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The system is 32 bit Fedora Linux 19 with Xfce, on a laptop that isn't exactly gaming, with intel graphics but the errors aren't related to poor gl implementation from intel. I've downloaded the game from this torrent: https://thepiratebay...torrent/9024163 that I've found on one of threads here. All seems well after download but when I start the game I must go to tty2 and manually ps and kill the process because it's just black screen and music and I can't/didn't find the way to quit it. It's as if all fonts and gui assets are missing. I get hundreds of warnings such as WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/mainmenu/downloadable_mission_details WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/mainmenu/oldparchment_backdrop6 related to either fonts or guis. Updater in the torrent says it's up to date. Updater from site when ran in ~/darkmod/ first updates itself then too says game is up to date: [frex@localhost darkmod]$ ./tdm_update.linux TDM Updater v0.61 (c) 2009-2013 by tels & greebo. Part of The Dark Mod (http://www.thedarkmod.com). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Initialising... Done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleaning up previous update session... Done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloading mirror information... Done downloading mirrors. Found 7 mirrors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloading CRC file... Downloading from Mirror thegreatesttunnelhost: crc_info.txt [=========================] 100.0% at 0 bytes/sec ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloading version info file... Downloading from Mirror SouthQuarter: tdm_version_info.txt [=========================] 100.0% at 22 kB/sec Done downloading versions. Newest version is 2.00. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trying to match local files to version definitions... [=========================] 100.0% File: Done comparing local files: local version is 2.00. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comparing local files to server definitions... [=========================] 100.0% File: Done comparing local files to server definitions. Your TDM installation is up to date Listing all of pk4 files(here with 7zips command line) and then grepping the output for missing resource that was listed when I ran ./thedarkmod.x86 like: [frex@localhost darkmod]$ for i in *.pk4; do 7za l $i; done | grep guis/assets/mission_success/background_success 2011-10-30 19:26:04 ..... 699192 403760 dds/guis/assets/mission_success/background_success.dds seems to say for every file I tried that it exists but starts with additional dds/ in front compared to path game tries to load it from. I attach(because it's too long to paste comfortably) the file to which I redirected stdout when launching the game, in case it's actually my laptop or intel card that is causing this problem. darkmodout.txt

I have this issue, the screen goes black after the initial briefing for missions. I haven't been able to pay anything except for the training mission. I use an Nvidia card, there is no options relating to "edge detection".. I guess I could use the work-around of deleting the .cfg every time, but it'd be a giant hassle to rebind all my keys and change settings again. I'm open to any other suggestions, if anyone has any.

Goog Evening I just loaded Dark Mod like an hour ago, and got this Problem with the missing Textures or missing dynamic light not shure, and the Smoke being just black squares. And i know there is another thread with about the same Problem, but i have the 2.0 standalone and as far as i understood i dont have to install doom to play this one, so the other thread is not realy helping me either. I tried about every button in my settings and i followed the faq Textures are missing, screen mostly black Look into your darkmod.cfg inside your darkmod folder and check that the following settings are like shown below: seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1" seta image_useNormalCompression "2" seta image_useAllFormats "1" seta image_useCompression "0" seta image_preload "1" even if im not sure thats the same problem. if that faq entry would be the right one, i looked in the DXDIAG, but there is no way to change anything in there. Textures are missing, shadows are pitch black Try disabling the AGP surface accelerator in DXDIAG. So non of the things i tried did change anything so please help me to fix this. MFG DamKoVosh Edit: P.S. the screen is much darker then its supposed to be, but the only thing u should see is some things having textures, while others havent.

