Recording in TF2 gives jerky results, fine when played normally?

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Created 25th July 2009 @ 02:58

15 years ago

I have some demos that I want to record to some tga files, so I’m using salmons movie config. When I hit record the frame rate drops dramatically, as normal, but as it slowly moves along frame by frame, the game sometimes interpolates far too much in advance, and then snaps back in time. So it appears choppy, and out of time in tiny little 1/2 frame sections.

This doesn’t always happen, and I’m not sure what causes it. Does anyone have any advice?

Example movie: http://ks36383.kimsufi.com/gay.avi – notice the choppiness at the end

Salmon

alfa
[hePPa]

15 years ago

u might be able to fix this with what evilwoot posted on gotfrag http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/forums/thread/405595/. I added the settings he posted today into my config so I’m not sure if you have the latest version of my config, so you could try that first, it should fix your problem.

download link for the config:
http://www.pldx.com/downloads/1027/pldx_cfg_02/

movie menu with the config and other useful files:
http://www.pldx.com/downloads/1027/pldx_cfg_02/

the tutorial can be found here if anyone needs it:
http://www.pldx.com/blog.php/2009/06/team-fortress-2-movie-recording-guide/

Cycles

lolwow

15 years ago

Fucking a, didn’t know 0.2 of this beast of a config was out yet! Going straight into TF2 to try now :D

Salmon

alfa
[hePPa]

15 years ago

let me know if it fixes your problem.

Cycles

lolwow

15 years ago

This seems absolutely perfect – thank you so much salmon, keep up the great work on this amazing config :)

Salmon

alfa
[hePPa]

15 years ago

Thats great to hear that you go it working and thanks for your support :D.

Cycles

lolwow

15 years ago

Excuse the necro’ing but is this meant to still work? I just fired up TF2 and whacked host_framerate up to 1000 and host_timescale down to 0.0001, but I still get jitters :(

Salmon

alfa
[hePPa]

15 years ago

have u tried a slightly lower framerate? maybe 600-700?

Cycles

lolwow

15 years ago

have u tried a slightly lower framerate? maybe 600-700?

Yup, I’ve even tried recording it at 100, still just as bad. Maybe it’s just my dodgy windows vista rig playing up (TF2 randomly locks up in game anyway)…

BoneS

swimp
ciortai

15 years ago

i had this problem when recording at certain host_framerates. 120 was spazzing out all over the place like your video while 90 works no problem. Keep trying different host_framerate till you find one that works perhaps.