What is the purpose of the line of dots at Doom 2 game startup?

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There is a progressing line of dots at the Doom 2 game start. I am curious of what it indicates actually. Are these tests?

This is screen from Doom 1, but the same goes for Doom 2

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Best Answer

It's a progress bar - back then this part of loading the game took some time, and it's important to show some "movement" so that users don't think that the game has crashed.

IIRC on a 386 it took something like half a minute to start up? Hard to tell, that was a long time ago.



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