A couple of Stepmania Fixes

[Choofers]

Originally posted by Staiain.

Originally Posted by Staiain

I'll add a few easy tutorials here when I'm not lazy. I'll begin with how to make your stepmania run as smooth as possible:








Making Stepmania run smooth on Vista/7


3.9/3.95

Go to the Program folder of StepMania and rightclick on StepMania.exe and check out these boxes shown below:





This will disable Aero theme and other Windows crap that will make your StepMania offsync and choppy


Now for a weird fix that removes frameskipping; go to the Data folder, and locate StepMania.ini and add WaveOut to SoundDrivers= shown below:





This works with Windows Vista and 7

Also be sure to disable VSYNC, this helps on all OS versions





StepMania 5


Same as 3.9/3.95:







The settings in StepMania 5 are located in Save and Preferences.ini:










And another tip, be sure to have your monitor refresh rate set to the highest supported by your Monitor/Graphics card






Close StepMania before making modifications or theses fixes won't be saved

Doing all of these will definitely improve your framerate and your overall scoring. I attribute my sudden boost in skill to this post!

Setting your monitor refresh rate doesn't affect fullscreen, there's an in-game setting for v-sync. Turning that off will uncap your framerate but you may experience "tearing" (I haven't).

Another tip: Doing these things will give you noticably higher performance, but your personal skill in terms of skill and reading will probably stay the same. Remember to keep practicing!