Hammer is crashing, a lot...

Foot

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Aug 6, 2016
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So, when I was working on my koth map I placed a few overlays.

When I place overlays/decals hammer will just crash for no reason, but in the past it stopped when it crashed and it would require me to place an overlay again to make it crash.

But now after i placed a bunch of patch overlays under my health packs it started crashing every few minutes and i have removed them, reinstalled (and wiped all custom content) tf2 several times and started on an entirely new map and its still happening.

It is impossible for me to progress in any map because of this constant crashing.
I even open decompiled valve maps and it still happens after messing around for a few minutes.

Please reply with anything that could help me.
Thanks.
 

The Letter Before A

Cool Idiot
Jul 15, 2016
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if you don't already make ctrl-s ing a twitch everytime you do any action
Hammer crashes a lot
 

Foot

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Aug 6, 2016
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Ok.
But in the past and when i see my friends using hammer and even in ueakcrash's videos, they almost never crash on any maps.

I guess i will just try and find a virus of some kind.
 

MaccyF

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Ok.
But in the past and when i see my friends using hammer and even in ueakcrash's videos, they almost never crash on any maps.

I guess i will just try and find a virus of some kind.

what does task manager show when using hammer? (usage percentages etc.), it might be a hardware thing.
 

Foot

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Aug 6, 2016
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So it says hammer is using 400~ mbs of ram with gravel pit open and up to 10% of my cpu.(4790k)
 

Foot

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Aug 6, 2016
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idk either, it's crashed 3 times in the last 10 minutes on a dev textured control point layout.

Could steamcloud effect it at all?
 

Foot

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Aug 6, 2016
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Nope, It happens on all vmf files.

So far I have tried using the cs:go sdk and it crashes on launch.
I may try the gmod hammer to see if its just tf2.
 

Pocket

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Maybe your graphics driver is borked in ways that only affect this program. Could just be one of those things where this particular one-in-a-million combination of hardware, drivers, and app just plain doesn't work and the only thing you can do is move to a different hardware setup.
 
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hammer was crashing every 30 secs for me a coupe od days ago - look for invalied stucture alt+P get rid of it and any dispalcements that have an entity attached to them
 

Foot

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Aug 6, 2016
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it happens on any map (with any displacements or not.)

EDIT: it does not crash when im not moving the camera or placing things
 
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Foot

L2: Junior Member
Aug 6, 2016
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I fixed it.
I had to wipe my pc.

Thanks for the help anyways.