How to get old demos to work?

I know theres a way, but what is the easiest way to do it? I have so much old school footage I would like to use but i'm not sure how.

Head on over to the steam forums and read this thread:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... p?t=539729

The demos are pre-patch and therefore dont work unless you download the HL2DM launcher program by Pincus. Read the entire thread before downloading so you are sure to get the latest version and all the info.

Included in the thread is a post by L2K linking to a place to download the demo pack.

That's from the admin over on the Speed-jumping thread in the Athletic Center. =) Should do the trick.

thank you pincus!!

now i have 50 fios matches and 50 sta 4v4 matches to go throu

anybody wanna help? lol

I'm too disappointed to download that :'(. When the update came out I got so pist that the demos didnt work that I deleted them all. *Sigh*

damn that sucks

only demo i lost where the old ones i had on my laptop from when i started

and had to reformat it and lost everything from it

ninojman wrote:thank you pincus!!

now i have 50 fios matches and 50 sta 4v4 matches to go throu

anybody wanna help? lol

Oh shit, that's gold right there. I would help but I'm busy converting the FIOS finals. Not to mention my own frag vid is delayed.

Maybe HL2DMU could have a raw demo section on the frag video page where we could store demos of "historical interest"? If longtime players like yourself would be willing to contribute their best STA, FIOS and CAL matches it could turn into quite an interesting archive. I would love to see some of the old STA matches as I missed out on participating in that.

WT

i played in sta of its last season. we got teh rap3d. most of us were just learning to bhop

Damn i can't seem to get the demo thing to work

I could get my hl2dm pro 1.5.1 matches to work

wRw vs cyn sta championship s1 i was 50-23 as rebel O_o

but i can't get any of my regular demos to work with that program

comes up with some serverendusererror or something

Pincus should be lurking somewhere. If there are any you know are really good I can convert em for you, if you dont mind being a bit patient with me. 30 MB per minute though so they can get quite big.

Did you have any luck ninojman?

Dunno if this will help, but maybe you can try this switch in your launch options:

-32bit

Forces the engine to start in 32-bit mode. Only useful on 64-bit Operating Systems.

WT

i'll try it ...

no luck yet

i got it to work....

d/l'd the 3rd version then the 1st version and the 2nd started working O_o lol whatever

WT would u want any just straight up matches?

ninojman wrote:WT would u want any just straight up matches?

Absolutely, If you don't mind them being posted. I am particularly interested in "classic matchups", ie. top players and top clan matches in hard fought rounds.

If we can get a nice little archive going I may be able to convince other players to dig into their hard drives and contribute also.