Quake 4 Timedemo - freezes in v1.2 & v1.3 now

[fbrdphreak]

So I need to make a custom timedemo in Quake 4 and no matter what demo I make the level of, when I go to actually run the timedemo it crashes. If I just do "playdemo" instead of "timedemo," it will actually show the error. It says something about "Bad FOV's" and if I manually set the FOV it doesn't help.

Can someone running Q4 v1.2 or 1.3 please do this and report back:

*start new game on first level
*As soon as game loads, hit Esc to go to menu
*Press Ctrl-Alt-Tilde to bring up the console.
*Type "recorddemo demo"
*Press tilde to exit the console, and then resume the game
*Play for like a minute or so, look around outside briefly and then go kill a few bad guys inside or whatever.
*When you're done, hit escape, bring up the console, and type "stoprecording"
*Quit and reload Q4, bring up console, then type "playdemo demo"
*If it plays the demo, then type "timedemo demo" and see if it runs the timedemo properly.
*If "playdemo" doesn't work, bring up the console again and see what error it reports.

I really need this done ASAP, I have to send this machine back on Tuesday. Thanks in advance!!

 

[SonicIce]

http://www.hocbench.com/q4.html
HardwareOC has bench tools for a bunch of games.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Thanks but I need to make my own timedemos.

If anyone could please just take a minute and try this...

 

[apoppin]

it doesn't work the way you list it . . . use the bench tools

[of course i tried . . . same errors you get]

 

[fbrdphreak]

Why doesn't it work? It worked pre-v1.2

EDIT Thanks, it just pisses me off that I can't use this anymore.

 

[apoppin]

why . . . why . . . why . . .

something about image not being saved correctly . . . and i am on Win2k . . . if that makes a difference

don't the Benchmark tools allow you make your 'own' demo? [they are for xp . . . only . . . i m not d/l'ing it]

 

[BFG10K]

It works fine for me (though I'm not pressing escape).

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
It works fine for me (though I'm not pressing escape).

So you can record and playback a demo just fine?

The HOCBenchmark wouldn't even work for me. It launched the demo just fine, but the game crashes at the end of the demo instead of just closing. So I just copied their demo file into the Q4 directory and that runs fine manually!

 

[BFG10K]

So you can record and playback a demo just fine?

Of course - both on 1.2 and 1.3.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Any specific resolution you're running at?

The error I got was "Bad FOVs; 0.00000000, 0.000000" or something, even manually setting the FOV didn't work.

I had a friend do a fresh install of Q4 and patch it to v1.3 & his did the same as fine.

Flippin' weird...

 

[BFG10K]

I run at 1920x1440 or 1600x1200 depending on the situation.

Have you tried it without using the escape key?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Do you mean just load the game, while in-game bring up console, record demo, play, bring up console in-game and stop recording?

 

[BFG10K]

Yup.

I never use escape, I just use the console right from the game.

 

[fbrdphreak]

I'll have to try that and see if it was my problem, thanks