BRUTAL HERETIC RPG (ZDL Edition) v6.5

[UncleRusty]

Hello and hope you are good.

I've never heard of this aspect ratio and resolution before (32:9 5120x1440) That must be a very expensive display indeed.

I don't even know how I could test this out as I cannot render that aspect ratio? At the moment the aspect ratio goes to max 21:9 so I'm confused on how you got 32:9 as I haven't edited anything with these values it should work?

I just had a look online for 32:9 monitors and they are very expensive, they look insane. Right can you test out a beta version of gzdoom with 32:9 aspect ratio and see if the issue occurs there.

What version of gzdoom do you have that works with 32:9 ratio? How exactly did you edit the settings so it works? Please can you upload me some screenshots to imgur and DM me the screenshots please?

Please send me the screenshots for,

Gzdoom screenshot video options panel with the settings working for 32:9
Gzdoom screenshot of ingame with 32:9
Nzdoom screenshot video options panel with the same settings for 32:9
Nzdoom screenshots of ingame with 32:9

Also regarding the difficulty for the game, for single player Brutal Heretic you can select normal for casual or increase the difficulty for more challenge or for coop mode, there is noway to give you XP thats classed as cheating so its all disabled.

I appreciate you testing our engine that means alot to us, you actually need the Nzdoom engine for Brutal Heretic/Hexen as they both utilize dynamic lighting, if you test out these games with Gzdoom you will notice the firetorch light rays will be green instead of orange aswell as other light sources will bug out, the dynamic lighting is broken on Gzdoom and the devs refuse to fix it, been like this for well over a year now. Nzdoom engine fixes all these issues and more, every tester has stated that our engine plays more smooth and has consistent high frame rate aswell as all the sector/dynamic lights are fixed.

Hope this helps.

PS. I just loaded up Brutal Heretic on my laptop which only has a 1280x800 display yes I'm poor but I can emulate the resolution of 5120x1440 and the weapons are not stretched but the HUD is stretched, I need to update Brutal Heretic with full scaling HUD values, I have done this for Brutal Hexen but the update is not out yet. Please take a look at the screenshots I uploaded on the first page here and look at the weapons, are they the same?

Thanks for the detailed response and getting back to me! So I've played around with it a bit in both NZDoom, as well as the latest GZDOOM 4.12.2. It definitely looks much better in NZDoom thanks to the dynamic lighting effects, looks fantastic. To get 32:9 working correctly, I basically have to disable scaling and set that resolution manually, which actually works fine in both.

I realized that in NZDoom specifically, the weapon scaling issue is actually only present if I use the minimal HUD, which can be accessed via the '-' button -- in this case, the weapons get cut off basically but it's still playable. If I instead use your default HUD, the weapons are actually not cut off at all, just stretched slightly due to 32:9 not being officially supported. In GZDoom, using the minimal HUD doesn't have this problem actually. The only complaint I have with the default HUD, is that the icons for weapons and text are quite large on this display and I can't seem to be able to actually adjust their scaling with any settings, this may be hardcoded or related to the fact that I'm just forcing the resolution without actually setting an aspect ratio since this one isn't officially supported. It's not a huge deal as it's absolutely playable like this, and I prefer the lighting that NZDoom offers as it's a great upgrade over GZDoom lighting.

And yes, the 32:9 monitors are not cheap lol, but I love high-end technology. Rocking a QD-OLED model from samsung at this resolution, it works great and HDR actually seems to mostly work when enabled in the settings --- It's a blast to play old titles like these with a few visual upgrades at 240hz refresh rate. I will get some screenshot comparisons for you later when I have a chance, appreciate you looking into this as there are a handful of us out there running 32:9 monitors, old school shooters and boomer shooters are some of the few games you can actually run at this resolution with 240FPS locked on these, it's a great experience for twitchy shooters like this in terms of super-smooth response. Thanks again!