DOOM isn't running ! ???
Bob Glass
I just got DOOMed! I have installed it and ..... then nothing...
I am running on a 486DX33 8mb with dos 5.0 himem.sys emm386.exe noems
and it hangs.
in setup, i use only keyboard and speaker for sound effects...no sound card
When i run DOOM it hangs after
DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.94a
Copyright etc...
What's up? anyone else having problems?
Bob
Taylor Gautier
: I just got DOOMed! I have installed it and ..... then nothing...
Oh no. It's started already. Help me, my DOOM won't run. We are in for it.
: Bob
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Jake Page
I was screwing around with the "punching", punched a door (why, I
don't know...) and it died (nice vertical lines and a crash). Not
really a problem, I just won't go around punching the doors anymore...
Jake
R S Rodgers
Count me as reporting the second bug. On the second building,
just inside the dark room with the invisible demon and the pink
demon, I got backed into a corner and...
The game went insane. It seemed to think that I was surrounded
by walls (e.g., shotgun bursts looked like they were exploding
right in front of me), but I could walk around. *Through*
everything, and nothing could see or attack me. Like the effect
you get when the clipping is turned off in wolf3d.
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Mike Batchelor
: I just got DOOMed! I have installed it and ..... then nothing...
Yes Yes Yes! See my post "DOOM Blows Itself Away". I crash shortly after
you do, with NO memory managers at all, and all the sound turned off.
I've even taken cards out, but it still crashes.
I also have a 486/33. What is your chipset? Mine is OPTi 82C495SX.
Video is Fahrenheit 1280 VLB.
It runs fine on a PS/2 Model 90 at work, but with squawker effects only.
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Scott Streeter
Works fine for me. Looks cool. I had memery problems at first, but I
booted off a floppy and it seems to be working flawlessly.
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Ken Jordan
all of them unzip, deice and "build" fine, but hang when trying
to run doom.exe. I'm running on a 486/33, w/ EMS386, 8M RAM, with
a SB. I downloaded the doom1_0.zip from ftp.uwp.edu, and the
doom1_a.zip et al from ftp.uml.edu (sp?). I've tried re-unzipping
and building twice without success in getting it to run.
When using doom1_0.zip, i get the start up messages, all the way down
to where it starts sound, then it stops and the disk drive is accessed
occasionally, then the error "Drive not ready error reading drive"
followed by a LOT of "smiling faces" (ie. unprintable screen characters)
followed by the standard "Abort/Retry/Fail/..." message. At this point
the system is hung and requires a hard boot.
The other error (from using the a,b,c version) doesn't seem to get as
far as the earlier one, it hangs while starting the "refresh daemon"
with a message to the affect "PNAMES not found." or "unable to find PNAMES".
I've never had problem running games before (perhaps i've been lucky!).
Has anyone been successful at running it yet??
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Sean Flynn
>In article <2eakrb$r...@TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU> rmg...@cs.tamu.edu (Bob Glass) writes:
>>When i run DOOM it hangs after
>>DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.94a
>>Copyright etc...
> I get the same problem. When I try and use QEMM it does this
>also. But sometimes I get some QEMM warnings.
>Exception #13 at 6C14:0000, errorcode:0000
>AX=0000 BX=0000 CX=0002 DX=A000 SI=6474 DI=0080 BP=6458
>DS=0098 ES= SS=1E07 SP=21E6 Flags=7202
> Help! I tried running without QEMM and I either get another
>dos prompt with no attempt in game play or the same lock up after
>the copyright listed above.
HELP! I get the same problem, no matter what I do! I tried several
different autoexecs and configs (even got rid of both!) and DOOM still
won't run! If anyone has managed to fix this, I'd appreciate it.
