Problems with Doom 3 install

mat_uk111 · 05-22-2006, 04:33 PM

I got around to installing Doom 3 on my AMD64, All went well until I got this rather odd error

DOOM 1.3.1302 linux-x86 May 12 2005 14:56:44
found interface lo - loopback
found interface eth1 - 192.168.1.4/255.255.255.0
------ Initializing File System ------
Loaded pk4 /home/mat/doom3/base/game01.pk4 with checksum 0xe9d5adcf
Loaded pk4 /home/mat/doom3/base/game02.pk4 with checksum 0x80401dd2
Loaded pk4 /home/mat/doom3/base/game03.pk4 with checksum 0x351c23e8
Loaded pk4 /home/mat/doom3/base/pak005.pk4 with checksum 0x8ffc3621
Loaded pk4 /home/mat/doom3/base/pak006.pk4 with checksum 0x95b65ab
Loaded pk4 /home/mat/doom3/base/pak007.pk4 with checksum 0x666bdb3c
Current search path:
/home/mat/.doom3/base
/home/mat/doom3/base
/home/mat/doom3/base/pak007.pk4 (38 files)
/home/mat/doom3/base/pak006.pk4 (48 files)
/home/mat/doom3/base/pak005.pk4 (63 files)
/home/mat/doom3/base/game03.pk4 (2 files)
/home/mat/doom3/base/game02.pk4 (2 files)
/home/mat/doom3/base/game01.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
Addon pk4s:
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
Unknown command 'vid_restart'
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg

Anyone any idea of a possible solution?

Mat

verdeboy2k · 05-23-2006, 09:19 AM

I got this problem when I installed Doom 3, make sure that the directory the game is installed to is writable by the user you're playing the game as. At least that is what I had to do to correct this error, all the files ended up owned by root for some reason.

mat_uk111 · 05-23-2006, 05:25 PM

Well I just tried the same thing as root and the same thing happened, I might do a chmod 777 and see if that clears it.

Mat

mat_uk111 · 05-23-2006, 05:27 PM

I tried that and I still had the same error.

verdeboy2k · 05-24-2006, 01:30 AM

hmmm.... does the file default.cfg exist? If not, try making it as an empty file and see if that works.

mat_uk111 · 05-24-2006, 12:15 PM

It didn't, so I did as you suggested and tried it again and I got the same problem.

Mat

verdeboy2k · 05-24-2006, 02:47 PM

According to a post here all you need to do is make sure that there is a line in /etc/hosts that reads
127.0.0.1 localhost

see if that works.

mat_uk111 · 05-24-2006, 04:18 PM

It has that line, one of the very first infact.

Mat

chadl · 06-10-2006, 09:18 AM

That message indicates that you did not copy the files from your CD-ROM/DVD onto your HDD. There are a few files you need to copy.

If you use Emerge (Gentoo), you get the following message at the end of the install:

Quote:

* You need to copy pak000.pk4, pak001.pk4, pak002.pk4, pak003.pk4, and
* pak004.pk4 from either your installation media or your hard drive to
* /opt/doom3/base before running the game,
* or 'emerge games-fps/doom3-data' to install from CD.

* To use the Resurrection of Evil expansion pack, you also need to copy
* pak000.pk4 to /opt/doom3/d3xp from the RoE CD before running the game,
* or 'emerge doom3-roe' to install from CD.

Note that Emerge wants the files to be put in "/opt/doom3/base" but from the output of your error message, you want to put them in "/home/mat/.doom3/base", however the file names that Emerge lists will be the same.

Seph64 · 06-10-2006, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadl

That message indicates that you did not copy the files from your CD-ROM/DVD onto your HDD. There are a few files you need to copy.

If you use Emerge (Gentoo), you get the following message at the end of the install:

Note that Emerge wants the files to be put in "/opt/doom3/base" but from the output of your error message, you want to put them in "/home/mat/.doom3/base", however the file names that Emerge lists will be the same.

Actually, from the error message, you'd want them in "/home/mat/doom3/base", no period at the start of doom3.