OK, I think we've found the cause of this. As a workaround for now, see if you can keep your mod directories to be 6 folders deep or less.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taylor Sherman Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [hlcoders] Steam crashes when we load our mod configuration into Hammer Hi Ian, I'll take a look into this. Can you tell me - when you had the .svn folders there, how deep was the overall directory tree (relative to the game folder), and how many files were in it total? Thanks, Taylor -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlcoders] Steam crashes when we load our mod configuration into Hammer Apologies if this is too much off topic. I'm not subscribed to hlmappers as I'm a coder not a mapper. This is also my first post to hlcoders so go easy on me! Some of the mappers on our mod have been complaining recently about Steam crashing when they startup Hammer and select our mods game configuration. When they asked us coders to try hammer we also found that we had the same problem. The error occurring in steam was --------------------------- PostCondition Assertion Failed --------------------------- Name: FindCloseSuccessful Program: C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe File: Src\FsRemote.cpp Line: 373 bCloseSuccessful --------------------------- and this would eventually lead to the error in Hammer "Can't load FileSystemOpenDialog.dll" once Abort was chosen It was only the configuration for our mod that caused Hammer to fail in this way as the other configurations were fine. After a while spent examining this problem by comparing the output of Filemon from our mode and another working configuration, I noticed that Steam was enumerating through all of the .svn folders in our mod folders even though they are marked as hidden. After I deleted the .svn folders Hammer loaded our mod configuration without any problems. I don't know if this is a result of the latest steam update but as far as I can see we haven't added many more folders to the mod since that update, so this seems a likely candidate for a regression bug. Surely Steam should be able to handle large numbers of files and folders within a mod folder so this current limitation cannot be right. Regards Ian _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
