[Mere_Duke]

Hello forum & eduke32 devs!

From the version r10459-8feaf6c25 and higher, the eduke32 crashes if no game grp files were found and recognized.
The previous versions do nothing aside from printing "ERROR: Found no recognized game data!".

I used to play Duke Nukem 3D with a modified duke3d.grp (some con & art changes I made/incorporated loooooong time ago to have game polished as much as possible). Now I can use only r10459 and prior versions.

I don't think it was made intentionally since it just crashes w/o "use original grp" message, so I consider this a bug.

[Le Gluon du Net]

I just compiled Eduke32 from today's sources and I can confirm this bug. If Eduke does not find grp file, it crashes.

6,7664s INFO| Searching for game data...
 6,7670s ERROR| Found no recognized game data!
Caught signal: SIGSEGV
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)

[Mark]

From what I've read in previous posts on this subject, it was intentional to help stop piracy. Its been reported by a number of people and nothing has been done to change it.

[LeoD]

That's annoying behaviour, indeed. The segmentation fault is still a bug, though, thereby implying that this issue was not introduced intentionally.

[Mark]

Unless thats how it was decided to deal with pirates.

[Le Gluon du Net]

Mark, on 31 January 2024 - 11:07 AM, said:

Unless thats how it was decided to deal with pirates.

But it's totally useless towards piracy and newbies users thought Eduke32 does not work...
A dialog box saying "no dn3d.grp found, you have to copy it in path XXXX, program will now close" is necessary for newbies.

[Jorge]

Hi!

Let me chip in, I think this bug has nothing to do with piracy, as it also happens if you run eduke32 with the -setup parameter (or with Forcesetup=1 on eduke32.cfg).
Since there are no .grp files available, eduke enters automatically into setup mode and it crashes (i'm guessing). run eduke32 -nosetup and see what happens.
But, if you DO have the necessary files, it will crash anyway when run with the -setup parameter. This is an old bug (about a year old). I hoped it was a known bug and that it would be fixed sometime soon, but I just downloaded build 10594 from dec/8 2024 and it still happens.

[Mark]

Its a known issue reported by a number of people this year and its not going to get a fix. Thats why I think it was done intentionally for some reason.

It caused me to have to reorganize my projects because in some I had no DUKE3D.GRP file in them and just adding one in messed things up.

[Jorge]

I still don't think so, just crashing with no explanation has go to be the Tackiest programing style I've seen so far...

[Hendricks266]

Bug fixed.

[Mark]

There we go. I took one for the team.

[Jorge]

 Hendricks266, on 26 December 2024 - 09:17 PM, said:

Bug fixed.

I confirm, I doesn't crash now and setup mode works as expected.