Cannot load library C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\Bin\...

Gilles Maisonneuve

Good evening,

I just installed Doomsday 1.12 / Snowberry to play my old Doom.wad and when I launch the application I get a Windows eror saying that the application has stopped functionning (looking for a solution, blah blah blah ...).
My PC is : i5-2400 / 3.10 - 8GB - W7/64 SP1
Doomsday installed Under "C:\Program Files (x86)" (originally a "Junction" {NB for Unix-like users: an NTFS hard link to another disk/directory like with the "ln" command} to "E:\Program Files (x86)" but I changed that back when I got the first error and it did not help.)
WAD files installed under: I:\SL\Distrib\Applications\Multimedia\Games\Doom\Data\jDoom

Here is the copy of the content of the doomsday out file:

Application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\Bin\Doomsday.exe

Enabled log entry level: MESSAGE
Created a new 32.0 MB memory volume.

Executable: Doomsday Engine 1.12.0 (Stable 32-bit #1006) Oct  3 2013 06:45:02.

Command line (12 strings):
  0: ..\Bin\Doomsday.exe
  1: -basedir
  2: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday/
  3: -sfxchan
  4: 16
  5: -notexcomp
  6: -game
  7: doom1
  8: -iwad
  9: I:\SL\Distrib\Applications\Multimedia\Games\Doom\Data\jDoom\DOOM.WAD
 10: -userdir
 11: C:\Users\XX\Documents\Doomsday

Frontend\runtime/Loading shader definitions from read-only archive entry "data/shaders.dei" at path
"/data/doomsday.pk3/data/shaders.dei" (out of archive in read-only native file "(basedir)\data\doomsday.pk3")

Initializing plugins...
Library_New: Error opening "/bin/audio_openal.dll": [LoadError] (Library::Library)
Cannot load library C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\Bin\plugins\audio_openal.dll:
The specified module could not be found.
  loadPlugin: Did not load "/bin/audio_openal.dll" ([LoadError] (Library::Library)
  Cannot load library C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\Bin\plugins\audio_openal.dll:
  The specified module could not be found.).

(id:1) dehread
  (id:2) doom
  (id:3) heretic
  (id:4) hexen
  (id:5) wadmapconverter
Starting GuiApp event loop...

Has someone alread encounter such behaviour and has a clue about what I am doing wrong?

Thank you in advance for your ideas.

Gilles

Vermil

I've read posts from other users recently about Doomsday crashing when reading configs.

I haven't looked into it myself, but one thing I noticed in all the cases, is that the users don't have every element of Dday on one drive (i.e the install, wad files, configs etc).

Try re-installing Dday to and placing your Iwads, on the same drive as your OS?

Gilles Maisonneuve

Hello,

I tried to move everything to C:\Doom (the wads) and then reinstall Doomsday on C: too.
Got the same crash with the following doomsday.out:

Application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\Bin\Doomsday.exe
Enabled log entry level: MESSAGE
Created a new 32.0 MB memory volume.
Executable: Doomsday Engine 1.12.0 (Stable 32-bit #1006) Oct  3 2013 06:45:02.
Command line (12 strings):
  0: ..\Bin\Doomsday.exe
  1: -basedir
  2: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday/
  3: -sfxchan
  4: 16
  5: -notexcomp
  6: -game
  7: doom1
  8: -iwad
  9: C:\Doom\Data\jDoom\DOOM.WAD
  10: -userdir
  11: C:\Users\XX\Documents\Doomsday Frontend\runtime/
Loading shader definitions from read-only archive entry "data/shaders.dei" at path "/data/
doomsday.pk3/data/shaders.dei" (out of archive in read-only native file "(basedir)\data\
doomsday.pk3")
Initializing plugins...
Library_New: Error opening "/bin/audio_openal.dll": [LoadError] (Library::Library) Cannot
                                                    load library C:\Program Files (x86)\
                                                    Doomsday\Bin\plugins\audio_openal.dll:
                                                    The specified module could not be
                                                    found.
  loadPlugin: Did not load "/bin/audio_openal.dll" ([LoadError] (Library::Library) Cannot
              load library C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\Bin\plugins\audio_openal.dll:
              The specified module could not be found.).
  (id:1) dehread
  (id:2) doom
  (id:3) heretic
  (id:4) hexen
  (id:5) wadmapconverter
Starting GuiApp event loop...

Any other idea ?

DaniJ

Does your username contain any "unusual" characters?

Gilles Maisonneuve

Not at all : only 2 letters from the US ASCII alphabet, UPPERCASES...