steam.dll not working for me on lots of my stuff

[Ginger Lord]

Hammer never works from a shortcut for me, I've tried all the fixes on the wiki and none work for me.

[Furyo]

I'll post the target of my own shortcut later when I get home. Maybe that can do the trick.

Actually one thing I remember is that you need to set the same -friendsbeta whatever suffix to any shortcut if you're running Steam with it

[Defrag]

If you're making a mod, you need to change your paths in Hammer for the shortcut to work, I think. Mine works nicely now.

My shortcut:

D:\Games\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 211 -runhammer

Example:

Game executable dir:

$SteamUserDir\source sdk base

Game directory:

$SteamDir\SteamApps\SourceMods\FortressForever

Game executable:

$SteamUserDir\source sdk base\hl2.exe

Before I changed the game executable dir it wouldn't load any mod content when the shortcut was used. I'd have HL2 assets but no mod assets.

[Furyo]

This is what I have:

"C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 211 -runhammer

[General Vivi]

maybe i should just reinstall steam . i did lots of stuff so far like reinstalling source sdk and changing out some other files but everything is still being really weird . Sigh. ill just back everything up do it.