so i have been trying to finish my my latest map and it is taking forever.  i have been fighting with HAMMER the whole way because i'm pushing it to its limits.

so i finally did a full map compile for some final testing and it took over 64 hours.

then if that wasn't enough, i got this error when i tried to load it up in the game.

Material_System_Interface_t::AllocateLightmap (516x25) too big to fit in page (512x256)

this was a message that displayed in windows because it crashes the game when i try to load it.  Has anybody encountered this error before?  obviously this is a lighting problem, but i have no idea how to fix it because i have never seen it before. 

sorry, i don't have my compile log, but i looked through it briefly when it finished and everything looked normal.  i also ran it through interlopers and it didn't show any critical errors, just ones i can ignore. 

any ideas?

when you start naming lights it get tricky. put more than five or six in a close proximity and your gonna push the limits of source. Try (this is just a suggestion) posting on interlopers about it. There are some brilliant people on there, somewhere... Try increasing your lightmaps - everywhere.