Hi there all. I have an old computer that I'm using until my main PC is fixed. I am using a different/new instance of Windows 10 than what was on the old PC(which was also Windows 10), but other than that, the hardware/setup hasn't changed. The saves were originally created on this same PC, but on the previous install of Windows 10.
I copied the files I had from a backup onto the old computer, including everything GZDoom and brutal doom needs to run. It is currently GZDoom version 4.3.3. Brutal doom runs fine, but when trying to load a save, nothing happens. Literally nothing, it just silently fails.
I was able to load saves from the Stardate wad using this same backup, so I don't think it's an issue of corrupt save files. The saves are in the main directory that houses brutal doom and GZDoom. Seeing as not much has changed, other than the files being moved around, I don't understand what is causing brutal doom not to load those saves. It can create new saves for brutal doom, and load those just fine, but it refuses to use my already existing ones. The saves are all in .zds files.
Could it be something to do with the configuration settings/.ini file? The original .ini from the backup is 31 KB, compared to the new .ini file that was created, which is 17 KB. I don't see anything in there that stands out, but idk.
Also, unrelated, but I just downloaded the newest GZDoom version, and made a save so I could find/verify the save directory, and the saves are neither in the running directory, or in >Documents>My Games, so where is the new save directory?
I thought about just figuring out how to just use cheats to skip to the level I was on, but I would like to avoid a pistol start if possible.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
EDIT: The console says "This savegame needs these files: EdayTest001.pk3:edaymaps.wad" I don't understand what the appended "edaymaps.wad" is, as I have never seen that name anywhere, but I do have EdayTest001.pk3 in the running directory
Brutal Doom saves not loading on "new" setup.
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If you want help you're going to have to provide lots of info. Like what is your hardware, what is your operating system, what version of GZDoom/LZDoom/whatever you're using, what mods you're loading, how you're loading it, what you've already tried for fixing the problem, and anything else that is even remotely relevant to the problem.
We can't magically figure out what it is if you're going to be vague, and if we feel like you're just wasting our time with guessing games we will act like that's what you're really doing and won't help you.
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Re: Brutal Doom saves not loading on "new" setup.
Wenas. That was extermination day a pwad by the brutal doom author, you saved with that file loaded. You need to load that file too.
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Re: Brutal Doom saves not loading on "new" setup.
drfrag wrote:
> Wenas. That was extermination day a pwad by the brutal doom author, you
> saved with that file loaded. You need to load that file too.
Yeah, it was some combination of eday and brutaldoom files being highlighted/selected and dragged together onto GZDoom, I think the instructions I came across years ago said to do that. I have tried the same and can't get it to work though.
Oh well, I'm not gonna waste anymore time trying to fix it, I'll just restart.
> Wenas. That was extermination day a pwad by the brutal doom author, you
> saved with that file loaded. You need to load that file too.
Yeah, it was some combination of eday and brutaldoom files being highlighted/selected and dragged together onto GZDoom, I think the instructions I came across years ago said to do that. I have tried the same and can't get it to work though.
Oh well, I'm not gonna waste anymore time trying to fix it, I'll just restart.
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Re: Brutal Doom saves not loading on "new" setup.
You quite literally need that EDay wad with that specific Brutal Doom version in order to retrieve the actual save state.StreetSurfer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:10 am drfrag wrote:
> Wenas. That was extermination day a pwad by the brutal doom author, you
> saved with that file loaded. You need to load that file too.
Yeah, it was some combination of eday and brutaldoom files being highlighted/selected and dragged together onto GZDoom, I think the instructions I came across years ago said to do that. I have tried the same and can't get it to work though.
Oh well, I'm not gonna waste anymore time trying to fix it, I'll just restart.
Either that or use regular Brutal Doom. Or maybe a different mod?
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Re: Brutal Doom saves not loading on "new" setup.
Redneckerz wrote:
> [quote=StreetSurfer post_id=1261112 time=1750695001 user_id=41441]
> drfrag wrote:
> > Wenas. That was extermination day a pwad by the brutal doom author, you
> > saved with that file loaded. You need to load that file too.
>
>
> Yeah, it was some combination of eday and brutaldoom files being highlighted/selected
> and dragged together onto GZDoom, I think the instructions I came across years ago
> said to do that. I have tried the same and can't get it to work though.
>
> Oh well, I'm not gonna waste anymore time trying to fix it, I'll just restart.
> [/quote]
> You quite literally need that EDay wad with that specific Brutal Doom version in
> order to retrieve the actual save state.
>
> Either that or use regular Brutal Doom. Or maybe a different mod?
I know! I have all the original files that I used to make the saves. But something about ACS modules is tripping it up.
It looks like the latest version of brutal doom doesn't include/require anything else other than a singular .pk3 file. So I'll just restart with this version.
> [quote=StreetSurfer post_id=1261112 time=1750695001 user_id=41441]
> drfrag wrote:
> > Wenas. That was extermination day a pwad by the brutal doom author, you
> > saved with that file loaded. You need to load that file too.
>
>
> Yeah, it was some combination of eday and brutaldoom files being highlighted/selected
> and dragged together onto GZDoom, I think the instructions I came across years ago
> said to do that. I have tried the same and can't get it to work though.
>
> Oh well, I'm not gonna waste anymore time trying to fix it, I'll just restart.
> [/quote]
> You quite literally need that EDay wad with that specific Brutal Doom version in
> order to retrieve the actual save state.
>
> Either that or use regular Brutal Doom. Or maybe a different mod?
I know! I have all the original files that I used to make the saves. But something about ACS modules is tripping it up.
It looks like the latest version of brutal doom doesn't include/require anything else other than a singular .pk3 file. So I'll just restart with this version.