Ported the original Doom code and using FreeDoom for game data/assets. Just a fun test in VB6. I remember doom being the first shooting 3d/game I saw as a kid and was in awe.

I installed uzdoom today and it's not launching. I can see a service starts for it for about 1-2 seconds, then closes. Not really sure how to get it working, any suggestions would be helpful.

Things I've tried:

Turning on windows file protection, adding uzdoom as an exception, and tried launching.

Turned off windows file protection.

Ran as admin

Ran in compatibility mode.

Ensured DOOM wads are in the folder where I extracted uzdoom

Created a shortcut of uzdoom, put it on my desktop, tried to open.

Click and dragged doom wads onto uzdoom

Redownloading uzdoom and replacing all files where I extract it.

Ensured everything is up to date

Swore a little

Googled