RTC_Marine Posted April 5, 2008 If you open an IWAD file with XWE, the header inside the file gets converted to a PWAD. This causes problems when trying to play the game afterwards. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted April 5, 2008 I don't think that's going to get fixed any time soon. I do think there's an option to disable back-ups that might get rid of that, but then XWE won't back your PWADs up either. Mark your IWADs as read-only, for a work-around. EDIT: Oh wait, I remembered this may be due to an optional feature. Try disabling the "Automatically create a backup file when a WAD file is opened" option. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted April 5, 2008 See the edit, which might offer a better solution. 0 Share this post Link to post
iceman57 Posted July 20, 2008 Confirmed, I'm a XWE opened WAD copy/paste addict. Found this 2 years ago while trying to solve IWAD automatic conversion issue... If you shut XWE without copying current active work, then you'll see the size of your WAD change to a really smaller size and a generated backup file... So don't shut it by common reflex to press the upper right corner cross, copy/paste first, then "file / quit". 0 Share this post Link to post
hawkwind Posted July 21, 2008 Another option is to simply make your IWADS read only. 0 Share this post Link to post
iceman57 Posted July 21, 2008 Interesting, I'll change properties of my backups :D 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted July 21, 2008 Sometimes XWE leaves my IWADs alone, othertimes it rewrites them as PWADs while also leaving the original as back-up. In this case, what I do is merely restoring the original. I wouldn't attribute my IWADs as read-only, because then Dmgraph or Dmaud won't read them anymore. How come "don't leave backups" is a solution? 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted July 21, 2008 Because when that is enabled XWE cleans (thus modifies) the WAD and creates a back-up as soon as you open it. If you disable the "Automatically create a backup file when a WAD file is opened" option, it does the clean-up and creates the back-up only if and after you've made any changes to the WAD (and when closing it). In this case, if you don't modify the WAD, XWE doesn't change it at all. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted July 24, 2008 Wow. Having backups enabled mean that any file you load will be unnecessarily modified is definitely not something that I would expect. It's kind of like having a button that says "Safe to push" that is wired to a bundle of TNT. 0 Share this post Link to post
esselfortium Posted July 24, 2008 Quasar said:It's kind of like having a button that says "Safe to push" that is wired to a bundle of TNT. Well, now that you mention it... /me puts button away 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted July 24, 2008 Quasar said:It's kind of like having a button that says "Safe to push" that is wired to a bundle of TNT. Why? Because some day it may crash up? EDIT: Haha, I don't have that damned version which does that! 0 Share this post Link to post
esselfortium Posted July 24, 2008 printz said:Why? Because some day it may crash up? No, because you expect that option to keep your wads safe and instead it has the effect of messing up your IWADs. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted July 24, 2008 I've opened the IWADS in XWE plenty of times. But I've never had this happen to me. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted July 24, 2008 Older versions don't have this feature, only the latest beta. Another issue this causes is modifying PWADs and thus rendering them unusable for online multiplayer. 0 Share this post Link to post
Black Metal Posted July 29, 2008 Be careful using IWADS. They can screw with your files sometimes (happened to me). 0 Share this post Link to post
Devalaous Posted August 19, 2009 So that explains why JDoom throws up when I load TNT and Ultimate Doom, I looked at those in XWE. 0 Share this post Link to post
wildweasel Posted August 19, 2009 That's why I tag all my IWADs as Read Only. Also, nice bump. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted August 20, 2009 It's better to disable the feature that modifies WADs each time they're opened. I'll probably make a sticky of this and the other issue where some steps need to be taken in Vista or the like to get it to work, soon. 0 Share this post Link to post