Specs:
Windows XP Professional
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz (2 cpus)
2048 MB RAM
Nvidea GeForce FX 5200 (Board too old to upgrade)
Hello, noob mapper Lunanite here. I have about (insert huge number here) ideas for maps. but whenever I try to make any kind of simple thing (setting a texture, sometimes even just tracing a box.) I get a crash (As in it freezes, no hope in fixing it.) I don't run anything in the background. Help?
Desperate person,
~Lunanite
Welcome to source may I take your coat?
[QUOTE=xeonmuffin;31316667]Welcome to source may I take your coat?[/QUOTE]
I may be too un-enlightened to get that joke (I don't think them through, i get them or I don't), but could you and people after you actually post help, not witty. You could explain what you mean. And this isn't just random crashing, this is something is up with it. I get random crashes in Source all the time, this isn't random. (Wall text, tl;dr)
That's just the way Hammer is, save often.
I probably should have said this earlier on, but it happens the first time I do anything. I start a new map, make a box, slap a texture on, crash. I can't even attempt anything complex.
Hammer once auto-saved right as I pressed save and crashed.
hammer just tends to crash easily, nothing you can really do.
Is there any way I can try to prevent? I just tried making a box, put on a dev_ texture, crash, and I still can't re-open after 10 minutes. Any ideas?
Update video drivers. Or, get Win 7.
Maybe update the drivers for you graphics card? Hammer worked fine on my computer and it was barely half as powerful as yours (same operating system though).
well, your graphics card is about 7 years old. so, unfortunately, it could be your outdated hardware causing the crashes (the hardware can't keep the large amounts of hammer memory free of errors)sorry you can't upgrade, but that's my opinion
Personally, Hammer crashes more frequently depending on the map I'm working on. I was making a map a few days ago and never got a crash throughout the whole thing (And this map was fairly detailed), and then I started a map today, just the simple basic outline and I've gotten 3 crashes so far and it pisses me off.
I never have this problem when trying to make maps, it might be your video card or amount of memory, I never had simple crashes from doing anything for like hours, even just recompiling hl2 03' techdemos that are fairly composed of tons of props never had a effect on me.
If I'm usually compiling a huge ass map, and then try loading the next everything is slowed and crashes too easily. Might just need to give the memory usage a small rest if that's the case.
I rarely crash in Hammer, Maybe once or twice a week?
Try reinstalling the SDK or google your problem, somethings bound to come up.
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