Hammer randomly crashing apon startup
Help would be greatly apperciated.
Thanks.
Skotty wrote:
Since the last update I have random freezes while opening the "Open File" window. Moth has a similar problem, but for him it's the "Save File" window. Seems like the new Hammer version has some very little bugs.
I had the same problem with the Open button. But It managed to fix itself some how.
It just happened to me again when I was trying to load a map, but even before I could choose any one to load. The strange was that I verified the integrity of the local files and all of them was OK. But the most strange is that, after forcing it to close and reopen it again, it appears the typical warning message that you have when you are into hammer with an open map, it crashes and then it tries to load the autosave file of that map you had open. But I didn't even have time to open it!
Another thing I noticed: a few weeks ago Hammer seemed particularly prone to crashes for a while, so I set the auto-save interval to the "extreme paranoia" setting. That actually made the crashing even worse. Disabling the autosave seems to result in fewer crashes. (However I would not recommend this to anyone, for obvious reasons.)
Wild speculation: if you are doing something (moving things, changing properties, staring at the monitor) at the exact moment while it's autosaving, it crashes? My autosaves often seem alarmingly up to date after a crash...
Skotty wrote:
Seems like the new Hammer version has some very little bugs.
Sarcasm self-test complete? 
Sometimes the 'load File' window remains blank forever, sometimes it's fine and 'Save As' window does the same thing instead. I think I'm being punished for hating the PTI Editor 
Moth wrote:
I'm still experiencing this problem, and have notified Valve.Sometimes the 'load File' window remains blank forever, sometimes it's fine and 'Save As' window does the same thing instead. I think I'm being punished for hating the PTI Editor
What helped for me is randomly opening a map from the most recent 5 I can just open from the file menu (often an instance) and after I loaded that, keep it open and load another map. For some reason that helps evade the stuck on load error.
Lpfreaky90 wrote:
What helped for me is randomly opening a map ...helps evade the stuck on load error.
This works, but does nothing for my 'Save As' window.
I can ONLY do a 'regular' save with the same name as my existing project. I can work around this by manually renaming VMF files, but it's a real pain in the behind
Does anyone know if Valve is trying to fix this at all??
Does anyone have an old version of hammer.exe?
Im emailing valve.
Ryanw2ooo wrote:
Great, now portal 2 ITSELF is acting up for me along with the billions of hammer problems.
Im emailing valve.
Kay, I just emaild the SDK help. Heres what I said.
Hello.
Me, and many other mappers, are experiencing crashes in hammer quite frequently. Most particularly in Portal 2. From what people are saying, and myself, hammer (but not usually the authoring tools window itself) starts not responding/crashing for the following reasons;
•Trying to Save As
•Opening instances
•Trying to open a vmf
•Trying to run hammer itself
•Choosing a texture
•For me rarely when opening a point file
•And on another note, when I try to play community maps in PeTI, Portal 2 crashes!
I/we honestly don't know what to do and we hope to god you're fixing this.
Also, I think this may or may not be affecting episode 3. Don't you think?
Thank you for your time.
Ryanw2ooo.vmf on steam [currently]
I think I might've screwed it all up on that episode 3 thing. 