Howler
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I ran into two initial problems when trying out TDM. I have a fix for one that I'll share in case anyone else encounters the same issue.
- TDM Update Crashes
Running tdm_update.exe results in a crash: 'tdm_update.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.' This happens shortly after the copyright line of text is displayed. A zero length tdm_mirrors.txt file is created. If I manually obtain a correct tdm_mirrors.txt file and run with tdm_update.exe --keep-mirrors, the same crash happens just after 'Fetching checksums from server...'. To workaround this problem, I used the torrent to get the game. Following the wiki suggestion of cleaning out %temp% did not solve this problem.
- Second start of game = Black screen with sound, invisible menus, and generic grey mouse cursor
The new 'DoomConfig.cfg' created after the first run of the game had a setting that would cause this error. Through trial and error I determined the setting I needed to update:
Change seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "0" to: seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
Install Issues and Workaround
in TDM Tech Support
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Great idea, thanks! I'm using the steam version of doom 3 that installs there by default. I just recursively disabled the default 'read only' settings inherited from 'Program Files' on certain directories under 'doom 3' and it's able to update now.