DOOM Retro v4.4.5 is now available to download as either a 32 or 64-bit Windows app. Here’s a list of what’s changed since the last version:

• DOOM Retro is now compiled using v17.1 of Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022.
• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance of DOOM Retro.
• Crashes no longer occur in the following instances:
  • Sometimes when the player moves at the start of a map while the automap is open and the am_path CVAR is on.
  • When running DOOM Retro as a non-Steam game through Steam and a controller is connected.
  • When the player exits a map after the music has been changed using a MUSINFO lump.
  • When a map contains a linedef with an invalid special.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• The diagonal pattern of the console’s background now shifts with the rest of the console as it opens and closes.
• Music can now continue to play in the background when DOOM Retro’s window loses focus by enabling the new s_musicinbackground CVAR, which is off by default.
• Further improvements have been made to the support for DOOM 4 VANILLA.
• Use of the mouse is no longer lost if the external automap is shown on another display when the am_external CVAR is on.
• Monsters spawned using the spawn CCMD now face the player.
• The intensity of the red effect when the player is injured and the r_damageeffect is on has increased to be more consistent with Vanilla DOOM.
• Dithered lighting is now applied to missing wall textures if the r_ditheredlighting CVAR is on.
• The gold effect when the player picks up an item now appears correctly in Chex Quest, Freedoom, HacX: Twitch ’n Kill and REKKR.
• DOOM Retro now recognizes the presence of allowmonstertelefrags in MAPINFO lumps.