Post #1 · Posted at 2020-12-22 01:20:52am 3.3 years ago
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I've been racking my brain on how to get StepMania running smooth...What ways can I get the best optimal settings to play without it lagging during Gameplay? The gameplay always look jagged, it looks like its running 30fps...//
Any advice would be very much appreciated...//
Any advice would be very much appreciated...//
Post #2 · Posted at 2020-12-22 03:36:13am 3.3 years ago
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Assuming your hardware is not the limiting factor.
Screen resolution, fullscreen, changing render, texture size, fast note rendering are pretty straightforward options.
In sm5+ there's even an option that displays FPS and dropped frames ("show stats" for me)
Pretty useful for quantifying your performance.
If you're using a custom theme, some are not the most computationally efficient. Same goes for any movies you have.
Screen resolution, fullscreen, changing render, texture size, fast note rendering are pretty straightforward options.
In sm5+ there's even an option that displays FPS and dropped frames ("show stats" for me)
Pretty useful for quantifying your performance.
If you're using a custom theme, some are not the most computationally efficient. Same goes for any movies you have.
Post #3 · Posted at 2020-12-22 05:12:30am 3.3 years ago
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If you're using Stepmania 3.9 that seems to be a problem now with modern hardware, I don't think there's much you can do. On Stepmania 5 you can try the steps Czery said and also try enabling and disabling vsync.
Post #4 · Posted at 2020-12-22 06:50:25am 3.3 years ago
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If your SM was set to use OpenGL, try switch to D3D via Preference.ini's VideoRenderers setting.
From:
VideoRenderers=opengl,d3d
To:
VideoRenderers=d3d,opengl
Note:for Windows OS only. I dunno how can it be done in other OSes.
From:
VideoRenderers=opengl,d3d
To:
VideoRenderers=d3d,opengl
Note:for Windows OS only. I dunno how can it be done in other OSes.
Post #5 · Posted at 2020-12-22 04:09:51pm 3.3 years ago
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I had the same issue too when I first installed SM5, I was able to fix it by going into preferences.ini and changing SoundDrivers to "SoundDrivers=WaveOut".