Error Message...

Zazi

<div class="IPBDescription">Help me, help you!</div> In CSG, i get "Error: File read failure". Any clues what it means?
No, I am not over any limits. Yes, I have checked for problems across four different editors. There is nothing wrong.

Any ideas?

DarkATi

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"file read failure"
There is a problem reading the file. The possible causes and possible solutions vary so much I cannot list them ALL here, but for a HL/mod game a few are:

    * corrupt bsp, needs replacing
    * corrupt MOD or HL program needs replacing - a virus?
    * corrupt sprite/wav/model/wad
    * a bad HardDrive sector that is not reading well or at all
    * a program is interfering with the game program
    * and many others are possible.
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Sorry this is all I could find, having no experience with this error myself I can't help directly.

Sounds like you have a serious problem and I wish I could help more.

~ DarkATi

Zazi

Yeah, I think I'm going to shoot myself in the foot now.

Cagey

How far does CSG get before the error occurs?

EDIT: this is a classic case of a poorly written error message... it should include the name of the file it can't read.

Zazi

To my surprise, it is the result of MAX_MAP_MIPTEX being reached, and -nowadtextures. Since all the textures used are compiled into the BSP, it went over it's assigned memory amount on compile and generated a read failure error.