Fan Mission: St Alban's Cathedral [updated] version 1.6 (13/03/2011)

[Sotha]

You edited the doomconfig.cfg?

Check that the correct values are in all the doomconfig.cfg files. I think there is one in darkmod folder and another in the doom/fm-name folder.

[Lady Jo]

The error is always the same for the 2 config.cfg

[Bikerdude]

@LadyJ

 

Can you get the chap to help you with this who helped last time..?

[Lady Jo]

Everything works fine now, but it is the only fm or I can go.

 

I go back to the desktop at the end of the load with the 2 versions?

[WReis]

Disregarding versions differences, this is indeed a great mission. But I'm a bit sorry to say I prefer the original one. I've experienced some issues when playing v. 1.6, like frame rate droppings and sky appearances through unexpected breaches when inside sewers or places like the tunnel just before the tavern's basement. These are not serious issues, but they surely work against the player's involvement in the mission.

 

Concerning some topics in the old thread for this mission, neither I liked to stay on that scaffold without realizing chandeliers could be climbable, nor the sensation of being trapped in that small yard - in the beginning of the mission - until managing to jump over that spiked fence to reach the streets. Yes, pipes could normally be climbed - I didn't recall this for some moments -, but I agree with others that the chandelier was an annoying surprise, moreover because it was very hard to reach it from the scaffold - first I had to climb a bar at it's side to get there. Finally, at the tombs, I didn't see the mechanism that opens the saint's grave, but it worked after a lot of effort.

 

The lack of moving AI didn't bother me, for I understood that they shouldn't be a real threat, but a sort of hindrance to make mission tasty. Once one chooses expert level - and almost always cannot make kills - the AI become just 'spicy' obstacles.

 

After saying this and in spite of it I just have to say to you Bkrdude - and to all fm creators - Bravo!!!

 

 

[Robert]

Finally I've managed to play this and I have to say it's awesome! Visually I think this is the best mission released so far: The cathedral is breathtakingly beautiful and the city one of the best I've seen so far.

 

Gameplaywise I especially enjoyed the city part. So many different places to go. So many things to discover.

Searching the hidden key in the drunken guy's house was great.

 

 

 

On the other hand I didn't like the riddle in the cathedral. It was interesting, when I found the glowing stone in the priest's room. The clue there was understandable and I made my way to the northern chandelier. I never figured that it was climbable though, until I read it on the forum. I tried shooting a rope arrow at the small dark thing next to it, which later turned out to be the latin readable. Once I had turned the valve in the ceiling I was pretty lost. Nothing seemed to happen the latin text meant nothing to me and I had to read on the forum again. Was the valve supposed to activate the lever over the crypt door? Because I had found that one, when I first left the crypt but couldn't figure out what it was for. After having read on the forum I knew this lever was important, went down there again, pulled it and was lost again. With a little more help from the forum I finally made it the St. Albans bones and finished the mission ...

 

Summing up, the riddles were to difficult for me. Usually I really enjoy riddles like that but I think there were to little hints in in the mission. For example there could have been a readable by the guy who has to change the chandelier candles, that he almost fell last time but barely grabbed the chandelier and hung there for a few minutes until someone got him down. That would have surely helped to figure out it was climbable! ;-)

 

 

Ooops ... now I've written more critique, than I originally wanted. This is a great mission Bikerdude and I really enjoyed it. For me it's the second best TDM mission released, second only to Heart.

Fidcal did a great job there in hiding clues to the riddles within the game world!

 

Congratulations!

[Bikerdude]

@Wreis and Roibert - welcome, glad you enjoyed it. At some point I will get around to updating all my Fm's

[Oldjim]

Great mission - really enjoyed it but was very surprised that having finished it on hard the stats said that I had found less than half the loot

[Bikerdude]

@Oj

 

Im glad people are still playing this old mission.... :-D

[Oldjim]

As a new player I am working my way through all the missions

[Bikerdude]

cool :-)

[Glyph Seeker]

Man I can't find the

 

 

key in the drunken guy's house at all

 

 

I need to sit down and play this properly head to toe... I've been interrupted by two updates and started over twice, heh.

[Bikerdude]

From memory you can pick the the front door lock, maybe even the basement.

[Sirius]

Hello,

 

get the malloc error.

I've already adjusted the config, in stac the folder and

in Doom3 folder.

 

seta image_useNormalCompression "2"

 

The following error will continue.

Shutting down sound hardware

idRenderSystem::Shutdown()

Shutting down OpenGL subsystem

...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success

...deleting GL context: success

...releasing DC: success

...destroying window

...shutting down QGL

...unloading OpenGL DLL

------------ Game Shutdown -----------

--------- Game Map Shutdown ----------

ModelGenerator memory: No LOD entries.

--------------------------------------

ModelGenerator memory: No LOD entries.

I18N: Current language: german

I18N: Move articles to back: Yes

Main idLangDict: 128 KB in 1141 entries.

Reverse dict : 47 KB in 532 keys, 841 KB in 13447 values.

Articles dict : 47 KB in 532 keys, 841 KB in 13447 values.

Remapped chars : 0

I18N: Shutdown.

Shutdown event system

--------------------------------------

malloc failure for 4194312

 

Can anyone help?

 

Has done himself.

 

I have only the beginning "seta image_useNormalCompression" - changed entry, but not "seta image_useCompression". Has now changed.

 

The FM does now.

Edited March 4, 2012 by Sirius

[Bikerdude]

go download a util called "4Gb patch"

 

And then use that to patch your doom3.exe file and then you shouldn't get the malloc error anymore.

[nbohr1more]

Congrats Sirius!

 

That 4GB patch may still come in handy if you are on Win7 64bit.

If your other applications use all the "32bit" memory addresses Doom 3 doesn't know how to access the 64bit ranges.

If it runs fine without the patch then hold-off until it's needed.

[Bikerdude]

As I've said before time and time and time again, use of this patch is 32/64bit irrelevant, it works on either. But, the pirmary reason why I keep pointing people back to this patch is because it allows doom3.exe to get past its own internal 1.2GB limit, nothing more. This allows some maps that are getting malloc error's for what ever reason to run.

[raymeld]

I thought I'd replay this updated version having enjoyed the original so much. i've had to give up though because of many malloc failures. I installed the patch but to no avail. should this be merely extracted to the Doom folder or is there a special way of doing it? Never had the malloc errors before on this computer on any other mission. I have 2 gb ram btw.

[Bikerdude]

You just apply the patch directly to the doom3.exe file.

[New Horizon]

Also, bring down the console and make sure image_usecompression is set to 1 and image_usenormalcompression is set to 2. If you have compression disabled, then those textures are going to eat all your ram.

[raymeld]

Thank you both , will have another go!

[Bikerdude]

Thank you both , will have another go!

Ray if you still have problems with applying the patch and or changing the settings I can remote in via Teamviewer and do it for you. in fact where in the Uk are you based, I'm down near London.

[raymeld]

Very kind of you to offer. Will give it a twirl myself , if you don't hear from me assume all is well !!

[PranQster]

Oops. I just read [Updated] version, dated March 13th.... and downloaded it, then realized that was a year ago. LOL

[Bikerdude]

then realized that was a year ago. LOL

How many pints have you had...?