[My first DarkRadiant-session]

My impression of DarkRadiant is quite the opposite...

 

I have found DR to be more than stable and most of the problems I have encountered were not the fault of DarkRadiant, but rather my computer/memory/enviroment.

 

It is important to remember that this is a powerfull editor, better than any Radiant Editor I have ever used, and far more relaible to boot. You have to keep in mind that leaving Darkmod running in a window while using the DarkRadiant editor will slow everything down considerably on a lot of older computers and also increase the chance of errors. Normally If I have a problem manipulating or creating brushes it is because I have been working a while without saving, but rather just building and (dmap)ing a lot without using the filters in Dark Radiant.

 

My current map/FM which is 3+ months into development, with over 7000 brushes, 3000+ patches and 2000+ entities chugs along just fine without any problems. I suspect that Dark Radiant is not to blame if anyone is having that much trouble just starting out.

[Finding stubborn leak]

I hate having a sense that I used to know something, but can't remember it or where to find it.

 

Im not sure if the Wiki mentions this as I have not read through it all but I use "Show Entity Names" under Preferences/Orthoview in DarkRadiant to find those pesky leaked orgins. In the 2d views the Entity names are displayed at the origin, so If i have a leak and see an entity name in the void I know which entitiy it is and can select it with the entitiy list (Ctrrl+J).

 

Hope that makes sense...