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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/52363

I’ve seen Doom run on calculators, an Apple Watch, hell I think some guys at MIT got it running on an abacus. There is an old meme about, “but will it run Crysis?” Turns out the Steam deck WILL run Crysis.

But not Doom (1993). Because that’s just too much to ask.

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[-] CarolineJohnson@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn't specifically say it doesn't work, just that it isn't supported. Meaning you can probably get it to work, you're just on your own in doing so.

[-] MrEUser@lemmy.ninja -5 points 1 year ago

It could also mean it won’t work, right?

[-] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But it does run perfectly fine as-is. There's also much better way to run Doom with native GZDoom. There's also the Luxtorpeda utility that allows easy download and run for most (if not all) Doom ports for most (if not all) classic Doom games.

The Steam verification system is just bad and they mark a ton of games as unsupported even when they play nicely out-of-box.

Unless a game is known for having anti-cheat or some intrusive DRM/broken launcher, there's no reason to not try it (unless it's 100GB and you don't want to download something that won't run anyway)

[-] MrEUser@lemmy.ninja -4 points 1 year ago

Your last sentence is the punchline of the joke I told… You can tell it’s comedy because the first sentence has an exaggeration so extreme it’s absurd (unless you REALLY think you can run Doom on an abacus). The second sentence references a meme used as comedy (but will it run Crysis). Then I set up the joke by showing how extreme the absurdity goes. How absurd you ask? Why, it’ll play Crysis, but not Doom…

Ha ha… funny…

I will never tell a joke on sh.itjust works again.

The shit just don’t work.

[-] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

doesn't*

Yeah yeah, we get the irony, but didn't know it was suppose to be funny.

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Comedy is hard.

[-] james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Best way to do it is to get one of the open source doom engines that’s *nix compatible and move your WADs over!

[-] viper4011@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I tried it and it works.

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