Just downloaded/installed vavoom...

English Games
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Heya,

I just downloaded and installed vavoom. Its supposed to be a re-implementation of Doom and the spin-offs. I started out hard by trying to play Heretic. The launcher started a download of a zip-file and after that I should be able to play. When the download is finished I press ‘start’ to start the game and nothing happens. I try with Doom, again a download is needed, it goes just fine. At the end I press ‘start’ and nothing happens. I try to start them again going through the menus but they won’t run. I don’t know how to run them from the terminal, so I can’t provide an error description from there…

Daqar

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Hello Daqar,

I tried Heretic myself and got the same problem.

I don’t know how to run them from the terminal, so I can’t provide an error description from there…
To run them from terminal use these commands:

doom-shareware
heretic-shareware
hexen-demo

Let’s focus on just one.
I only tried heretic so this one would be the most logical.

After I pressed start nothing happened, but I found a crash.txt file in this directory:

/home/<USER>/.vavoom/heretic-shareware/

If you could post the content of this file.

Good luck!:wink:

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I tried running theheretic-shareware command in the konsole and got this:

jacob@linux-h7fo:~> heretic-shareware
Adding /usr/share/vavoom/basev/common/basepak.pk3
adding /home/jacob/.vavoom/heretic-shareware/heretic1.wad
Adding /usr/share/vavoom/basev/heretic/basepak.pk3       
Host name: linux-h7fo                                    
My IP address: 127.0.0.2                                 
UDP Initialised                                          
TCP/IP address 127.0.0.2                                 
Parsing DECORATE definition files                        
Processing DECORATE scripts                              
Unsupported flag oldradiusdmg in BossBrain               
Unsupported flag seesdaggers in Acolyte                  
Unsupported flag nosplashalert in Acolyte                
Unsupported flag seesdaggers in Templar                  
Unsupported flag nosplashalert in Templar                
Unsupported flag fixmapthingpos in KlaxonWarningLight    
Unsupported flag nosplashalert in KlaxonWarningLight     
Unsupported flag nosplashalert in CeilingTurret          
Post-procesing                                           
Selected SDL sound device                                
Configured audio device                                  
Driver: alsa                                             
Freqency: 44100                                          
Channels: 2                                              
Format: 8010                                             
Selected SDL midi device                                 
Selected Linux CD audio device                           
CD_Init: open of "/dev/cdrom" failed (123)               
Using 16 voices                                          
Selected SDL software rasteriser                         
Doing C_Shutdown                                         
Doing CL_Shutdown                                        
Doing SV_Shutdown                                        
Doing delete GNet                                        
Doing delete GInput                                      
Doing V_Shutdown                                         
Doing delete GAudio                                      
Doing T_Shutdown                                         
Doing Sys_Shutdown                                       
Doing delete GSoundManager
Doing R_ShutdownTexture
Doing R_ShutdownData
Doing VCommand::Shutdown
Doing VCvar::Shutdown
Doing ShutdownMapInfo
Doing FL_Shutdown
Doing W_Shutdown
Doing GLanguage.FreeData
Doing ShutdownDecorate
Doing VObject::StaticExit
Doing VName::StaticExit
Doing Z_Shutdown

Division by 0
jacob@linux-h7fo:~>

Apparently it divides by zero !! rotfl!rotfl!

Here is the contents of the crash.txt file:

   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
   (nil)
0x7f5140a36a7d
0x6fb362

I dunno what that means…

Daqar

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Hello Daqar,

I’m not sure what the problem is.
After some searching I came across this.
If this is the same problem I would recommend to compile form source.

Best of luck!:wink: