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Posted by matt on Thu Nov 27th at 5:16pm 2003

I was using VHE3.4, but when I started a new map, it freezes, and the old "Hammer has performed an illegal operation" pops up. So, I downloaded the 3.5beta and used that. That slo freezes after I draw three polygons, and when I tried to use an older version, (3.3) My pc toally crashed with a mouse freeze an everything. So what am i doing wrong? Its all very well wanting to map, but then something like this happens, and I just totally start pulling my hair out! Help would be apprieciated. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Nov 27th at 5:35pm 2003

turn your hardware acceleration down 1 notch on your vid card.. [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Nov 27th at 5:41pm 2003

Dont install VHE on a 486 [addsig]



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Posted by matt on Fri Nov 28th at 10:48am 2003

no, what is its like i just can't draw more than two polygons before it toaly freezes, and my pc is better than a 486, Wild card! [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Nov 28th at 1:01pm 2003

till you get a solution, do not mark mine as wrong.. i am fairly sure of that responce..

  • what is your video card?

  • you DO have the newest drivers? correct?

  • un mark mine as incorrect till you are sure.

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Posted by matt on Fri Nov 28th at 4:15pm 2003

Thats a very good point Orpheus - I had DX 9 before, I'll get that reinstalled and see what happens. I just id dxdiag and it says i have ver5, which is event lower than when half life was released! [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Nov 28th at 6:07pm 2003

You managed to down-date DirectX ?

Whew ... I had tons of problems uninstalling 9.0b

Ontopic: just reinstall your DX-version (9.0) ... the installer will automaticly update files and registry ... cuz DX 5.0 ... that's waaaaaaay back





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Posted by matt on Fri Nov 28th at 7:12pm 2003

Hmm now its behaving even odder now i've got v9 installed. Oh, and v5 was pre installed on my copy of WinXP, but I got mine when XP was launched, just over two years ago. I guess Microsoft really doesn't care about us gamers. [addsig]



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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Nov 28th at 8:10pm 2003

I "down-dated" Dx9.0 with no problems...my card is really meant for 8.1 anyway. Just gotta wait until I get my new Radeon for me to actually want to get Dx9 [addsig]



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Posted by SumhObo on Fri Nov 28th at 11:26pm 2003

Actually, Hammer editor automatically uses OpenGL to render its in-edit 3D. Check your status on that arm...



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Posted by Leperous on Sat Nov 29th at 3:35pm 2003

Rough PC specs please? If it's old, you might have to stick with 2.1 :/ If you're not running WinXP, try going to start ? run ? drwatson; when WC crashes it'll tell you what caused it, so you can usually tell if it's the program or the graphics card..



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Posted by OtZman on Sun Nov 30th at 10:22am 2003

Offtopic:

? posted by Leperous
Rough PC specs please? If it's old, you might have to stick with 2.1 :/ If you're not running WinXP, try going to start ? run ? drwatson; when WC crashes it'll tell you what caused it, so you can usually tell if it's the program or the graphics card..

What is this "Dr. Watson" thing?

[addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Nov 30th at 12:12pm 2003

Built in crash detection/event log for windows. If your PC crashes, DrWatson produces a log of some klnd that will tell you where the fault was, and in what process / dll (I think).



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Posted by matt on Sun Nov 30th at 3:27pm 2003

Wow, my pc just frooze like never before! I tried using the Start >> Run >> drwatson thing, but it just said no errors detected. I tried running Hammer and it looked my pc into this totally frozen state, I couldn't even move my mouse! (had to restart after that.) Here the spec of my pc if it helps :

P4 1.5Ghz with 256Mb SDRam. My graphics card is a GForce 2 MX400 (Remember I got it 2 years ago!) I'm running Windows XP. (not service pack 1 though)

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Posted by matt on Mon Dec 1st at 5:09pm 2003

Its doing it every time i go into VHE, help! [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Dec 1st at 5:48pm 2003

Reinstall ?

weird prob ...

Use a free online virus scanner: http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan





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Posted by Hornpipe2 on Mon Dec 1st at 6:40pm 2003

format c: [addsig]



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Posted by Loco on Tue Dec 2nd at 3:41pm 2003

1. Norton Systemworks -> One Button Check Up
2. SpyBot Search and destroy.

I know both are unlikely to solve the situation, certainly the last one, but Spyware has killed my brother's PC before, and System works would almost definately find something at least.

Other than that theres nothing much I can say. Sorry. Are you running any other programs in the background? If so which ones? [addsig]



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Posted by matt on Tue Dec 2nd at 4:08pm 2003

This is the error:

[addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Tue Dec 2nd at 6:53pm 2003

You see a problem with Hammer crashing. I see no problem at all.




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