hl2 executable / particle trouble

[jimonions]

My Hammer editor is fixed and all my games are opted into the beta with source sdk base 2013 sp installed, but the steam library games still come up with no executable. I have tried deleting the appcache and rebooting.

For now I've just been booting hammer from the executable in common. Here comes my problem though, I cant get it to start in ep2, only hl2, except when I run it from hammer. But when I run it from hammer it doesn't load tools so its almost useless for me.

Has anybody ran into this problem?

update: particle editor doesn't work, saving causes it to crash. has everything been broken?

uodate: the source sdk base 2013 particle editor still works. Guess i'll move over to there

[jimonions]

Alright my steam appears to be running fine now, the apps actually startup, but they still have the occuring problem of crashing when trying to save something in particle editor.
I've tried it in the 2013 base and it works fine, except it doesn't load particles ingame so I have to resort to very hacky methods like copying and deleting to get them to show up briefly before the game crashes again.