Unable to Launch a game using Doomsday [Resolved]

nyr9999

I am having issues getting games to launch. I use to have no problem at all. For some reason it will not work anymore. Below is the error i get when i try to launch. I ensured i entered the correct wad and location of the wad. Any thoughts ? This is with all games doom. doom2 etc. I am using windows 7.

Runtime Error
An unexpected error occured during the processing of event play. Please report this incident to skyjake@users.sourceforge.net.
Exception:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\Vinny\\Documents\\Doomsday Frontend\\runtime\\Options.rsp'
Traceback:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\Vinny\\Documents\\Doomsday Frontend\\runtime\\Options.rsp'
File "events.pyo", line 401, in send
File "C:\Program Files\Doomsday\snowberry\plugins\launcher.py", line 143, in handleCommand
File "C:\Program Files\Doomsday\snowberry\plugins\launcher.py", line 214, in startGame

Gordon

should there be 2 \\ i thought there was only 1

nyr9999

as well i cannot locate C:\Users\<user name>\Doomsday Frontend\runtime\

nyr9999

not sure what you mean ?

Gordon

you put this: C:\\Users\\Vinny\\Documents\\Doomsday Frontend\\runtime\\Options.rsp
but it should be this: C:\Users\Vinny\Documents\Doomsday Frontend\runtime\Options.rsp now it could be a DDay thing as i have not yet updated to the latest

DaniJ

If you are missing files and things aren't where you expect them, I would suggest a re-install. Particularly if you have installed over a much earlier version.

@Gordon: This appears to be an issue with Snowberry rather than Doomsday itself.

nyr9999

I have removed doomsday from my pc and did a fresh install of the newest verison. However i am still having the same issue.

DaniJ

The reason this error is occuring is because the current user seemingly does not have permission to write to C:\Users\Vinny\Documents\Doomsday Frontend\runtime\Options.rsp (which contains the command line Snowberry passes to Doomsday in the form of a response file).

Do you know of any reason why this might be the case?

nyr9999

Not sure why thats the case. I have not changed anything that i know of.

DaniJ

The first thing to check is whether this file (or the containing directory) has been set to Read-Only in Windows.

nyr9999

OK so i figured out the issue now. I have two user profiles on my PC the one i was using and one that is a guest which my kids use. I go into the guest profile and the missing files are there and it runs with no issues. However i did not install it to that profile. I go back into my profile and find out the Doomsday folder is hidden. Not sure how that happened. I made it visible and now it works. Odd. No idea how that happened.