GZdoom on iMac setup problems.

[MadeAnAccJustToPostThis]

I got my doom port, I have GZdoom, everything seems ready. 

 

However, whenever I drag my Doom 2 file to GZdoom, it gives me this error message. I've tried one out of two of the things it suggests I could do, but the the other one is so confusing that I have no idea on what do do. 

 

Does anybody have any tips that a beginner like myself who is not good with computers could follow in order to get GZdoom to load up Doom 2?

[Shepardus]

Which one of those two things did you try, and which one do you not understand?

[MadeAnAccJustToPostThis]

#2 was confusing. 

[Lucius Wooding]

You should read up on the difference between IWADs and PWADs, an IWAD is required for GZDoom to run anything, and it needs to be in a specific folder (or you can tell it in preferences where to look). Place Doom2.wad into whatever folder that says and there should be a window listing all the IWADs it found the next time you launch it.

 

In the future if you wanted to play regular Doom 2 (or Heretic or Plutonia or whatever) you could just start up GZDoom and it will bring up a dialog with those listed. If you wanted to play a PWAD (Ancient Aliens, Sunlust, whatever) then you'd either double click on that wad, or drag and drop it. 

 

EDIT: Option #2 is kinda irrelevant, but there should be a file that gives GZDoom instructions when it launches. Leave it alone and just put a copy of the wad into the application support path it gives you, it's far harder to mess up.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Lucius Wooding

[Caged]

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Edited October 16, 2022 by Caged

[Lucius Wooding]

3 minutes ago, Caged said:

Try some other sourceport like zDoom or PrBoom+. If the game doesn't load, there's a high probability your iwad files are corrupted.

 

I highly doubt that, I think he just needs to put the ones he has into the application's file. It's looking for Doom2.wad or any other IWAD in the application support/gzdoom folder and failing to do so because they're empty. It won't (and rightfully shouldn't) search the entire system for WADs if it's built to assume they're in a certain place. GZDoom can't distribute copies of Doom 2 so it's not there automatically.

 

Any programmer worth his salt would give a distinct error message for a corrupted file, and it'd crash after finding it. Graf is better than that.