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Re:Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirme... by p1necone on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:26PM (#45270481)
> Never knew why that worked.

I'm guessing the game probably streams FMV cutscenes of the disc as they play, and the fallback behaviour if it can't find them is to skip rather than crash.

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