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[Solved] - FATAL ERROR: couldn't load material '$default'
Posted: January 19th, 2008, 3:08 pm
by Rezil
I'm having a problem getting radiant to work. I can't even enter it. Every time I doubleclick the project file(the thing you need to do the first time you run cod4radiant), it crashes and reports an error:
FATAL ERROR: couldn't
load material '$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.

Posted: January 20th, 2008, 3:57 pm
by Rezil
made it work, no thanks to you guys.

Posted: January 20th, 2008, 4:28 pm
by 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.
Posted: January 20th, 2008, 4:30 pm
by 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.
Posted: January 20th, 2008, 6:21 pm
by Soviet
thanks, topic locked.
Posted: January 20th, 2008, 11:38 pm
by Drofder2004
Soviet wrote:thanks, topic locked.
Added [Solved] to topic title.
Re: [Solved] - FATAL ERROR: couldn't load material '$default'
Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:03 pm
by helium
A bit old topic, but I recently installed Mod Tools and I'm getting the same error. I've tried different things (including your fix) but nothing worked. Help please!
EDIT: Quick fixed. After 3 hours of googling and testing different solutions, I got it working.
Solution was to move out the shortcut to CoD4Radiant to the main CoD4 folder (where the MP + SP exe files are) and open it from there.
You can once again lock the topic, hehe.
Re: chaussurespuma
Posted: April 29th, 2009, 10:21 am
by helium
gtfo p.o.s bot :<
Edit [Drofder]
Please dont quote bot links >.>
Re: [Solved] - FATAL ERROR: couldn't load material '$default'
Posted: July 19th, 2009, 1:33 pm
by Riley03
i have the same problem and ur solutions dosent work

what can i do?
Re:
Posted: December 19th, 2015, 1:29 pm
by Thumper99
Rezil wrote:made it work, no thanks to you guys.

I'm getting this error;
FATAL ERROR: couldn't
load material '$default'
GetLastError() = 0
And I found this post in Google. How did you fix this problem Rezil?
Re: [Solved] - FATAL ERROR: couldn't load material '$default
Posted: March 28th, 2016, 1:47 pm
by waleeed12
All I had to do was copy the same file from the DVD into main and it worked
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