Thanks. Yeah no problem.

I just mess about with it a lot in the end and tbh I cannot imagine how difficult it was to program something like this. It was as I suspected. Just confirmation really. Thanks for the detailed answer. I was thinking along those lines, I thought hmm, it must be just because my segment was the fastest, so it just auto makes the PB comparison gold too. As I said in my OP, it doesn't matter, Doom isn't even recorded via real time. I just found the Livesplit software pretty fun to mess around with and configure.

Cheers

I'm not talking about segment. I am talking about the full run. I'm behind my PB so why should it be gold? I know I completed the segment faster than I ever have, I can see that in the column of segment deltas.

If you're saying gold means nothing about the quality of the full run, then why do you get colours for the full run at all? (comparison to PB) Might as well they all be in white? But they aren't, you get green, light green, red, gold. What's the point in the colours if they don't mean anything?

It just doesn't make sense. For my E1M4, the segment (map) delta should've been -0.33 in gold, which it rightly was, and the full run PB delta (run) should've been +1.60 in red, which it was not. It was gold. Even though I was behind.

If you check my video you'll see that I set up two columns of deltas. One column for segments, and the other for the full run. This is where my query comes in. I already know that my segment is the fastest I've ever done, because the -0.33 is in gold. Surely the full run delta, which is behind my PB, should be in red? Unless this is just beyond the limits of what the software can do?

But I was slower overall. My E1M4 was my PB yes (segment). It was 0.33 seconds faster than my PB. But I was 1.6 seconds behind my PB overall time, so that should've been +1.6 seconds in red, no? How is it possible to have +x.xx in gold?

doesn't + mean slower. And - mean faster?

I just recorded this earlier today, new PB. Doom isn't a game that requires Livesplit because the records use the in game timer. But I wanted to set up Livesplit just for fun.

I finish E1M4 +1.60 seconds behind my personal best run, yet it appears gold, as if it was my PB. Why would this be? It should be red, as it usually is when I'm behind my PB. This is most bizarre! Surely by default every +delta will always be in red? It doesn't matter, I'm just curious why this is.

Thanks :)

IHello, it's great to be here.

TL:DR: I've done a Knee-Deep in the Dead I'm Too Young To Die any% m1-7 run in 5:14 which I shall submit soon. (Ultra Violence was too hard haha) Video footage only, no lmp demo, as I ran into problems trying to record lmp demos.

I first played Doom in 1993 when I was 8 years old. I had already played Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny, which scared the crap out of me (I once switched the computer off at the wall when starting a new game of Spear of Destiny!! As the sounds of the Nazis scared me so much)

In the early 00's I discovered SDA and in particular, Quake Done Quick with a vengeance. Recently I wondered why I had never really got much into speedrunning mysef despite being so fascinated with it, so I got myself set up.

I do not have a demo of my run. The reason for that is, when I tried to put the command line parameter to record a demo, the first episode and map would instantly launch, and for some reason OBS would not immediately recognise that Crispydoom had launched, so the beginnings of my run were skipped out in the mp4 file.

So I have a run of Knee-Deep in the Dead, with a map 1-7 time of 5:14 - which I am very happy with. Not too bad considering I've spent about 10 times longer just setting up my Livesplit than playing the actual game! Haha. I just wanted to get a run down where I pulled off the map 4 shortcut jump and didn't make any huge mistakes.

I could never have anticipated how fun this has been just learning a route for this first episode and going until I got a run I was happy with. I think this puts me in about 26th place. So to say I have completed this episode only a minute and a bit behind the world record fills me with pride.

It's incredible how such an old game is still so fun. And it was a great choice of game to start speedrunning with! This has opened up a world of fun for me. So I suppose my only question is how I can record a demo without skipping out on the beginning of the video footage. If the fact I have no demo isn't an issue, then no worries.

• Tayste (I don't know why I created my name as Etsyat on here, just bored I guess)