Bad update rolled out today for hammer 1/07/09 [Archive]

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drpepper

01-07-2008, 05:13 PM

There seems to be a problem with the update Valve rolled out today. Atleast on the Hammer editor side. Members are getting crashes which you can read about here.

http://tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=485

If you can, please avoid updating till further news on the bad update develops.

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

(http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1397&) January 7, 2008, 10:45 am - Jason Ruymen

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Team Fortress 2

Added an option in the Options->Multiplayer dialog to filter custom game files being downloaded from servers
Fixed cases where ragdolls were falling through the world
Graphics optimizations for mid and low end hardware
Fixed players blocking doors in Well
Fixed engineer building in exploit areas on final caps in Well
Increased starting round timer to 10 minutes in Well

Suggested fixes:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=641348

DJive

01-07-2008, 05:35 PM

!! glad i checked this before i got on. Ack. sorry to everyone this effected!

EDIT:.... I thought i would have at least an option to update it.. Nope it auto updates on open of "Source SDK" Bummer. Welp, I'll join the rest of you ! =)

drpepper

01-07-2008, 05:39 PM

Haas

01-07-2008, 06:01 PM

its a good update for me :)
Hammer runs better model viewer runs smoother :)

Intraman

01-07-2008, 06:07 PM

but can you load up maps you made before the update?

Bulk

01-07-2008, 06:15 PM

Works fine for me too - I can load the map I started a few weeks ago...

Immortal-D

01-07-2008, 08:25 PM

That's not the half of it. I just got dropped every couple of minuets for being unable to connect w/ VAC, or some such thing. Suck.

ZargonX

01-07-2008, 09:47 PM

Yeah, I'm getting the VAC kick error with every server I connect to as well. :(

Haas

01-08-2008, 07:30 AM

yesterday i had a problem with launching tf2 it said that steam servers where down and it could not update.
But today everything works fine even hammer with my old maps.

Haas

01-08-2008, 07:41 AM

its caused by 3d shade view to fix it change your 3d view to 3d textured like i have.
More about this here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=641348