Bad update rolled out today for hammer 1/07/09

drp

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There seems to be a problem with the update Valve rolled out today. Atleast on the Hammer editor side. Members are getting crashes which you can read about here.

http://tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=485

If you can, please avoid updating till further news on the bad update develops.

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

January 7, 2008, 10:45 am - Jason Ruymen

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2
  • Added an option in the Options->Multiplayer dialog to filter custom game files being downloaded from servers
  • Fixed cases where ragdolls were falling through the world
  • Graphics optimizations for mid and low end hardware
  • Fixed players blocking doors in Well
  • Fixed engineer building in exploit areas on final caps in Well
  • Increased starting round timer to 10 minutes in Well

Suggested fixes:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=641348
 

DJive

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!! glad i checked this before i got on. Ack. sorry to everyone this effected!

EDIT:.... I thought i would have at least an option to update it.. Nope it auto updates on open of "Source SDK" Bummer. Welp, I'll join the rest of you ! =)
 
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drp

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Oct 25, 2007
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!! glad i checked this before i got on. Ack. sorry to everyone this effected!

EDIT:.... I thought i would have at least an option to update it.. Nope it auto updates on open of "Source SDK" Bummer. Welp, I'll join the rest of you ! =)

let us know if it works or not! :crying:
 
H

Haas

its a good update for me :)
Hammer runs better model viewer runs smoother :)
 

Bulk

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Works fine for me too - I can load the map I started a few weeks ago...
 

Armadillo of Doom

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That's not the half of it. I just got dropped every couple of minuets for being unable to connect w/ VAC, or some such thing. Suck.
 
H

Haas

yesterday i had a problem with launching tf2 it said that steam servers where down and it could not update.
But today everything works fine even hammer with my old maps.