Doomsday, can't load saved game

audiodef · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:46 pm Post subject: Doomsday, can't load saved game

I recently installed 64-bit Gentoo on a spare partition and I'm having a strange issue with Doomsday. When I load a saved game, I get a giant graphic smear, kind of like a HOM, but all one colour. When I hit ESC for the menu, it changes to a white background. Starting a new game has no problems.

Anyone else run into this?
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audiodef · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject:

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

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depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3530

I saw something like this recently, but my case was a bit different. I have my home directory on nfsv4, and had saved the game on one system. Some time later I was building up a new system, tried to load that previously saved game, and got the symptoms you mention. I chalked it up to savegames being rather brittle, and not surviving moving from one system to another. I haven't yet tried restoring that savegame on the original system where it was saved, nor have I tried a simple save/quit/restore cycle on the new system.

On my ToDo list, now.
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audiodef · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:17 pm Post subject:

I've moved Doomsday off to my walled-in Win7 partition, but I'm still curious to hear what happens when you save and load a game from your new system.
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depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3530

Tested last night. On the same system where I saved my Heretic game at the "Ice Grotto" level, I couldn't restore it. I then started Heretic over, moved my character a bit, and saved 2 games as "HOM1" and "HOM2". I immediately tried to restore HOM1, and sure enough, got the Hall Of Mirrors effect we've been talking about. Then I exited and tried restoring both savepoints. Both gave HOM. I was curious if restoring in the same session would work. I was also curious if an attempt to restore would somehow corrupt (or enable) the saved game. None of the above. Saved games just don't work on Linux. Period.
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audiodef · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:16 pm Post subject:

Do you have a 64-bit system? I was able to handle savegames just fine on my 32-bit partition, on the same machine that's giving me trouble with savegames in 64-bit. Could be a bug in the binary. In Win7 64-bit, no trouble with savegames.
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depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3530

audiodef · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:51 pm Post subject:

If we could get more people to chime in on this and say whether savedgames work on 32/64-bit, that would confirm things. I think I'll try to drop the doomsday folks a word about this anyway.
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audiodef · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:58 pm Post subject:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3289703&group_id=74815&atid=542099

We'll see if anyone can check this out.

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depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3530

Note that at this point I've seen the problem on 2 64-bit systems. Though both are ASUS boards with Athlon processors, the specifics of those 2 points are quite different for the two systems.
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audiodef · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:20 pm Post subject:

Counting mine, that's 3 confirmed sightings of this possible bug. Hopefully they'll take it seriously. I have a horrible track record with getting programmers to take my reports seriously, no matter how much I sprinkle it with charm and butt-kissing.

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strycore · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2011 Posts: 1

I also had this problem on Ubuntu 64bit. I resolved it by extracting the content of the 32bit package and using this instead. Saved games work fine now.