Why does everyone like SM if it's so damn slow?

Andy the happy mod-man

I'm using a pretty good computer (1.3ghz, 320mb 100mhz SDRAM, GF4 Ti4200), and SM is a damn slow prog. The animations are very laggy and it takes forever just to get to a damn song because of it. Even on the lowest graphical settings it's still really slow.

Do you all have godlike PCs or something? Cause I consider mine above average for gaming (games like Morrowind and Earth & Beyond run just fine for me), but I can't stand SM's speed. Do you all just ignore this slowness or something?
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sanchny · Trick Member Joined: 08 Apr 2002 Location: New York

There's something wrong with your computer. I have a 2.4B P4, 512MB DDR RAM, GF4 Ti4200 128MB. Sure, it's a bit better than yours, but on every one of my computers Stepmania has run better than DWI:
- 366MHz, 192MB SDRAM, VooDoo3: SM ran fine at 800x600, above 60 fps. DWI wouldn't even run.
- 2.4B P4, 512 MB DDR RAM, on board Intel video (before I got the video card): SM runs above 60 fps at 800x600, and DWI lagged quite a bit.
- 2.4B P4, 512MB DDR RAM, GF4 Ti4200 128MB (current specs): SM runs silky smooth at 1280x1024 resolution, above 100 fps, and I get close to 400 at 800x600 resolution. Even with movies and backgrounds on, I still get these framerates.

tortoise · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:54 am Post subject:

it's been a while since I've used SM, but my P3 500, 128MB ram with a 64Mb radeon ran SM just fine.

Technick · Trick Member Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Location: Syracuse, NY

Yeah it might just be your resoultion on SM you have it set to high, but my SM works perfectly fine on my laptop and trust me its not that fast.
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Devil Warrior · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: New Hampshire

If you gave us info like your graphical settings, it'd be easier to find out why it runs slow.

Andreq · Trick Member Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Location: Quebec foreva

Mine is not laggy

(almost same comp...)

DWI too..

but the SM 3 final....s*** the arrow are not moving smoothly at all... try the lastet CVS this could change a lot
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Dipstick · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Boston, MA

Are you running 3.0f or the latest intermetidate build? If you're still running 3.0f, try the latest version.

If it's still slower than sludge with that machine, post up your info.txt file (found in the base dir.) and provide some more details -- that's most definalty a bug somewhere, since SM runs ~60fps on my P2-450 with a TNT.

-Dippy
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gs68 · Trick Member Joined: 06 Apr 2002 Location: on a plane

SM lags for me unless I set the resolution to 512x384 or lower.

evn · Staff Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Calgary AB

I didn't believe a machine like that could lag so I went and grabbed the latest build of stepmani, and some random 300bpm original dwi and played it, it was perfectly playable at 5xx x 3xxx with textures set to 512 and vsync on.

P2-300
128mb ram
ATI rage pro 8mb agp video
Windows xp

It wasn't pretty, but it was able pull 60 frames/second. Might be time to reinstall windows and update drivers.
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orb · Trick Member Joined: 20 Nov 2002

If you're using Stepmania 3.0 final, try Stepmania CVS. If you're using Stepmania CVS, try Stepmania 3.0 final. Usually one or the other tends to work for users. I personally use the CVS. It's cooler.

Trance Of Sorrow · Trick Member Joined: 01 Feb 2003

I haven't experienced any lag problems putting my 256 MB in my computer, only bugs and that's it. And this is Stepmania CVS.

Andy the happy mod-man · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 3:10 am Post subject:

Just got CVS - wow, it runs completely flawlessly! Thanks!

But I wonder why the old SM version that I had ran so slow....
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(Edited by DDR Freak: Trolling posts removed)
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75th Trombone · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 5:27 pm Post subject:

I had a problem today with framerate problems out of nowhere. Turns out I had Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering turned on for another application. Check to see if those settings are on.

shinobier · Trick Member Joined: 18 Feb 2003

on my computer 1 - windows xp, pentium 4 2.0 ghz, 512 ddr ram,
geforce 2 pro, SM runs silky smooth 60 frames with background movies on(it had minor slow down on old CVS when i turn on background movie but ever since 6/11 version it's all fixed and run super smooth).

on my computer 2 - windows xp, AMD 1.4 ghz, 256 ddr ram,
geforce fx 5200, SM runs silky smooth 60 frames with background movies
on(i used to use all in wonder radeon 7500 but it could only run SM at around 40 frames per sec with background movies on so i had to upgrade it to gefroce fx 5200 which is $100 now and has tv out put, because i am using this computer for ddr only and it's hooked up to tv

dj_xero · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 4:17 pm Post subject:

SUPER TECH HINT OF THE DAY!

in the future, if it ever seems like SM is slowing down
play some faster songs.

XD
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Dj-Henry · Trick Member Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Location: Ohio

SM runs fine, try to make sm window smaller if it still lags.