The recent update and you

[brett friggin favre]

The reason I'm posting in this section is because this pertains to demos post-update.

After the recent CS:S update, old demos no longer work. Yay. All those demos we've been saving on those tough cases are worthless. Yay. All those old demos we've kept just in case...worthless. Yay. All demos uploaded for documentation...worthless. Yay. Unless someone can find another way to play them, and if you can then please post it here.

People have also been having problems playing new demos. This is because Valve, cuntsacks that they are, decided to change directories on us. Your cstrike folder used to be in steam/steamapps/ACCOUNT/counter-strike: source/cstrike. That location still exists, however CS:S disregards that one, and uses the new directory: steam/steamapps/common/counter-strike: source/cstrike. Some of the old demos seem to have been copied from the old directory, but of course none of them work. Not sure what the point of that was...but anyway, if you want to view demos, you'll need to put them in that folder now. I suspect the same goes for skins. What's the point of this? To piss us all off. That is all. There were no actual improvements made, no actual progress that affects us in any way, they just like to fuck things up cuz they're cunts. If you see any Valve employee in our servers, please ban them immediately, trace their IP, and send them a flaming sack of shit.

[ZERO]

I warned you all that steampipe would be like the OB all over again...

---------- Post added at 03:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:25 PM ----------

Also just wanted to point out that if you have an outdated install and run steam offline you should be able to view the demos...

[brett friggin favre]

I warned you all that steampipe would be like the OB all over again...

---------- Post added at 03:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:25 PM ----------

Also just wanted to point out that if you have an outdated install and run steam offline you should be able to view the demos...

most likely true, however i felt like actually playing, and only have 1 hdd so it would've been a bitch to have both

[CYBER]

i dont fucking understand why SKINS and models and sprays and even demos are shared in between accounts...
my brother and i play with different skins and he sometimes uses my computer or i use his when mine is in the shop...
so now we're FORCED to use the same set of modifications ?

WTF is valve thinking??????

[CYBER]

ps: anyone knows where to install skins anymore?
i miss my fucking custom habits :(

[anex]

Valve, for the most part, deleted 90% of all my custom skins.

http://www.userlogos.org/files/logos/Jungchen/fallout3vaultboy%20copy.png
THANKS VALVE

To reinstall skins:

Go to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Source\cstrike\custom

Make another folder inside. I don't care what you name it. Name it "Fuck Phil". That's what mine is called and it seems to work fine.

"Fuck Phil" is now your new cstrike folder. Install mods in this folder and it's business as usual.

Example:
http://i.imgur.com/PQPrC1Q.png

[Stan]

i don't even know why the f*ck....
this update is so stupid, i can't even update
when i try to update it, it freezes, f*ck you valve.

[ZERO]

i dont fucking understand why SKINS and models and sprays and even demos are shared in between accounts...
my brother and i play with different skins and he sometimes uses my computer or i use his when mine is in the shop...
so now we're FORCED to use the same set of modifications ?

WTF is valve thinking??????

If you want mutiple users you need mutiple computers. Just like the game console that steam is trying to move into with the steam box it is 1 per person not 1 per house. Everyone knows you get 1 xbox and ps3 per person...

[brett friggin favre]

If you want mutiple users you need mutiple computers. Just like the game console that steam is trying to move into with the steam box it is 1 per person not 1 per house. Everyone knows you get 1 xbox and ps3 per person...

i haven't tested this and i'm not going to, but the original directory for css is still there and there's still stuff in it. if you could copy any other necessary files to that original directory linked to your account, add it as a non-steam game...hmm...might be a way somewhere along those lines but that's your only chance.

[Wolfenstinger]

Some reason, when I was playing all yesterday... all the gunshots I was hearing sounded like they were in a tunnel? And these were regular maps like de_dust, de_dust2, de_cbble, cs_office, etc. (bout all I ended up playing yesterday)

IDK if it's just me, and I know my headset isn't broken. Just something weird. (WCS by the way, I haven't tested on like GunGame or anything else yet)

[Spasm]

Some reason, when I was playing all yesterday... all the gunshots I was hearing sounded like they were in a tunnel? And these were regular maps like de_dust, de_dust2, de_cbble, cs_office, etc. (bout all I ended up playing yesterday)

IDK if it's just me, and I know my headset isn't broken. Just something weird. (WCS by the way, I haven't tested on like GunGame or anything else yet)

I've had that glitch happen b4 the update... so dunno.

[i2o4]

Some reason, when I was playing all yesterday... all the gunshots I was hearing sounded like they were in a tunnel? And these were regular maps like de_dust, de_dust2, de_cbble, cs_office, etc. (bout all I ended up playing yesterday)

IDK if it's just me, and I know my headset isn't broken. Just something weird. (WCS by the way, I haven't tested on like GunGame or anything else yet)

I've had that happen multiple times in the past. A quick restart of the game always fixed it.

[ZERO]

I have also seen on steam forums that if restarting it the normal way does not correct it you need to cancel the process.

[CYBER]

dafuq do i do with this? i get this in console whenever i watch a demo... im not sure if the demos are pre-or-post update... but yeah... should i be moving some shit around?
or the-demos-be-fucked?



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[Patmonster]

If it's a pre-update demo it will not load. Thought we covered this. Try running a post update demo and see if you get the same thing.

Also, did that demo play? It looks like it's trying to load models/maps and should have played?

[i2o4]

@Cyber
As Patmonster said, it's a pre-steampipe demo that can't be played with the current version of CSS.

Steam forums sticky on demos and updates
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1379315

TLDR version - every steam update that makes changes to game/engine will either render older demos unplayable or cause visual problems if they do play.

Apparently Valve tried to increase resilience of client/server data table mismatches so that older demos might still be able to be played, albeit with visual issues, but it wasn't enough. I find that different demos fail to play for different reasons.

"No matching RecvTable for SendTable" suggests to me that a file/table is missing client-side rather than server-side, and I presume that a majority of the missing files preventing demos from playing aren't actually missing--they've just been moved into different directories (e.g. "custom" vs yourname) so copying the files back might help... I haven't tried it myself and this is pure speculation, so take this idea with a grain of salt!