brutal doom fatal error

[peppino4352]

so i've installed gzdoom, the brutal doom mod, the metal soundtrack, and the 1.9v doom wad and now when i try to open gzdoom or the brutal doom wad it comes up with a fatal error it was working a day ago now it doesn't seem to want to work please some body tell me whats wrong with it  

[redEYE]

4 hours ago, Dark Pulse said:

A further look into that chip reveals that it actually has no VRAM at all - it uses the system's DRAM as its video buffer! This is a video chip designed for ultra-low power laptops and the like.

 

 

Bollocks.

 

I've a laptop with Intel HD 520 too (and 4 gigs of memory) and I can run Brutal Doom without problems and with a decent frame rate. It's old but it can run GZDoom. By the screenshot you can't even start plain Doom2.

 

 

It takes some 350 MB of memory to run Ultimate Doom on GZDoom/Vulkan. So if it's about the memory hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc and see from the Task manager if you really run low. Some video capturing programs may prevent running GZDoom btw.

 

But one thing that strikes me is that your Vulkan drivers are really old: 

 

> 1.0.38 (api) 0.16.2 (driver)

 

I've 1.3.215 (api) 0.404.211 (driver). Unless your laptop is falling apart or it's ssd is full search for "Intel support assistant", install it and let it find a new graphics driver. They'll take some hundred MBs.

 

You could also try Opengl or Opengl ES instead of Vulkan. 

 

If you've several iwads in your GZDoom folder simply press shift key and drag+drop doom.wad into GZDoom.exe and go to the Options page of the launcher.

 

If you've only Doom.wad make a shortcut of GZDoom, right click it and on the first line of it after gzdoom.exe write:  +vid_preferbackend 0 (for opengl) or +vid_preferbackend 2 (for opengl ES). Run it once and it should stick.

 

 

[Baron T. Mueriach]

Well, if you'll look closely you'll observe the error message "out of host memory". You are the host, you don't have enough available memory to run Brutal Doom + the other mods.

There are multiple (potential) fixes to this, but in the long run they'll be a band-aid on a bullet wound. Maybe run GZDoom as an administrator, sometimes giving certain programs administrator settings helps with memory allocation.

 

You could try cutting down on certain graphic settings to minimize the amount of things happening, updating your drivers, modifying config files, etc. but my best advice is to buy some new memory sticks. Sorry.

Edited May 28 by Baron T. Mueriach

[Dark Pulse]

Since you're running on integrated graphics, you are pretty much out of VRAM - is what I said before I looked into the chip...

 

A further look into that chip reveals that it actually has no VRAM at all - it uses the system's DRAM as its video buffer! This is a video chip designed for ultra-low power laptops and the like.

 

In short, there is a theoretical possibility you could run the game with more RAM in your laptop, but in practice, there's just as likely a chance that even if it gets it running, the performance is going to be not great at all - again, it's designed for ultra-low power systems, doesn't have VRAM of its own, and so how fast it is is purely down to the quality of DDR3 RAM in your laptop.

 

So basically, your laptop is not up to scratch to load all that. Ditch some of what's loaded, close any unnecessary programs that are running, things like that. Anything you can do to save memory, since otherwise, your only solutions are "buy more memory" or "get a better device."

[Dark Pulse]

10 hours ago, redEYE said:

 

Bollocks.

 

I've a laptop with Intel HD 520 too (and 4 gigs of memory) and I can run Brutal Doom without problems and with a decent frame rate. It's old but it can run GZDoom. By the screenshot you can't even start plain Doom2.

 

 

It takes some 350 MB of memory to run Ultimate Doom on GZDoom/Vulkan. So if it's about the memory hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc and see from the Task manager if you really run low. Some video capturing programs may prevent running GZDoom btw.

 

But one thing that strikes me is that your Vulkan drivers are really old: 

 

> 1.0.38 (api) 0.16.2 (driver)

 

I've 1.3.215 (api) 0.404.211 (driver). Unless your laptop is falling apart or it's ssd is full search for "Intel support assistant", install it and let it find a new graphics driver. They'll take some hundred MBs.

 

You could also try Opengl or Opengl ES instead of Vulkan. 

 

If you've several iwads in your GZDoom folder simply press shift key and drag+drop doom.wad into GZDoom.exe and go to the Options page of the launcher.

 

If you've only Doom.wad make a shortcut of GZDoom, right click it and on the first line of it after gzdoom.exe write:  +vid_preferbackend 0 (for opengl) or +vid_preferbackend 2 (for opengl ES). Run it once and it should stick.

 

 

Good point about the driver, but we have no idea how much RAM the OP has. If it's just 2 GB for example, 350 MB is not an insignificant chunk at all, and he'd really need to reduce running programs hard.

 

He did say it ran before, so I have the feeling that's the case. Either way, it's clear he's memory-constrained.

Edited May 28 by Dark Pulse

[peppino4352]

thank all of yall for helping me im really new to stuff like brutal doom and pc/laptop stuff im mostly a console player for doom

Edited May 30 by peppino4352