Authoring tools refusing to close

#1 · September 20, 2014, 10:12 am

I recently have been running into a problem where my authoring tools will close but steam will not recognize it. Leaving me to not be able to open it again.

I have tried restarting steam and looking through my processes but I couldn't find anything.

Has anyone else had this problem?

#2 · September 20, 2014, 9:31 pm

I haven't had that particular problem, although I don't use the tools. Create a desktop shortcut for hammer:

"C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamappscommonportal 2binhammer.exe" -nop4

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#3 · September 20, 2014, 9:55 pm

When this happened to me I just restarted my computer.

The problem went away but it's not really much of a fix.

#4 · September 21, 2014, 5:00 pm

Ciirulean wrote:

When this happened to me I just restarted my computer.

The problem went away but it's not really much of a fix.

I did exactly that. It fixed for what it is worth. Thank you!