[96] zdoom freezes when starting with this wad

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:43 pm

hey there

i have a wad here for doom1
when i try ti use it with the newest versiin of zdoom
it freezes and keeps spamming this message
cant remember all of it

i porbably should have wrote it down hehe
something like "text chunk is to big"
and i couldnt get out without force reseting my comp
im sure its not the wad, it used to work with older versions of zdoom
and it works fine with doom95

file is here if you want to see for yourself
http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/dlw/Doom1_3.shtml

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:45 pm

Which one?

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:48 pm

rofl
i guess i forgot that

its cobra3
download is pretty slow, only 1kb/sec on my 5mb cable

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:57 pm

For me, too, even with DSL.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:07 pm

it seems the other cobra wads do this too
cobra 1 and 2

the full error message is "text chunk is missing size of new string"

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:23 pm

That message is part of the DEHACKED parser. It seems that these WADs contain a buggy DEHACKED patch.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:37 pm

really? should i just remove the dehacked patch then? or is this zdoom related

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:41 pm

I can tell you in 5 minutes when the download finishes.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:46 pm

Well, it looks like the guy who compiled this WAD didn't bother to put a compliant DEHACKED lump in. In short, it contains some stuff at the end that Legacy apparently can handle even though it has no place there. You can safely remove it because all it contains are altered level names.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:24 pm

this makes sence
i got the wads from jives site
he works on making wads gl-legacy friendly
but still, it shouldnt be doing this. as it used to work in zdoom
unless randy recently broke what ever it was that made it work

thanks for the help