Hammer problems

[Punnygamer]

I bought an ssd and ive moved tf2 to there but hammer no longer starts i can say hey i want tf2 to load a map but it says that it cant find something

 

[Punnygamer]

also tf2 does work and custom stuff like huds and animations

 

[FloofCollie]

What's the error message it gives?

 

[Punnygamer]

it goes into the hard drive on steam and tries to find gameinfo.txt in hl2 in tf2 but tf2 is in the ssd

 

[Punnygamer]

i kind of forgot this website existed lol
so never checked if i got a response

 

[Horologium]

Sounds like you might need hammer to point to the ssd instead of the hdd. I'm getting back into hammer myself so I sadly cannot remember where the option is for that. Look under settings it might be there.

 

[puxorb]

I think I know a fix for this as I've had to do it multiple times.

Go in Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin and find "GameConfig". Open the text document and find the lines "Team Fortress 2" and "Half Life 2", and under "GameDir" in both of those sections make sure the address written there is the same as the new location of your game installation. Also change all of the following in both sections:
"BSP"
"Vis"
"Light"
"GameExeDir"
"MapDir"
"BSPDir"

This won't update when you move things to a new drive so you have to change this manually each time. Fortunately its an easy change as all you need to do is change the hard drive letter.

 

[Harritron]

I think I know a fix for this as I've had to do it multiple times.

Go in Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin and find "GameConfig". Open the text document and find the lines "Team Fortress 2" and "Half Life 2", and under "GameDir" in both of those sections make sure the address written there is the same as the new location of your game installation. Also change all of the following in both sections:
"BSP"
"Vis"
"Light"
"GameExeDir"
"MapDir"
"BSPDir"

Do as he says and Verify the Game Cache.