[Solved] - FATAL ERROR: couldn't load material '$default'

[Rezil]

I'm having a problem getting radiant to work. I can't even enter it. Every time I doubleclick the project file(the thing you need to do the first time you run cod4radiant), it crashes and reports an error:

FATAL ERROR: couldn't load material '$default'
GetLastError() = 0
An unrecoverable error has occured. blabla exit...

Any ideas what might cause this problem? I removed all the mods from my mods folder, the main folder is empty, the raw map(where the materials are) is in the call of duty 4 folder. I vaguely remember something simmilar with cod2radiant but I forgot how I fixed it that time.

Help would be appreciated.

[Rezil]

made it work, no thanks to you guys.

[Soviet]

maybe you should say how you solved it so if any other people have that issue they know how to solve it as well.

[Rezil]

Yeah, the problem was with the iw_01.iwd file(where the default texture is). All I had to do was copy the same file from the DVD into main and it worked.

[Soviet]

thanks, topic locked.

[Drofder2004]

thanks, topic locked.

Added [Solved] to topic title.

[helium]

A bit old topic, but I recently installed Mod Tools and I'm getting the same error. I've tried different things (including your fix) but nothing worked. Help please!

EDIT: Quick fixed. After 3 hours of googling and testing different solutions, I got it working.

Solution was to move out the shortcut to CoD4Radiant to the main CoD4 folder (where the MP + SP exe files are) and open it from there.

You can once again lock the topic, hehe.

[helium]

gtfo p.o.s bot :<

Edit [Drofder]
Please dont quote bot links >.>

[Riley03]

i have the same problem and ur solutions dosent work what can i do?

[Thumper99]

made it work, no thanks to you guys.

I'm getting this error;

FATAL ERROR: couldn't load material '$default'
GetLastError() = 0

And I found this post in Google. How did you fix this problem Rezil?

[waleeed12]

All I had to do was copy the same file from the DVD into main and it worked



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