*HELP* Hammer won't work for CS:S!

[BorkeR]

Ive been mapping for about a month now and have finally finished a crappy but playable map for CS. I've played it before with bots and everything worked fine. Now I make a server and a friend and I play it (with my map I made on it). It works but when I try going back to Hammer, only for CounterStrike, a window pops up EVERYTIME saying "hammer.exe has encoutered a problem and needs to close." Everytime i try to use Hammer with CS it does this and Hammer closes down. But when I use Hammer for Halflife2 or HL2DM, the problem window doesnt pop up and I can use hammer. Did something go wrong after I played my map with someone else? I really would appreciate it if someone could help me out with this.

 

[Raeven0]

You have restarted Steam and, if necessary, your computer?

Maybe you need to use the Source SDK's "Reset Game Configurations" tool.

 

[BorkeR]

yes i have restarted my computer and steam... this has been going on for 4 days. I have also reset my game configurations twice. Still... the same problem.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

launch css and join a server....then try opening hammer and editing for css. might sound stupid but it just might work. give it a try if youre desperate. otherwise a reinstall might be necessary.

 

[BorkeR]

No, playing CS and opening up hammer didnt do it. I was afraid I might have to reinstall SDK. Anyone else have any suggestions on how to make hammer work? And will my maps be erased after I restart hammer?

 

[WAR_Nuker]

no ive reinstalled hammer before and the maps you made will remain. if you dont believe me, make a copy of them. only thing you have to remember to do is, upon reinstalling hammer, first launch the game you want to edit for and join a server, THEN you can edit for that game using hammer.

 

[BorkeR]

Ive reinstalled SDK and still it wont work. I really dont know what to do now! Ive did the whole join a game in CS thing but it still wont work. It still only works for hl2 and hl2dm please some one help!!

 

[WAR_Nuker]

maybe youve got the wrong forum guy. this is custom mapping. the majority of us arent really knowledgable nor interested in the technical crapola that has to do with 'wtf. prog wont werk'. we would actually be more helpful to you on the topic of....custom mapping.

 

[Raeven0]

An artist should know how to sharpen a pencil.

You open the Source SDK, change the game to Counter-Strike Source, run Hammer, and encounter a critical error. Yes? But you can open the map fine in other game configurations. Open Hammer in one of the other configurations, open its options (under the Tools menu), and look at the "Build Programs" and "Game Configurations" tabs. Use the drop-down menu at the top to view the CS:S settings; take screenshots of those, post them at http://www.imageshack.us, and show them here.

 

[BorkeR]

I dont have a digital camera so i cant take a picture of the game configurations and build programs so I have to write them out.

Under Game Configurations-
Configuration-
CounterStrike Source

Game Data Files-
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\cstrike.fgd

Texture Format-
Materials (Half-Life 2)

Map Type-
Half-Life 2

Default PointEntity class-
info_player_terrorist

Default SolidEntity class-
func_detail

Default texture scale-
0.25

Default lightmap scale-
16

Cordon texture-
tools\toolsskybox

Game Executable Directory-
$SteamUserDir\counter-strike source

Game Directory-
$SteamUserDir\counter-strike source\cstrike

Hammer Map Directory-
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk_content\cstrike\mapsrc


Under Build programs-

Configuration-
Counter-Strike:Source

Game executable-
$SteamUserDir\counter-strike source\hl2.exe

BSP executable-
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe

VIS executable-
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe

RAD executable-
$SteamUserDir\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe

Place compiled maps in this directory before running the game-
$SteamUserDir\counter-strike source\cstrike\maps

 

[Raeven0]

Well, you can take a screenshot with the Print Screen button near the upper-right corner of your keyboard The screenshot is saved to the clipboard, whence you can paste it into your favorite image editor.

Your configurations look fine to me. The only time Hammer has crashed for me while loading a certain mod was when I did something very bad to my FGD as a test.

The best I can suggest is to move your Steam/SteamApps/<account>/sourcesdk and Steam/SteamApps/<account>/sourcesdk_content folders somewhere else, then run the SDK, allowing those folders to be recreated. If that doesn't work, I'll try to contact Mr. Lane and wisemx to see if they have some idea of the problem.

 

[BorkeR]

So thats what print screen button does! Yea, im an idiot.
Anyway, i tried what you said and still nothing. I think my CS mapping days might be over. But if you could contact those people, i would really appriciate it cause i really dont want to stop mapping. its good stuff.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

i never even noticed the print screen button. thats some hi tech 21st century shit right there.

 

[BorkeR]

tell me about it

 

[Raeven0]

All right, I got this.

...I had a similar thing happening and it was because of an update in the ATI drivers. [The] only thing that would solve the problem was to remove all of the video drivers from XP, let it resort to the default drivers, and then reinstall the Radeon drivers, after that CS:S apps worked fine, and during that it only effected the CS:S stuff, not sure why.

 

[BorkeR]

ok thanks raeven, ill try that. I looked at another forum and someone said to reinstall
hl2. That didnt work either so hopefully this does.