I'm on a 486 DX/50, with 4mb of RAM, no sound card, and no joystick
(just a mouse and keyboard for input) I have a Trident video card, too
if that helps. (TVGA)
Sean
sean...@sfu.ca
Derek A. Coulter
YES!!! The same thing is happening on my machine, which is practically
the same! I've taken all but HIMEM.SYS out of CONFIG.SYS and all but
emptied AUTOEXEC.BAT, turned off all sound in DOOM's SETUP program, and it
still won't run properly. It either prints those two initial lines about
the DOS extender and just comes back to the DOS prompt, gets into the
"DOOM Operating System" and hangs there after a few lines, or gets as far
as the title screen (with a couple of notes if the music is turned on)
then either hangs or reboots the computer.
Profound disappointment!
Help, anyone? I can provide specific info about my setup if anyone can
help.
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the title screen bug. I'd like to confirm that. I have a 386-40 with a
co-processor, and no matter what I tried, DOOM wouldn't run... until I
popped out the co-processor chip.
Another bug solved?
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Joshua Ling
>When i run DOOM it hangs after
>DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.94a
>Copyright etc...
I get the same problem. When I try and use QEMM it does this
also. But sometimes I get some QEMM warnings.
Exception #13 at 6C14:0000, errorcode:0000
AX=0000 BX=0000 CX=0002 DX=A000 SI=6474 DI=0080 BP=6458
DS=0098 ES= SS=1E07 SP=21E6 Flags=7202
Help! I tried running without QEMM and I either get another
dos prompt with no attempt in game play or the same lock up after
the copyright listed above.
Denis R. Papp
Plenty 'o problems... Read my posts (something ala 'Doom dissapointment')
Does your system crash RIGHT AFTER DOS4GW...?
It freezes or goes back to the prompt? That means you CANT RUN ANYTHING
with DOS4GW - sorry, you lose, too bad. Hope you didnt pay money yet
Thats what happened on the 486 here, crashes on any program that
uses DOS4GW - and as far as I know no one on the net knows anything about
it. Hopefully some technical people at ID do... I mean that would
be stupid if DOS4GW were that incompatible
There are others too...
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MARTIN J WITKOWSKI
executed by DOS4GW.EXE which is not present in our CPU's.
Another words, ID GET A DOS4GW.EXE version 1.8!!!!
REESE LOWELL J.
>I believe our problems are caused by some sort of an instruction being
>executed by DOS4GW.EXE which is not present in our CPU's.
>
I'm using a 386/33 with 4MEG, SB16, Diamond Speedstar 24x, EMM386, etc.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
L. Jack Reese
.
A
A
richard yen-ching chang
>In article <CHvoy...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca> cs92...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (MARTIN J WITKOWSKI) writes:
>>I believe our problems are caused by some sort of an instruction being
>>executed by DOS4GW.EXE which is not present in our CPU's.
>>
>I'm just adding my name to the list of those experiencing this problem.
>I'm using a 386/33 with 4MEG, SB16, Diamond Speedstar 24x, EMM386, etc.
>
I have Doom running on my 386/40 with 4mb and EMM386; these are the pieces
simular to your set up, so I don't believe that they could be the problem
(ran it without any extended memory, and with everything thrown into it).
As for the other stuff, I have a plain vanilla Trident, 1mb RAM video card and
a PAStudio (not sure if there is a difference between it and the Spectrem 16)
in SoundBlaster emulation mode (220 1 5).
Other than what I have referenced, I can be of no greater help, sorry.
Richard y Chang
ryc...@midway.uchicago.edu
Sergey Brin
>In article <2eakrb$r...@TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU> rmg...@cs.tamu.edu (Bob Glass) writes:
>
>>When i run DOOM it hangs after
>>DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.94a
>>Copyright etc...
>
> I get the same problem. When I try and use QEMM it does this
>also. But sometimes I get some QEMM warnings.
>
Same problem here. However, it gets substantially farther under Windows 3.0.
It tells be something about purgable blocks not having owners and quits.
It works under OS/2 2.0 (yes, I know my software is out of date) except I
can't get any sound fx from my SB.
Other than that it is an excellent game as many others have noted.
The music could use a little work though.
My configuration is a 486 DX50 w 8M. The motherboard has the "SiS" chipset.
Let me know if you find a solution to any of these problems.
--sergey
Daniel Lundh
> : I just got DOOMed! I have installed it and ..... then nothing...
