TopHATTwaffle Posted January 5, 2015 Report Posted January 5, 2015 (edited) Hey Everyone, I feel quite silly coming to ask about a Hammer issue when I should know how to fix it. In ANY level that has stuff in it. Even dev levels that are full playable layouts. I get an issue where selecting an object will stall Hammer for about 1-3 seconds, depending on how annoying Hammer is feeling. Here is the glitch: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5kku2crx7nc9982/20150105_012317.mp4?dl=0 I hold down the forward key so you can see that it skips once I click and then jolts forward. I'm on Windows 8.1 with an AMD R9 290x video card. I've had some kind people test this on Windows 7 with Nvidia cards and they DON'T have this issue. If anyone with Nvidia on 8/8.1 OR AMD on 7 can test this, I would be super grateful to you. If anyone else has any suggestions please let me know. What I've done. Re-install Windows. Update video drivers Roll back video drivers EDIT: changed video to better show issue. Edited January 5, 2015 by TopHATTwaffle Quote
Deh0lise Posted January 5, 2015 Report Posted January 5, 2015 That's weird. Does it happen since the last time sdk was updated, since you moved to windows 8 or since you installed the R9? Maybe you can't fix it but use a workaround like installing w7 aside w8. I've got different OS installed for software compatibility issues. I'm out of ideas right now, sorry : Quote
TopHATTwaffle Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Posted January 5, 2015 I sadly don't know when it started. I really should know but I don't. If you use Hammer - Might I ask if you experience this issue on either your win7 or win8 install? Quote
gotcha Posted January 5, 2015 Report Posted January 5, 2015 Did you check your graphics drivers settings (is it still catalyst control panel? haven't used AMD cards for years) for settings applied on the sdk? Do you run other software like sweetfx or fraps in the background? Does it appear only in CS:GO hammer or in every hammer? Quote
TopHATTwaffle Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Posted January 5, 2015 Ah yes - I should have mentioned. It does happen in the SDK 2013 and CSS Hammer. Since I've also recently formatted my computer I was able to test it with only Steam and drivers (new and old) installed on my machine. The issue stills happens. My next test is to install Windows 7 and see how that works out. Quote
OrnateBaboon Posted January 5, 2015 Report Posted January 5, 2015 I am going to sound like a total eejit, but I thought that was how hammer actually was for everyone! If a map has detail - especially lots of meshes, I have that problem all the time. Only way I have found to combat it is to cordon the map, or press the number "1" lots of times so that less is being rendered in the Hammer view port. Quote
TopHATTwaffle Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Posted January 5, 2015 I got Hammer set up on my older laptop with a Nvidia 330m in it. It runs flawlessly. Seems to be a AMD related issue. Going to try a nvidia card in a day or so. Quote
OrnateBaboon Posted January 5, 2015 Report Posted January 5, 2015 Yeah, should have mentioned I got an AMD graphics card. Hopefully the nvidia card solves it. Quote
ESToomere Posted January 5, 2015 Report Posted January 5, 2015 Win8.1, Nvidia GPU, running Hammer on Windows 7 compatability, no issues. I noticed a lot less crashes when running on Win7 compatability mode. Selection per se doesn't lag on huge maps, but viewport gets laggy while selecting. Quote
TopHATTwaffle Posted January 7, 2015 Author Report Posted January 7, 2015 ISSUE RESOLVED. I purchased a Nvidia 970 GTX. Although it preforms as well as the R9 290x, it has fixed the hammer issue. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xu57myt5dlq3ibo/20150107_165138.mp4?dl=0 ESToomere, Spherix, FMPONE and 1 other 4 Quote
tr0nic Posted January 7, 2015 Report Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) My hammer does freeze from time to time for a couple of seconds, kinda annoying, always think the program will crash. i5 750 8gb gtx 770 win7 Edited January 7, 2015 by tr0nic Quote
ShockaPop Posted January 8, 2015 Report Posted January 8, 2015 My hammer does freeze from time to time for a couple of seconds, kinda annoying, always think the program will crash. i5 750 8gb gtx 770 win7 Autosave perhaps? That's at least what I have on and it does that 1-2sec freeze every 5min or 10min (can't remember which I had). Quote
Spherix Posted January 8, 2015 Report Posted January 8, 2015 My hammer does freeze from time to time for a couple of seconds, kinda annoying, always think the program will crash. i5 750 8gb gtx 770 win7 Autosave perhaps? That's at least what I have on and it does that 1-2sec freeze every 5min or 10min (can't remember which I had). It freezes quite often for me when I have the properties window open, crashes even more often if I'm doing a lot of I/O related stuff where I have to open/close that window a lot. Glad for TopHat that the issue is resolved, not so glad for me that I also own an AMD card.. Quote
Drakeee Posted January 16, 2015 Report Posted January 16, 2015 It happens for me with a r290 too Quote
cashed Posted January 16, 2015 Report Posted January 16, 2015 I've been finding that if I'm running a flash object (youtube, music) that hammer stutters or freezes up. Quote
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