ZDoom and GZDoom no finding wads it the same directory?

Xyphileous · Post by **Xyphileous** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:05 am

I'm admittedly new to this and I have an image of the problem and why i think its not my fault. I have multiple .wads in the GZDoom directory as well as a ZDoom directory and neither instance is finding the .wads.

http://i.imgur.com/z1Lj20T.png

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:17 am

You have wads in the folder, but none of them are the original Doom or Doom 2 wad files. Those are necessary to run the game. The ones you have in there must be loaded on top of the Doom, typically by dragging the one you want to play on top of the GZDoom exe.

Post by **Caligari87** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:18 am

There are two different kinds of WADs. PWADs are mods, user-defined content. IWADs are the core game data (Doom 1/2, Final Doom, Heretic, Chex Quest, etc).

You must have an IWAD, the core data, to play anything at all. The original Doom games can be bought cheaply on Steam or GoG if you don't have them.

EDIT: Beaten to the punch

Post by **Enjay** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:58 am

ZDoom