Hammer startup not working with VHE 3.5 Created 18 years ago2005-12-22 23:03:22 UTC by Android

Yo, my Hammer editor executable all of a sudden stopped working. Before this happened, I was looking through the area where you can change the active FGD being used for a certain mod to map for. Well, I hit the edit button so i could manually make entities show up as models. I noticed that everytime I do that, switching back to Hammer with the fgd still open makes the Hammer windows all white. So i continued to edit the FGD. When i was done and saved the changes, Hammer, instead of going back to normal, stayed white and unresponsive. I Terminated the executable through windows task manager. I tried to start it up again, but nothing happens. The task manager shows that hammer.exe is running and using around 50% cpu usage. So I redownloaded the executable from the Valve ERC site, and overwrote the existing Hammer executable in the directory. Still won't start up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Kill the hammer.exe process. If not,
restart your computer.

I tried both and it still doesn't work

Try moving the FGD away from wherever Hammer expects it to be. Remember, everything in a computer becomes code at some point, and if you've made a mistake in your FGD editing, that could well be the cause of it.