[Jamesfff]

Why does the latest version of BloodGDX try to load Cryptic Passage even when I select a regular episode and then crash back to the game menu with a "cannot load Cryptic Passage" error message!?

(game log posted below)

BUILD engine by Ken Silverman (http://www.advsys.net/ken)
BloodGDX v0.779 by [M210®] (http://m210.duke4.net)
Current date October 06, 2017 21:57:23
Running on Windows 10 (version 10.0)

Checking new version...
You are using the last version
Initializing resource archives
Found 678 files in BLOOD.RFF archive
Found 1747 files in SOUNDS.RFF archive
Version >= v1.10 found
Loading INI file
Initializing Build 3D engine
Loading palettes
Loading translucency table
Loading gamma correction table
Creating standard color lookups
Loading tiles
Initializing dynamic fire
Loading cosine table
Initializing view subsystem
Initializing status bar
Initializing weapon animations
Loading control setup
Initializing network users
Initializing sound system
Gervill initialized
OpenAL version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.15.1
OpenAL Soft initialized
debug: load ini info blood.ini
Loading bloodgdx.def...
Loading voxel.def...
Loading skybox.def...
GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 4.5.0 NVIDIA 376.53 initialized
loading Cradle to Grave
degub: start prepareboard()

[m210®]

What OS are you using?
Try to launch bloodgdx from console. (java -jar BloodGDX.jar) gamelog has nothing useful. I see only blood.ini load and loadmap e1m1.

Your criptic.ini is modified?

[Jamesfff]

WIndows 10

No difference from loading via shortcut.

Cryptic.ini has not been changed.

The specific error message I'm getting when trying to start Blood Episodes 1-5 is "Error opening map file C:\Blood\Games\Blood\cryptic passage\e1m1.map" It ONLY happens when trying to load episodes 1-5 - Cryptic Passage itself loads fine!

[m210®]

Hm. I dont know, its impossible. Can you send me your Blood folder(fully game)?

[ZedSlayer]

I seem to be suffering a similar issue, but that BloodGDX always tries to load RATM

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[m210®]

You are guys don't say something, because I can't simulate this problem, port working fine in all cases for me. So, therefore I need your game folder.

[Jamesfff]

"You are guys don't say something, because I can't simulate this problem, port working fine in all cases for me. So, therefore I need your game folder."

If you want to fiddle around with a copy of my Blood directory, I'll need to email it to you - even with 7zip, it's way to big to upload here. If you don't want to post your email on the forum click here:

Email me

[Phredreeke]

My guess would be one of those BATs overwrites BLOOD.INI with its own file, in order to launch its own episode set. See if you can replace BLOOD.INI with one from a fresh install.

[ZedSlayer]

Actually, each BAT is set to only copy files and their own INI when run, then delete the copys when the program is closed, my Blood.INI should be fine as original, ive even just tested with a fresh Blood.ini and the issue persists, but heres a capture of it for checking, and also the BLOODGDX ini

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[m210®]

Ok, I fixed this bug. As temporaly solution you can try to put some .map files in Blood folder. It should help

[ZedSlayer]

An odd temp solution, but it worked. Making a random file called "Blank.map" makes normal episodes work again.

[hobblinharry]

I was also having this issue and can confirm the "blank.map" fix works for me too.