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Why do people not record/upload demos?
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#1
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Does it lower fps significantly on some people's systems too much?
Too much file space taken up?
I don't understand how people in 2022 are getting banned from etf2l/rgl for not submitting demos - what is a valid reason not to record demos

Does it lower fps significantly on some people's systems too much?
Too much file space taken up?
I don't understand how people in 2022 are getting banned from etf2l/rgl for not submitting demos - what is a valid reason not to record demos
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#2
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https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1839163195583649770/41DBA9A3110FF0448ED55F2C7D8C7D41C74578B6/

[img]https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1839163195583649770/41DBA9A3110FF0448ED55F2C7D8C7D41C74578B6/[/img]
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#3
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dog ate it i swear sir

dog ate it i swear sir
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#4
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i think theyre just not setting it up

i think theyre just not setting it up
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#5
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Forgot

Reinstalled the game

Lazy

Forgot

Reinstalled the game

Lazy
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#6
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If the glove doesn’t exist, how can the hand fit in it

If the glove doesn’t exist, how can the hand fit in it
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#7
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One of the strangest reasons I've witnessed for refusing to upload was because someone who got their demos requested had not logged in to ETF2L for couple years and didn't want to break that offline streak to upload couple demos

The person in question hasn't logged in there since but they did play last year

One of the strangest reasons I've witnessed for refusing to upload was because someone who got their demos requested had not logged in to ETF2L for couple years and didn't want to break that offline streak to upload couple demos

The person in question hasn't logged in there since but they did play last year
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#8
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Does recording demos lower fps? By how much?

Does recording demos lower fps? By how much?
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#9
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https://i.ibb.co/61YJP8Z/Capture.png

Not our business guys, mystery solved, lock thread.

[img]https://i.ibb.co/61YJP8Z/Capture.png[/img]

Not our business guys, mystery solved, lock thread.
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#10
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I've known some players to be quite superstitious about random things affecting their TF2 install. Saying stuff like they can't play with certain HUDs, they can't play with p-rec installed, they need net graph to show their interp as 0, the list goes on. I'm fairly certain its all in their heads but they'll believe that things like p-rec are stopping them from playing properly and won't use it for that reason.

I've known some players to be quite superstitious about random things affecting their TF2 install. Saying stuff like they can't play with certain HUDs, they can't play with p-rec installed, they need net graph to show their interp as 0, the list goes on. I'm fairly certain its all in their heads but they'll believe that things like p-rec are stopping them from playing properly and won't use it for that reason.
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#11
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BloodisOne of the strangest reasons I've witnessed for refusing to upload was because someone who got their demos requested had not logged in to ETF2L for couple years and didn't want to break that offline streak to upload couple demos

The person in question hasn't logged in there since but they did play last year

gotta let people know how little they care about tf2

[quote=Bloodis]One of the strangest reasons I've witnessed for refusing to upload was because someone who got their demos requested had not logged in to ETF2L for couple years and didn't want to break that offline streak to upload couple demos

The person in question hasn't logged in there since but they did play last year[/quote]

gotta let people know how little they care about tf2
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#12
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recording a demo does make your game run slightly worse and Im 99% sure I remember mastercoms saying it messes up hitreg a little, probably not the reason people don't record though

recording a demo does make your game run slightly worse and Im 99% sure I remember mastercoms saying it messes up hitreg a little, probably not the reason people don't record though
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#13
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sources: dude trust me

sources: dude trust me
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#14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXGAd1kpXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXGAd1kpXY
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#15
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Wandumsources: dude trust me

Listen bro I'm just saying what I recall, and I phrased it that way too. Here's some messages I could find from the mastercomfig discord, again I'm not sure how true it is, just something I remembered, like I said initinally, but mastercoms has generally been right about things

https://i.imgur.com/6zO30rU.png

https://i.imgur.com/3Uauz4A.png

[quote=Wandum]sources: dude trust me[/quote]
Listen bro I'm just saying what I recall, and I phrased it that way too. Here's some messages I could find from the mastercomfig discord, again I'm not sure how true it is, just something I remembered, like I said initinally, but mastercoms has generally been right about things
[img]https://i.imgur.com/6zO30rU.png[/img]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/3Uauz4A.png[/img]
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#16
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While recording a demo can reduce FPS (it does a little bit extra work in recording networking data), it wasn't as bad as I thought in those messages and it does not affect hitreg. The mix-up came from two things, that I should have looked more closely at: one, VCR mode (described at https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Tier0 to be part of demos) and two, tool recording mode (which had some misleading comments which made me think it was more general). Neither of these systems are related to the in-game demo system, and thus none of what I was looking at before was relevant to it.

While recording a demo can reduce FPS (it does a little bit extra work in recording networking data), it wasn't as bad as I thought in those messages and it does not affect hitreg. The mix-up came from two things, that I should have looked more closely at: one, VCR mode (described at https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Tier0 to be part of demos) and two, tool recording mode (which had some misleading comments which made me think it was more general). Neither of these systems are related to the in-game demo system, and thus none of what I was looking at before was relevant to it.
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