Stepmania skipping...

kmfdm · Trick Member Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Location: New York

Hey everyone

. Now I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I went thru this thread for a few pages and found nothing. So here we go:

When I play Stepmania it feels like the game sometimes (especially when there's more arrows on screen) skips, or has short slow down. Like it keeps the beat fine, but the arrows just stop for like 1/8 of a second.

I went to Stepmania.com and they had ways to fix this. They told me to update to the latest version (so I did) and tweak the data/options in the stepmania.ini file. I did this all and it actually works WORSE than my Stepmania ver. 3.0 final works. Does this make any sense? And how can I fix either one?

I'm running a laptop w/ WinXP, 256RAM, 64MB graphics card, and a 1.8 Athlon (I believe?) processor. Bought about 1 year ago.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you!

Tashi · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 1:18 am Post subject:

my only suggestion would be to see if there are any driver updates for you graphics card, also, are you running the songs from a cd/dvd, because ive tried that before and your better off leaving the songs on your hdd.
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rsd212 · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 6:35 am Post subject:

Most laptops have problems with Stepmania...usually due to crappy integrated video (yes, its 64MB, but that means absolutely nothing), or the slow HD. Best thing to do is clean up the OS a bit (make sure nothing is running in the background), defrag, update your video drivers, and turn down the resolution.

kmfdm · Trick Member Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Location: New York

Great advice. Thanks to both of you.

CNLohr · Trick Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Sound card too...

If you're using cheap onboard motherboard sound, you might run into problems, many of them are similar to the problems that happen when you use AWE chipset soundblasters. Look into getting a SB512, SBLive, Audigy, etc. if that's the case.

videokidd · Basic Member Joined: 31 Jan 2004

I got a cheap dell latitude and it skips sometimes. Mostly when I add new song files.

>Running windows 98 cause laptop only got 128 megs..<

All I usually do is restart my computer.. and if that doesnt work I delete the newest song I put in it, sometimes they have funky glitches...

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Pantera · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:22 am Post subject:

It also helps to have fewer things running in the background when you play. Sometimes I'll play Stepmania while I'm hooked up to the internet, and Stepmania always minimizes itself when someone sends me a new IM (via AIM) >_<
Lost a few good scores from that

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