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Fixing Natural Selection demos *updated with more fixes*

Lately I've gotten a few questions about the new Steam patch making old demos not work. Obviously this has been a problem for me as well, as I'm in the process of making an unannounced NS fragmovie (uh-oh!), so I decided to do some investigating on teh intarwebz. Fortunately I was able to find a reasonable solution quickly, although it isn't perfect. For one it only works on first person demos, although eventually it will also fix HLTV demos. It also requires a tiny amount of effort on the part of the user. Anyway, for those of you interested in watching old firstperson demos -- and hopefully HLTV demos in the near future -- here's the solution:

IMPORTANT: MAKE BACKUPS OF YOUR DEMOS BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE ANY OF THESE FIXES

1. Download the latest version of Half-Life Advanced Effects.

2. Install it (extract the archive durr).

3. Launch HLAE.

4. Follow the illustrated examples:

Click Tools-Demo Tools

Select the demo you want to fix, Select a location and name for your fixed demo file-Finish

That's all there is to it. Hopefully it won't take too long until this, or something else, can fix HLTV demos too.

Update: This little bugger fixes HLTV demos. I haven't tested it on a lot of demos, but it worked on the 3.2 demos I tried.

Update2: The manual method described in this post should work for ALL demos, but it takes a slight bit of effort.

Update3: The complexity demo player supposedly also fixes all demos. I haven't tried this yet however.

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