Relief!

I had a nasty scare on Saturday and today! And it's not the enjoyable scare Doom 3 gives me, it was the horrible scare of not being able to use Doom 3 or DOOMEdit.

On Saturday, I was searching for an HDR mod for Doom 3. The closest thing I could find was a Bloom mod. I downloaded that, it didn't run. I tried several Bloom mods, but none did anything, so I gave up and started Doom 3... or rather, tried to. It crashed at that little blue box that looks similar to Quake 3's. I uninstalled the game and tried to reinstall it. However, I ran into a snag. It seems my big, dumb computer didn't want to auto-install Doom 3. As you can imagine, I was very pissed off! I eventually stumbled across the Activision troubleshooting page and they told me how to do a manual install. It worked! Anyway, I go to upgrade to 1.3, both for the editor and the bug fixes (mainly for the editor, as the single-player bug fixes, if any, aren't noticeable). However, that's when I ran into another snag. The updater couldn't tell what version of Doom 3 I had! That meant going back to the Activision troubleshooting page and looking for a way to update. As it turns out, when you do a manual install, you have to install Doom 3 to the default installation path (C:/Program Files/Doom 3) and then fiddle with the registry to tell the updater what version you have. I did so and the updater worked! Huzzah! The reinstall of ROE went perfectly with no hitches or snags of any kind. Thank God!

Today, however, yet another snag hit me! DOOMEdit wouldn't load my map into Doom 3! I could save and BSP it, but not run it! I was thinking, Oh noes! I'll have to cancel my map editing hobby! NOOOOO!... Okay, it was rather more vulgar than that, but you get the idea. After a few minutes of searching, the solution came up! I moved my folder with all of its contents into the base/maps directory and it worked like a charm!

Everything's the way it was, now, apart from Doom 3 being in Drive C rather than Drive D. Well, I suppose it frees up space for other files on Drive D!

Man, I need a bigger hard drive... yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking... knock it off!