hammer not working right...

Afterglow375

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Oct 1, 2012
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So at some point when I was working on my map, hammer crashed. I couldn't open hammer for like a half hour, as steam was giving me the error of "game is currently unavailable." When I could finally open hammer, it somehow got completely messed up. None of the tools work, the 2d views are all wack (in the screenshot I'm zoomed out as far as I can go), models don't show up in the 3d view (I hope to god they weren't deleted), and some other issues. I can still do some stuff though, like move around in the 3d view and when I double click on an entity it pops up the properties box.

I tried restarting steam/comp several times and I followed the steps here:
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Resetting_Hammer_preferences

which did not work. What is going on?!?!?!!
screeny:
http://i.imgur.com/aWhhL.png?1

edit: seems like the update broke hammer =/
 
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karlosio

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Sep 28, 2012
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I'm getting the exact same problem, I thought it was maybe due to me moving my steam folder to a brand new drive I got today, obviously now it isn't :(
 

Burnout6010

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Oct 14, 2012
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Is disabling updates for Source SDK the good way to avoid this, or it comes only from updates to TF2 ?
 

Muffin7

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Oct 28, 2012
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Same thing here, sucks that I was actually motivated for once to get my map done and then hammer breaks on me. http://puu.sh/1jI06 Something to note is that if you create a blank 'dxsupport.cfg' in your steamapps/<username>/sourcesdk/bin/orangebox/bin folder, it temporarily fixes the problem (but Hammer seems to want to crash after like 10 seconds)
 

Burnout6010

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Oct 14, 2012
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Same thing here, sucks that I was actually motivated for once to get my map done and then hammer breaks on me. http://puu.sh/1jI06 Something to note is that if you create a blank 'dxsupport.cfg' in your steamapps/<username>/sourcesdk/bin/orangebox/bin folder, it temporarily fixes the problem (but Hammer seems to want to crash after like 10 seconds)

Oh ... dxsupport you say ? DX90 mode has turned phongless since this Halloween, probably that causes the issues

EDIT : I tried something and ...

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cherplunka

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Sep 24, 2012
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you know the voice Lilo uses to say "chicken" in 5th element? I've been chanting "broken!" in that voice all morning. I have the exact same problem with my TF2 maps. Portal 2 authoring tools seem fine.