The Insane Stepmania Bug

Crza · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 11:15 am Post subject: The Insane Stepmania Bug

Ok maybe it's just me or my computer but Stepmania gives me the weirdest bug. Every time I start a song, I'll play it anywhere from 20-60 seconds and then all of the sudden, the arrows will lock up and not let me hit them! I'll be pressing keys and nothing will happen until my life bar gets to 1 miss away from dead. And then I turn on DWI and everything works fine. I have downloaded the newest CVS for it and nothing helps. Has this happened to anyone else? Any ideas?
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Technick · Trick Member Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Location: Syracuse, NY

1. How old is your computer?

2. How many songs do you have?

3. How often does this happen?

This information would help me out.
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Crza · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 11:43 am Post subject:

Dipstick · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Boston, MA

GT-R: Post your info.txt (it should be autogenerated in the base SM directory).

Other questions: Does the game proceed normally except that you can't hit any arrows, or does the entire game lock up? Also, does it happen at any given usage pattern in game-play, or at the same time on the same song, or anything of the sort?

-Dippy
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PerfectAsymmetry · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Brooklyn, NY

restate the question in the dwi/sm help thread

yet another lock.
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Tsunami Forever · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 1:32 pm Post subject:

You pretty much answered your own question...It's a bug

It happens to me and pretty much everyone else that uses it...SM 3.0 and the CVS's are actually full of bugs

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Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

What can be the reason that CVS has bugs is because I was told it wasn't an official version of Stepmania. Remember, skins and themes wont work it CVS, which could also add to the truth of that statement.

Though that was coming from a person who strictly a DWI user, so I am not sure of the validity.
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Tsunami Forever · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 1:59 pm Post subject:

Yeah dude you're right CVS's are basically just testing releases for the new version of Stepmania.
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EvilSporkMan · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject:

I am experiencing the same problem except it's just a short stutter...this did not happen with 3.0 and Win2k but since i switched to Win98 and newest CVS it's been doing that and leaking memory like hell (as evidenced by HDD access after closing)...any solutions? Is it Win98 or SM?

Crza · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject:

Ok here we go:

Dipstick - I don't have an info.txt file. I have a COPYING, a log, and a README-FIRST file.

Perfect Assymetry - Yah that's right OPEN!!

Phrekwenci - Thx for keeping this open, but ummm some help would be nice

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ZOOT - I'm not exactly sure what ur mean by snapshot, (other than hitting the print screen key while playing) but when I do play with my Gravis Gamepad Pro USB controller, it never messes up.

Shadowdancers - ummm no good man. Believe me tho, my computer is fast enough to handle Stepmania and movies or animations at the same time.

Evil Spork man - Probably that god damn Stepmania cuz I'm using XP.
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Frinky · Trick Member Joined: 12 Mar 2003

I'd suggest asking this on the official forums at www.stepmania.com. They have a topic where people jsut post their crash dumps so they can be fixed for the next CVS.

TL · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 12:24 pm Post subject:

maybe your videocard is obsolete

GuruX · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject:

I had that problem with a USB keyboard (my motherboard has no PS2 ports), and the original 3.0 version of Stepmania. After downloading the latest CVS release, the problem went away (woohoo!).

Crza · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject:

To all mods - Ok sorry, I didn't know you guys couldn't take jokes (and I really did think it was assymetry

). C'mon yall a happy work environment?? And thx for your help.

I have the newest CVS, my video card is not old and I still can't find info.txt And the retard forums at Stepmania didn't help me.
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