That happens on a friends card, they have an ATI, I have nVidia and no problems
I have seen quite a lot of wierd Source problems and I also remember to have seen this once or twice, not a common problem for me though.
I'm pretty sure it's because of the last Steam update. Nothing to do except wait for the next update.
Yes, it's because of the update, can't do nothing untill a new update i believe. One of the reasons i hate steam, we get shitloads of updates with something or everything totally *ucked up. Hope we have a change to this soon. 
Yeah, I have an ATI card and I'm getting this too.
i have ATI card...yep...getting it too. hope this is bugged with valve!
just make a shortcut to hammer on your desktop and add -dxlevel 80 to the command parameters. that'll be a nice work around.. same for modelviewer.
oh and dont forget to start steam anyway 
hmm...tried that...still getting the same errors. 
Yeah, I'm fairly certain it has something to do with ATI cards. My computer has a nvidia card and I haven't run into this problem. Then just the other day I was trying some mapping on my friends computer who has an ATI card and I got the same problem. I thought it was quite strange at the time but apparently several other people have the same problem. 
The dx8 fix works for me, and I have upgraded my ati drivers when Episode I was released. Maybe that's the soft spot too.
This is the wiki page about this problem: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_workaround
ok it's working for me. had a problem with a shortcut, but fixed it so it's all good.
Yep, I have an ATI card and all my models are "shattered", gonna try the work around in a lil` bit...
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