How to replay on linux?

[TheThinker]

Hi everyone! Thanks for all of your help. I'm using SpringLobby at the moment on Linux, and I was wondering if it's possible for it to play the replay/demos that Spring automatically saves every game. If so, how? There doesn't seem to be an option on it. If not, then what other client should I use? If there is no other client, how could I disable the making of replays by Spring? Would disabling replays increase Spring's performance?

Again, thanks for all of your help!

[Auswaschbar]

Its not (yet) possible to watch demos using springlobby. But you can use the commandline:

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spring /full/path/to/demo.sdf

or, if the demo is in your demos-folder:

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spring demoname.sdf

And no, disabling replays won't increase performance.

[TheThinker]

Awesome Auswaschbar! I'll try it out!

Just wondering; why won't disabling the creation of demos make Spring run better? Is it that Spring creates these files after the game ends, and not during it?

[LordMatt]

Saving the commands each user makes (which is what the host sends over the network) to disk is a trivial operation. A replay is not like a fraps recording.