Demo wont play

I cant play demos made in Empires. Anybody know why or how I can play them?
Oh Fuck I just saw the sticky about demos, sorry about this you can delete it. Why didnt that thread show up when I searched for 'demo'?

 

Oddly, I hadn't read the sticky, but it has been working fine for me. For the most part, anyway. Moving the camera around too much can mess with things (buildings disappearing and such), but simple smoothing works.

What elements are supposed to be not supported?

 

hah, the sticky isn't about the same kind of demo, its about the demo version of hl2, its for people that don't own hl2 and are having problems running empiresmod.

Have you tried typing 'demoui' in console?

 

Yea I use demoui funtion.
Here is the error I get


Playing demo from bobninja2.dem.

Empires v1.07 Beta
Map: emp_mvalley
Players: 18 / 32
Build 2844
Server Number 6
SetConVar: No such cvar ( mani_nextmap set to emp_district402), skipping
SetConVar: No such cvar ( mani_tickrate set to 33), skipping
SetConVar: No such cvar ( mani_reserve_slots set to 1), skipping
Begin loading faces (loads materials)
End loading faces (loads materials)
Initializing renderer...
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/Common/props_urban/urban_ladder1.mdl)
DataTable warning: SetupClientSendTableHierarchy: missing SendTable 'm_iRequest_IMP' (referenced by 'DT_PlayerResource_IMP').
Host_EndGame: CL_ParseClassInfo_EndClasses: CreateDecoders failed.

And also you should make the Demo sticky show that your talking about the game demo.

 

looks like this is your problem:

No idea how to solve it though. Sounds serious. Repair steam cache?

 

Not a solution, but we are going to release the demos as avi's soon (tonight I hope).

 

NEVAR!!

 

So nobody else has a solution for me. Damn. Well is there any way to convert them to another form?

 

nebajoth posted a tutorial on your forums about how to convert to avi

 

after youve recorded a demo the normal way, theres another command that will slice it in to targas, it takes a lot of diskspace as every frame is a Targa image.

So after youve recorded a demo by typing "record filename"
load up the demo by typing "demoui"
pause the demo at start and type in console "startmovie imagename"
lower your res so itll take up less space.
When the demo is done you can then load up all the targas into something like virtualdub and convert it to avi.

 

This is not a solution to demo problems. And BTW I can play demos attached in JPL forum topic fine. If demo was recorded by specific player I can even see what he is doing in tank. Turret movement is off sometimes.

 

Just wondering, have you played hl2:dm since you installed the game? I remembered I had a problem playing demos before and that fixed it.

 

Tried playing HL2: DM didn't work. I think Ill just wait until 1.8 is release and do a full install and see if that works.

 

That error is given to you because you're not running on the newer HL2 engine, or the person who recorded the demo wasn't.

 

Any reason that would have happened? I have been updating like everyone else. But on the bright side I almost never crash and Xfire recognizes Empires instead of HL2: DM.