Odd issue. Hammer doesnt open the prop menu anymore and crashes

MoonFox

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*shrug*
 

MoonFox

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*raises finger* uhh... anybody? I fixed the cache.... and it still didn't open... and it still crashed
 

Zed

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Please, specify your issue. We don't magically know what's wrong without any details.
 

MoonFox

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Please, specify your issue. We don't magically know what's wrong without any details.

the ironic thing is that's really all there is. I open up hammer, click a prop and open the prop library to change the model. Instead of the actual library opening up, it just freezes up hammer and it acts like its trying open the menu... which it doesn't as I let it sit for hours and nothing happened.
 

MoonFox

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Way too little information to go off of. All that comes to mind is to reinstall.

I assume you mean uninstall tf2... I have a question before I do that. Will it erase all my auto saves?
 

MoonFox

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I reinstalled tf2... still does not work
 

MoonFox

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:p it still doesn't work
 

MoonFox

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Not sure about your problem. It's a weird one for sure, especially after a full reinstall.

Sorry I can't help, just didn't want you to think you were being ignored!

its fine... today marks 2 weeks without the ability to use hammer... on any version. (Half life 2, tf2, Portal, L4D, etc.)
 

MoonFox

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I reinstalled Source SDK base to see if that resolves the issue
 

MoonFox

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still no
 

MoonFox

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found the true issue
its missing a .txt document
specifically: Scripts/game_sound_manifest.txt
 

Pocket

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Cripes. How could reinstalling not fix that?
 

Vel0city

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Maybe because Steam is pulling stuff from the cloud again? If something corrupted is saved in the Steam Cloud you can reinstall Hammer a billion times and still have it crash every time. Try disabling Steam Cloud, then reinstall Hammer again.
 

MoonFox

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thanks for the determination to fix this issue... how do I disable steam cloud (lemmeecheck)
 

MoonFox

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still cant figure it out... same issue
 

MoonFox

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I have been reinstalling the extended base platforms for SDK. so far nothing