Welcome to DemoFreak, a tool for game replays recorded with Half-Life.
DemoFreak enables you to easily browse recorded demo files and start them for playback with various options.
Additionally it will show you a lot of information about the demo file you are about to watch including Duration, Players, Serverinformation, Console output, Playerchat and much more.
- Start DemoFreak.exe - In the program's menu select "Tools > Options" - Check if your Half-Life folder is set correctly otherwise click on "browse..." - Set the preferences according to you needs - Click on OK and exit the dialog - Browse to a folder containing demo files in the left treeview - Demofiles will appear in the right listview - Select a demofile to get more information about it - Use the tabpages (General, Server, Players...) to look at various information - To start the playback, right-click on a demofile and select "Play"
Q: Why should I use DemoFreak? A: DemoFreak is some sort of GUI Frontend if you would like to watch replays of interesting matches recorded within any Half-Life compatible Modification. It also gives you plenty of Information about the Demo before you start the playback.
Q: Can we put DemoFreak on our CD-ROM or distribute it with our magazine? A: Please contact -email- for permission before doing so.
Q: Why are you doing this? A: I needed a way to read demo files for another project I was coding. After I failed looking for any valuable information regarding the demo file format I started with the creation of a simple demoanalyzer which evolved to DemoFreak now.
Q: Does DemoFreak support other game replays then Halflife Demos? A: We are planning on adding support for many popular games.
Q: How much does it cost? A: DemoFreak is free but might contain a small banner system in the future. (Nothing annoying!)
Q: Why does the Player details only show cl_xy and not other cvars? A: DemoFreak only displays playerinformation that was actually recorded in the demo (cl_cmdrate not f.e.) and what can be read with the current version.
Q: Will it be possible to directly create AVI files? A: Yes, with audio (hopefully). You will click on a "Create AVI..." option and receive your desired file for a demo. You will still need a HL installation.
Q: Will there be support for other Demo File Formats / Games ? A: Yes, though we are first targeting support of formats based on the Quake 1 DEM format, followed by various others.
Q: How to create movies using DemoFreak? A: DemoFreak is for starting your host game and display information about a demo file. You can use the "Play Extra > Startmovie" command to create a bunch of .bmp files from the action. You should check out this tutorial on that.
Q: How deos DemoFreak help me in league matches? A: Tell your opponent to start recording a single small demo. While doing so he should issue your desired commands and stop the demo recording. If he does "cvarlist ex_*" and "status" for example you or an administrator will be able to see the output/input from inside DemoFreak. Means, IP's/SteamID/Names/Settings.
Download DemoFreak 0.7.0 beta 
