Doom³ BFG Edition not starting up

[mankrip]

[Spike]

...calling CDS: failed, bad mode

try a different video mode, or running it windowed. no idea how to do that easily. look for some config and edit the vid_fullscreen or whatever line. or r_fullscreen or whatever I dunno what it is.

[scar3crow]

This thread might be useful to you: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1094961

Also Doomworld thread linked here: http://feedback.wildfiregames.com/repor ... ase_vertex

And if all else fails, poke around in the CFGs and check what resolution the game is trying to set itself to? Make sure it is targeting your native res.

[mankrip]

[qbism]

Have you tried RDDOOM-3? I have no idea if it works, but I've run Doom3 'classic' with dhewm3.

[mankrip]

[qbism]

Sorry, typo, meant 'rBdoom3' https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG
It's an engine fork but noticed that it does not interact w/ Steam.

[revelator]

Unfortunatly none of the community builds can interact with steam (removed from source) :/
likewise is the support for bink video playing which really sucks cause the ingame video screens use bink so the opensource versions will just show Black screens on a lot of ingame stuff.

The bink code might be fixable if someone ports one of the opensource alternative codec sources, steam support will be a problem though.

[mankrip]

I noticed that r_customWidth and r_customHeight are set back to 1280 and to 720 every time the engine is started up. So, I have to force them every time too. It feels like Id doesn't want to let us configure the game manually anymore, which is weird.

The crashes seems to be related to r_vidMode, as setting it to -1 (custom resolution) works.

I wonder if e-mailing JC about this to see if they can fix it would work. I've seen a lot of people with this same problem.

I may try rBdoom3 later to see if it has the same problem.

[mankrip]

I got tired of the game refusing to unlock achievements. After playing it for a while it would always pop up the message "achievements have been disabled due to the console being enabled in this game", and I don't know why. My best guess is that the game considers any unexpected cvar values (such as the custom resolution I'm using) as a cheat.

This is pathetic. The engine is buggy, and customers are punished for getting it to work. So I just gave up on finishing the main game and RoE again, and played the Lost Mission to see how it is.

[leileilol]

Supposedly, taking a screenshot in the game (with F12) will trigger the achievement disabling...

[mankrip]