Doomsday engine not working on windows 7
Please can anybody help? The doomsday engine is NOT working on windows 7 64 bit ... while it works perfect on Win 8 and 8.1. When I select doom 2 or plutonia or tnt and click play a black window appears and nothing else and then it asks me to end the process.
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The BFG edition Doom2 Iwad is slightly different to the original Doom2 1.9 Iwad and isn't officially supported by Dday; though Dday will attempt to run the Doom2 BFG Iwad assuming it's an original Doom2 1.9 Iwad.
One of these differences will result in a black screen when you start Doom2, that isn't caused by Vsync issues; the BFG edition of Doom2 lacks the title pic graphic of the original version, hence you will get no title graphic (as Dday is expecting Doom2 1.9, it is expecting the mentioned title pic graphic). But the game menu should still be openable and the game playable etc.
Historically failure during engine startup relating to shaders has been because the users OpenGL requirement isn't high enough for Dday's implementation of them. Could it be that some supposedly OpenGL 2.1 compatible cards also lack certain features needed by Dday's implementation of shaders? Or maybe Dday is in-avertedly doing something in a way that isn't 2.0 compatible (i.e meaning Dday won't actually run on 2.0 cards)?
Zrkhan mentioned Windows 8 as well as Windows 7; are both OS installed on the same computer, are they two different computers, with their own video cards?
Thanks for the tip, I will try out 1.10.4
14.5 would crash right as the game tried to start.
Interesting. As your video driver is evidently reporting only two display modes for 1360x768 (16 and 32 bits) it is likely that the one 32-bit mode doesn't support the method of multisampling that Doomsday tries to use. I suspect the driver is indeed reporting a pixel format that isn't exactly what Doomsday asked for and consequently it fails trying to create the render context/framebuffer/canvas.
It would appear that ATI is indeed misreporting availability at some resolutions. The Doomsday window manager, canvas (etc...) is supposed to check this, though, and automatically disable it if its not actually available. We'll have to go through that code and double check its behaving correctly in that situation.
C:\Users\username\Documents\Doomsday Frontend
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Deng Team
on windows 7
Appinit failed:
[createdirerror] (directoryfeed::createdir) could not create: c:\users\??? Any help?
Thx
[DuplicateNameError] (Folder::add) Folder cannot contain two files with the same name: 'decorate'
Please Help !!!
Thanks.