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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 hardware acceleration is
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not available. In most cases, you can download an updated driver from your
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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:
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<ul>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Your video card does not support Direct3D 8. If your computer is more
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than 4 years old, this is very likely the case. StepMania can not run
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without hardware acceleration, so your only option is to buy a new video
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card (<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; 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
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; 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></li>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Your video card does support Direct3D 8, but you have a very old driver
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installed. You need to obtain an updated video driver from either the PC
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manufacturer (<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none" href="http://support.dell.com/us/en/home.asp">Dell</a>,
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none" href="http://h71025.www7.hp.com/support/home/index.asp">
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Compaq</a>,
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none" href="http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/dlcenter.asp">
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Gateway</a>,
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; 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="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none" href="http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp">Nvidia</a>,
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; 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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</DIV>
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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 launching the game./ StepMania
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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
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; 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 presses of Left
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and Right simultaneously or Up and Down simultaneously.</b></font></H3>
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<DIV ID="el3" CLASS="hiddentext">
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<font face="Arial" size="2">This is a hardware limitation of many PlayStation->USB converters. In
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some cases, it can be solved by turning on the option "Ignore Joy Axes" on
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the Input Options screen. See our
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; 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 edges. for example,
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"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 StepMania 3.0
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final. Please download the latest intermediate version of SM, and the
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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 resets the game
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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 of EMS USB2's:
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; 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 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 use
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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></p>
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<p><font SIZE="2" face="Arial">* Be sure that you have copied all of your songs over from
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SM 3.0 final or else some scores will fail to import. </font></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></DIV>
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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 selectable. I see them, but
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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 select styles that
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require both sides to be joined.<br>
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</font></DIV>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>When I run StepMania on Windows Server 2003, I get an error "hardware
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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 Windows Server 2003.
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This web page has instructions on how to re-enable hardware acceleration:
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none" href="http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/hardwareacc.htm">
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http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/hardwareacc.htm</a> <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
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<a href="http://www.xbox-scene.org">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
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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 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 - both PS2 and
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USB. See
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<a style="color: #B30000; font-weight: bold; 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="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px">
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Depending on SDL compile-time options, it may only be looking for
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/dev/js?. If the system has devfs, then the joysticks may actually be in
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/dev/js/? -- I couldn't figure out how to tell SDL where to look, so I ended
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up making symlinks (e.g. /dev/js0 => /dev/js/0).</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">A common problem is that the necessary joystick modules aren't properly
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loaded.</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">There are latency issues with the parallel port 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
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"libmad.so.0 is missing"</b></font></H3>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">You can get the libmad RPM for RedHat 9
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<a href="http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/libmad/">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
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"SDL 1.2.6 is 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
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<a href="http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm">here</a>. If
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you're trying to compile StepMania, you can get the SDL-devel RPM
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<a href="http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-devel-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm">here</a>.</font></p>
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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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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">You can press F3 at any time during the attract
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screens to toggle the CoinMode setting. This will let you switch back to
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CoinMode "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 directly
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into the options menu.</font></p>
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