SDK Source Engine 2009 Hammer

[Jim the Hermit]

I took a break from my HL2 EP2 mod for about 4 months- it used to work fine, but now Hammer freezes after about 30 seconds.

I couldn't help noticing that EVERY time steam updates hammer, it doesn't work until they get around to updating it a second time.

Does everybody have this problem or is it just me?

[Plague]

I noticed you need to restart Hammer and the SDK after an update for compiles to work.
Are you sure it downloaded all the updates?
Steam lags updates sometimes for me, IE i get an old update like a week later.

Also when is it freezing?
I've seen mine freeze:
When trying to close the compile window before it finishes.
While compiling (Windows vista give false "Not Responding")
When doing extremely heavy tasks, IE genociding kittens in an attempt to carve something big.
Or sometimes clicking the "Flags" tab on entity's will freeze Hammer rather then crash it.

Other then that we can just dream of "fixing" updates from Valve when P2 comes out :\

[Jim the Hermit]

everything appears to be updated and it freezes in about 30 seconds after I start it and I'm just looking around.

I guess I should add I refreshed sdk content and reset game configuratons, but it didn't help, so I deleted the SDK local content and re-downloaded it- still didn't help.

[Plague]

weird... OS?
What game are you running it under?
Is it before Hammer loads resources? it might be a game's resources is causing this.

You might go double check that game and do a file check. (verify integrity or something.)
Other then that you might go to the SPUF and see if they have reports on this freezing glitch.

[Jim the Hermit]

Thanks- there is a thread on SPUF of exactly my problem. "Hammer Freezes 30-60 secs after opening "

They concluded it was a steam-side problem, so as usual, I have to wait fo a second update

[Plague]

Very sad, hope it gets fixed.
Did they ever find a constant?
OS, Account, Game?