ZDoom Error

[Renegade]

I've been trying to test my WAD, but when I try to load it, I get this error:

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W_OpenLumpNum: 4294967295 >= NumLumps

Does anyone know what this means and how I can fix it?

[Necromage]

Without your wad its impossible to tell but are you sure its not corrupted?

[Renegade]

I'm pretty sure... It worked one day and the next it didn't. Based on the message itself I thought it might be a problem with some sort of internal indexing, resulting in an attempt to load a lump which doesn't exist. i.e. load lump #x, which is > the total lumps therefore it doesn't exist.
Maybe I'll start transferring stuff one section at a time and see when it stops working.

[Ceeb]

Or just show us your WAD...

[Graf Zahl]

Your WAD is referencing data that does not exist but the engine never does a proper check for that. Without the WAD creating the error it will not be easy to locate.

[Xaser]

Do you have any backups of your wad handy? If you use XWE or Doom Builder at all to edit it, they regularly back up your data by default (though I believe the former only does it when you hit the "clean wad" command). Try using an older version and see if it works. I'd place my bets on wad corruption -- not a pretty sight in either case.

[Renegade]

Nope. Graf is exactly right, one of the graphics in my hirestex lump was misspelled. Thanks, Graf.

[Graf Zahl]

Which ZDoom version were you using? 2.2.0? I believe I fixed this a few months ago so if this happens with a recent SVN build I'd need to recheck.

[Renegade]

No, I use 2.2.0.