Counter Strike Beginner Help and Commands for Recording Videos and Replaying from Demo Files

What is Recording feature:
If you want to be a good Counter Strike Player, there is a great oppertunity to see how you play while in the game. The great feature of recording demos in the game provides you the ability to view yourself after the game by playing the demo file.

Requirements:
Download the requirements from the links given in this blog.

How to record:
If you know what a Console is, skip the below paragraph.

Console:
Console is the window that you get when you press the key ` which is beside 1. This key is default key for Console toggling. Press the key. The Console appears. Now you have the opeertunity to type something in the bottom and press enter. This process will give a command to the server.

Commands:
Recording,

• record
• example: record dust

This command will record the game you are playing and saves it in cstrike folder of your installation. The file is saved as dust.dem

Replaying,

• playdemo
• example: playdemo dust

This will play the demo file dust.dem

Very similarly, you can downlaod the demos from the internet and put the .dem files in CStrike folder to view their games.

Knowledge about these demo files:

These demo files are of two types,

1. Single point view
2. Multi point view

The demos you record as explained above are single point view demo files. These demo files just show what you have seen while in the game.

The demos which are recorded thorough HLTV Proxies are Multi Point View Demos. Here you can see the game from any point of view as you are in the game itself. All the keys like Tab, Space bar, Duck Key work as normal. Mostly the demos downloaded from the internet will be Multi Point View demos.

To see how to record HLTV demos, navigate through the site. The complete explation of HLTV and HLTV Demos is provided. Check for the demos to be uploaded in the blog.