Rather than necro couple year old thread I figured I should just make a new post in case others had the same issue I was and couldn't find an answer. I had the issue a couple months ago when I got Doom3 to try it and decided to give up figuring it was something with Steam version etc. Trying the Stand Alone 2.0 I had the same issue. I was able to launch the game and change game settings (which were muddied) but after I chose to restart the game the screen would be black and could hear the flicking over menu options with the mouse. In order to see the game again I had to delete darkmod.cfg (and run tdm_update.exe to replace it). After looking through old posts (and trying one? FAQ) I couldn't find the answer but did figure out through trial and error that Anti-aliasing was the issue. I have an AMD 5850 and in the Control Center>Gaming>3D Applicating Settings I found that under Anti-aliasing the Filter "EDGE DETECT" was the issue. I could set it to Wide Tent or Box and leave all the other settings alone and The Dark Mod would work. Hopefully if you have the issue you can find something similar in your cards settings. Also for me at least aliasing is limited to x8 in game so just set it to that instead of x16 just in case. The other little issue I had was the training mission not downloading and Tears of St. Lucia not loading after a save. However trying to download training mission and restarting did clear up the muddied menu settings. Anyway found out I had to rename and move the folder which I had so far left where it downloaded. So moving it to C:\games and renaming it simply "darkmod" (and probably running tdm_update.exe which was down the previous day) solved those issues. I don't appear to have any other issues so thanks to the folks who made this! hoping to dive in asap!

Remade it a few more times, without success. There are no unusual spawnargs on the door either. Using r_showportals shows that the engine thinks it is open (green) when you're inside the room, though the entire portal is black. From the other side, r_showportals shows nothing. What concerns me is that I don't think I did anything to this area when I was updating the map. edit: good news...it has the same problem in 1.08.

After I edited a map file in a .pk4 archive, my main menu has gone missing. When I start TDM, I only get a black screen, then when I click the usual background pops up, but all menus are missing. I hear interface click sounds, but nothing else. Anyone else had this happen before?

Okay, so I have this issue as well. My computer is a 2011 iMac with OSX 10.6.8. I downloaded Doom 3 from the App Store, installed Malex' version of TDM and went to play. I used the TDM icon to start the game. However, there is no dynamic lighting and instead of smoke there's black boxes. When I try to launch TDM from inside Doom 3, the application just quits, not even an error message. When I launch TDM from the icon and quit, it gives an error message that Doom 3 suddenly stopped working. I already tried reinstalling TDM and reinstalling Doom 3. Neither of those worked. Here's the error log: http://pastebin.com/eu5g3XYE What it looks like is that it can't find a bunch of assets (I'm guessing these are contained within Doom 3). My Doom 3 was installed into the main applications folder rather than my personal folder, maybe that's a problem? Any help is appreciated, this looks like an absolutely fantastic mod! EDIT: So I looked at it again, and I didn't patch the game. When trying to patch, it said the game was installed incorrectly, with the following error message: The installation of Doom 3 (located at ~/Library/Application Support/Doom 3/darkmod) is not valid. Install Doom 3 again to fix this problem. Also, in console the version number is like 5636. I currently have tried to completely remove Doom 3 (both the Application Support folder and the actual App), and am now trying to reinstall it. EDIT2: Okay, so I reinstalled Doom. The version number is 1.3.1.1304, so it ought to be the right version. I'm now going to reinstall TDM following Malex' instructions to a T and see if that magically solves my problem.

So I decided to play a FM on my desktop today and suddenly there are no dynamic lights in any of the maps. Ambient lights work fine, but all torches show no light and there are black boxes where the torch smoke should be. I didn't do anything that I can think of that would have caused this...

Hello guys I find the same troubles with v. 1.08: missing textures, black smoke of the torch, etc. Would you please tell me how to fix this problem? Thank you in advance!

