Forged Alliance Forever

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-11T14:50:06+02:00

.dds files are directdrawsurfaces - files that dont need compiling for the gpu to process them - used in lots and lots of different games.

theres a nvidia plugin for photoshop, i use that. you want to encode them with dxt5 and everything else on default (no mipmaps)

im still planning some tutorial handling that, and general model making in supcom, but yeah its coming soon™

Statistics: Posted by Exotic_Retard — 11 Dec 2017, 14:50

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-11T13:58:28+02:00

you can create/edit .dds file with gimp and the gimp-dds addon or photoshop or other software that is used to edit image files

Statistics: Posted by PhilipJFry — 11 Dec 2017, 13:58

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-11T13:47:07+02:00

Exotic_Retard wrote:
just playing faf has shown to be on average at least 10% faster sim speeds (compared to steam), and can be a lot more difference with intense things like asf fights happening.

i would have the graphs somewhere but im feeling lazy to dig out the slack history which is probably locked now so i would have to ping icecreamer for them and so on xD

off topic question, exotic do you know where can i find tutorial explaining .dds files and what tools need to create them? i've searched the forum here but there's nowhere i found some really helpful tutorial.

BTW im not a new here and i did mention i use the NON-Steam forged alliance (vanilla version)

Statistics: Posted by monty — 11 Dec 2017, 13:47

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-11T12:23:58+02:00

just playing faf has shown to be on average at least 10% faster sim speeds (compared to steam), and can be a lot more difference with intense things like asf fights happening.

i would have the graphs somewhere but im feeling lazy to dig out the slack history which is probably locked now so i would have to ping icecreamer for them and so on xD

Statistics: Posted by Exotic_Retard — 11 Dec 2017, 12:23

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-11T11:13:16+02:00

PhilipJFry wrote:
if you want to get performance improvements then i recommend trying
- mods like "quality of performance" (that mod removes lots of fancy animations and other stuff that isn't "needed") in combination with FAF or
- the LOUD project

wow thx a lot dude

Statistics: Posted by monty — 11 Dec 2017, 11:13

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-11T11:00:59+02:00

if you want to get performance improvements then i recommend trying
- mods like "quality of performance" (that mod removes lots of fancy animations and other stuff that isn't "needed") in combination with FAF or
- the LOUD project

Statistics: Posted by PhilipJFry — 11 Dec 2017, 11:00

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-11T10:55:03+02:00

Exotic_Retard wrote:
thats not very nice tatsu. this sort of attitude isnt exactly encouraging towards new users.

monty - since you are not using faf, im not entirely sure how to help you. why do you need the replay disabled? the steam version doesnt have a replay vault so the only ones it saves are local to you anyway. there wont be a performance improvement if thats your concern, and no one except you will be able to see the replays anyway.

one possible solution is to get faf and then play private games - that way your replay isnt saved, as mentioned above

ok thanks for reply. i thought theres going to be performance improvement

Statistics: Posted by monty — 11 Dec 2017, 10:55

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-10T17:45:05+02:00

Hello Monty,

there is no switch/commandline arg or option to disable saving the replay.

The only way is a mod that is adding this command/variable setting:

Code:: sessionInfo.createReplay = false

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 10 Dec 2017, 17:45

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-10T16:06:50+02:00

it is not clear what you mean by disabling replay. When you play without FAF there will be no replay in FAF vault. When you play with FAF, replay is being send even before the game is completed so people can watch your game even before game has ended (live replay). after that replay is saved locally and on faf servers.

If you play without FAF you need to manually press "save replay" button and choose a name for replay file, otherwise replay will be written (and re-written) in "LastGame.scfareplay" file.

If you want replay to not be written at all you will need some mod... there is no built-in functionality for that.
Why you want this? think it would increase performance? replay files are fairly small in supcom... don't think they affect performance that much...

Statistics: Posted by ZLO_RD — 10 Dec 2017, 16:06

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-10T13:41:42+02:00

Hi monty, you can execute FA faforever directly from your HD. No replay will be recorded on FAF servers.

Go to faforever directory on your hard drive : C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin

Statistics: Posted by Franck83 — 10 Dec 2017, 13:41

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-10T13:08:24+02:00

Last option would be a sim mod that disables it. Its a variable at the game launch that tells the game to not create replays. (Its used for tutorials)

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 10 Dec 2017, 13:08

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-10T12:39:53+02:00

Because we're nice people?

What exactly is your situation? Are you just trying to disable replay saving on your own computer? Or are you playing multiplayer with someone and want to disable saving replays for all parties?

I'm pretty sure you can use the /savereplay command line switch to have it always overwrite the previous replay so you don't gain a folder full of replays that just keeps growing if that is your issue but I am not aware of how to disable it for other players.

If Exotic doesn't know either, then chances are you're out of luck there, he's pretty good with the quirks of this game.

Statistics: Posted by JoonasTo — 10 Dec 2017, 12:39

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-10T12:38:36+02:00

thats not very nice tatsu. this sort of attitude isnt exactly encouraging towards new users.

monty - since you are not using faf, im not entirely sure how to help you. why do you need the replay disabled? the steam version doesnt have a replay vault so the only ones it saves are local to you anyway. there wont be a performance improvement if thats your concern, and no one except you will be able to see the replays anyway.

one possible solution is to get faf and then play private games - that way your replay isnt saved, as mentioned above

Statistics: Posted by Exotic_Retard — 10 Dec 2017, 12:38

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-10T12:58:20+02:00

monty wrote:
im actually not playing the faforever mod, im using the the old non-steam forged alliance. if anyone knows the way to disable replay, please tell me

lol. what? why should we help you then?

I mean by your own admission it's not faf's responsibility?

EDIT: fair enough. I mean I myself try to have this mentality as much as possible.

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 10 Dec 2017, 11:21

Re: how to disable replay?

2017-12-10T04:39:46+02:00

im actually not playing the faforever mod, im using the the old non-steam forged alliance. if anyone knows the way to disable replay, please tell me

Statistics: Posted by monty — 10 Dec 2017, 04:39