So, I've compiled a map for CS: Source, but everytime I try to play it, the game crashes at mid-loaded. My map doesnt have any errors, and the compile log didnt show any errors either.



** Executing...
** Command: "f:\games\valve\steam\steamapps\joy_co_cola@hotmail .com\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe"
** Parameters: -game "f:\games\valve\steam\steamapps\joy_co_cola@hotmail .com\counter-strike source\cstrike" "E:\Edwin\Source Maps\1944"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Jan 19 2005)
1 threads
materialPath: f:\games\valve\steam\steamapps\joy_co_cola@hotmail .com\counter-strike source\cstrike\materials
Loading E:\Edwin\Source Maps\1944.vmf
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
Chop Details...done (0)
Find Visible Detail Sides...done (0)
Merging details...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing E:\Edwin\Source Maps\1944.prt...done (0)
Creating default cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox sky_day03_06...
Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (110114 bytes)
Emitting linux collision data (use -nolinuxdata to disable).
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (197962 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Writing E:\Edwin\Source Maps\1944.bsp
9 seconds elapsed
Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 48
Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 1

** Executing...
** Command: "f:\games\valve\steam\steamapps\joy_co_cola@hotmail .com\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe"
** Parameters: -game "f:\games\valve\steam\steamapps\joy_co_cola@hotmail .com\counter-strike source\cstrike" "E:\Edwin\Source Maps\1944"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (Dec 15 2004)
1 threads
reading e:\edwin\source maps\1944.bsp
reading e:\edwin\source maps\1944.prt
188 portalclusters
587 numportals
BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (6)
Optimized: 25 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 13713
Average clusters visible: 72
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 171
visdatasize:10027 compressed from 9024
writing e:\edwin\source maps\1944.bsp
6 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "f:\games\valve\steam\steamapps\joy_co_cola@hotmail .com\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe"
** Parameters: -game "f:\games\valve\steam\steamapps\joy_co_cola@hotmail .com\counter-strike source\cstrike" "E:\Edwin\Source Maps\1944"

Valve Software - vrad.exe (Jan 18 2005)
----- Radiosity Simulator ----
1 threads
[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[1 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading e:\edwin\source maps\1944.bsp
845 faces
63865 square feet [9196651.00 square inches]
15 displacements
384 square feet [55296.20 square inches]
845 patches before subdivision
4989 patches after subdivision
3 direct lights
BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (13)
BuildVisLeafs: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (3)
transfers 126587, max 167
transfer lists: 1.0 megs
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #1 added RGB(854, 594, 301)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #2 added RGB(65, 39, 11)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #3 added RGB(10, 5, 1)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Bounce #4 added RGB(2, 1, 0)
GatherLight: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (1)
Bounce #5 added RGB(0, 0, 0)
Build Patch/Sample Hash Table(s).....Done<0.0075 sec>
FinalLightFace: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
FinalLightFace Done
Ready to Finish
0 of 0 (0% of) surface lights went in leaf ambient cubes.
ComputePerLeafAmbientLighting: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
------------ --------------- --------------- --------
models 3/1024 144/49152 ( 0.3%)
brushes 192/8192 2304/98304 ( 2.3%)
brushsides 1292/65536 10336/524288 ( 2.0%)
planes 552/65536 11040/1310720 ( 0.8%)
vertexes 1702/65536 20424/786432 ( 2.6%)
nodes 389/65536 12448/2097152 ( 0.6%)
texinfos 278/12288 20016/884736 ( 2.3%)
texdata 25/2048 800/65536 ( 1.2%)
dispinfos 15/0 2640/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_verts 431/0 8620/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_tris 576/0 1152/0 ( 0.0%)
disp_lmsamples 1580/0 1580/0 ( 0.0%)
faces 845/65536 47320/3670016 ( 1.3%)
origfaces 578/65536 32368/3670016 ( 0.9%)
leaves 393/65536 22008/3670016 ( 0.6%)
leaffaces 991/65536 1982/131072 ( 1.5%)
leafbrushes 349/65536 698/131072 ( 0.5%)
surfedges 6566/512000 26264/2048000 ( 1.3%)
edges 4012/256000 16048/1024000 ( 1.6%)
worldlights 3/8192 264/720896 ( 0.0%)
waterstrips 82/32768 820/327680 ( 0.3%)
waterverts 0/65536 0/786432 ( 0.0%)
waterindices 1914/65536 3828/131072 ( 2.9%)
cubemapsamples 0/1024 0/16384 ( 0.0%)
overlays 0/512 0/180224 ( 0.0%)
lightdata [variable] 251056/0 ( 0.0%)
visdata [variable] 10027/16777216 ( 0.1%)
entdata [variable] 7081/393216 ( 1.8%)
occluders 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder polygons 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
occluder vert ind 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%)
detail props [variable] 1/12 ( 8.3%)
static props [variable] 1/1214 ( 0.1%)
pakfile [variable] 19981/0 ( 0.0%)

Win32 Specific Data:
physics [variable] 110114/4194304 ( 2.6%)
==== Total Win32 BSP file data space used: 641365 bytes ====

Linux Specific Data:
physicssurface [variable] 197962/6291456 ( 3.1%)
==== Total Linux BSP file data space used: 729213 bytes ====

Total triangle count: 2542
Writing e:\edwin\source maps\1944.bsp
17 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "E:\Edwin\Source Maps\1944.bsp" "f:\games\valve\steam\steamapps\joy_co_cola@hotmail .com\counter-strike source\cstrike\maps\1944.bsp"

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Does anyone know why the game would crash to the desktop when loading a map?

Originally posted by Dwin
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Does anyone know why the game would crash to the desktop when loading a map?

a lot of times that happens to me when it can't find the .wad file. make sure the .wad you need is in the right directory.

There is no .wad. It is a Source map.

Go through your entities one-by-one. Pay particular attention to the ones that effect gameplay (players, buy zones, scoring, etc)...then do this: Run the map from the console in developer 2 mode...if the map crashes look to the console for the last set of messages.

There are no messages.

Is hammer still open at this point, and is hammer responding correctly.
Sometimes a compile (succesful or not) will crash my hammer, and in turn that will cause dod to return to desktop.
Just a thought as you are getting no error messages.