How come the game don't always record a demo?

(Cerebrate) #1

I’ve set the game to automatically record a demo, screenshot and stats. I don’t know about the two last ones, but a demo is seldom recorded. And even when it does (recording path is shown at the bottom of the screen), it’s not always stored in the demo folder. Is there something I’ve missed, or is this a common problem?

(Sauron|EFG) #2

The demo is stored under modfolder\demos when playing on a modded server, so you’ll find it in either of the following:
etmain\demos
etpro\demos
shrubet\demos

Because of a bug (or ‘feature’) in vanilla ET it doesn’t start recording automatically on all servers, I think it’s connected to game mode or something similar (usually works on SW servers I think). This has been corrected in ETPro.

(Cerebrate) #3

Thank you. I knew about etmain/demos, but not etpro/demos; just found a couple of good ones I thought was gone for good. Had to manually copy them into etmain/demos though.

Cheers. :beer:

(Rain) #4

Vanilla ET only automatically records demos for stopwatch rounds (as Spoof indicated.) ET Pro “fixed” this, and now some people are unhappy that all their rounds be being recorded, so we’ll have to add another mode to make it only auto record in competition mode. :weird: Can’t please everyone, I guess.

The proper way to play back demos recorded on a server running a different mod is by adding ‘+set fs_game [blah]’ to the command line. (Unfortunately, ET doesn’t have a “mods” menu a là RtCW, so there’s not a more convenient way to do it.) Copying the demos to etmain/demos will work for now–shrubet doesn’t change any client-side code, and etpro 2.0.x doesn’t change anything in an incompatible way. I bring this up, though, because the in-development branch DOES change things, and demos recorded on an etpro 2.2.x server (when it’s released) will not work properly in vanilla ET. ET Pro will still be able to play the older demos, though (this is a priority because we’ve incorporated fretn’s extended demo viewer, and we want people to be able to use it with vanilla ET demos), so lazy folks should be able to change the game’s command line to always start with ‘+set fs_game etpro’ (and copy demos to etpro/demos, if necessary.)

And such.