Hammer.exe has stopped working on map load up.

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Feb 2, 2014
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Ok, so whenever I try to load up my map on hammer, it stops working. No reason, just flat out freezes, and crashes.

The top view loads up, but the other 3 views don't, and it freezes.

I loaded up viaduct, and it had no problem whatsoever. Why is mine crashing?
 
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wareya

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Jun 17, 2012
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The vmf might be corrupted. They have non-ascii characters in them, but some things treat them like ascii, which breaks them.
 

SSX

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Feb 2, 2014
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The vmf might be corrupted. They have non-ascii characters in them, but some things treat them like ascii, which breaks them.

Anyway of fixing it?
 
Mar 23, 2013
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Anyway of fixing it?

Edit your VMF with notepad. For example, if you used " somewhere at your entities, like game_text then it breaks the VMF. You have to remove the " with notepad. If you don't know what broke your map, you have to rename the VMX to VMF and use that :/
 

SSX

aa
Feb 2, 2014
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411
Edit your VMF with notepad. For example, if you used " somewhere at your entities, like game_text then it breaks the VMF. You have to remove the " with notepad. If you don't know what broke your map, you have to rename the VMX to VMF and use that :/

I don't know what broke the map, and the VMX is corrupted as well.

I did manage to have a backup from two days ago on a flash drive, so it's not all bad. Just a lot of working has to be done again. >XP