Doom Eternal - Mod Preview stopped working

[Mr.Butler]

anyone else?

[o_dey]

Working fine over here. What exactly do you mean by "stopped working", like how exactly does the problem manifest?

[Mr.Butler]

Originally posted by o_dey:

Working fine over here. What exactly do you mean by "stopped working", like how exactly does the problem manifest?

I was playing some mod level, tried to play it again after couple hours and now pc-mod preview wont launch. regular doom eternal launches

[o_dey]

I see... when I'm asking "how does it manifest" I'm asking like what windows do show up, does it freeze at some point, does the launcher even give you any response, etc. And I'm not saying this to dunk on your or anything, it's just that there's a million possible reasons why it wouldn't work, and it's impossible to remotely confidently guess what the problem might be without any hints.

That being said, if you say vanilla Eternal works, then I would assume that the launcher is still working. So if only the "Play DOOM Eternal with mods" button doesn't do anything while it was working fine before, and there haven't been any changes to the system in the mean time (and I would still like to know what exactly is happening when you press the button, even if the answer is "nothing"), the two most likely reasons would be incompatible/broken mods, or a broken save/profile.

First thing I'd try would be to remove all mods from the "Active mods" list in the launcher and to temporarily "delete" the current saves/profile - usually it's in %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\id Software\DOOMSandBox\base\savegame.unencrypted, make a copy of it and then delete it (or just move it to somewhere else).

[Mr.Butler]

Originally posted by o_dey:

I see... when I'm asking "how does it manifest" I'm asking like what windows do show up, does it freeze at some point, does the launcher even give you any response, etc. And I'm not saying this to dunk on your or anything, it's just that there's a million possible reasons why it wouldn't work, and it's impossible to remotely confidently guess what the problem might be without any hints.

That being said, if you say vanilla Eternal works, then I would assume that the launcher is still working. So if only the "Play DOOM Eternal with mods" button doesn't do anything while it was working fine before, and there haven't been any changes to the system in the mean time (and I would still like to know what exactly is happening when you press the button, even if the answer is "nothing"), the two most likely reasons would be incompatible/broken mods, or a broken save/profile.

First thing I'd try would be to remove all mods from the "Active mods" list in the launcher and to temporarily "delete" the current saves/profile - usually it's in %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\id Software\DOOMSandBox\base\savegame.unencrypted, make a copy of it and then delete it (or just move it to somewhere else).

Originally posted by o_dey:

I see... when I'm asking "how does it manifest" I'm asking like what windows do show up, does it freeze at some point, does the launcher even give you any response, etc. And I'm not saying this to dunk on your or anything, it's just that there's a million possible reasons why it wouldn't work, and it's impossible to remotely confidently guess what the problem might be without any hints.

That being said, if you say vanilla Eternal works, then I would assume that the launcher is still working. So if only the "Play DOOM Eternal with mods" button doesn't do anything while it was working fine before, and there haven't been any changes to the system in the mean time (and I would still like to know what exactly is happening when you press the button, even if the answer is "nothing"), the two most likely reasons would be incompatible/broken mods, or a broken save/profile.

First thing I'd try would be to remove all mods from the "Active mods" list in the launcher and to temporarily "delete" the current saves/profile - usually it's in %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\id Software\DOOMSandBox\base\savegame.unencrypted, make a copy of it and then delete it (or just move it to somewhere else).

it just wont launch, idtechlauncher.exe fails, deleted a bunch of files had them reinstalled but nothing works. fresh idtechlauncher still the same,. ill just reinstall the whole game and see, thanks for your response

[Mr.Butler]

Originally posted by o_dey:

its now working fresh, are you a dev? got any levels on the launcher to play?

[o_dey]

A dev as in a dev from id software? No. A dev as in somehow who's working on creating their own mods? Yes, but I haven't finished any level mod yet.

[Mr.Butler]

Originally posted by o_dey:

A dev as in a dev from id software? No. A dev as in somehow who's working on creating their own mods? Yes, but I haven't finished any level mod yet.

kewl!

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by o_dey:

A dev as in a dev from id software? No. A dev as in somehow who's working on creating their own mods? Yes, but I haven't finished any level mod yet.

Looking forward to seeing a level mod from you. Please let us know.

[o_dey]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Originally posted by o_dey:

A dev as in a dev from id software? No. A dev as in somehow who's working on creating their own mods? Yes, but I haven't finished any level mod yet.

Looking forward to seeing a level mod from you. Please let us know.

I'm working on it, though the first one will be more of a "test level" so to speak, where I try to put together all the individual stuff that I've learned about so far, like encounter design, texture changes, model changes, custom music, custom sfx, custom HUD elements, custom cinematics/animations, modded existing cinematics, modified/custom enemy AI, and so on and so forth... it's a looooot of stuff to learn, and it takes a loooot of time, a lot more than I anticipated. Anyhow... I'll make sure to let you know :)

[Hundinger]

Doom is eternal, I can wait.