No hammer! WHY!!!!!!!!!

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:13 am

My hammer files are getting screwed over badly. I have over 12 WIP and test maps and none of them will load. Am I th only one? I better back up my files quickly, this is getting bad...

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:12 am

no your not the only one. Don't worry

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:24 am

Oh, good. I didn't want this to be another forced reinstall of half life 2. I had to reinstall it twice, and just normally installing half life 2 once is enough hell.

skidz · Post by **skidz** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:50 am

Make a shortcut to hammer, add -dxlevel 80 in the command line.

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:33 pm

I'm currently trying to reinstall hammer through (backed up my map files), it keeps giving me an error at 23%...

skidz · Post by **skidz** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:34 pm

Trying to reinstall hammer? Hammer is a part of the Source SDK. Backup all of your maps and delete the SourceSDK folder. Open up SourceSDK in steam and hit "refresh SDK content" button. Should give you everything in its original form. If you have been getting crashes lately it is more that likely the current bugs. Turning DX to 8 fixes them.

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:52 pm

skidz wrote:Trying to reinstall hammer? Hammer is a part of the Source SDK. Backup all of your maps and delete the SourceSDK folder. Open up SourceSDK in steam and hit "refresh SDK content" button. Should give you everything in its original form. If you have been getting crashes lately it is more that likely the current bugs. Turning DX to 8 fixes them.

What "refresh SDK content" button. I can't get SDK to load up AT ALL. It's stuck at 23% download, tells me this:
Preloader error
Win32 StructuredException at 200D4C84 : Attempt to read from virtual address 1396575194 without appropriate access rights

And when I try to load any steam game, it crashes on load...

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:27 pm

have you updated your video drivers?
I did and a bunch of games and SourceSDK no longer load.
And the ones that do (like Sven Co-op)
The sprites are corrupted.

skidz · Post by **skidz** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:57 am

Power-Mad wrote:
skidz wrote:Trying to reinstall hammer? Hammer is a part of the Source SDK. Backup all of your maps and delete the SourceSDK folder. Open up SourceSDK in steam and hit "refresh SDK content" button. Should give you everything in its original form. If you have been getting crashes lately it is more that likely the current bugs. Turning DX to 8 fixes them.
What "refresh SDK content" button. I can't get SDK to load up AT ALL. It's stuck at 23% download, tells me this:
Preloader error
Win32 StructuredException at 200D4C84 : Attempt to read from virtual address 1396575194 without appropriate access rights

And when I try to load any steam game, it crashes on load...

Have you deleted the GCFs?

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:15 pm

Where would I find a GCF?

HunteR · Post by **HunteR** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:34 pm

Power-Mad wrote:Where would I find a GCF?

The GCF files are in your \SteamApps\ folder.

skidz · Post by **skidz** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:36 pm

HunteR wrote:
Power-Mad wrote:Where would I find a GCF?
The GCF files are in your \SteamApps\ folder.

Is that quote bug ever getting annoying, ill fix that asap.