Doomsday Engine

Open GL Version is 4.0

This looks like an audio issue, the crash seems to have occurred during the starting of a sound effect.

loadAudioDriver: Loading of "fmod" failed
Failed initializing audio driver "FMOD" 
Audio configuration:
  Music: SDLMixer::Music
  SFX:   SDLMixer

Also, why hasn't the FMOD Ex sound playback driver been switched out and the 'dummy' one used instead, when the former failed to initialize correctly? (With the latter intended to avoid repeatedly checking whether playback is possible).

@Harley51: What happens if you try to use "-dsound" or "-openal" command line options when launching?

danij wrote:

Also, why hasn't the FMOD Ex sound playback driver been switched out and the 'dummy' one used instead, when the former failed to initialize correctly? (With the latter intended to avoid repeatedly checking whether playback is possible).

Probably the logic for choosing the fallbacks is inadequate. I don't recall the details but I believe there isn't much smartness in it.

I just checked the latest 2.0 Windows build. It appears the FMOD audio plugin is entirely missing from the installation, so that would explain the problem.

I think SDL_Mixer is known to be a bit unstable on Windows, so there's nothing particularly unexpected there.

Harley51 wrote:

I just updated to build 1656 and now at the main menu screen for Doom you hit Esc and it crashes right away. Entered the commands -dsound: unknown identifier -openal says the same thing.

-dsound and -openal are command line options, so they need to be specified before starting Doomsday.

If you are using Snowberry then you can simply choose the associated audio driver at Settings > Sound > Sound driver: (DirectSound or OpenAL, in this case). If you are running Doomsday from the command line, you can specify -dsound or -openal there.

danij wrote:

If you are using Snowberry

I don't think Snowberry is being used (it is a 2.0 unstable build).

danij wrote:

Harley51 wrote:

I just updated to 2.0 build 1656 and now at the main menu screen for Doom you hit Esc and it crashes right away. Entered the commands -dsound: unknown identifier -openal says the same thing.

Is there someplace else the commands are suppose to be entered. I entered them in the lower left hand corner of the doomsday screen where it says enter commands and I get this message -dsound: unknown identifier -openal says the same thing.

Harley51 wrote:

Is there someplace else the commands are suppose to be entered.

If you are not comfortable with command line options, I recommend you use the 1.15 stable release until 2.0 is more refined and user-friendly so that it doesn't require you to use options.

Here is information about how to use command line options in Windows (from Mozilla web browser's documentation, but applies similarly to Doomsday 2): http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments#How_to_use_command_line_arguments

I ran the commands as suggested with the same crash results.

Any progress on this issue.

Thank you skyjake. That at this point has fixed this problem. This Sony Vaio is touchy on a lot of different software's.