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Easy question about demo recording

by David Dougher · in Torque Game Engine · 12/30/2003 (6:36 am) · 3 replies

I haven't looked at the demo recorder much so I have an easy question for somebody who knows about it.

Does the demo recorder actually do server side recording, or does the server simply trigger the recording process on the client?

Thx.
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    Associate Kyle Carter
    #1
    12/30/2003 (8:23 am)
    Demo recording is done by saving the network stream to a file. Normally a client connected to the server will do the actual recording; demos are not server side, but rather represent a snapshot of a connection.

    Torque Owner David Dougher
    Pariah Games
    #2
    12/30/2003 (12:38 pm)
    Thanks. That's more or less the impression I had.

    I just wanted to make sure that if I have a large number of connections the burden for recording fell primarily on the client side and not the server.

    Associate Kyle Carter
    #3
    12/30/2003 (7:02 pm)
    The server will never have a burden greater than it would for a normal connection.