Hammer Crashing My System ;o

SjNSjN Join Date: 2003-01-07 Member: 11983Members, Reinforced - Supporter
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<div class="IPBDescription">randomly!</div> I downloaded hammer 3 days ago. since then it randomly crashing my system, I don't think my system gets overloaded, all i have is like 4 brushes (i'm just learning to map). my mouse just stops moving, and in 10-20 seconds my computer gets restarted. I even tried to use diffrent versions of hammer, but no, all versions are like that.. ;\

my system info: <@SjN|here> [moo] cpu[1-Intel Pentium 4, 1599MHz, 512KB (15% Load)] os[Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1 (5.1 - 2600)] uptime[1hr 3mins 7secs] resolution[1280x1024 32bit 60Hz] memory[Usage: 178/256MB (69.53%)]
I have Geforce 2 MX 400, 64mbs card.

I have the latest video card drivers!

Anyone ever had such problems with hammer?
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  • OlljOllj our themepark-stalking nightmare Fade Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10696Members
    edited June 2003
    Hammer is old and buggy, regular crashes normal, but complete system-crashes are rare.
    - Check your prozessor and ram temperature if its hot in your room.
    - When you use the latest hammer beta just stop using it and use a non beta versions.
    - There are also ways to underclock/slowdown the speed of Hammer to make it crash less quickly.
    could be on the valve collective site.
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  • MooseMoose Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16248Members
    you need to turn off advanced drawing accelerations. open up control panel --> display --> advanced --> troubleshoot --> then drag the hardware acceleration bar to "disable all cursor and advanced drawing accelerations.

    crash free hammer <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ShadowicsShadowics Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7652Members
    There's always option B) Quit using hammer altogether and switch to Quark. I've only had it crash 2 or 3 times in all the time I've been using it and I've never lost any map work I've done. ( even if it crashes you can still save your map and then close and restart ) There's a webbed thread with info where you can get Quark and the NS files for it.
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  • SjNSjN Join Date: 2003-01-07 Member: 11983Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    edited June 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Shadowics+Jun 24 2003, 06:07 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shadowics @ Jun 24 2003, 06:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> There's always option B) Quit using hammer altogether and switch to Quark. I've only had it crash 2 or 3 times in all the time I've been using it and I've never lost any map work I've done. ( even if it crashes you can still save your map and then close and restart ) There's a webbed thread with info where you can get Quark and the NS files for it. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    my whole system crashes, not just hammer, and every like 30 minutes? sometimes even 5.. .if i'm lucky .. 1 hour.
    then it takes like 1 minute to load, and then it does scan disk for like 5 minutes!!! ;(

    i'm gonna try disabling Hardware acceleration.

    thanks!

    *Edit
    Omg but now it works @!#@!# slow!!! like i'm using 166mhz!1 D:

    *Edit
    I dragged it to the 2nd point. ;o
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  • SjNSjN Join Date: 2003-01-07 Member: 11983Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    Ok now, with this settings, hammer crashed my system 1 second after i ran it.
    i selected an object, and everything just froze.. i waited like 30 seconds and pressed reset button ;(
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  • NerdIIINerdIII Join Date: 2003-04-05 Member: 15230Members
    er...maybe you want to use QuArK or QERadiant? These are the two alternatives to using Hammer veeeerrrry slooooowwwly.

    QuArK:
    <a href='http://www.planetquake.com/quark/' target='_blank'>QuArK Website</a>
    You will need:
    <a href='http://dl.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?quark/snapshots/quark64_snap2003mar29.zip' target='_blank'>Latest Alpha version of QuArK (I use it without complains)</a>
    <a href='http://dl.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?quark/minipy15b.exe' target='_blank'>Mini Python (for QuArK's scripts)</a>
    <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=10342' target='_blank'>The Thread with the entities and mod description of NS for QuArK</a>
    and maybe also:
    <a href='http://dl.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?quark/Releases/help_package/quark_help_20030329.zip' target='_blank'>Help Documents</a>
    (unzip them into your QuArK folder into a new folder called 'help')
    If you need help, just PM one of us QuArK users. It is a bit confusing to set up QuArK for the first time I admit.


    QERadiant:
    <a href='http://halflife.qeradiant.com/' target='_blank'>QERadiant for Half-Life Website</a>
    Well all the info is on the page
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  • MooseMoose Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16248Members
    disabling hardware acceleration should not make hammer run slow or your comp! i learned about this 2 years ago when i first started mappin (hammer would crash all the time @#1r!!) so a friend told me about this fix and my comp hasn’t crashed since, even with multiple large rmf's loaded at once.
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  • SjNSjN Join Date: 2003-01-07 Member: 11983Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    thanks Nerd i'll check it out!

    Moose, maybe i should restart after disabling?
    cuz after i disabled, when i tried to open mirc, it took like 0.5 seconds to load it... when usualy it takes 0.001 secs =P
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