Okay, Hammer is majorly bugged or something now

[tearinox]

Well I was playing with hammer about two weeks ago and it worked fine. Today, I got on and made like a map with 5 brushes. Suddenly, Hammer said: "You insufficiant memory, please consider lowering your level of undos"

I thought that was just wierd because I have 768MB of RAM. So I Ctrl+alt+del and see that Hammer was taking up 350MB OF MY RAM!!

Next, I try to save the map to close it out and it wont save for some odd reason. Then Hammer crashes and I lose my work :flame:

Now I'm trying to load Hammer again but now its not letting me use Half life 2 as the game because it cannot find the game configuration.

Is anyone else having similar problems with hammer? This is all frustrating because it was working great a little bit ago and i was happily mapping along.

 

[Sphinxter]

Think everyone have experienced that mem leak.
One thumb of rule tho:
Be sure to close all VALVE windows like the "play games" and "SDK" window. They got major mem leaking. (So does hammer but u cant really do anything about it).
Also I did have the loss of game configuration. I had to make a new mod to make it work again.

 

[Bronzer]

I get this same message, but I'm naive about such things, being quite the newbie to map making, and I just clicked ok, and 'do not show this message again, and went on to make a room successfully.

 

[omnix32]

hammer can eat alot of memory for some reason, even if a map is not loaded into it.

right now steam is eating up 33 megs and hammer 36 megs. why does steam need so much memory?

lets hope for a fix......past this in a text file and call it GameInfo.txt

put it in your hl2 folder and see if that works.




"GameInfo"
{
FileSystem
{
SteamAppId 220 // This will mount all the GCFs we need (240=CS:S, 220=HL2).
ToolsAppId 211 // Tools will load this (ie: source SDK caches) to get things like materials\debug, materials\editor, etc.

//
// The code that loads this file automatically does a few things here:
//
// 1. For each "Game" search path, it adds a "GameBin" path, in <dir>\bin
// 2. For each "Game" search path, it adds another "Game" path in front of it with _<langage> at the end.
// For example: c:\hl2\cstrike on a french machine would get a c:\hl2\cstrike_french path added to it.
// 3. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "MOD".
// 4. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "DEFAULT_WRITE_PATH".
//

//
// Search paths are relative to the base directory, which is where hl2.exe is found.
//
// |gameinfo_path| points at the directory where gameinfo.txt is.
// We always want to mount that directory relative to gameinfo.txt, so
// people can mount stuff in c:\mymod, and the main game resources are in
// someplace like c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\half-life 2.
//
SearchPaths
{
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game hl2
}
}
}

 

[Kyorisu]

Why do we need Uber rigs just to work with the SDK? Seriously I hope Valve are atleast thinking about this outragous memory usage. I'm currently using Hammer 3.4 and then converting to vmf and compiling via batch file.

 

[JohnnyBeverage]

I've been getting a weird problem myself recently. Only when using hammer. If i leave the map open overnight when i get up the next morning all textures are purple and black, and hammer is unresponsive. I have to close hammer and sdk. When i go back into hammer everything is fine once again.

Occasionally textures are fine but the hammer is unresponsive. Interesting.

 

[chestburster]

do we have a bug report forum? would be useful!

 

[Cunbelin]

There is definitely something hosed with Hammer, ASUS probe pops up and tells me it's out of resources, there is definitely something not watching it's memory usage properly. For now it seems the only hope is to save early and save often.

 

[Altanore]

It's really bugged, after a while of mapping, my computer goes bunkers.. it's like windows won't give me access to my hard drive anymore, the start menu is destroyed, the task manager won't open and gives an error, steam just has blank boxes and i can't save my map or it gives an error saying my hard drive does not exist.

 

[chestburster]

the only solution for now is to close the steam windows after loading hammer. http://www.chatbear.com/board.plm?a=viewthread&t=567,1103748551,14373&id=760734&b=4986&v=flatold

 

[Griever]

Now I'm trying to load Hammer again but now its not letting me use Half life 2 as the game because it cannot find the game configuration.

I had the same problem. In your sourcesdk\bin folder there is a program called 'vconfig'. Open it, and make sure it's pointing to the right directory for each game (choose game from menu, click edit).

 

[Dasparov]

yeah, my computer crashes randomly with hammer

 

[tearinox]

Well if they're this many peopel having the same problems as me, I hope that Valve is working on a path right now.

 

[Mr Neutron]

i've had steam crash on its own without hammer just by leaving a menu open. But hammer has its own leaks. Remember that Hammer always makes a backup one save back when you save your map.