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| | Vista - doom collectors edition |
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| 10-25-2007 | #1 |
| | doom collectors edition i have tried mulitple types of compatability for this game and it will install fine but when i go to run it it gives me a message saying it cant find dplay.dll but when other people try it on their computers it will work fine so i know its not the cd or the copy of the files. what can i do? |
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| 10-25-2007 | #2 |
| | Re: doom collectors edition You might try installing DX9c from Microsoft. It includes some dll's from previous DirectX that aren't included in Vista. Although, I thought Doom was based on OpenGL... Give it a try and let us know. Link to download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en -- Dustin Harper dharper@xxxxxx http://www.vistarip.com "nanadel" <nanadel@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:A12BA7E8-28F7-4B81-AEF2-7307C8DD38AD@xxxxxx Quote: >i have tried mulitple types of compatability for this game and it will > install fine but when i go to run it it gives me a message saying it cant > find dplay.dll but when other people try it on their computers it will > work > fine so i know its not the cd or the copy of the files. what can i do? |
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| 03-03-2009 | #3 |
| vista home premium 32bit | Re: doom collectors edition i got over the DPLAY.dll error by downloading the dll file separately and putting it in c:\windows\system 32. but now i have big problems with screen resolution. no matter what size i have set it to be, or whether it is supposed to be window or full screen, the game always comes up in full screen as a small narrow monochrome picture at the edge with flickering around the edge of the screen. help! anyone know what it is or how to fix it? |
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| 03-03-2009 | #4 |
| Vista Ultimate 64bit SP2/ | Re: doom collectors edition i have tried mulitple types of compatability for this game and it will install fine but when i go to run it it gives me a message saying it cant find dplay.dll but when other people try it on their computers it will work fine so i know its not the cd or the copy of the files. what can i do? download and put the file into the doom2, ultimate doom and final doom folders and you will be good to play.i got over the DPLAY.dll error by downloading the dll file separately and putting it in c:\windows\system 32. but now i have big problems with screen resolution. no matter what size i have set it to be, or whether it is supposed to be window or full screen, the game always comes up in full screen as a small narrow monochrome picture at the edge with flickering around the edge of the screen. help! anyone know what it is or how to fix it? Put the dll into doom2, ultimate doom and final doom folders. |
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| 03-03-2009 | #5 |
| vista home premium 32bit | Re: doom collectors edition Put the dll into doom2, ultimate doom and final doom folders.[/quote] unfortunately this has not fixed my screen resolution errors... thankyou for the help so far though. |
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| 03-04-2009 | #6 |
| | Re: doom collectors edition lordgibby0 <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in news:8a8f69bd78cdddd72aa876ddc7b21815@xxxxxx-gateway.com: Quote: > > i got over the DPLAY.dll error by downloading the dll file separately > and putting it in c:\windows\system 32. > but now i have big problems with screen resolution. no matter what size > i have set it to be, or whether it is supposed to be window or full > screen, the game always comes up in full screen as a small narrow > monochrome picture at the edge with flickering around the edge of the > screen. help! > anyone know what it is or how to fix it? FREEWARE?! That means that all the source code has been online for years now, and since then people have come out with GREAT Windows compatible versions of DOOM. Of course the files that contain all the levels are not free, but what you can do is install these windows versions of Doom where you have Doom Collectors Edition installed, run the new DOOM version and you should be able to play all the DOOM games you own in a windows compatible application. There are even versions of doom that you can put on your PDAs, or other handheld devices. Let me see if I can find a version to get you started. Ooo, look, a Google search for DOOM for Windows brought up the following: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_pl..._on_Windows_XP (Lots of links to new Doom Engines as well as how-to setup instructions) http://www.doomworld.com/doom4win/ (looks old) http://revolution.cx/DoomCE.htm (Doom for Windows Mobile) Hope that helps you out a bit. I have DOOM running on a hacked PSP: http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/doompsp.shtml PSP is a great homebrew device if you're lucky enough to be able to figure out how to patch the firmware. Too bad Sony keeps trying to stop the hacks from coming out, and too bad the PSP battery sucks ass. -- Joe |
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| 03-05-2009 | #7 |
| | Re: doom collectors edition Try using DosBOX which is excellent emulator for DOS. What OS are you running and how are you executing the game? Are you running it in a compatibility mode? -- "lordgibby0" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:8a8f69bd78cdddd72aa876ddc7b21815@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > i got over the DPLAY.dll error by downloading the dll file separately > and putting it in c:\windows\system 32. > but now i have big problems with screen resolution. no matter what size > i have set it to be, or whether it is supposed to be window or full > screen, the game always comes up in full screen as a small narrow > monochrome picture at the edge with flickering around the edge of the > screen. help! > anyone know what it is or how to fix it? > > > -- > lordgibby0 |
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| 04-16-2009 | #8 |
| Vista Home Premium | Re: doom collectors edition I'm running the Doom Collector's Edition in Vista Home Premium and I had the same problem(s). This is how to solve them. First download the dplay.dll file as has already been described above and insert a copy into the three separate folders for Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom. You now have the necessary files for the games to actually run. To cure the resolution issues, here's what you do. Double-click the desktop icon for the game you want to run. The Doom For Windows 95 Launcher will open. Click on Advanced. Click on the Screen Resolution tab. You'll probably find that the resolution is set to 320x300 and for the game to run in a window. Set the resolution to 640x480 and set it to run full screen. Click OK. Click new game. Go frag things! ![]() Hopefully this will solve your problems |
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| 04-23-2009 | #9 |
| | Re: doom collectors edition Senban <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in news:9062adf24e2ab7fd32bed385804a92c7@xxxxxx-gateway.com: Quote: > > I'm running the Doom Collector's Edition in Vista Home Premium and I > had the same problem(s). This is how to solve them. > > First download the dplay.dll file as has already been described above > and insert a copy into the three separate folders for Ultimate Doom, > Doom 2 and Final Doom. You now have the necessary files for the games > to actually run. > > To cure the resolution issues, here's what you do. Double-click the > desktop icon for the game you want to run. The Doom For Windows 95 > Launcher will open. Click on Advanced. Click on the Screen > Resolution tab. You'll probably find that the resolution is set to > 320x300 and for the game to run in a window. Set the resolution to > 640x480 and set it to run full screen. Click OK. Click new game. Go > frag things! ![]() The Doom Source Code was released to the public a long time ago, lots of people have written clients that run natively in Windows NT/XP/Vista, you may still need to make sure DirectX is up to snuff, but at least with a native client you won't have to run Win9x DirectX libraries. Doom runs on toasters now a days, just gotta get the right client and a CD with all the .WADs (Level data, still copyrighted, but the game code is open source) -- Joe |
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| 08-12-2009 | #10 |
| Vista x64 | Re: doom collectors edition i got over the DPLAY.dll error by downloading the dll file separately and putting it in c:\windows\system 32. but now i have big problems with screen resolution. no matter what size i have set it to be, or whether it is supposed to be window or full screen, the game always comes up in full screen as a small narrow monochrome picture at the edge with flickering around the edge of the screen. help! anyone know what it is or how to fix it? |
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