VHA crashes immediately upon startup when ZHLT WAD is added to textures list

When I add the ZHLT WAD to my textures list in Hammer Editor 3.5b the editor crashes and keeps doing so every time I start it up again.
Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?

When I first added the ZHLT WAD Hammer Editor worked perfectly until I shut it down -- it crashed after being given the order to close and haven't worked sinse. I've also tried replacing my main executable with a new one which temporarily solves the problem... The crashes do, however, reappear when I add the ZHLT WAD again :sad:

Please... I'm stuck!

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Just another guy trying to make a map...

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? Also, how many wads do you have in your wads list in hammer? And is the wad file corrupt?

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Aaron's Stuff

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? Also, how many wads do you have in your wads list in hammer? And is the wad file corrupt?

Thanks, I'll try reinstalling... Don't think there's anything wrong with the WAD and I only have around 7 WAD's total.

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Just another guy trying to make a map...

Hmmmmm. Go here and download the latest zhlt. This package also comes with the latest wad file, use this version of zhlt and this wad file instead of what ever you currently have.

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Aaron's Stuff

Just in case nothing works, you can always make your own .wad file (using Wally). There's nothing special about zhlt.wad, you can create your own textures and name them 'clip', 'sky', 'null', and so on, and they'll all be treated just as special as the ones in zhlt.wad. It's all in the name. :wink:

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WHOA! I just removed Hammer completely... Then I reinstalled it and put all of the WAD's and stuff into the folder. Immediately crash when started.
Well... I'm a patient man (not) so I removed everything once again and restarted my computer. Then I carefully installed only Hammer 3.4 (no updates or add-ons of any kind) and started the application...
CRASH.

I mean... WTF?!
What the hell am I supposed to do now?!

EDIT:
Valve... I KILL YOU!
Let me just explain how stupid this is. I opened RegEdit and learned that some of the Hammer keys were still there. In my fury I deleted everything until the Windows database was cleared of anything containing "hammer".
And, screw it all, now it works. So much for "uninstalling" :razz:

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Just another guy trying to make a map...

Check your video drivers. A long time ago I had a crappy laptop video card with non-updated drivers, and Worldcraft (Hammer's name at the time) would constantly crash on me because of that 3D window. Or you could turn to QuArK, like I also did.

OVRKLL said:
I opened RegEdit and learned that some of the Hammer keys were still there. In my fury I deleted everything until the Windows database was cleared of anything containing "hammer".
And, screw it all, now it works. So much for "uninstalling" :razz:

Well, uninstalling hammer was supposed to remove all the entries in the register editor. I suppose thats windows or whatever for you :wink:

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Aaron's Stuff

Hehe... Well my laptop was cutting edge one and a half year ago and is still able to play new games (EP2, TF2, Portal, Crysis... Nah, forget that last one ^^). Also, I've never had that kind of problems with the graphics card before and I've already installed a cutomized driver for the card.

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Just another guy trying to make a map...

I don't think the problem is the graphics card :S

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Aaron's Stuff

Nope... Well thanks all, now I don't think (better make that don't hope) I'll encounter any more problems like this.

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Just another guy trying to make a map...

i had a similar problem with hammer retaining settings across installs. i'm still taking the pilss for that one...

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