Not sure how to create DarkMod folder in D3

[olgeezer]

I'm Dl'ing DM now and it says to create a folder in the D3 directory, so I tried to copy C:\Games\Doom3\darkmod into my Doom3 folder however when I go to create a new folder it says I can't use backslash/ or semi colon etc in the "new folder" name. Can I just copy and paste it into the config folder with notepad?

 

I'm obviously not very bright in this area so any help would be appreciated.

 

BTW; On Vista 32 bit.

[New Horizon]

Hi there.

 

Double click your the folder where you have installed Doom3. Inside the doom3 folder, right click and choose 'new' from the drop down menu, then choose 'folder'. Name that folder darkmod. That's it.

[olgeezer]

Haha. Thank you for the prompt reply. Now I have another problem. The Dark Mod finished downloading however I screwed up as usual. I Dl'd the DM update before sending it to the darkmod folder. Should I just start a new download of DM or is there some way to fix my idiocy???

[Baddcog]

just copy your new darkmod folder(with contents) into the Doom3 folder to override the one you made there.

[New Horizon]

Right click on the darkmod folder containing the contents you downloaded, choose 'cut' and then inside your doom3 folder right click and choose 'paste'. As baddcog pointed out, it will override the one you created manually.

[olgeezer]

OK I did that. BTW; thanks all the for quick answers. All I have in there now is the training mission, however when I go to the new exe in the darkmod folder it just trys to install everything again.

 

Again, thanks all.

[New Horizon]

Sounds like you're clicking TDM installer, you have to click TDM launcher.

[olgeezer]

Thanks again, and I apologize for my lack of common sense in this area. I checked the D3 folder and there are 2 exe's in there. One says Doom 3 and the other says Doom3ded. Is that the one I use?

 

Thanks.

 

I'm just redownloading the whole app now. Probably missed something.

 

thx again.

Edited March 1, 2012 by olgeezer

[New Horizon]

No. Those are your doom 3 and doom 3 editor programs, not Darkmod. You shouldn't have to re-download everything again. Just double click on the darkmod folder we instructed you how to copy in the previous posts. Inside that darkmod folder you should see tdmlauncher.exe, that is the one you must use to run tdm.

 

As we mentioned earlier though, the darkmod folder with all of the downloaded contents must be inside the doom3 folder.

[olgeezer]

I'm about ready to hang it up. When I double click the darkmod folder this is what is in there. There are folders for def, guis, maps, materials, models, skins, sounds, tdm_update_win, textures, xdata, darkmod, (which is a text doc), install splash, readme, and starting map. That's all that's in there and this is after re-installing TDM.

 

There is no TDMlauncher exe in there.

Edited March 1, 2012 by olgeezer

[New Horizon]

Ok. It sounds like your download didn't finish.

 

Inside the darkmod folder, try double clicking and running tdm_update again. That 'should' check the existing installation and download any missing files. Don't give up.

[olgeezer]

Haha. Oh man. This is gettin good. I clicked on the updater and low and behold, there was the TDM Launcher.exe! However when I clicked on it nothing happened, so I went to the updater again, it dl's a couple of files and it said all was good. So I clicked on the launcher again, and again, nothing happens.

 

No clue. And thanks for all your help.

[New Horizon]

Just to be sure, this darkmod folder is inside the doom3 folder?

[olgeezer]

Yes it is. I also made sure I have the correct patch installed and apparently I do.

 

Although I checked the TDM launcher text file and found this;

 

 

 

 

Path to tdmlauncher is C:\Program Files\DOOM 3\darkmod\tdm_update_win\tdmlauncher.exe

Darkmod directory is C:\Program Files\DOOM 3\darkmod\tdm_update_win\

Darkmod directory after normalisation is C:\Program Files\DOOM 3\darkmod\tdm_update_win

Trying default value for engine executable: C:\Program Files\DOOM 3\darkmod\DOOM3.exe

Could not find engine executable at default locations, will be searching command line arguments for a path to doom3 executable.

Engine path after normalisation is C:\Program Files\DOOM 3\darkmod\DOOM3.exe

Could not find 'currentfm.txt' file in C:/Program Files/DOOM 3/darkmod/tdm_update_win/currentfm.txt

Current FM is:

Using the following argument vector:

#0: +set

#1: fs_game

#2: darkmod

Starting process C:\Program Files\DOOM 3\darkmod\DOOM3.exe +set fs_game darkmod

Error spawning the D3 process: No such file or directory

Closing logfile.

Edited March 1, 2012 by olgeezer

[New Horizon]

The problem is that you also have everything in a tdm_update_win folder. Not sure how that would happen. Probably the safest thing to suggest at this point is to copy tdmupdate.exe into the darkmod folder. Then delete the tdm_update_win folder as it shouldn't be there.

 

Run tdm_update from within the darkmod folder and all the files will be in the correct location.

[olgeezer]

Ok doing this now, however it's downloading the whole shebang again! That's ok though, I have the day off from work. Again, I appreciate all the help and will let you know if it works this time. Funny thing is, I had TDM on my hard drive around a year ago, and never had a problem.

 

I'm obviously not the brightest star in the universe when it comes to this stuff.

[olgeezer]

Thanks! That did the trick.

[New Horizon]

Fantastic! Glad it got sorted out. Enjoy!

[Baddcog]

Cool, have fun!