Hammer randomly crashing apon startup

Yenwood

95 Posts

Posted Jul 04, 2012

Replied 5 minutes later

I might have an older version on a different computer, but the steam account I downloaded that on only used Half Life... would that affect hammer?

(I most likely do not have it downloaded there, I will check when I can, but don't get your hopes up )

Lpfreaky90

2,842 Posts

#80309

Posted Jul 05, 2012

Replied 7 hours later

Ryanw2ooo wrote:
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.

I've mailed SDK help a bunch of times for various reasons, but I've never gotten any reply

DaMaGepy

361 Posts

#80415

Posted Jul 07, 2012

Replied 2 days later

I usually start (after launching hammer) by create a new map, then try to save as... 25% of the time it works, and if can successfully bring up the save as window, I can just close the map and use the open menu.
I also try to keep the most used files in hammer's history (stores 4 of them), and if nothing works, I just have a .reg registry file ready, and I add/edit the filenames there before I start hammer
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Hammer\Recent File List)

Gregoric

6 Posts

#80460

Posted Jul 08, 2012

Replied 1 day later

Do you people know if it is system dependent? It may be as (for me) crashes mostly happen when trying to open/save as - these require opening Windows dialog box.

I am using Windows 7 x64. Didn't update for a bit long because I don't want the IE9 even try to get onto my drive. So, Windows updates in 7 surely don't have anything to do with these crashes.

Back to my question, anyone who is not using 7 have those crashes?

FelixGriffin

2,680 Posts

#80464

Posted Jul 08, 2012

Replied 1 hour later

I'm on Windows 7 x64 and having the same problem.

Brainstone

401 Posts

#80465

Posted Jul 08, 2012

Replied 22 minutes later

I'm on Win 7 64 bit and the problem occured a few times and then disappeared o.O

Lpfreaky90

2,842 Posts

#80466

Posted Jul 08, 2012

Replied 13 minutes later

FelixGriffin wrote:
I'm on Windows 7 x64 and having the same problem.

ChickenMobile

2,460 Posts

#80480

Posted Jul 08, 2012

Replied 3 hours later

FelixGriffin wrote:
I'm on Windows 7 x64 and having the same problem.

RustyDios

154 Posts

#80496

Posted Jul 08, 2012

Replied 5 hours later

I'm still using Windows Vista, just can't afford to upgrade to Windows 7. Never once had a problem with Hammer yet ... but since this thread have been keeping on the lookout for similar issues...

Maybe it is Windows version specific ?

Skotty

671 Posts

#80508

Posted Jul 09, 2012

Replied 7 hours later

FelixGriffin wrote:
I'm on Windows 7 x64 and having the same problem.

josepezdj

2,386 Posts

#80509

Posted Jul 09, 2012

Replied 1 hour later

FelixGriffin wrote:
I'm on Windows 7 x64 and having the same problem.

Lpfreaky90 wrote:
FelixGriffin wrote:

I'm on Windows 7 x64 and having the same problem.

chickenmobile wrote:
FelixGriffin wrote:

I'm on Windows 7 x64 and having the same problem.

Skotty wrote:
FelixGriffin wrote:

I'm on Windows 7 x64 and having the same problem.

What I want to say is that I'm also on W7 x64 and always was, so I don't really think this is related to the system, due to the fact that this is a recent problem that appeared like one month ago or so... And even less frequent, it's still there, at least for me...

EDIT

Seriously: I noticed that it crashes a lot much more if Portal2 is running on background. If hammer is running alone then the problem with this crash when attempting to load something tends to disappear... anyone else that can confirm this?

Omnistache

2 Posts

#82221

Posted Jul 29, 2012

Replied 20 days later

I've gone to the hammer.exe and set some compatibility mode settings (using windows 7 x64 as well gentlemen).

Right now I've changed it to Vista SP2 + Run as Admin, (not scientific method so I don't know if just using run as admin will help).

Anyway, I've tried to reproduce the error a few times (open dialog blank freeze), hasn't happened.

hammer.exe is in the portal 2 bin folder, give it a shot, see if it helps

josepezdj

2,386 Posts

#82237

Posted Jul 30, 2012

Replied 8 hours later

I'm on W7-64... so what you suggest is to run the tools in compatibility mode? (ofc I'm running it as administrator, but in normal mode...). Because this past weekend it has crashed attempting to open a file like 20 times!!!

I was about to grab my mouse and the keyboard (that btw don't have anything to do here, they're innocent!!) and throw them throughout the fu***n window!!! (... my God, they are innocents! and I was about to kill them!!! arghhh... shame on me!!

)....

I've been trying boosting the game with GameBooster (stopping unnecessary processes to speed the game up)... but apart from running more smoothly, it didn't make much difference agaisnt the crash...

FelixGriffin

2,680 Posts

#89261

Posted Jan 05, 2013

Replied 5 months later

Sorry for bringing back a dead post, but now I can't even go 30 seconds without it crashing. If you're Steam friends with me you'll see this isn't an exaggeration, I have to keep relaunching the Authoring Tools.

According to Task Manager, RAM use slowly climbs until it crashes. And the bin folder is filled with core dumps from when asserts apparently failed.

Even GameBooster can't get it to work for longer tn 27 seconds, which is ridiculous. I can't even edit an entity's properties in that time.

portal2tenacious

393 Posts

#89263

Posted Jan 05, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

Have you tried verifying, uninstalling, ect?

FelixGriffin

2,680 Posts

#89267

Posted Jan 05, 2013

Replied 1 hour later

Yes, and it now works. I'm not sure why, but unlinking the HL2 files from where Hammer was looking somehow made it run faster. Does it cache information about everything or some such? I wasn't using any of the HL2 content...

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