Help Me!

SjN · June 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">before i shoot myself!!</div> allright, school finished and i wanted to start mapping for NS.
4 days ago i downloaded hammer and found some useful tutorials for newbies.

But with my luck, hammer didn't like my system and kept crashing it every 5-20 minutes.. i have no idea why, i have the latest video drivers.
So I couldn't find why Hammer kept crashing my system, (I had WinXP) so i decided to format my HDD and install Win2k cause i heard it's more stable.
But No! Hammer keeps crashing even with the new windows.

Somebody told me to try WorldCraft 3.3, so I did. I worked with it a bit, it never crashed, but the problem with WC is, it takes 10 times longer to compile, Hammer does it a lot faster, i tested the same file. I really don't want to wait 10 times longer to test some small thing i added or edited.
And yea i could use Batch Complier, But i really preffer to use the local compiler, simply press on F9 and click on Ok.
And after Batch Compiler compiles the map it starts CS and not NS from some reason, and it can't load the map.

I downloaded Quark just now, but i couldn't setup it, because it won't let me choose the Path of Halflife, because i have CS Retail.

I spent like 4 days on it! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'> and i still can't map.
Could some one help me, perhaps tell me how to fix the hammer system crashing problem. or tell me how ot make WorldCraft compile faster. or how to Setup Quark for CS Retail. (cstrike.exe and it requires HL.exe)

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'> i'm just going crazy here <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

DEADscott · June 2003

Whats your system specs?

Ollj · June 2003

use a batch compiler. its way faster.
it starts cs because you are stupid and missed a setting.

SjN · June 2003

cpu[1-Intel Pentium 4, 1599MHz, 512KB (0% Load)] os[Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 1 (5.0 - 2195)] uptime[4hrs 26mins 19secs] resolution[1280x1024 16bit 60Hz] memory[Usage: 96/256MB (37.50%)]

Geforce 2 MX400 64mbs

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</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>it starts cs because you are stupid and missed a setting. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

the last tab "HL"
I checked "Game" and typed ns
- doesn't work.

Some_tall_guy1 · June 2003

in batch compiler, go to the hl tab. look for the "game" checkbox and then type in "ns" in the typing box. and it will now run with ns <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Nay · June 2003

2 tips i can give, set the undo levels to like 2-4 having 50 can cause alot of problems, try new GFX drivers

to get the compile to load your map type

-game ns +map <mapnamehere> onto the parameters you might want to add -console and -dev aswell

NerdIII · June 2003

I just checked that QuArK problem. You are damn right. It is not possible to set it up to use cstrike.exe
But you can rename cstrike.exe to hl.exe whenever you want. Or ask a kind programmer to develop a HL.EXE program that does nothing but start cstrike.exe with the given parameters <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

EDIT: Found the solution. HL.EXE isn't hardcoded in QuArK.
1. Open the file \addons\Defaults.qrk in QuArk
2. Open the tree for ConfigForms
3. Open the tree for GameHalfLife
4. Select the item 'directory'
5. At the bottom you see a text field that says 'HL.EXE'. Change that to 'CSTRIKE.EXE' and restart QuArK!

SentrySteve · June 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ollj @ Jun 27 2003, 12:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> it starts cs because you are stupid and missed a setting.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Watch it, hot shot.

I suggest using an openGUI or Batch - I hear its faster and pretty much anyone who makes maps uses them. (I used an OpenGUI - found it easier)

SjN · June 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (NerdIII @ Jun 27 2003, 05:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I just checked that QuArK problem. You are damn right. It is not possible to set it up to use cstrike.exe
But you can rename cstrike.exe to hl.exe whenever you want. Or ask a kind programmer to develop a HL.EXE program that does nothing but start cstrike.exe with the given parameters <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

EDIT: Found the solution. HL.EXE isn't hardcoded in QuArK.
1. Open the file \addons\Defaults.qrk in QuArk
2. Open the tree for ConfigForms
3. Open the tree for GameHalfLife
4. Select the item 'directory'
5. At the bottom you see a text field that says 'HL.EXE'. Change that to 'CSTRIKE.EXE' and restart QuArK! </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Thanks a lot!!
I can now see it textured, but I still can't click on "HalfLife" in the top toolbar. =/

*Edit

thanks SentrySteve.

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>but I still can't click on "HalfLife" in the top toolbar. =/
</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
I just make another copy of cstrike.exe and rename it to hl.exe .. and it works fine!

I start liking Quark!!(i think it's even better than Hammer! and STABLE!)
thanks a lot for your help! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

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