Problem with models in Hammer

[StratFrets89]

I'm new to HL2 mapping, but I have mapped for engines such as Quake 2 and Quake 3 before. That said, I can't figure out whats going on in Hammer. Whenever I try to give a prop entity a model value, the program crashes. I go into the parameters, I select World Model, click browse, and if I click on a model name it crashes. Little help here.

 

[Unarmed]

Refresh SDK .. or reinstall.

Thats the best I can come up with.

 

[MiMMiC]

there currently is a problem with some video cards that will cause odd things to happen. I use a laptop to do my mapping and I have to force hammer and hlmv into dx8 mode. You can do this by making a short cut and adding "-dxlevel 80" to the end of the launch command. It might help. My hammer was crashing at about the same steps you talked about and my hlmv just shows rays of polygons before I did this. No problems since. It IS a valve problem, it didn't do this until a patch to the sdk a couple months ago