by HotWax » Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:56 am
This is a weird one. The attached map will hang ZDoom quite thoroughly. Although the music continues, nothing else functions and the program must be forcefully shutdown. To make matters worse, ZDoom refuses to give up the screen, so you can't see the CTRL-ALT-DEL dialog, under XP at least. I finally had to put my computer into sleep mode (using a button on my keyboard), and then wake it back up before I could get any results, and that was just a discolored Win XP login screen. Luckily I could CTRL-ALT-DEL over the top of that and force ZDoom to shut down. Once it was gone, the computer resumed normal operation.
I tried it again in windowed mode to avoid the above complications and the same hang occured.
This is a single-sector WAD constructed with DoomBuilder 1.1, so that may be the root of the problem. XWE reads the WAD okay, but when clicking on the MAP01 marker, reports "Menu Index Out of Range". Poorly constructed WAD maybe? In any case, ZDoom should never be compromised in such a fashion by an unruly file, so this needs to be sorted out, methinks.
File below.
This is a weird one. The attached map will hang ZDoom quite thoroughly. Although the music continues, nothing else functions and the program must be forcefully shutdown. To make matters worse, ZDoom refuses to give up the screen, so you can't see the CTRL-ALT-DEL dialog, under XP at least. I finally had to put my computer into sleep mode (using a button on my keyboard), and then wake it back up before I could get any results, and that was just a discolored Win XP login screen. Luckily I could CTRL-ALT-DEL over the top of that and force ZDoom to shut down. Once it was gone, the computer resumed normal operation.
I tried it again in windowed mode to avoid the above complications and the same hang occured.
This is a single-sector WAD constructed with DoomBuilder 1.1, so that may be the root of the problem. XWE reads the WAD okay, but when clicking on the MAP01 marker, reports "Menu Index Out of Range". Poorly constructed WAD maybe? In any case, ZDoom should never be compromised in such a fashion by an unruly file, so this needs to be sorted out, methinks.
File below.