I have been playing this recently and got this bug many times, but after re-making the config file many times, I have found that changing the Anti-Alias settings is causing the game to have a black screen. There was one time that I managed to successfully enable anti-aliasing, but I have not been able to since

Still having troubles with no dynamic lights and black squares instead of some particles. I've write about it here (http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/14199-solved-more-108-weird-behaviour-crashes-graph-problems-gnulinux/page__p__298356#entry298356) but the solution I've get is not acceptable now. So, I try to run "Old Habbits" mission. It runs without lights, crashes with segfault after exit. In console:

Namely the water surface textures, the nice sunset sky, some doors and the silver/pewter beer stein, to name a few. It seems to be some of the textures which have translucency. Here is a screenshot of what I mean: I have a river in this shot, but it looks like a dry river bed since the water surface is not rendering. Also see how the sky is screwed up. That is the sky which normally renders deep blue with the orange and red sunset. I some maps, certain doors have a black or blue bar of color near the bottom along with the grey looking mesh, seen in the sky in the above screenshot. I know it is not the graphics driver fault because I was using the same driver a few months ago, before TDM 1.08, and all rendered perfectly. These rendering glitches started with TDM 1.08. Linux NVIDIA Driver Version: 295.71 Does anybody know what's wrong and how to fix it?

The map is "Diffuse". Anything that is "painted-on" and does not react to lighting is generally "diffuse" you can traditionally say this it the texture. Bump-map or Normal-Map is a special texture that simulates surface rough-ness or shapes, they are made visible via the light interaction. Specular is a special texture that controls how "shiny" a surface is. Some surfaces might have a pure white (full shine) texture other may have gray (medium shine) and others black (no shine at all). Some surfaces have various shades of white, black and gray to show variations in shine. Finally there is colored specular that can produce the rainbow shine effect that you see in a water puddle with oil in it or the look of pearl (This is rarely used.).

r_mode -1 just means to use the custom height and width only. You can still set the aspect ratio to one of the three available modes: seta r_aspect 0,1,2 (4:3, 16:9, 16:10). Try setting a custom resolution that falls into one of those apects and see where it gets you. IE set the vertical resolution to the vertical res of your main screen then use probably 16:9 ratio to get the maximum horizontal res. Exceeding one of the available or set aspect ratios will probably just give you a black screen or crash.

. . . ok. . .well that stinks. Especially as nothing I read said anything about that. It just said 'Doom 3'. Seems odd, too, when everything *ELSE* seems to work fine. Just those. . .odd spots. Well, I'll see if I can put up playing with black blobs. And if not, I guess the whole mess can go in the trash and I'll hope you all can get the stand-alone version going sometime so I can try again. How disappointing.

Well, I FINALLY managed to get my grabbers on a copy of Doom3 (not to mention a computer that'd run it?) and got it set up last night. Got the darkmod running and downloading and left that overnight. When I came back this morning, I was looking forward to playing. -sigh- The thing is RUNNING fine. But looks. . .not quite so nice. I seem to be missing some textures in certain area. I tried with the training mission and with the Santa Lucia mission and both have the same problem. Things seem to play alright, but these dark areas are a little. . .odd, especially the ones you have to walk through. Some environmental issuse The torches The crates And some grounding textures I've tried changing various settings, gamma, etc, and these seem entirely uneffected. If I totally wash out the screen - I get really light environments with black blocks like this. I tried turning effects on and off. No change. The torches are the oddest, as the squares around the flames are actually moving. And in the Santa Lucia mission there was a shelf that had a bunch of black squares flying out of it like it was infested or something. Any help for this issue? I've got the Doom 3 BFG Edition - if that counts for anything. Thanks! I'm looking forward to getting this all fixed so I can settle back and play. Been wanting to try the DarkMod for a good long while now. Though I see you are all working on a stand-alone version. Honestly, I think that'll be a LOT better in the long run. Wish I could offer some help there, but I'm only *just* starting learning the whole 3d/modelling thing now that I have a computer again. Got Blender, now I have to figure out what to do with it.

I had this when I was in windowed mode, but full screen worked fine. I needed windowed to work and managed to get rid of the black screen by disabling post processing in the advanced video options. Don't know if either of you are running windowed but it's worth a try disabling post processing. Edit: re-read the earlier posts and realised it affected the GUI not just in game as in my case. Ignore my advice, PP shouldnt affect the main menu at all.

