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ORIGINAL TITLE: Hammer Editor problems
The new Hammer editor/WC 3.4 is a bit buggy and glitchy. It especially seems to have problems with Geoforce Video cards, WinXP, and Voodoo Video cards. Possible solutions: Right now, there are three known solutions that may or may not work for you:
[li]Using SGI's OpenGL driver (438,888 bytes) instead of your video card's native OpenGL drivers. Extract the file named opengl32.dll to your WorldCraft/Hammer directory.
[li]Upgrading your video drivers to the latest version. Check out: nVidia's driver page.
[li]Downgrading your video drivers to a prior version, the most recent driver may not be as stable as older versions.
There may also be problems converting your old WC 3.3 maps to Hammer/WC3.4, the best solution for this is to open your old level in WC 3.3, copy EVERYTHING, then open Hammer, start a new map and paste it all in.
There have also been problems with longer map names in Hammer, especially with compiling. Like WC, you should compile outside of Hammer with a batch file or front end. And there are more minor problems.
If you have problems with Hammer forgetting your settings so you have to set it up every time, this happens to some CPUs. The version of Windoz you are using may be causing it (esp. WIN ME), or something else. The fixes I have heard of are:
[li]Using an older version or different of Windoz.
[li]Try to always use a User Profile.
[li]Make changes to the .wad files installed, then save.
[li]Change the save maps folder to a sub folder deeper down.
[li]try to configure [Worldcraft] and then create and save any map, even a single wall will do, you can
exit the program and load again and your configuration files will load. If they don't however you
can do the process again and it normally works the second time - sometimes.
[li]Open the My Computer folder and press F3 to open the search window. Search for files named *.wc.
If you find them outside of your Worldcraft/Hammer folder, move them into your Worldcraft/Hammer folder.
(Do this while Worldcraft/Hammer is not running) Things should work properly after doing this.....maybe.
[li]installing Worldcraft/Hammer into a path with no spaces (ie: C:\Worldcraft)
[li]Moving everything to the default setup in c:/prog**/valve h*** which has spaces...conflicts with the one above.
[li]In one case where WC/hammer would not
reinstall right, it was found you had to hand remove from the
registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Hammer before reinstalling.
good luck.
The new Hammer editor/WC 3.4 is a bit buggy and glitchy. It especially seems to have problems with Geoforce Video cards, WinXP, and Voodoo Video cards. Possible solutions: Right now, there are three known solutions that may or may not work for you:
[li]Using SGI's OpenGL driver (438,888 bytes) instead of your video card's native OpenGL drivers. Extract the file named opengl32.dll to your WorldCraft/Hammer directory.
[li]Upgrading your video drivers to the latest version. Check out: nVidia's driver page.
[li]Downgrading your video drivers to a prior version, the most recent driver may not be as stable as older versions.
There may also be problems converting your old WC 3.3 maps to Hammer/WC3.4, the best solution for this is to open your old level in WC 3.3, copy EVERYTHING, then open Hammer, start a new map and paste it all in.
There have also been problems with longer map names in Hammer, especially with compiling. Like WC, you should compile outside of Hammer with a batch file or front end. And there are more minor problems.
If you have problems with Hammer forgetting your settings so you have to set it up every time, this happens to some CPUs. The version of Windoz you are using may be causing it (esp. WIN ME), or something else. The fixes I have heard of are:
[li]Using an older version or different of Windoz.
[li]Try to always use a User Profile.
[li]Make changes to the .wad files installed, then save.
[li]Change the save maps folder to a sub folder deeper down.
[li]try to configure [Worldcraft] and then create and save any map, even a single wall will do, you can
exit the program and load again and your configuration files will load. If they don't however you
can do the process again and it normally works the second time - sometimes.
[li]Open the My Computer folder and press F3 to open the search window. Search for files named *.wc.
If you find them outside of your Worldcraft/Hammer folder, move them into your Worldcraft/Hammer folder.
(Do this while Worldcraft/Hammer is not running) Things should work properly after doing this.....maybe.
[li]installing Worldcraft/Hammer into a path with no spaces (ie: C:\Worldcraft)
[li]Moving everything to the default setup in c:/prog**/valve h*** which has spaces...conflicts with the one above.
[li]In one case where WC/hammer would not
reinstall right, it was found you had to hand remove from the
registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Hammer before reinstalling.
good luck.
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