Stepmania doesn't like to work on New Year's Eve?

Seraphim413 · 12-31-2004, 07:35 PM

I had a very interesting experience with Stepmania this morning. I tried starting it and the thing got stuck on Initializing Hardware. After tinkering with it for a while, checking my hardware profiles, checking my drivers, even reinstalling Stepmania I got the same problem. Strangest thing was I had been playing SM the night before with absolutely no problems and didn't find any anomalies when I had booted the computer, so I gave up and tried opening the SM on my sister's comp and got the exact same problem. At this point the only thing I could think was Stepmania doesn't just die over night does it? Well I grabbed a CD and did a clean install on my dad's laptop and got the same problem. I unistalled and went back to my computer and after a little thinking I decided to try one more thing. I knew it was a longshot but I changed the date on my comp back to December 30 and I was surprised to find that suddenly Stepmania started working again!

Has this happened to anyone else? Did your Stepmania take the day off this New Year's Eve?

kickassbuddy · 12-31-2004, 07:37 PM

Eh...NO???

**Tank101** · 12-31-2004, 07:40 PM

That actually did happen to everyone without rc2.

Seraphim413 · 12-31-2004, 07:44 PM

I actually had some problems with rc2. I tried upgrading to it and found out none of my songs would load. So I uninstalled and dropped back down to alpha23.

qualy · 12-31-2004, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Seraphim413

I actually had some problems with rc2. I tried upgrading to it and found out none of my songs would load. So I uninstalled and dropped back down to alpha23.

You copied your songs from the previous stepmania folder to the rc2 folder, right? I ask because rc2 installs to the folder "stepmania" as default, as opposed to "stepmania CVS." You'll have to copy the songs folder from Stepmania CVS to Stepmania.

12-31-2004, 07:35 PM	#1
Seraphim413 FFR Player Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 10	Stepmania doesn't like to work on New Year's Eve? I had a very interesting experience with Stepmania this morning. I tried starting it and the thing got stuck on Initializing Hardware. After tinkering with it for a while, checking my hardware profiles, checking my drivers, even reinstalling Stepmania I got the same problem. Strangest thing was I had been playing SM the night before with absolutely no problems and didn't find any anomalies when I had booted the computer, so I gave up and tried opening the SM on my sister's comp and got the exact same problem. At this point the only thing I could think was Stepmania doesn't just die over night does it? Well I grabbed a CD and did a clean install on my dad's laptop and got the same problem. I unistalled and went back to my computer and after a little thinking I decided to try one more thing. I knew it was a longshot but I changed the date on my comp back to December 30 and I was surprised to find that suddenly Stepmania started working again! Has this happened to anyone else? Did your Stepmania take the day off this New Year's Eve? __________________ May peace be with you all, and may your dreams take flight upon the wings of angels.

12-31-2004, 07:37 PM	#2
kickassbuddy FFR Player Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: UNITIИU Posts: 594	RE: Stepmania doesn Eh...NO??? __________________

12-31-2004, 07:40 PM	#3
Tank101 I V vi iii IV I IV V Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The Tent Age: 34 Posts: 2,082	RE: Stepmania doesn That actually did happen to everyone without rc2.

12-31-2004, 07:44 PM	#4
Seraphim413 FFR Player Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 10	RE: Stepmania doesn I actually had some problems with rc2. I tried upgrading to it and found out none of my songs would load. So I uninstalled and dropped back down to alpha23. __________________ May peace be with you all, and may your dreams take flight upon the wings of angels.

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