Internet Deathmatch Doom FAQ

[fodders]

Doomserv isn't running at the moment.

[AstroBoy]

Wow, just played my first DM online. I was in 2nd place! Awesome! This takes me waaaay back to playing over modem with my buddies. Anyway, what time do most people come on and play?

[ghost]

AstroBoy said:

what time do most people come on and play?

late night gmt...
unfortunately, most people seem to play when it's late night here in britain, which means i have to stay up till some stupid hour.
speaking of which, i've noticed that the doomworld clock - which claims to be gmt is two hours fast. i should know since i'm a londoner, and yes, i have set it up right.

[AstroBoy]

Hmm. Well I'm here in Canada. GMT -5. Eastern Time to be exact. I have no clue when ppl play.

[Carnevil]

Thanks for adding Skulltag, fodders!

[Purp]

ghost said:

unfortunately, most people seem to play when it's late night here in britain, which means i have to stay up till some stupid hour.

Ya, I do that cos that's afternoon in America, so that's when most players are on. Haven't played Doom online for a couple of months though, so I can't remember if that's the case with it, but it definitely is with most online games etc.

By the way, remember it's BST at the moment, GMT+1 - I made the mistake of forgetting that when posting something last year. I remember thinking fod was mad cos he lived in the UK but reckoned he had GMT+1 :)

[yarish]

Wow... I'm so glad I came here... I never knew about IDE before reading this thread.

How come it doen't have support for Legacy?

[Purp]

Does Legacy have a master server?

[Gherkin]

No it doesnt. That was the initial reason why Doom Connector was built. However, all I got were requests to make support for all kinda popular ports. It does now. And more than before, ever, anywhere. Still legacy is most played :\, which im trying to change, with little success :( People got to open their eyes.

EDIT: Since a couple days the legacy masterserver is back up, but its not really being used.
 

[[KruzadeR]]

I have ZDoom and i dont know how to play it on the internet. Help needed. is it cool? oh by the way i need help on the md2 models i dont know how to install!

[Purp]

Read the whole thread - it explains how to play online. And yeah, it is cool. Sorry, can't help you with the models.

[fodders]

[KruzadeR] said:
I have ZDoom and i dont know how to play it on the internet. Help needed. is it cool? oh by the way i need help on the md2 models i dont know how to install!

Help for ZDoom

[GiNGE3]

Excellent guide fod old boy :)

[fodders]

Hi Ginge :P

[GiNGE3]

Hello stranger, Cant sleep so browsing these fine forums ;)

[Kyte]

Im about to play my first online game! Im still downloading though. Hey so, which dowload do I click on to get to play doom online. I have Windows 98.

Im getting skulltag now. (Dont worry. Im an expert at lots of dooms but, is skulltag any different?)

I was also wondering how to get to play zdoom online. The link to your help page doesnt work.

edit- I just played doom and I won pretty good. I now have internet doom explorer, Skulltag, and Zdaemon.

[fodders]

Any problems using Zdaemon, refer to starter guide 1st.

[myk]

fodders said:
Khan seems to be the option of choice for people wanting to use original Doom2.exe

MSN's ZoneLAN is as good as (if not better than... seems so according to experience) Kahn. It was gone for a bit as MSN made some changes, but it was back after not too long.

Please check my PM, as well.

[Purp]

ZoneLAN's back? Cool, I thought it was gone for good.

Edited May 31, 2023 by Purp

[Raz]

I've patched my doom2.wad to 1.9 but I'm getting kicked out of games straight away. Last weekend I was able to play using my unpatched wad so I don't really understand what's going on. I'm using zdaemon and doom connector.

OH. And I have just downgraded from broadband to dial-up, sadly. Does that make any real difference? Should I just give up?

[CodeImp]

heh. Try using this IWAD Verifier. It can show you what version your doom2.wad really is. Then get the appropriate patch(es).

[Purp]

Hey, no-one ever bothered telling me about the IWAD Verifier. I went through loads of trouble patching my IWAD.

I DooMed online with 56k dial-up for a year or so and it works, but broadband is a million times better. Dial-up lags way too much.

[Grazza]

Raz: Please don't ask for help getting a pirated version of Doom2 to work. The post in which you did so has been deleted.

Note that this type of request is a banworthy offence on these forums. The policy will be enforced in the case of any further requests of this type.

[Raz]

Yes. I should've guessed that really.

[fodders]

Raz said:

I've patched my doom2.wad to 1.9 but I'm getting kicked out of games straight away. Last weekend I was able to play using my unpatched wad so I don't really understand what's going on. I'm using zdaemon and doom connector.

OH. And I have just downgraded from broadband to dial-up, sadly. Does that make any real difference? Should I just give up?

dial up is gonna be a pain, but some put up with it, high pings are the bane of zdaemon :(

[Gruson]

Can we get an updated way of playing?

How are you guys doing it?

I used to use IDE to find a game but now I get a "Bind to Port" error.....anyone want to help?

A lot of the links are down from the 1 page.

Thanks

[CodeImp]

You can find Doom Connector at www.doomconnector.com. The link on the first page is ages old and although I kept that host to mirror, it died like a year ago or something. The other links seem to work fine.

[fodders]

The Doom Connector link is fixed now.

[The Ultimate DooMer]

Gruson1 said:

I used to use IDE to find a game but now I get a "Bind to Port" error.....anyone want to help?

You've got something else using the same port (a number used to play stuff online), eg. another online game or something.

[Purp]

I don't think that should affect outgoing connections. Try just reinstalling csDoom, ZDaemon or Skulltag - whichever you use.