> : I am running on a 486DX33 8mb with dos 5.0 himem.sys emm386.exe noems
> : and it hangs.
> : in setup, i use only keyboard and speaker for sound effects...no sound card
>
> Yes Yes Yes! See my post "DOOM Blows Itself Away". I crash shortly after
> you do, with NO memory managers at all, and all the sound turned off.
> I've even taken cards out, but it still crashes.
>
> I also have a 486/33. What is your chipset? Mine is OPTi 82C495SX.
> Video is Fahrenheit 1280 VLB.
>
> It runs fine on a PS/2 Model 90 at work, but with squawker effects only.
It runs fine under OS/2 2.1 as well. Smooth as hell!
(Tseng 4000 OptiLB)
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chipset.
I have a 386-33 and it, too craps out.
Down with ID :)
Denis R. Papp
>Profound disappointment!
Your problem is not with DOOM, but with DOS4GW. Someone mentioned to
me that your problem is probably with your motherboard being incompatible
with DOS4GW. Dont know if anything can be done about it. Find someone
who uses Watcom C++
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Loepelmann Karsten
> Someone posted the idea of removing your coprocessor if you're getting
>the title screen bug. I'd like to confirm that. I have a 386-40 with a
>co-processor, and no matter what I tried, DOOM wouldn't run... until I
>popped out the co-processor chip.
> Another bug solved?
Nope. I've got an i386/33 without coprocessor and BOOM still won't go.
:(
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Loepelmann Karsten
>chipset.
>I have a 386-33 and it, too craps out.
Er, nope. That's not it. I've got AMI and I'm left hanging...
>Down with ID :)
OK (or at least their beta-testers :)
Mike Batchelor
: I just got DOOMed! I have installed it and ..... then nothing...
: Bob
All of you who followed up with the same problem should try turning off
"Hidden Refresh" on the Advanced Chipset Setup screen of the AMI BIOS
setup program. It fixed it for me. I have a 486/33 with the OPTi
82C495SX chipset, AMI BIOS 6/6/92.
Chuck Cannon
>cs...@trentu.ca (Derek A. Coulter) writes:
>>>>> When i run DOOM it hangs after
>>>>> DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time
>>>>> Version 1.94a Copyright etc...
>>>>>
>>>>> What's up? anyone else having problems?
>>YES!!! The same thing is happening on my machine, which is practically
>>the same! I've taken all but HIMEM.SYS out of CONFIG.SYS and all but
>>emptied AUTOEXEC.BAT, turned off all sound in DOOM's SETUP program, and it
>>still won't run properly. It either prints those two initial lines about
>>the DOS extender and just comes back to the DOS prompt, gets into the
>>"DOOM Operating System" and hangs there after a few lines, or gets as far
>>as the title screen (with a couple of notes if the music is turned on)
>>then either hangs or reboots the computer.
>>Profound disappointment!
>>Help, anyone? I can provide specific info about my setup if anyone can
>>help.
>Your problem is not with DOOM, but with DOS4GW. Someone mentioned to
>me that your problem is probably with your motherboard being incompatible
>with DOS4GW. Dont know if anything can be done about it. Find someone
>who uses Watcom C++
I had this same problem. EXACT same setup as a friends computer, but with
4 meg less RAM and the SB was on interrupt 3. Run the DOOM.EXE and you get
the DOS4GW message and then a dos prompt? I decided to go ahead and switch
the SB interrupt 3 (3 was not supported) with my mouse (on 5.) I turn the
computer backon and DOOM runs fine? I had selected NONE for both of the
sound options before but having the SB on 3 or the mouse on 5 caused DOS4GW
to crash? Oh, by the way, if I now turn on the digital sound FX, the computer
will crash after making a few sounds. If I turn the sound (FX) off, DOOM runs
with NO crashes. My next test is to try swaping 4 Meg from my friends comp.
By the way BOTH computers are 486DX, DRDOS, Stacker, SB 1.5, and AMI BIOS.
Chuck
P.S. I also swaped the interrupts back, DOOM died on startup as before!
