Resolved Cannot record video footage from competitions's replay file

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  1. Adam Jonas

    Adam Jonas Well-Known Member

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    Hi,

    I entered the ADAC GT Masters 2015 - Spa-Francorchamps competition. I wanted to record my fastest lap from replay, but the game doesn't load it because of 'Content server error'. I used the Bentley on that lap, which I didn't buy yet.

    Is it impossible for the game to load the replay file because I don't own the Bentley?
     
  2. Christian G

    Christian G Topological Agitator Beta tester

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    Think so.
     
  3. Adam Jonas

    Adam Jonas Well-Known Member

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    Okay, and what about the new Mercedes AMG DTM? I can't open that replay either. (While last year I could open the replay files during the V-DTM.)
     
  4. rad

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    For some reason you need to have content even if you want to watch replay. It doesn't make sense, but it's how it is. Hope they will change this.
     
  5. Christian G

    Christian G Topological Agitator Beta tester

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    Hm, I would have thought that it doesn't work as long you don't own the content... You sure you could during the first DTM comp and aren't remembering the winter cup (at which the cars had already been released)?
     
  6. Adam Jonas

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    Every video you can see captured during the V-DTM competition, and not during the Winter Cup.

    It makes no sense for me that people can't open a free competition's replay file.

    The main question is, when....maybe soon? LOL.
     
  7. Christian G

    Christian G Topological Agitator Beta tester

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    I don't doubt what you're saying, just saying how I think it works and that it doesn't make much sense that it worked back then but doesn't now. You sure you were recording those via the replay menu and didn't use the instant replay funtion while on track (which should still work)?
     
  8. rad

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    You also can't open replay files from other people if don't have said car or track.

    I guess it worked for V-DTM, because cars weren't in store at that time.
     
  9. Adam Jonas

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    Yes, I'm sure. I use Shadowplay to record videos, which usually turned off when I'm playing. (I mean, there's a switch in the GF Experience, with which you can turn it on and off.) When I set a good lap, I exited the game, opened GF Experience, turned on the Shadowplay, started the game again, opened the replay file, and I was ready to record the lap.
     
  10. Adam Jonas

    Adam Jonas Well-Known Member

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    Slowly we are going into that way you should buy every single car/track if you want to join a server....
     
  11. Adam Jonas

    Adam Jonas Well-Known Member

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    Nothing official statement about that?
     
  12. Christian G

    Christian G Topological Agitator Beta tester

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    Not on a weekend and certainly not on Pentecost weekend.
    Take it easy...
     
  13. Hannes Wallstedt

    Hannes Wallstedt Well-Known Member

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    Hello,

    Your theory that you're unable to open the replay file due to not owning the Bentley is correct.
    This is the way this system has always worked.

    The reason you were able to open your replays from the V-DTM was that the participants in that series were added to a special user group that were given that content for free. This is not the case with the current competition.
     
  14. KubikOssi

    KubikOssi New Member

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    As has been said, you can't open a replay when you don't own the content (car or track).
    So if you want to record your laps, than press "R" and start the ingamereplay.
    Now you can start your record without owning the content.
     
  15. Adam Jonas

    Adam Jonas Well-Known Member

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    I know that solution btw, but before it I thought I would be able to record it from replay.