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

[drp]

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]

!! 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 ! =)

 

[drp]

!! 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:

 

[Haas]

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

 

[Intraman]

but can you load up maps you made before the update?

 

[Bulk]

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

 

[Armadillo of Doom]

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.

 

[ZargonX]

Yeah, I'm getting the VAC kick error with every server I connect to as well.

 

[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.

 

[Haas]

its caused by 3d shade view to fix it change your 3d view to 3d textured like i have.
More about this here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=641348