hammer went nutz Created 19 years ago2005-01-28 21:53:56 UTC by terminalbovine

so i was working on my map again as i have been for a couple of days and i saved and then soon after hammer froze so now when i try and start up my map, which was saved many many many times before it crashed over a series of days, it wont load it just loads a blank map so i thought well maybe it somehow got wiped clean however on looking at the size of the vmf its wayyyy bigger than a blank saved map
anyone know whats happened and how i could fix it your help would be greatly appreciated
PS the file is 554 KB

Copy the messed up vmf to the desktop, then rename the file yourmap.vmx to yourmap.vmf and open that instead.

Did you save it as .map or you could use .vmx file to open on hammer!

.map is useless. Horrible format.

its vmf and i renamed and moved it but it still doesnt work its size leads me to believe theres still something there but i just wont load its really wierd

by the way whats a vmx file?

It's the backup map file format.

If the VMX ain't loadin, you're sorta screwed

wait how do i load the vmx in hammer? and also would anyone mind trying to open the map in their hammer just to see if it'll work?

You need to rename the VMX to VMF to load it.

I'd see if it worked but I'm about to go eat.

actually using the vmx worked and i can see that its loading some brushes and geometry but i get the error "out of memory loading solid" any ideas?

Argh, that should be happening in the VMF D:

You may be out of luck here, but try closing all Steam games windows (not Steam itself) and try again

ya umm the game windows closing thing didnt work it also gives me an error after the memory error about like error line 5057 error 7 whatever that is