Lagg during Demo Recording

[RaxeN]

Can anyone tell me why i, and some of my teammates lagg when they record demos during a game.

The server is good, even if we play on other servers it is still the same. My rates are fine (rate 25000, cl_cmdrate 100, cl_updaterate 100) and my Computer Specs are good enough for CS:S for sure

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1GB RAM DDR400
Radeon 9800XT 256MB

For some reason, i lagg loads and it is very jerky during games, if anyone could tell me a fix or solution to make it playable, it would be greatly appreciated as we are making a movie, which you can see the trailer for below :

www.jimbob.ws4f.us

its called Sketch Movie 2

Thank you

Xteo

 

[Qonfused]

Very good, a technical question AND a promotion in the same thread. Nice job.

Anyways, none of my media players will play the trailer. I'm not sure what plays .avi (Divx player?) but whatever. To answer your question: of course there's going to be lag! It's basically running another CSS behind it. It's like recording with FRAPS; it lags the system because it's copying what on screen at that time and compressing it.

 

[Beerdude26]

A better idea would be :
Open the console
type in : record DEMONAME
and just let it run.
When you want to stop recording, type stop or you can just disconnect from the server.
Then, just start up your capturing program and type in console : demoui DEMONAME .
Leave it running and TADAA! A lagless game and a great video!

 

[Unfocused]

Very good, a technical question AND a promotion in the same thread. Nice job.

Anyways, none of my media players will play the trailer. I'm not sure what plays .avi (Divx player?) but whatever. To answer your question: of course there's going to be lag! It's basically running another CSS behind it. It's like recording with FRAPS; it lags the system because it's copying what on screen at that time and compressing it.

wtf? I never experienced any lag and I don't have a high-end PC:

PentiumIV 2,8Ghz
768MB RAM
Radeon 9550@9600

with FRAPS, however, there IS lag

 

[RaxeN]

thanks for the replys guys, but we basically are all laggy, i dont know what the reason is, it cant be my PC and my internet is fine (2MB Broadbrand) i have all the commands etc to top notch and i just have no clue why it calls unplayable lagg. Yeah we have had the windows media player error before, you basically have to check if you have the latest version and all codecs installed, its well worth it

The movie will be comming soon and i will post it here when i get the chance

for now, visit www.sketch-gaming.com if i forget to post it here

Thanks

Xteo

P.S Thanks for all the help guys

 

[W4E]

do you mean lag, or choppy fps? Do you get a high ping?

Try cl_smooth 0, the latest update said you dont need to, but i still prefer it.

edit: watched the trailer, not enough counter-strike in it, but <3 the clawfinger music.