Chris Danford
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<H1>StepMania FAQ</H1>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el1); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">The error "Your system is reporting that Direct3D8
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hardware acceleration is not available. In most cases, you can download an
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updated driver from your card's manufacturer".</font></H3>
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<DIV ID="el1" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">This means one of two things: </font>
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<ul>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Your video card does not support Direct3D 8. If
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your computer is more than 4 years old, this is very likely the case.
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StepMania can not run without hardware acceleration, so your only option is to
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buy a new video card (<a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=radeon+7000+agp">AGP</a>
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or <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=radeon+7000+pci">
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PCI</a>).</font>
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<li>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Your video card does support Direct3D 8, but you have a
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very old driver installed. You need to obtain an updated video driver
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from either the PC manufacturer (<a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://support.dell.com/us/en/home.asp">Dell</a>,
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<a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://h71025.www7.hp.com/support/home/index.asp">
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Compaq</a>, <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/dlcenter.asp">
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Gateway</a>, <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/support.html">
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HP</a>) or directly from the graphics card maker (<a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp">Nvidia</a>,
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<a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/powered.html">
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ATI</a>).<br>
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</font></li>
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</ul>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el2); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">The error "Cannot find Dinput8.dll" appears when
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launching the game./ StepMania reports "Direct3DCreate failed".</font></H3>
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<DIV ID="el2" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">You need to download DirectX 8.1 at <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.microsoft.com/directx/">
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http://www.microsoft.com/directx/</a>.<br>
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</font></DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el3); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>When playing with a dance pad, the game doesn't register
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presses of Left and Right simultaneously or Up and Down simultaneously.</b></font></H3>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">This is a hardware limitation of many
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PlayStation->USB converters. In some cases, it can be solved by
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turning on the option "Ignore Joy Axes" on the Input Options screen. See
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our <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.stepmania.com/stepmania/adapter.php">
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adapter compatibility page</a> for more information on this problem.<br>
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</font></DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el4); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>The graphics appear blurred on the right and bottom
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edges. for example, "Stage One" will appear as "Stage O----" (blur).</b></font></H3>
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<DIV ID="el4" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">You probably have a Savage video card and are running
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StepMania 3.0 final. Please download the latest intermediate version of SM, and
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the problem should be fixed.<br>
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</font></DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el5); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>I'm using an EMS2, and pressing 2 buttons simultaneously
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resets the game to the main menu.</b></font></H3>
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<DIV ID="el5" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Apparently this is a know problem with the latest batch
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of EMS USB2's: <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.levelsix.com/L6news.shtml">
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http://www.levelsix.com/L6news.shtml</a></font><br>
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</DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el6); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Can newer StepMania versions import my StepMania 3.0
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final high scores?</b></font></H3>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">As of StepMania 3.9 alpha 5, the answer is yes. To
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use this feature, copy the file "statistics.ini" file from the StepMania 3.0
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final directory (usually C:\Program Files\StepMania) to the StepMania 3.9
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directory (usually C:\Program Files\StepMania CVS). </font>
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</p>
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<p><font SIZE="2" face="Arial">* Be sure that you have copied all of your songs over
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from SM 3.0 final or else some scores will fail to import. </font>
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</p>
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<p><font SIZE="2" face="Arial">* When copying songs from 3.0 to 3.9, do not rename any
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song folders. For example, if have a song in StepMania 3.0 at "Songs\4th
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Mix\B4U", the song must exist in SM 3.9 at "Songs\4th Mix\B4U". If these
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names do not match exactly, scores will fail to import.<br>
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</font></p>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el7); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>The versus, double, and couple styles aren't
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selectable. I see them, but I can only choose single or couple.</b></font></H3>
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<DIV ID="el7" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Press Start on the 2nd pad, then you'll be able to
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select styles that require both sides to be joined.<br>
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</font></DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el8); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>When I run StepMania on Windows Server 2003, I get an
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error "hardware acceleration isn't available".</b></font></H3>
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<DIV ID="el8" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">D3D hardware acceleration is disabled by default in
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Windows Server 2003. This web page has instructions on how to re-enable
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hardware acceleration: <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/hardwareacc.htm">
