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DOOM (2016) - Change viewmodel FOV for DOOM

DOOM (2016) – Change viewmodel FOV

Overview

Easy step-by-step guide on how to change the viewmodel field of view in DOOM (2016).

Introduction

Like most modern FPS games, DOOM (2016) suffers from an often neglected problem – the amount of space that the weapons models take off the screen and being too close to the screen. It’s even worse on ultrawide monitors or multi-monitor setup.


This can be optimised easily and all you need is:

  • Flawless Widescreen – Download[www.flawlesswidescreen.org]
  • Steam console

However, Flawless Widescreen doesn’t work with the latest DOOM version and the only way to make it work again is to downgrade and use an older version.

NOTE: WORKS ONLY FOR SINGLEPLAYER!

UPDATE 12.02.2020: VALVE HAS PATCHED DOWNGRADING IN THE LATEST STEAM CLIENT!

This basically means that after all these years, Valve has removed downgrading.

Enable Steam Console

Create a shortcut of Steam.exe, right-click on the shortcut, click Properties and add “-console” (without the quotation marks) after Steam.exe target address. Restart Steam and you should see “Console” tab after your username on the steam client.

Or you can simply write steam://open/console in the browser search bar.

Find Game/App ID Number on steamdb.info

App ID is 379720,
Depot ID is 379721
Manifest ID for the files I used is 907965064786099828

Copy and paste the command “download_depot 379720 379721 907965064786099828” (without the quotation marks) into the Steam console and press enter.

This will download the files of the older version.

Steps

I. Downgrade DOOM

UPDATE 12.02.2020: VALVE HAS PATCHED DOWNGRADING IN THE LATEST STEAM CLIENT!

I uploaded the files of the older version on Google Drive so anyone can still download them!
Download link: [link]

II.Make a backup of the main DOOM folder in case something goes wrong.

III. Copy and paste the files you downloaded.

IV. Start Flawless Widescreen, select DOOM and choose whichever FOV you prefer.

Start DOOM and Rip and tear… until it is done!

Screenshots

SteamSolo.com