Better autodemo capability?

[Mr. Domino]

Perhaps there's a way to do this I'm not aware of, but right now my autodemo files usually only record the last few seconds of a game and get overwritten a good bit. Why can't there be an option to automatically turn on full demo recording when joining a server/changing maps so that it records the full match? I lost a good number of things I wished I had captured due to autodemo screw ups or just not remembering to record a demo before hand.

[Tallacaps]

 

I agree.

[Toumaz]

Go change Record_Time in Soldat.ini into whatever you want.

[SadistAtHeart]

Go change Record_Time in Soldat.ini into whatever you want.

Whoa, I didn't know about that. [actually uses the karma function of the forums]

[Plonkoon]

Is that allowed?  I thought you had to be registered to record over 3 minute long demos?

[Toumaz]

From the 1.2.1 changelog:

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Modified No limit for unregistered version demo recordings

Actually, there were a limit before that version but for some reason it was changed.

[Mr. Domino]

Go change Record_Time in Soldat.ini into whatever you want.

Doesn't that only affect the demo recordings though? My demo files are fine -- it's the autodemo which is prone to cutting short and rewriting itself which is annoying. The autodemo doesn't seem to always record a new file in sequence since I get a lot of rewritten "autodemo.sdm" files when playing.

[-Vis-]

Record_Time affects auto recording too, it would seem. I've been using auto record for about a week now, and it does get annoying when it cuts off in the middle of something good.

The autodemo doesn't seem to always record a new file in sequence since I get a lot of rewritten "autodemo.sdm" files when playing.

I was under the impression that it's supposed to overwrite itself, since pressing f8 while auto recording makes it save a seperate file. That's so you don't get large amounts of useless demos to sift through.