Hammer crashes when map is opened Created 17 years ago2006-09-10 00:16:49 UTC by srry

I've been working on this map for about a week now, and today, I'm having quite some trouble with it.

Whenever I try to open the map in Hammer, it crashes on me before the mod selector box pops up. A little while ago, I tried using Worldcraft 3.3, and it opened fine then, but I went and configured it all correctly, and now it's doing the same thing.

Download the map here and see if it opens for you.

I didn't put this in Problem Maps because I don't think it's actually a fault in the map, I'm pretty sure it's just Hammer acting up. Also, who ever checks those maps?

It opens up fine for me. If that is the finished map, I could compile it for you.

That's the thing, it's almost finished, but I still have a couple changes I want to make before I do the final compile. Also I'd have to send you a 10 MB WAD file.

Ah, that sucks. :

I'll also need to edit the map later, so I can make a destroyed version of it. :

It looks pretty good, is this going to be single-player?

Yep.

I guess I could try wiping both my installs of Hammer and Worldcraft off my hard drive, but if that doesn't work I don't know what to do.

Edit: Nope, still crashes, but for some reason I don't get the feeling that I completely wiped it from my hard drive. I did the custom uninstall option, and selected everything there was to remove, but when I opened Hammer up after I had reinstalled it, it still remembered some of my settings.

I tried using Worldcraft 3.3, and it opened fine then, but I went and configured it all correctly

What do you mean by correctly? Sorry i don't have hammer on this computer so i can't check.

Well, I had just installed it from some SDK I had, and I hadn't really gotten around to fully setting it up yet (you know, entering all the file paths for the game configs and stuff.) I only entered what was absolutely required to open maps up.

Edit: If nobody can figure this out by tomorrow, I'm probably just going to start working on it with our other (family) computer. Hopefully it won't crash on there.

Use the new version of hammer - 3.5.

How big is the map? maybe consider splitting it up into levels?

I don't think using a different version of Hammer will help, as it seems to be some problem with the configuration.

The map isn't that big. I've worked on bigger ones, and it never gave me this problem.

Guess I'll just have to work on it on the other computer...

If you can't open it in 3.5 try using 3.4, it's nearly the same as 3.3 and 3.5.

I've only had this problem with some decompiled maps No idea what causes it tho.

Uh, I am using Hammer 3.4