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Brian William Whalen
Mike Batchelor <mik...@netcom.com> wrote:
>Bob Glass (rmg...@cs.tamu.edu) wrote:
>
>
>: I just got DOOMed! I have installed it and ..... then nothing...
>
>: I am running on a 486DX33 8mb with dos 5.0 himem.sys emm386.exe noems
>: and it hangs.
>
>: in setup, i use only keyboard and speaker for sound effects...no sound card
>
>: When i run DOOM it hangs after
>: DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.94a
>: Copyright etc...
>
>: What's up? anyone else having problems?
>
>
>: Bob
>
>All of you who followed up with the same problem should try turning off
>"Hidden Refresh" on the Advanced Chipset Setup screen of the AMI BIOS
>setup program. It fixed it for me. I have a 486/33 with the OPTi
>82C495SX chipset, AMI BIOS 6/6/92.
I have AMI 11/xx/92 and NO hidden refresh in any of my CMOS setup.
The damn game keeps hanging. I'll be going along and all of a sudden
the screen falls apart (not the melting thing though). It segments
into slabs with black lines through them. It's annoying but I save often
and manage to play.
It is a good game with potential, to me. If the bugs get worked out
in V1.1 I will register it, otherwise nope.
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J S W Chan
I have a dx2, 8mb ram, cirrus VLB card, sound galaxy nx pro, and using dos6.2
220z
the config that didn't work was:-
emm386 with 2594K ems
smartdrv with 2048k
ramdisk with 2000k
dblspace
and conventional memory at 620000 bytes
my Qemm config works:-
qemm with 3000k ems
smartdrv with 2000k
dblspace
and conv memory at 645000 bytes
the following also works:-
himem.sys
*NO EMM386*
smartdrv at 2000k
dblspace
and about 565k conv memory
just out of interest, I loaded a lod of tsrs, and the game ran with just 503000
bytes conv memory! (I think it's just loads of xms that's needed)
Marcus J. Ranum
right as an elevator was dropping at it seems to have somehow stuck
my player under the door or something. When I restarted the game
I couldn't move until I sent the elevator up. Perhaps it was on my
toe (but then I expected little whimpering noises) :)
Terrific game. I love the way that you can blow the little
imps off of terraces and they fall realistically. You notice the
cute way that the doors make squooshies of anything dead caught
under them when they close? The chainsaw was a letdown, though. I'll
stick with the shotgun...
I keep expecting to see Giger's ALIEN running around in
here. The semi-invisible demons with the "predator" suits are
great. They get my $40.
mjr.
Jase Chong
>imps off of terraces and they fall realistically. You notice the
>cute way that the doors make squooshies of anything dead caught
>under them when they close? The chainsaw was a letdown, though. I'll
>stick with the shotgun...
I loved the chainsaw !! hehe.. it's esp good for killing those pink
dudes that run straight up to you and munch your head off :) i just saw
them up without getting any damage :) pity it takes a while to switch
back to the shotgun after :)
> I keep expecting to see Giger's ALIEN running around in
>here. The semi-invisible demons with the "predator" suits are
>great. They get my $40.
but i hate the invisible dudes when you run into one in the dark :)
pity i found the nightglasses after i massacred everything :)
Jase.
PS. has anyone got the SFX to work with a SoundBlaster 1.0 with IRQ 5 ?.
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: Someone posted the idea of removing your coprocessor if you're getting
: the title screen bug. I'd like to confirm that. I have a 386-40 with a
: co-processor, and no matter what I tried, DOOM wouldn't run... until I
: popped out the co-processor chip.
: Another bug solved?
Doom runs fine on my 386SX25 with a coprocessor.
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psp...@gandalf.otago.ac.nz
>>>> ..... then nothing...
>>>>
>>>> I am running on a 486DX33 8mb with dos 5.0
>>>> himem.sys emm386.exe noems and it hangs.
>>>>
>>>> in setup, i use only keyboard and speaker for
>>>> sound effects...no sound card
>>>>
>>>> When i run DOOM it hangs after
>>>> DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time
>>>> Version 1.94a Copyright etc...
