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Downloaded a map from here and it wont work....
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Posted by HPMAN360 on Wed Apr 8th at 10:41pm 2009

I downloaded dm_hogwarts, and it wont run on ANYTHING not even HL2 Deathmatch. What do i do? I've tried renaming it, no matter what it continues to say that the map is not found or invalid (the map does show up in the console and selection). I really have no idea what to do, can someone give me a hand, i noticed almost everybody else who downloaded it got it to work, this has never happened to me. Help?



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Posted by Le Chief on Wed Apr 8th at 10:51pm 2009

Assuming this is a Source engine map:

Half-Life 2 maps go in: Steamsteamappsusernamehalf-life 2hl2maps
Half-Life 2 Deathmatch maps go in: Steamsteamappsusernamehalf-life 2 deathmatchhl2mpmaps
Counter-Strike Source maps go in: Steamsteamappsusernamecounter-strike sourcecstrikemaps
Half-Life 2 Episode 1 maps go in: Steamsteamappsusernamehalf-life 2 episode oneepisodicmaps
Half-Life 2 Episode 2 maps go in: Steamsteamappsusernamehalf-life 2 episode twoep2maps

If your sticking the maps in the correct directory, than either the map file became corrupt during the download or the map file is corrupt. I've downloaded maps off a Snarkpit mirror before and they worked fine to me so I'd say the problem is specific to that map or your sticking it in the wrong directory.


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Posted by HPMAN360 on Wed Apr 8th at 10:57pm 2009

I tried it with both HL2 and HL2DM, they are in the right directory.
It seems to have no reason to not run, thats where my problem is.
dm_hogwarts was also on fpsbannana, i downloaded it from both sites and tried each, for some reason its just not working. All i really did was extract it from the zip, but i do that every time i get a zipped map, they all run just fine.
I just dont know what to do >_<



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 Re: Downloaded a map from here and it wont work....
Posted by Le Chief on Wed Apr 8th at 11:02pm 2009

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Well if you have downloaded custom maps before and they worked fine and you haven't messed around with Half-Life 2's internals, you can safety rule out the problem is on your end and conclude that the map is broken smiley.

If you want, give me a link to the map and I can test to see if it works on my end.

Edit: Just a thought, perhaps the map is for the GoldSource engine (Half-Life 1)?


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Posted by HPMAN360 on Wed Apr 8th at 11:05pm 2009

Ah... I think you are right about that.
I thought only HL2DM had the dm prefix, ah...



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Posted by Le Chief on Wed Apr 8th at 11:21pm 2009

Hehe, I guess that was a convention not really adopted by the Half-Life 1 modding community as much as it was for the Half-Life 2 modding community.


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