Thought id put something useful on here! The other day hellfire was confused about how to record a demo so i thought id put it here for all those who dont know how.

Simply open console

Type Record "demo name" ("not neccessary bt i doubt any1 will call their demos demo name)

when u have finished what u want to record, type stop into the console.

Demos will b stored in My Computer, Hard drive name, program files, steam, steamapps, "your steam username", CSS, cstrike.

^ remembered tht off by heart ^^.

The demo is useful to record urself owning (lol) or in spectatore mode when u feel someone is hacking.

Hope this helps in some way cos it took me like 5 mins to type!

A little bit to add to this;

"s are necessary if your name has spaces in it, as with all console commands.

Your Steam directory is usually C:/Program Files/Steam/Steamapps/<username>/Counter Strike: Source/cstrike/ but C:/Program Files/ might be different if you changed it.

To play a demo type;
play "demo name"
into the console. It does not need .dem on the end (the file extension) and the same principle of "s still applies.

Recording demos, unlike other forms of recording (FRAPS etc), will not noticeably affect performance and will create relatively small filetypes. They will also not be playable outside the game in which they were made. This is because it records the game data, and not actual video itself.

Slight change to what Skillers wrote... the command to play back is playdemo not play, as that is for playing sounds.

I'd swear I was using play the other day :/ Unless I was typing play and saw playdemo and down keyed to that...

it is playdemo, bt it doesnt really matter that much.

im making my own demos now

What are you making Demos of?

Also, it's worth noting that if you want to get a FRAPS type video of something in a Source game, it's better to record a demo first then FRAPS the demo, as that will cause less strain (better FPS).

im making a demo of me to advertise TCHS on youtube XD

yeh i no bout recording then using fraps

also using fraps u can slow down etc. tho those videos always annoy me quite much so im gonna try and keep mine simple ^^

Ah, cool.... It better be good....

Also,you need to use FRAPS or the like to get a video on youtube. I don't get what you mean by "those" videos.

What he wants to do to make the slow-mo is not slow it down in fraps cos that sucks. It also sucks your fps. Instead, record a demo (so you get decent fps while you play) then play the demo into fraps, using host_timescale to change the speed (1 is default, anything less and you have slow-mo). That is how you should do it.

Oh, slo-mo, lol. I would personally do that in the edited, much easier that way. But slowmo sometimes annoys me unless it's showing some really high skill kills.

Or revealing sneaky aimbots.

when i was referring to annoying videos i meant where they slow it down and repeat the kill several times, tht annoys me

tht is y im sticking to a standard speed because slow mo annoys me

Oh, yeah, I hate it when they do it again and again. If they do it once in slow mo if they have a very quick kill that is impossible to see, then it is good (otherwise I get annoyed because I can't tell what happens).

yeh, well the clan war on saturday should put some nice demos for me, im trying to get top score on every map considering ive been playing reasonably well recently and am now used to my new mouse

tho i need to get a mic somehow....any ideas?

Erm, Mics are really easy, just go to a computer/electronics store and buy one.

lol im not going to any of those any time soon

however, i expect they r sold in woolies

They'll be sold anyway. Games shops aswell.

Well i guess that helps a lot. lol it took me a while to understand xD! cuz tam intensely thick like that. nywayz ZMG i knw have 2 more hackers left so tam gona have to record at some point.

and btw css in my bro comp is in F drive.. lolz

Yeah, if we get a couple more demos of their other players just to be absolutely certain, that will be goo. Also good for seeing how they play.

well mainly they play getting all hs hehe

demo is v v useful, bt i still dnt get y ppl hack :S confuses me

when i started off i had 1:20 on gr average (now nif) and on dm i got 2:95. my god i was ownage

People hack because it makes them feel big and powerful.

Yeah, I remember my rubbish kpd days like it was only yesterday... Oh wait, it was! xP

Don't be so harsh on yourself.


And I cannot play on Saturday because of piano lesson.

Piano lesson is usually on the Saturday morning. My only chance for a Saturday morning session was last Saturday, where no one could be bothered to turn up. Why cant you book this in the evening?

It's called sarcasm, Met, xP

Evening probably would be easier for a few, but not for others. However, this isn't really the thread, but there isn't a thread about that clan war.

well, clan war is easier for ppl on saturday it seems. im not too happy bout the saturday cos have exam coming up and would rather go out anyway...bt a commitment is a commitment i spose.

week nights can be difficult 2, e.g. cant use mic when ppl r asleep.

You didn't include Saturday night in that, which is what he wanted...