Some days...........

[Chipper35]

.....I think I've jumped too far ahead in the world of Doom.....and I need to go back a few steps.  I found this ancient WAD [Dragon12.wad] and am trying to load it with ZDL3 (with which I am only marginally comfortable).

 

I am using GZDoom as my source port and I've tried it with both Ultimate Doom and Doom II...........but IT WON'T LOAD. How do most people load old WADs??

[UndeadRyker]

Is GZDoom or the WAD not loading? It loaded just fine for me on GZDoom 4.5.0 using Ultimate Doom. Did you warp to E1M2?

[Chipper35]

I think the WAD isn't loading. Do you use ZDL??

[UndeadRyker]

I just use SLADE 3 myself, but I saw that it worked for me still just by dragging the .wad on the GZDoom exe and also through ZDL. I remember having this problem before with wads not loading either. Make sure that the wad is being loaded from an actual location in your computer that isn't directly from a zip file. If you put the wad from the zip directly into any launcher, be it Slade, ZDL, or just even on top of the source port itself, it puts it into a temp folder which gets deleted shortly after it's finished "extracting".

 

Try DRAGON12 on your desktop or your download folder, or double-check and make sure it's in your preferred WAD folder of choice!

[Chipper35]

Thanks!! I will give that a go!

[Chipper35]

See......that's just it: I don't really have a 'preferred' WAD folder of choice. A lot of my stuff is just helter skelter all over the place. That's why I think I need to back out/delete a bunch of stuff........and just start ALL OVER with Ultimate Doom and Doom II being run through GZDoom.....and go from there.

[P41R47]

for a matter of organization, put the GZDoom files and Doom.wad, Doom2.wad tnt.wad and plutonia.wad on one folder.
Make a shortcut of GZDoom, and then put it where you have all the other wads. So drag and droping works as easy as it looks.

[Chipper35]

Good advice.....thank you!!