# Playdemo crashes with captions

**URL:** <https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832>\
**Category:** Half-Life 2\
**Created:** [March 20, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832 "2016-03-20T20:21:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![batonkal](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@batonkal](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/batonkal)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832/1 "2016-03-20T20:21:05Z")

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I recorded 10 demos and wanted to turn it to video.  
But when i started recording 1 demo it gets like 200 frames and half-life 2 crashes.

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**Author:** ![traderain](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/traderain/32/118_2.png) [@traderain](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/traderain)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832/2 "2016-03-20T21:13:27Z")

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Can you share a bit more details? Game version, Operating system etc.

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**Author:** ![batonkal](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@batonkal](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/batonkal)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832/3 "2016-03-20T22:03:39Z")

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Played from SourceUnpack,if you want to see demo: [https://mega.nz/#!KBUWDJSL!fuYyqmdgRv\_rU7uX7qQq6Tll6Sj3Xjk0ZOMEMsZeUCc](https://mega.nz/#!KBUWDJSL!fuYyqmdgRv_rU7uX7qQq6Tll6Sj3Xjk0ZOMEMsZeUCc)  
Computer Specs:  
Windows 7  
32 bit system  
CPU: Celeron® Dual-Core CPU  
GPU: Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family  
RAM: 2 GB  
Is that enough?

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**Author:** ![traderain](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/traderain/32/118_2.png) [@traderain](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/traderain)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832/4 "2016-03-21T14:41:00Z")

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So the demo gives this error:

> Warning: using WorldTwoTextureBlend on a non-displacement surface.
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> Support for this will go away soon.
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> - Material : nature/red\_grass\_thin
> - Surface center : -8204 -883 320  
> Warning: WorldTwoTextureBlend found on a non-displacement surface (material: nature/red\_grass\_thin). This wastes perf for no benefit.  
> Failed to load sound “ambience\wind1.wav”, file probably missing from disk/repository

  
So some sound file is missing.I couldn’t fix the error by placing the missing file in hl2’s sound folder but I hope I helped a bit with the issue.  
 ![](https://forum-content.sourceruns.org/original/2X/9/93a2497b6f053fcce47bc60c58fcf8783be32613.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![batonkal](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@batonkal](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/batonkal)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832/5 "2016-03-21T16:15:36Z")

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Maybe it is because the captions are turned on,it always in console types Coulndt find caption for “blablabla”.  
But when i disabled Captions,it does not crash me.  
This is stupid because i don’t wanna to do speedrun all over again.

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**Author:** ![YaLTeR](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/yalter/32/553_2.png) [@YaLTeR](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/YaLTeR)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832/6 "2016-03-21T16:17:10Z")

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Yeah, captions are known to cause trouble.

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**Author:** ![batonkal](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@batonkal](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/batonkal)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832/7 "2016-03-21T16:24:31Z")

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Does anyone know how to remove text from Captions,so it would not be visible in the end product?

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**Author:** ![traderain](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/traderain/32/118_2.png) [@traderain](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/traderain)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/playdemo-crashes-with-captions/2832/8 "2016-03-21T17:02:14Z")

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Replace the font.
