TF2 [GUIDE] How to keep your tf2 always recording for whenever you need it.

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There are some settings that can make tf2 always record a demo.

This is a good thing to use to have more evidence against rule breakers. With these settings you will ALWAYS have evidence against rule breakers. This will allow a person to be caught easily. This is also good if you have a very high kill streak and you just want a recording of it.

The way this works is that if you have ds_autodelete set to 1, it will automatically delete the demo file if nothing is done with it. So there should be no worries about demo's taking disk space since with this settings it records all your matches.

All you have to do is copy and paste this in the console:

ds_enable 2;
ds_sound 1;
ds_log 1;
ds_notify 2;
ds_min_streak 100;
ds_kill_delay 5;
ds_dir demos;
ds_prefix rec;
ds_autodelete 1

You do not have to re-enter this every time you start tf2, putting this in your autoexec.cfg is also not needed. Once you paste this in the console the settings will stay like that. Another thing to note is that you do NOT have to enter them one by one, just copy from ds_enable to ds_autodelete and paste it all in the console.

When you see someone break the rules, simply type "ds_mark name", alternatively: ds_mark "name"
Name can be replaced with anything, I'd recommend something involved with the current situation for example the player name of the rule breaker so you can easily find the demo.

NOTE: BEFORE YOU STOP A RECORDING ALWAYS TYPE STATUS IN THE CONSOLE!

Where are the demo's exactly?

By default they're stored in the tf/demos folder, if you just copy and paste the code above.

What does each command do exactly?

ds_enable:
This enables the demo support. You can set it to 3 options:

0: This disables automatic recording, you will have to record everything manually.
1: Auto record Competitive matches only
2: auto record everything
3: auto record tournament matches, this means casual and competitive.

ds_sound: This one is pretty self explanatory:
If set to 1: plays a sound when it starts recording
if set to 0: Will not play a sound when it starts to record.

ds_notify:
If set to 0: Will show recording notifications in console only.
If set to 1: Will show on chat and console.
If set to 2: Will show on chat, hud and console

ds_log 1:

Will put things like kill streaks in a chat log, if you have ds_autodelete set to 1 then just enable this. You won't regret it.

ds_min_streak: 5 - 1000+

Saves a demo once the set amount of kills has been reached within the time set on the next command.

ds_kill_delay: This is the amount of time it takes to reset the killstreak counter. So now lets say for example that you have set ds_min_streak set to 5 and ds_kill_delay set to 10 then you must make 5 kills within 10 seconds to automatically mark a recording. ds_kill_delay is basically the time it takes before the kill counter resets. This also applies to non kill streak weapons.

ds_dir: This one should be set to demos because demos is already a separate folder made for demos so there is no need to change it.

ds_prefix: This is the name of the recording. So if it's set to rec it will give the file name rec instead of a long file name with a date on it.

ds_autodelete: This basically automatically deletes a recording if nothing is done with it.


Some commands that you can type in game:

ds_start (don't type anything beyond it, it will automatically generate a name). This will start demo support if you have it set to manual. So it's not needed if you have ds_enable set to 2

ds_stop: this stops the recording

ds_mark "name" this marks only a certain event.


Thanks to thread on blackwonder by: Not Melectrome
Full demo support guide | BlackWonder.TF | Forum

I've found out about this by his thread, it is just so good to have ds_enabled that I wanted to spread it.