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Posted by DrGlass on Mon Apr 25th at 9:36am 2005

I can launch hammer, faceposer, and model veiwer for HL2 but when I try and open a model the program crashes. For instance, I'll place a prop_static, then try and browse for a model. Before the folder even opens hammer crashes. I have no problem with HL2:DM model's folder or CS:S and I can even create a MOD and veiw the HL2 models with that.

I only have problems when I launch a program for HL2! I've refreshed the content and all that jazz but still have the same problem. This isn't new either, I havn't been able to veiw model's for HL2 for quite some time (2 months or so). It did work a long time ago (before HL2:DM came out).

any ideas?
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Posted by Natus on Mon Apr 25th at 9:57am 2005

make sure that hl2 is updated, if that doesnt work...reinstall hl2 smiley
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Posted by Leperous on Mon Apr 25th at 10:24am 2005

Er, no, don't reinstall HL2, unless everything else you try fails.

This may be a graphics card problem, or something really ridiculous- check your control panel ? administrative tools ? event viewer logs and see why Hammer is crashing. You can also try running drwtsn32 and make Hammer crash to see what's up, and work from there.

You said that Hammer works with models from other mods. Try extracting some of the models from the source models GCF file (the HL2 models) into a real directory that Hammer can access. If they don't work, then you know it's a problem with the HL2 models themselves, and if they do work, then there's something going wrong with Hammer accessing the GCFs- perhaps it's running out of memory and can't cope with them? You should also make sure that this isn't a case of Hammer crashing when it's trying to look at larger, more complicated models, rather than the piddly little HL2DM/CS:S weapons and small props.





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Posted by DrGlass on Mon Apr 25th at 5:50pm 2005

Thats the thing lep, hammer will crash if I try and browse the model folder. I dont even have the option to veiw large or small models. It seems like the HL2 model folder in the GCF is corrupt (I didn't think to check the GCF).

Its not only Hammer, its face poser and HL2 model veiwer.

I will poke around in GCF Scape a bit.
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Posted by dilbert_halflife on Wed Jan 11th at 10:05am 2006

Did anyone resolve (fix) this problem? as I have the same one.

I followed the guide in the SDK docs and deleted and reinstalled the entire SDK, but the problem persists.

The only thing I haven't tried is reinstalling all of HL2 itself.

If I do will it change or cause any problems with my Steam ID?






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