have all known fixable bugs fixed, but this is the first time we're hearing about texture bugs. Which port are you using and which version of the mod?

I'm using the steam version.

[Immorpher]

8 hours ago, Undeadmerc3@aol.com said:

 

I'm using the steam version.

Hmm, I am unsure why textures are bugging out on you. This mod has the most custom textures out of any other Doom 64 mod, so it makes me wonder if it's pushing the RAM of your computer/graphics card.

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

On 1/7/2023 at 11:12 PM, Immorpher said:

Hmm, I am unsure why textures are bugging out on you. This mod has the most custom textures out of any other Doom 64 mod, so it makes me wonder if it's pushing the RAM of your computer/graphics card.

Strange.  I myself don't have this problem when playing mods on Zdoom.  Is there some other way to install it?

[Edward850]

On 1/8/2023 at 5:12 PM, Immorpher said:

so it makes me wonder if it's pushing the RAM of your computer/graphics card.

Unlikely, the virtual texture page is a static chunk of memory that's allocated the same on all hardware, and all texture data is allocated exclusively to that page. @Undeadmerc3@aol.com needs to be more descriptive of their issue, including what they've done with the mod and some a screenshot demonstrating the issue.

Edited January 12, 2023 by Edward850

[Immorpher]

12 hours ago, Undeadmerc3@aol.com said:

Strange.  I myself don't have this problem when playing mods on Zdoom.  Is there some other way to install it?

In the steam launch options of Doom 64 you can do this...

-file "location of wad\wad name.wad"

To manually load the WAD EB comes with. Make sure you are on the latest update of the game too, as the first release years ago sometimes had issues with custom textures.

Edited January 12, 2023 by Immorpher

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

On 1/12/2023 at 10:57 AM, Immorpher said:

In the steam launch options of Doom 64 you can do this...

-file "location of wad\wad name.wad"

To manually load the WAD EB comes with. Make sure you are on the latest update of the game too, as the first release years ago sometimes had issues with custom textures.

 

Sorry to bump this a bit, but I figured i'd might aswell show what i'm talking about.  Figured it wouldn't hurt to show the glitches I found. It could be my computer or Steam itself causing the problem.  

 

 

 

 

[Edward850]

Huh, very odd. Do you get similar issues while unmodded? Additionally, can you run the console command "r_showvirtualvram 1" and show what the output looks like in the same scenes?

The output will look like this:

 

Additionally, post your PC specs (specifically the GPU) and check which renderer API you're using in the video options.

Edited January 18, 2023 by Edward850

[Immorpher]

@Undeadmerc3@aol.com very interesting! I have no clue what might be causing that glitch, but thanks for showing it. If others get it too maybe we can narrow it down. Edward's suggestion could narrow it down too!

[Undeadmerc3@aol.com]

On 1/17/2023 at 9:54 PM, Edward850 said:

Huh, very odd. Do you get similar issues while unmodded? Additionally, can you run the console command "r_showvirtualvram 1" and show what the output looks like in the same scenes?

The output will look like this:

 

Additionally, post your PC specs (specifically the GPU) and check which renderer API you're using in the video options.

Sure.  Interesting idea.  I attached a photo after typing the command in.  My graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.  I use a Dell G5 5590 laptop.

[Edward850]

Curious, there seems to be a little bit of extra noise in the monitor textures. Can't say if that's indicative of anything off hand. In your Video options, are you using Vulkan, D3D11 or OpenGL? Additionally, can you perform a clean reinstall of your nvidia drivers?

 

Judging by how the filtering is even being affected by the noise, it looks like something external on your system (i.e third party software) is introducing the problem into the texture data itself. Whatever that is or why, like some kind of overlay or some "graphical enhancement" program is introducing the issue, it's actually not coming from Doom64.

Edited January 25, 2023 by Edward850