I don't have any knowledge about this, all I know is I tried 2 or 3 FMs and there is something wrong with the light, most obvious is about torches: you can see the flame (some black squares above supposed to be smoke but that's OK) and no light. I guess it should be one of these http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Standalone_Progress

I have the same problem. After launching TDM by doubleclicking thedarkmod.exe, I get a black screen, but the sound runs as normal. I also get the mouseover sound effects when I move the mouse over a menu item. This started yesterday, after I updated to version 1.08. My Doom 3 version is 1.3.1.1304, Win7 Home Premium, Phenom II X4 965, 4 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics card, native resolution 1680x1050, which I've also edited DoomConfig to. As I don't know what would go into an autoexec file I can't try that option.

The black squares are missingparticles (either the definition or the texture). Can you please open the console (^ as key, left of the "1") and type "condump tdm.txt" and then post the contents of tdm.txt here? (Put them in spoiler tags please)

Restarted Old Habits and this time I looked backwards in the sewer and saw a lot of black squares coming out of the pipes - I assume that there is a leak of something there which is being corrupted (note picture has been lightened so they can be seen)

I updated from 1.07 to 1.08 using the updater and then deleted the fms in the Doom3 directory leaving those in the darkmod directory I first tried running St Lucia and noted a problem with the torches - black squares moving toward me behind the torch. I then tried old habits with the same effect. I tried thecreeps next and received this error message - see picture I tried the trainer and again the torch problem was there - see picture As I am the only person having this problem what steps should I take to sort it My system is Windows 7 64 bit, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 8800GT graphics with an old driver 197.45 To add I deleted Old Habits and reinstalled it using the games downloader and I have the same problem with the torches looking a bit further the tdmlauncher log contains this but I don't have a file tdmlauncher.exe just TheDarkMod.exe Path to tdmlauncher is D:\CD Games\Doom3\darkmod\tdmlauncher.exe Darkmod directory is D:\CD Games\Doom3\darkmod\ Darkmod directory after normalisation is D:\CD Games\Doom3\darkmod Trying default value for engine executable: D:\CD Games\Doom3\DOOM3.exe Found engine executable in D:\CD Games\Doom3\DOOM3.exe Engine path after normalisation is D:\CD Games\Doom3\DOOM3.exe Current FM is: deceptiveshadows Using the following argument vector: #0: +set #1: fs_game #2: deceptiveshadows #3: +set #4: fs_game_base #5: darkmod Starting process D:\CD Games\Doom3\DOOM3.exe +set fs_game deceptiveshadows +set fs_game_base darkmod Closing logfile.

Ok, can't get it to work on native without black textures errors. Probably need a symlink in that /usr/local/games/doom3 folder like you PranQster. BTW, i agree that the button recognition is buggy in linux. I had problems with other buttons. Wine works with the same install so it should be not being able to find the resources without them being on that system path (ughhh). edit: it was that, i symlinked the base dir there. Anyway to set a 'toggle run' instead of 'always run'? 'always run' prevents the creep button from working.

Driver problems likely. Which are you using? glxinfo output, even after 'installing' a driver you need a additional config command with ati. The crash is probably something badly wrong on the new jpg code or the compile options. Myself am waiting for the new driver from ati for ubuntu (it's package is triaged and waiting for release), but i found before: The torches flames had a transparency problem: edges (large area around actually) were all black, (but not rectangular, flicked according the the stage of the anim).

1.07 works very well for me. But with 1.08 I have some problems. 1. no dynamic light. 2. blood spills looks like black squares. more than this, some items on model of man looks deep black. 3. Can't load Lockdown level. it says ERROR:Joint 'Shoulders' not found for 'head_joint' on 'atdm_ai_undead_zombie_alt01_1' I play is on 1.07 and all run so well... Oh. I have Fedora Core 14, x86_64.