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http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/hardwareacc.htm</a>
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<br>
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</font></DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(el9); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>How do I run StepMania on an Xbox?</b></font></H3>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">StepMania will only run on a <a href="http://www.xbox-scene.org">
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mod-chipped Xbox</a>. For legal reasons, we cannot distribute an
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executable of StepMania for Xbox. See the the #xbins channel on EFnet or
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the <a href="http://www.xbins.org/">Xbins web site</a> for more information.<br>
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</font></DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(e20); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>I can't press more than 2 keys simultaneously. How
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do I fix this?</b></font></H3>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">This is a hardware limitation of nearly every keyboard
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- both PS2 and USB. See <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #b30000; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/keyboard/html/">
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here</a> for more info. In some cases, you can get around this by
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carefully choosing which keys you map.<br>
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</font></DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(e21); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Joysticks don't work in the Linux version.</b></font></H3>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Some notes courtesy of Aaron VonderHaar:</font></p>
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<ul style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 5px; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">
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<li>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Depending on SDL compile-time options, it may only be
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looking for /dev/js?. If the system has devfs, then the joysticks may
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actually be in /dev/js/? -- I couldn't figure out how to tell SDL where to
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look, so I ended up making symlinks (e.g. /dev/js0 => /dev/js/0).</font>
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<li>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">A common problem is that the necessary joystick modules
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aren't properly loaded.</font>
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<li>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">There are latency issues with the parallel port
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joystick driver.</font></li>
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</ul>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(e22); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>When I run under RedHat 9, I get the error "libmad.so.0
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is missing"</b></font></H3>
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<DIV ID="e22" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">You can get the libmad RPM for RedHat 9 <a href="http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/libmad/">
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here</a>.</font></p>
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</DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(e23); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>When I run under Linux, I get the error "SDL 1.2.6 is
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required"</b></font></H3>
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<DIV ID="e23" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">RedHat and Mandrake users can get the RPM <a href="http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm">
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here</a>. If you're trying to compile StepMania, you can get the
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SDL-devel RPM <a href="http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-devel-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm">here</a>.</font></p>
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</DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(e24); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">I changed the CoinMode setting to "Pay", but now I
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can't get back into the options menu.</font></H3>
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<DIV ID="e24" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">You can press F3 at any time during the attract screens
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to toggle the CoinMode setting. This will let you switch back to CoinMode
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"Home" and get into the options menu. You can also use the operator key
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(default is scroll lock, but can be changed in the key mapping screen) to jump
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directly into the options menu.</font></p>
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</DIV>
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<H3 onClick="expandIt(e25); return false" CLASS="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">I hooked up dance pads to my computer, but StepMania
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isn't detecting input from them.</font></H3>
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<UL>
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<LI>
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<FONT face="Arial" size="2">If you go to Start -> Control Panel -> Game
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Controllers, does the list of controllers show all of the joysticks you expect?</FONT></LI>
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<LI>
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<FONT face="Arial" size="2">In the Game Controllers window, double click on the
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adapter and make sure that the on-screen display changes when you press buttons
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on the dance pads. If it pad steps and nothing changes on the screen, there's
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an incompatibility between your dance pad and the USB adapter.</FONT></LI>
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<LI>
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<FONT face="Arial" size="2">If the above step is successful, open StepMania, then
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choose Options -> Test input. Verify that the text on-screen changes when
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you step on the pad. If StepMania sees input here, you'll be able to map inputs
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on the Map Key/Joy screen.</FONT></LI></UL>
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<h3 onclick="expandIt(e26); return false" class="outline">
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>StepMania skips a lot when I play. How
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do I fix this?</b></font></h3>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Here are some things to try:</font><ul>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Close all open programs. If you have
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icons in the system tray, then something is still running!</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Upgrade to the latest version of
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StepMania.</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">In Data\StepMania.ini, set
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"Logging=0". This will stop the game from writing to the disk during
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gameplay.</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Force use of the the Direct3D
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renderer: in Data\StepMania.ini, set "VideoRenderers=d3d"</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Switch to the Null sound driver: in
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Data\StepMania.ini, set "SoundDrivers=null"</font></li>
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