Problems with gameconfigurations and can't run rad

[Rammelslakje]

Hello,

I am having troubles with getting a good gameconfiguration.

I freshly reinstalled steam not so long ago but it still is a mess. Why do I need so many copies of hammer and which one do I use? I have installed: Steam, HL2, Gmod, Source SDK. But I get a gameconfig error everytime.

How do I set it up? I found on google how to reset it etc but nothing works.

I can't use hammer at all through Source SDK, I always use the one in gmod and my maps are saved there too. I can compile fine in BSP and Vvis, but not in Rad. I thought maybe this is the problem too?

I also tried vbct but that one refuses to compile my map too.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/eDDMEr2.png[/img]

Thanks

[editline]9th August 2013[/editline]

I just tried in hammer on expert mode, I can compile in bsp with -ldr, not with -hdr and it takes 1min31sec.

However: when I try to add any kind of -vvis with it, it does crash and takes more than an hour. I know it crashes for real and doesn't freeze because my pc is still fast and when i click close it closes immidately.

Any ideas how I can get both -vvis and -rad? Even if it's fast and not hd.

[wazanator]

It looks like in VBCT you are trying to compile using the old sdk files, don't do that it's now all through the steamapps/common/gamename/bin folder.

[Rammelslakje]

I use hammer and I map from steamapps/common/Half Life 2/bin and my maps are located in steamapps/common/Garrysmod/bin

However when I try to use hammer from garrysmod I get gameconfig errors, and it doesn't even show up for hl2 or gmod.

[Rammelslakje]

Solved!

Not the gameinfo or the gameconfig, but the rad.exe problem is solved. So I guess it doesn't really matter then, because I won't be neednig vbct right?

I just let it compile rad.exe with -ldr and then writefile and after that the vvis compile and writefile again.

It will not crash or even say it's not responding.

And I have my 50mb max mapsize bsp file with both vvis and lightening in 11 minutes and 43 seconds.

Oh one more thing: It suddenly says at the end of the compiler eventhough the map is finished, written and playable with changes that windows gave the error message: "access denied".

Should I be concerned? Nothing seems wrong though