A pickle of a situation

HanzGruberHanzGruber Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 47Members
in Mapping Forum
<div class="IPBDescription">A pickle indeed!</div>Anyone had a problem with worldcraft/hammer (either one) just completely freezing when using them... for a while now I have put up with it by saving regularly (every couple of minutes) but now if I make a single brush or entity, the whole computer freezes and then I get the NT blue screen of death stating a problem detected in nv4 blah blah blah.... anyone had this or have it and gotten over it? PLEASE HELP ME OBI-WON KENOBI...you're my only hope!
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  • GreedoGreedo Bounty Hunter Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 37Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    From that nv4, I'm guessing it's probably a problem with your video card.  Try and get the newest drivers, and if that doesn't work, try uninstalling and reinstalling Hammer.
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  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    Well, the HL editing programs are buggy as heck (maybe not as much so recently), but they still have tons of problems. All I can see is make sure your card supports OpenGL, you have the latest drivers for all your stuff. After that, Umm, lets see what other people have to say.
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  • realityisdeadrealityisdead Employed by Raven Software after making ns_nothing Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 94Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I can't imagine what's going on, Hanz. I really does sound more like a problem with your computer more then anything.

    Actually, I rarely ever have a problem with WC/VHE freezing up, etc... Used to, but I think it was cleared up for me in 3.3...

    Ooh! I did get it to crash last night though! It just so happens that if you can manage to press "Ctrl-Z" approx 15 times per second for long enough... it will silently crash to the desktop without any errors. Serious.

    <i>(Don't... ask...)</i>



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  • HanzGruberHanzGruber Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 47Members
    Well....I'm pretty sure that Geforce3 64mb video cards support opengl ....lol <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

    I got no other problems with opengl enabled apps - ala 3dsmax, animatek world builder and combustion2... nor do I have an game problems.... that's why it's so annoying... I've got latest drivers installed, via 4-in-1's, latest mb bios.... short of hitting my computer with a hammer, I don't know what else to do
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  • HanzGruberHanzGruber Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 47Members
    /me couldn't help but notice that ken20banks has just clocked up 666 posts....me is afraid....very afraid..
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Wait a sec... what -version- of the GeForce drivers are you running? (Yes, latest one... but do you have numbers?)
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  • HanzGruberHanzGruber Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 47Members
    detxp 28.32...latest official nvidia ones

    I've tried multiple driver versions....

    /me cries alone without the ability to map
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  • The_ButcherThe_Butcher Join Date: 2002-03-30 Member: 363Members
    I already had this problem. Worldcraft could freeze for no reason and absolutely nothing was working (However I got no error message) . I was running on win98 but now I've got a new computer and that solved the problem.
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  • BiomechanoidBiomechanoid Join Date: 2002-02-12 Member: 203Members
    If you're running win 98, I'd say it's about time to reformat and install the OS... but If it's XP, then I've no idea. since I've upgraded to WinXP, I have yet to get a blue screen O' death, and I've only managed to have one program crash on me.
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  • Shuvit_ViperShuvit_Viper Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 62Members
    my programs crash regularly in XP, but then again, i just cant wait for a window in explorer to load, and then i let the program crash using ctrlaltdel
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  • HanzGruberHanzGruber Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 47Members
    that's it.... I'm gonna buy a new computer in about a month... if that doesn't fix it... I think a suitable mail-bombing of valve will probably help...
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  • CrematorCremator Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 27Members
    HANZ!  Read this: <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=4;t=1516;st=0" target="_blank">http://www.natural-selection.org/cgi-bin....16;st=0</a>

    It is not your card, computer, etc.  It is the program and it can be fixed (or so it seems).

    I deleted and reistalled the program to get rid of any bad files.  I then deleted ALL registry entries that tie to VHE.  This should take out any incompatibility between VHE and Windows.  Also, set the program to run in a higher resource mode.  The program eats up video power like mad, so I figured assigning more power to it could help.

    Anyway, I tried all this and the program ran for about 2 straight hours, which is the best I've yet seen.  I hope this helps.
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  • HanzGruberHanzGruber Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 47Members
    hmmm...will have a look at it now <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> thanks crem...
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  • Black_WolfBlack_Wolf Join Date: 2002-03-13 Member: 310Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I already had this problem. Worldcraft could freeze for no reason and absolutely nothing was working (However I got no error message) . I was running on win98 but now I've got a new computer and that solved the problem. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    aaaah, i see how to fix the problem.

    /me goes out and spends $2500 on a new computer

    all better now . .
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  • HanzGruberHanzGruber Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 47Members
    crem, I tried your hygene method to no avail. Made a brush and thought "SUCCESS" and then I made a info_player_start and it died a horrible death. <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
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  • CrematorCremator Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 27Members
    heh.  sad story.  at least im happy...
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  • HanzGruberHanzGruber Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 47Members
    your concern and empathy overwhelms me  <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
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