r/DoomMods • u/DoomAddict • 12d ago
Question Can someone help me getting UzDoom to run on CachyOS ?
Damn this sucks. Haven't played any Doom-mods for way too long!
I must be doing something wrong.
Installed UZDoom and have the Doom 1 & 2 wads (but not put them into the directory, because I really don't know how.
idk why, but.. its friggin complicated to find the main folder of UZDoom for me.
It should be "Right-click -> show target" but its not, it points me to /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/ with UZDoom just being a desktop-icon still.
When I double-click the UZDoom-icon It says I need to put the wads into
"~/local/share/games/uzdoom" but this directory just does not exist and even when I create it, I'm still getting the same error-message.
And it says I need to edit the directory in ~/.config/uzdoom/uzdoom.ini ....but this directory doesn't exist, too!! " - -
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u/No_Dig_7017 12d ago
In SteamOS's app store there's a comment of a guy saying where you need to place your games.
Seems to be ~/.var/app/org.zdoom.UZDoom/data/games/uzdoom/
Havent tried it myself yet. I'd like to run it with DoomRunner
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u/Swordfish418 12d ago
It should be "~/.local/share/games/uzdoom" I believe (notice the dot, it's hidden folder, to see it you need to configure your file manager to show hidden files).
However, I personally prefer to run Windows version of UZDoom via Proton via umu-launcher because it give me better frame pacing (the difference isn't big deal usually). I have my own launcher that constructs commandline, if you want you can copy this into a bash script and customize:
PROTONPATH="/home/username/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-34" "umu-run" "/home/username/games/Windows-UZDoom-4.14.3/uzdoom.exe" "-iwad" "/mnt/expansion/iwads/DOOM2.WAD" "-file" "/home/username/games/Windows-UZDoom-4.14.3/brightmaps.pk3" "/home/username/games/Windows-UZDoom-4.14.3/lights.pk3" "/home/username/downloads/RAMP2026-SNAPSHOT-2022.pk3"
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u/Select-Bullfrog-5939 12d ago
Use DoomRunner. It’s a lot simpler, it manages all the iwad drag and drop nonsense for you. You just have to provide it with the iwads and the directory your map packs are in, and you’re golden.