>>>>
>>>> What's up? anyone else having problems?
>YES!!! The same thing is happening on my machine, which is practically
>the same! I've taken all but HIMEM.SYS out of CONFIG.SYS and all but
>emptied AUTOEXEC.BAT, turned off all sound in DOOM's SETUP program, and it
>still won't run properly. It either prints those two initial lines about
>the DOS extender and just comes back to the DOS prompt, gets into the
>"DOOM Operating System" and hangs there after a few lines, or gets as far
>as the title screen (with a couple of notes if the music is turned on)
>then either hangs or reboots the computer.
I also have the same problem, I have a 486 DX2 50 and DOOM hangs. I have a
386 as well and it runs fine (same intall disks). Have tried emptying
autoexec and config but still no go. Got so frustrated that went and
installed it on a friends 486 DX 30 with SB. Excellent game, great graphics,
sound and gameplay. If only it would work on my machine.
Excellent job ID (on other peoples machines), but anyone any ideas on solving
this one.
Peter Speden Shotguns are for wimps, give me a
Marketing Department and let me at em.
Otago University
New Zealand
Vance Krupa
>From: cs92...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (MARTIN J WITKOWSKI)
>Subject: Re: DOOM isn't running ! ???
>Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 20:21:23 GMT
>I think the common denominator may be the fact that I too have an Opti
>chipset.
>I have a 386-33 and it, too craps out.
Good point! I have the Opti Chipset also on my 386/40 and it won't run doom
either!
>Down with ID :)
fooey on youy! :)
Vance Krupa
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shawn patrick morgan
>>From: cs92...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (MARTIN J WITKOWSKI)
>>Subject: Re: DOOM isn't running ! ???
>>Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 20:21:23 GMT
>
>>I think the common denominator may be the fact that I too have an Opti
>>chipset.
>>I have a 386-33 and it, too craps out.
>
>Good point! I have the Opti Chipset also on my 386/40 and it won't run doom
>either!
>
>>Down with ID :)
people believe to be the DOS4wg.exe incompatibility problem. I dont know much
about that kinda stuff, so i just relayed the message from the newsgroup. I
recieved mail from them today stating that the problem has been fixed, and
a new version of DOOM will be uploaded to ftp.uwp.edu on Dec 14th. Sorry I
deleted the mail from ID, but that was the jist of the message. I hope that
makes some people happy, and also that it fixes the problems!!!!
Shawn Morgan
robert l loper
from sell.tamu.edu and it installed and ran GREAT! This game will
be *the* arcade game of all arcade games.
Anyway, for those who are gathering troubleshooting data, I have a
AMD 386/40
AMI BIOS (sometime around 1989)
8 megs RAM
Soundblaster Pro
running DOS 5.0/4DOS 4.01/386MAX 7.0
Runs like a charm..I run on largest window size, low detail, and
it is FAST. Much faster than Ultima Underworld I.
Great job ID!
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Denis R. Papp
I really dont think config/autoexec setup is that much of a problem.
The only problem that everyone has to worry about from there is
not enough memory (you need at least 600 or something). I use my
NORMAL bootup and it works fine. And yes teres TSRs, none of those
funny TSRs of course that you should always remove if you are having
trouble (double space, virus checkers, etc).
Jens-Uwe Jansen
In article <vek.49....@runkel.cray.com>, v...@runkel.cray.com (Vance Krupa) writes:
|> In article <CHw0J...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca> cs92...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (MARTIN J WITKOWSKI) writes:
|> >From: cs92...@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (MARTIN J WITKOWSKI)
|> >Subject: Re: DOOM isn't running ! ???
|> >Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 20:21:23 GMT
|>
|> >I think the common denominator may be the fact that I too have an Opti
|> >chipset.
|> >I have a 386-33 and it, too craps out.
|>
|> Good point! I have the Opti Chipset also on my 386/40 and it won't run doom
|> either!
|>
My box has the SiS Chipset, and DOOM isn't running either.
Ciao,
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