By FnzzyFnzzy. Last updated 2 Sep 2015

If you decide to skip the waiting in the relaxation vault you need to use the official save that is available in the "Resources" section on speedrun.com. You will also need the demo since it's needed for submissions.



--Installing and setting up--



After you downloaded the zip file that includes the save and the demo you need to place vault.sav in "Portal\SAVE". You can place the .dem anywhere you want. After you have done that you want to go ingame and set the save as your starting point for Maxxuss' demo plugin so it can record demos properly. This is done by simply typing "speedrun_save vault" into the console. That set the starting point of "speedrun_start" to that particular save instead of the beginning of testchmb_a_00.



--Starting a run--



Since the autostart of SourceSplit no longer works because it can't detect the appearance of the crosshair you have to start your timer manually. You need to start the speedrun with "speedrun_start" and during that 1 second load you already need to start your timer so it starts counting as soon as the load finishes. Don't forget to set your timer to start at 53.01.



Noir made an instruction video for both steps above here:



--Submitting a run--



To submit a run that uses the save you NEED to include demos in your submission including the vault.dem that was included in the zip file. In this case a video is not enough since we need to check that you used the correct save.