FastDoom: DOS Vanilla Doom optimized for 386/486 processors

The VESA modes rock, though I'd only stick with 640x400 one because it looks crisp enough, runs fastests and keeps 4:3 ratio, if only there was 1280x800 mode (640x400*2). Btw, I noticed that all these VESA modes look pretty different from the vanilla version, the diminished lights are way too bright.

Seems this just made me want to fire up my 2.4ghz celeron machine but I'm not sure if I had a proper DOS VESA 2.0 driver that would work with FX5500 128mb, could you suggest any?

It's a bit of an offtop here but the original Quake executable probably supports my video card out of the box as it detects NVIDIA VESA card and there's plenty resolution options are available, would have been very cool to inject the drivers in the exe, that's a very much to ask though.

@Darkcrafter07 can you post a screenshot of regular FDOOM.EXE and any of the VESA modes? Nvidia FX VESA support is fairly good, so it shouldn't need any TSR VESA fix.

@viti95, I only tested it in PCem but really eager to get that old pc out on the light and fire it up. Btw, do you mean those VESA exe's will run without any driver out of the box? I'll get to see it!

Upd: I made a video on testing it all out thoroughly and comparing against other games of the time like Duke3D and Quake in VESA modes.
 

On 1/14/2024 at 8:38 PM, viti95 said:

I've uploaded a new test build with the new VESA modes. There will likely be some bugs, so please feel free to report them.

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/1301624