Demodump crashing the demo, no pics

Hi all,

When I run my demo with demodump turned on, it crashes out before making even one image. Turning on demodump 1 within the (working) demo also crashes it. Is there some setting(s) not compatible with demodump? I saw an old post by Zloth in 2009 which describes a similar problem, but his solution was to run the demo in his "Test" version of CoH. Do I need to do that? Is that equivalent to downloading the Beta version?

Airhead

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Type in the full command line you are using, and whether you're trying to include the UI or not in your shot.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Good idea! Oops.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -fullscreen 1 -screen 1680 1050 -demoplay "C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\City of Heroes\client_demos\airheads-edited3.cohdemo"

And no UI is visible when the demo is running, I guess I haven't tried turning that off/on specifically, I'll try from the console now. Also I can only reach this board from the office, so I won't be able to reply again for 14 hours or so. But I will be back

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Okay, word of advice, let's make this easier.

Via the command prompt, go to C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\City of Heroes

Then type:

cityofheroes -demoplay airheads-edited3 -disable2d -screen 1680 1050 -demofps 30 -demodump

(launches the file as demo) (filename) (turns off all text and UI) (sets the screen size) (sets the FPS) (converts to JPGs)

That should work.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

THANK YOU Samuraiko!

I am now buzzing along making animated PNGs in Paint.Net. I then learned that animated image desktops have been eliminated before Windows 7 due to being a security risk or somesuch, so I'll have to make a movie file instead and get a program to show that as a desktop. But at least it's now possible The link below goes to an animated PNG, so will show in Firefox but maybe not IE. It's just a few frames, massively shrunk, and still a 2MB file. My toons animate through their better costumes, with a couple of cameos lurking in the background



Thanks again! You're a gem.

/Airhead

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You're welcome.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite