Problems with Hammer when running Windows with Bootcamp

[Drewpew]

Hello people of TF2,

I am not sure if this sort of question is supposed to be posted on TF2m, but here goes:

I have a mac computer, and I have been trying to get into mapmaking. However, valve Hammer is a pc only application, so I partitioned my disk and and installed Windows with Bootcamp.

Windows seems to working perfectly, but the reason I installed it in the first place, Hammer, is not working! When I try to launch it, it launches with the message "failed to initialize texture system". If I ignore that message press Ctrl-N, it pops up a bunch of windows, and eventually tells me that I am missing the wireframe texture.

Online I looked for some fixes, and it seems that the problem is TF2. TF2 can't launch either. When I try to launch TF2, it says "preparing to launch TF2" in a window, and then it momentarily launches before immediately quitting.

I have reinstalled TF2 3 times, twice before doing a bunch of update, and then once after I updated.

I am using Windows 7.

Does anybody have a fix? It would be much appreciated!

 

[worMatty]

Hi, Drewpew.

I don't think this has anything to do with Bootcamp. Windows is essentially running on an ordinary PC, here. I recommend contacting Steam Support. Do not tell them you are running it in Windows on a Mac, though. They will probably get confused.

I use Windows 8.1 natively via Bootcamp on a Mac.

EDIT: Ordinarily I would recommend you verify the game's cache in Steam. But if you have reinstalled it three times that seems a bit pointless.