Playdemo Crash

[code-al]

Whenever I play a demo it's runs normally for a few seconds then crashes to the desktop. I've tried it with multiple demos all of them ran fine in my tf2 but crashes whenever I use lawena. I have no idea what's causing it.

[quanticc]

If you haven't tried anything special my first guess would be the multicore rendering setting. Have you tried using mat_queue_mode 1 before launching the demo? Lawena uses 0 by default in its graphic config which causes instability in some systems.

For some people this is enough, like for instance in this issue: #52

If this does not help, then I would suggest trying to isolate the problem so you can at least record your frames, for instance: (1) run the game not using the recording.cfg config file (rename it before launch) (2) using a lower quality (-dxlevel) setting. (3) adding -default to the custom launch settings (Advanced menu). This will surely make it work since it blocks all of Lawena settings while preserving video capturing capabilities.

If (1) works and you wish to get more quality, you can try configuring the game from the inside after being run with Lawena.

[code-al]

Tried everything, none of them worked. I noticed something though, my game crashes whenever an explosion happens. For instance, the demo would run fine but it crashes whenever I rocketjump or hit someone with explosives. I tried disabling everything including mods but still crashes. I confirmed that it's playing normally in my tf2 client.

[quanticc]

I'd thought about Lawena missing a file somehow but I'll have to investigate more tomorrow to confirm.

Also I was wondering since you can make it work, do you normally use a special performance config? Because it seems related to the load on your system.

I would recommend running Lawena using -default as is almost equivalent to running with default TF2. The only differences are the launch parameters.

Since that isn't working, does default TF2 (not using lawena) makes it crash? To test this add -default to launch parameters from Steam library.

If that test works for you (default TF2 without Lawena does not causes crashes) then I'm running out of options to test. It would mean that there's some bind or launch parameter or maybe a file? added from Lawena causing problems, but I can't conclude that for the moment.

If the test doesn't work (still crashes), then it's related to your graphic config/load and the demo. You would have to match the graphic settings from your game to run with Lawena (using your config inside Lawena) or manually construct an environment in your normal TF2 where you can record. There's also the option to try another recording tool that can help us find differences. I'm not familiar with the current state of those though.

I will be posting here whenever I find more info. I might need to ask for a demo of yours to replicate the scenario in my computer later.

[code-al]

I tried adding -default parameter and it crashed my tf2 client. here's my config here's my main (autoexec)

I don't really use any graphics configs, as far as i can remember, the only change i've done before lawena began crashing was adding sv_forcepreload I believe. It's kinda weird because It was working ok a few minutes before.

[code-al]

Here's the demo https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfkuc2gbeq7mjz0/20160124_1329_cp_snakewater_final1_red_blu.rar?dl=0

[nobelharvards]

Hi, I'm the idiot who tried having "exec autoexec" in every class script and being unable to get any clips out of demos while I had that.

I am thinking this person possibly had weapon explosion scripts. http://www.teamfortress.tv/25647

Perhaps that script is also "saved" in the demo file in a similar behaviour to "exec autoexec" in class configs?

I have no technical expertise, take all this with a grain of salt.

[code-al]

Yes in fact I do have the no explosion script. I think I did try and include that while playing my demo but didn't work. Might test it again.

[quanticc]

I've included something in v4.1.11 that attempts to fix these kind of crashes.