Training mission doesn't start

[Quant]

Hi folks,

 

I'm trying to get TDM working, but already have problems with the training mission:

 

I ran tdm_update.exe successfully. (Repeated that step, just to be sure, it says "All done, your TDM installation is up-to-date").

Then I started tdmlauncher.exe and installed the training mission (game did restart ok afterwards).

 

(*1)

When trying to play the training mission, the objectives/difficulty choice screen shows.

After selecting "Start this mission" there, the "Loading mission" progress bar comes up; when it reaches 100% I see a "Preparing to start mission, please wait" message.

After a few seconds of disk activity the game pops back to the objectives/difficulty choice screen. -> back to (*1). This is repeatable continously, I never get to playing the mission actually.

 

Doom3 is the "Green Pepper" - "Original US-version Uncut" - DVD (from Amazon)

I did update to version 1.3.1.

The Doom3-game itself runs without any problems.

System: Windows 2000, 5.00.2195, Service Pack 4; P4 2.40 GHz; 1GB RAM

GFX: ATI Radeon X800 XT

 

The tdmlauncher.log log file is quite unspectacular:

Path to tdmlauncher is E:\Games\Doom 3\darkmod\tdmlauncher.exe
Darkmod directory is E:\Games\Doom 3\darkmod\
Trying default value for engine executable is E:\Games\Doom 3\DOOM3.exe
Found engine executable in E:\Games\Doom 3\DOOM3.exe
Current FM is: training_mission
Full argument string is: +set fs_game_base darkmod  +set fs_game training_mission
Starting process E:\Games\Doom 3\DOOM3.exe +set fs_game_base darkmod  +set fs_game training_mission
Closing logfile.

 

Any ideas what could be wrong? I already tried to rename the folder "Doom 3" to "Doom3" because of the space-problem I read about here - didn't change anything, just yielded the same results as above.

 

Cheers,

Alex

[rich_is_bored]

Try starting the training mission again only this time when it fails and kicks you back to the objectives screen, press CTRL + ALT + ~ to bring down the console and type "condump console.txt" to dump the contents of the console to a text file.

 

Now attach console.txt to a post here so we can examine it for errors.

[nbohr1more]

I hate to sound like a broken record but I have been testing some of the latest ATI driver releases and this is the exact symptom for having Catalyst AI enable in many of them...

[Quant]

Thanks for your replies guys.

As rich_is_bored suggested, I attached a console dump.

 

Catalyst AI was disabled btw.

console3.txt

Edited June 10, 2010 by Quant

[nbohr1more]

As a lazy guess:

 

sound: missing efxs/training_mission.efx

Failed to open \\.\pipe\dm_renderpipe

 

...might be due to EAX 4.0 Audio???

[nbohr1more]

This thread has the same error:

 

Doom3world Discussion

[nbohr1more]

Did you already delete:

 

DoomConfig.cfg and gamex86.dll

 

(in the darkmod sub-folder)

(and re-run the updater)

 

???

[nbohr1more]

I'll feel foolish if this is it but (didn't see this before):

 

couldn't exec autoexec.cfg

 

might mean you need to delete your autoexec.cfg...

 

(or comment out things that aren't right)

[Quant]

Problem found, sure enough it was covered in the FAQ, but I didn't notice it there before.

It's the Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall, which blocks named pipes.

 

Thanks for your help anyway.

[nbohr1more]

Yep, as I said, my replies are mostly lazy guesswork ... (I should've went back to the wiki too... just posted common stuff off the top of my head)...