Hammer crashes when compiling Created 18 years ago2006-09-16 06:01:52 UTC by Cat Like Thief

Hi i know there is a post with the same name somewhere below however i think my situation differs due to the fact that hammer crashes midway through compiling... get as far as this

baseportalvis: 10% 20% 30%....etc

leaf:

on this map anyways, i cant seem to compile any maps now and they crash at different points, by crash i mean lock up and if i touch the box it turns white and i have to ctrl alt del the problem away!

not really sure why this started as i have made quite a few maps now with no problems and i have compiled this particular map several times which makes it more frustrating coz its almost finished!

i was using 3.4 so i tried uninstalling it and installing 3.5 instead, same thing!! really bizarre!! im gona try using a batch compiler now but it wud be nice if there was a way to fix this problem! any helps appreciated!

tried taking a screenie but my computer goes into super slow motion and for some reason it dont work, and i cant copy the compiling box as when i touch it it goes white! :S

thanks for any help!

Cat

It looks like it crashed, but it's really still compiling. The compile process has used up all available RAM and is now paging to the hard drive; which slows your PC (and the compile) to a crawl. Let it run and it will finish eventually. Free up all available RAM before starting...using a batch compiler will allow you to compile without having hammer running and will help. Some of the other members have info on batch compilers, I'm sure they will respond here also.

yeah thats exactly what i thought at first too, i left it compiling for 10 minutes and returned to find nothing responding at all. the previous times i have compiled in under a minute, ive got 2gb of ram so not really sure but i will definitly give that batch compiler a try!!

oh and it crashes on the leafthread part, i read that can take the longest to complete but another strange thing is that the rmf file is over 2mb, strange coz it aint that much of a big map ? :S

2gig is plenty of ram. I wonder if something else could be hogging the ram or the cpu. Let the compile run for an hour and see what happens. You'll hear some horror stories of compiles taking 24 hours, or more. It doesn't seem like this is a problem with hammer, but who knows.

Restarting your computer cleans the RAM out, try doing that before a compile.