Very odd glitch
So I'm playing Doom 2 with various addons installed and suddenly the game gets really, really choppy, and the framerate drops to nothing. This has never happened before in Doomsday. So I save and quit the game, and decide to disable all addon packs and just run the game through Doomsday in it's 'unmodded' state.
So after disabling all addons, I reload my save, but then I get an error message telling me that the 'savegame requires the following addons to load'.
So, apparently, if you disable any addons, your save game cannot be loaded - is that right?
I tried re-enabling all the addons, but I still got the message, even though all the addons it told me I had to enable were actually enabled.
In the end, after trying everything I could think of I just gave up and restarted the game, and just used warp to take me to the level I was at before the problem began.
So is this a known issue, or have I discovered something new and strange?
I'm using v2464, which I'm given to understand is the most stable version right now.
So after disabling all addons, I reload my save, but then I get an error message telling me that the 'savegame requires the following addons to load'.
So, apparently, if you disable any addons, your save game cannot be loaded - is that right?
I tried re-enabling all the addons, but I still got the message, even though all the addons it told me I had to enable were actually enabled.
In the end, after trying everything I could think of I just gave up and restarted the game, and just used warp to take me to the level I was at before the problem began.
So is this a known issue, or have I discovered something new and strange?
I'm using v2464, which I'm given to understand is the most stable version right now.
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However, there's an undocumented fall back feature that allows to load savegames even with missing addons. When Doomsday shows the "Incompatible Addons" prompt upon trying to load a savegame with missing addons, hold down the left [ALT] key. This changes the "Load Mods" button label to "Ignore and Continue" and enables you to do just that.
Hold down [ALT] key to load savegame with missing addons:
First of all I tried to load them all at once via the Incompatible Add-ons dialog, by (I think) clicking some kind of 'load all' button (forgive me, but I'm not at my PC right now, and am relying upon memory)
This gave me the hour glass and Doomsday seemed to freeze. I left it for maybe five minutes but ultimately I just shut it down in task manager, as it was clear that it had stalled.
Second thing I tried, as far as I remember, was to load them individually via the Incompatible Add-ons dialog. This worked, but the game still gave me the 'missing add-on' message.
Finally I tried adding them all in the conventional way by clicking the Packages icon and adding them all that way, just as I did when first setting up the games on Doomsday. The addons all loaded fine, and starting a new game worked perfectly, with all add-ons in place. But attempting to load the save game just gave me the 'missing add-ons' message.
Of course it's very possible that this isn't a bug, and I just did something wrong due to either unfamiliarity or incompetence.
The other thing is now that I know that they had to be loaded in the correct order, it's highly likely that I did not do this, and loaded them in a different order.
Preferably the load order slots are represented by a 2-digit display in front of each addon, and the load order is amendable via drag&drop and keyboard shortcuts (e.g. CTRL+SHFT+CURSOR-UP/DOWN).
This should not be an hidden function, but good thing it exists.
I agree the load order should be more explicit in the UI.
Instead of hiding the override behind Alt, I can make it a regular check box in the dialog that warns you about a possible crash if enabled.