ZDoom

The error is in the mod, we cannot do anything about it.

ZDoom's startup code is quite messy and it may well be that something went wrong when the startup code was refactored.
I also noticed that with recent versions the startup screen wipes several times, so something's definitely not right there.

I did some closer checking. The error message does indeed appear but I never suspected anything wrong because in-game music sounded correct. From the looks of it the title music played over the loading screen is the only thing being affected by this. And this piece only plays for a few seconds so it ...

The mod is wrong here. These options were only added in 4.14.2 and it was clearly conveyed that both must be set to avoid problems. Apparently some modder did not test this properly or only with a pre-release version.
It works in 4.14.1 because it ignores these unknown properties.

This is not possible directly in DECORATE or ZScript because DSDHacked gets applied after ZScript and DECORATE. These actors simply do not exist yet when your patch is run.
If you want to replace these you will have to use a CheckReplacement event handler.

This doesn't help me. Something about your setup must be different that it cannot find the sound font. Are you sure you are starting from the correct directory? I think the only way to find out what's happening is if you copied the entire folder (minus IWAD and PWAD content, of course) and uploaded ...

In that case you will have to investigate yourself what is different about your Hexen config.
It certainly has nothing to do with the game itself, for me it works in Hexen just like in all the other games.

Please post your INI file.

If they fail, one will crash the game in the middle of a level, the other won't even start up. The far bigger risk is something else: Badly written code constantly creating new textures without stopping. All things considered, it's not a good idea to give modders control over limited hardware ...

type 'whereisini' in the console to find out the actual path.

Rachael wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 7:41 am I also managed to fix the bug that was causing my Windows build environment to erroneously pull in a bz2.dll dependence that should not have been pulled in.

What was causing that?

One big problem is that the Quake game almost entirely runs in script code. This includes large parts of the input system that are out of the engine's hands - you are at the mercy of the script code here - and since old script code cannot be recompiled easily you cannot change much, you have to make ...

This is the DLL version of the bzip2 decompression library. I have no idea why it needed to be included in DLL form, it's presumably some screwed up setup that made CMake select this over the internal version.

Map spots are indeed not randomized and support is only for backwards compatibility.

Yes, you can create that yourself.