Problem with DOD game crashing

[Dutch]

I am curious if someone has an answer to my question. Having problems with my game DOD where it continues to occasionally freeze up and shut down. Its irritating but I cant find anything on line that will help or has an answer. Checking task mgr I notice a huge spike in the game itself but dont know why. I think the spike is causing the game to shut down. Usually dont have anything else open to cause it either. I tried to go into steam and redownload the game thinking it may be corrupt but can't find where I put the dam game. I think I downloaded it yrs ago from steam. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know what my problem may be? Thanks for your help

[Sgt. Rock]

That also happens to me fairly often, unfortunately, and a number of players have mentioned it as well. Although in my case the game just freezes, and I have to shut it down. No clue why, or if there is a fix. I just restart the game and usually get back in. I'd welcome someone answering how to fix this.

[AzN]

some maps are corrupted verify dod in settings. if that doesnt solve you may have some bad files that need to be redownloaded

[sp.hunt]

Same problem.
How can I renew maps?

[Dino_Spamoni]

Right click on Half-life 1 (yes it has to be installed) in steam, go to properties, betas tab. Then switch to "steam anniversary edition" (or something like that). This puts the game in the same state it was for years and years, before the 25th anniversary update last year.

[INsane [dodbits]]

Originally posted by Dutch:

.....I tried to go into steam and redownload the game thinking it may be corrupt but can't find where I put the dam game. ....

You may have to do a clean out to find out for sure, too many custom files perhaps?

Go to the Steam Library, right click on the day of defeat icon, then "Manage" then "Browse local files"

The "Half-Life" folder will come up, "dod" is in there. Move the dod folder out of "Half-Life" or just rename it "dod_old"

Also if there is a "dod_addon" folder in "Half-Life" grab that too and move it or rename it dod_addon_old.

"dod_addon" is like a custom dod folder...
https://sturmbot.org/index.php/dod-turtorials/day-of-defeat-customisation-guides/113-how-to-add-custom-files-to-steam-day-of-defeat-1-3

To fault find (for really bad installs going wrong)...
Take the dod and dod_addon folder out and put it somewhere or renamae the two.

Let the game download again.

Test it.

Put back the custom stuff... it can result in the same errors. But if you are careful you do have that back up.

The dod folder (and "dod_addon" if you had one) you saved has all your custom files.

Folder "Half-Life\dod" has your config.cfg files (userconfig.cfg and autoexec.cfg) commandmenu.txt and many <mapname>.cfg and <name>.wad files

"Half-Life\dod_downloads" will have a bit too, mostly maps and server sounds you downloaded.

"Half-Life\dod_addon" may have custom files.

There can be other folders like 'Shrikebot' or 'sturmbot' and with those you may need to replace a file called "liblist.gam" (in the dod folder) that starts the bots.

[Agent K]

Originally posted by Dino_Spamoni:

switch to "steam anniversary edition"

This worked for me, thx.

.....update - nevermind. This came with another set of issues. Screen clips back to center when moving mouse. Un-playable

[INsane [dodbits]]

Originally posted by Dino_Spamoni:

switch to "steam anniversary edition"

.....update - nevermind. This came with another set of issues. Screen clips back to center when moving mouse. Un-playable [/quote]

"Raw mouse input" issue

https://sturmbot.org/index.php/dod-turtorials/day-of-defeat-player-guides/99-error-mouse-will-not-rotate-player-or-laggy-buggy-mouse

To Fix:
error dod mouse

Open a game.
Go to Options. Mouse Tab.
Tick the box beside - "Raw mouse input"
Click "Apply"
This will write m_rawinput "1" into your config.cfg file.

Note 1: There are also errors reported that work when the option is ticked then unticking solves the issue.

Note 2: There are still issues being reported from 2013 to 2019 on Github.