Hammer gone weird! Created 15 years ago2008-07-01 16:54:41 UTC by =Ace=

Hi!
Iv'e been working on this map of mine a while now, using hammer editor as always. Iv'e been using hammer a long time and never had any problems I couldn't fix......

Now, all of a sudden hammer has decided not to let me use the camera mode
window!
If I leftclick any given object in the camera view, absolutely nothing happens. I mean NOTHING.
Let's say I want to change some texture, i's impossible to point at it and click it to activate the surface. I am able to move my pointer anywhere without problem, but it just don't happen anything when clicking on a surface.
The other windows are working just fine and I may select an object there!
Thing is...then I select the WHOLE object and can't adjust only one side of the objects texture.
This happened just the other day, and it seems all by itself too?
I tried of course to reinstall hammer over itself without removing the complete install, thought I then would have my settings intact. (I had)!
But no difference at all, hammer opened up with all my settings there, and camera window not working. Still can't select an object in it!

Anyone got an idea as to what I should do here?

Do you have Vista or ATI Radeon video card?. If you have Vista, unistall it and get XP, if you have ATI Radeon card uninstall your drives and use a older Catalyst version.

Its a know problem, even to me.
Find (a) (possible solution(s)) here: http://twhl.co.za/forums.php?thread=15083

Does anyone with Vista have the ability to select things in the 3D view in Hammer 3.X?

Thanks!
As a matter of fact, I actually DID install new drivers for my ATI card.
Just a couple of days ago.
I Run XP on my comp, couldnt get used to all the blue screens on Vista =).
Never had a thought of the drivers for my graphics card though, going to try a rollback right away to older version.
Thanks again for taking the time to help me, I appreciate it !!

Ohhhh nooooooo and I was going to buy an Ati radeon Hd 4850 sometime nextweek !!!!!!!! ( I currently have an old Nvidia car 7600 GS , but Nvidia sucks at prices . Ati beats Nvidia here )
Ohhhh .... can somebody tell me what is the last ati driver that appeared ? I know 7.1 works with hammer but uh .... just for me to make an idea about this downgrade ( how much I downgrade from the current driver )

want to know why Nvidia cards cost more? because they're better. if you get the Nvidia one that costs the same as the AMD one, it'll still be better.

Why they are better ? because of the name ? I love Nvidia too but Ati offers better quality at a lower price right now

No they don't, Nvidia is definitely better then Ati right now. ATI controls the AGP and budget marktet better though.

Whatever . 4850 is a best-buy

if you actually read what we just said you'd know that it wasn't. whatever, it's not our money you're spending.

Ohhhh .... can somebody tell me what is the last ati driver that appeared ? I know 7.1 works with hammer but uh .... just for me to make an idea about this downgrade ( how much I downgrade from the current driver )

I posted a link in this thread. How can you miss that?
You need to install 7.11 (not 7.1). There's a direct download in that other thread.

Hi again!
There seem to be no end to this story for me =(
I tried to uninstall my drivers by using the add/remove utility in windows XP, removed my 8.4 drivers completely.
I used the drivers you supplied through that link, MuzzleFlash!
Installation starts......then comes this message about not finding the right driver for my system!! Arghh!
Downloaded the drivers (7.11) from Guru3D, the complete version with everything included..CCC WDM amd whatever it's called.
Tried installing those, no go.
Uninstalled again (there were parts of the drivers in add/remove)
Restarted my comp, installed a program called "Driver Cleaner", which said it would remove every trace of old drivers in my system.
Used the program, restarted comp and again tried to install 7.11 drivers.
Again...couldnt find a driver for your system (WTF?)
At this point i have uninstalled and tried installation of several different drivers, including the ones I had to start with (8.4)
Same message: Couldnt find a driver for your system ( or similar message)
I have got the ATI X1950XT card, on a XP SP3 computer.
So now its not Hammer that is my main problem, lol.

I found kind of a fix...
I remembered window system restore, and lucky enough there was a restorepoint I could use three days back (puhh)!
So now Im back where I started, got my 8.4 drivers installed and am able to use my comp again, hehe.
Now I only have to figure a way to travel backwards in time, (driver wise) to 7.11 to have my Hammer work too

How do you uninstall your drivers? Its recommended that you use the provided catalyst_uninstaller utility (I don't know the exact filename though, look for a file with uninstall in its filename).

So use that, then try to install the drivers i provided in the other thread.

did you try getting omega drivers?

MuzzleFlash!
Initially I did use the uninstaller provided by ATI, But it didn't work the way it was supposed to I guess. I wasn't able to install ANY drivers on my computer after that!
I found this link to a very thorough description of the uninstall process for the ATI drivers:

http://www.driverheaven.net/windows-xp-2k-radeon-display-drivers/107447-uninstalling-installing-ati-drivers-properly.html

Haven't been bold enough to try again, since I had so much trouble last time I tried!

if you actually read what we just said you'd know that it wasn't. whatever, it's not our money you're spending.

Then what the fuck I'm supposed to do cuz I'm not super-intelligent . Initially i just wanted to buy a new Nvidia but then lots of people told me Hd4850 is much better bla bla bla . Can somebody tell me a good Nvidia that costs about 240 $ ? ( that is 600 lei in out country)

I think the 8800GTS dropped to that level, or even the GTX. Basicly the same chipset as the 9800 series Nvidia hyped, all you need to do is install a motherfreakin cooler on it and overclock the core, then you got some killer things going on. One drawback is that your motherboard might not support it.