Hey there!
I am new to the forums, but I already played Stepmania before (about 6 months now).
Before you continue reading, do you guys have a search function? I wanted to see if my issue was already posted, but I could not find anything (Googled it).
I previously used an old 60 Hz monitor, so my framerate did not really matter that much, and I only had one screen.
Now I have 2 monitors, my old 60 Hz one, and my new 144Hz one.
I want to play on my 144Hz one, but Stepmania won't let me.
If I set the game to full screen, it will just put Stepmania on the old 60 Hz one.
I already set my 144 one as primary, I even put it on the left, just so stepmania would let me play on it.
I thought that this was not really all that much of a problem, since I could probably just play in windowed mode, with unlimited framerate (vsync is only availible in full screen)
So I messed with the settings a bit, and it seemed to work. I had around 700 FPS, so it was all fine. Until I decided to reboot.
I launched Stepmania again, and the window was locked to 60 FPS. I changed vsync and fps lock randomly again, and it worked. (I did this for a couple of weeks, since I do not usually reboot that often)
However, I want to run Stepmania fullscreen on my primary 144Hz screen, without having to fiddle in the settings each time.
What I did was basically:
* Change from Windowed to full screen
* enable/disable vsync
* change the framerate lock to 150 (this however does not appear to do anything)
I attached some stuff if thought might be important.
Preferences.ini (from my home directory):
Basic system information:
/etc/xorg.conf
Screen Configuration:
My 60Hz monitor is plugged in via HDMI, the other one is connected through DisplayPort.
Help is greatly appreciated, but please don't go out of your way just to help me. I will survive on 60 FPS too, don't worry about me.
I am new to the forums, but I already played Stepmania before (about 6 months now).
Before you continue reading, do you guys have a search function? I wanted to see if my issue was already posted, but I could not find anything (Googled it).
I previously used an old 60 Hz monitor, so my framerate did not really matter that much, and I only had one screen.
Now I have 2 monitors, my old 60 Hz one, and my new 144Hz one.
I want to play on my 144Hz one, but Stepmania won't let me.
If I set the game to full screen, it will just put Stepmania on the old 60 Hz one.
I already set my 144 one as primary, I even put it on the left, just so stepmania would let me play on it.
I thought that this was not really all that much of a problem, since I could probably just play in windowed mode, with unlimited framerate (vsync is only availible in full screen)
So I messed with the settings a bit, and it seemed to work. I had around 700 FPS, so it was all fine. Until I decided to reboot.
I launched Stepmania again, and the window was locked to 60 FPS. I changed vsync and fps lock randomly again, and it worked. (I did this for a couple of weeks, since I do not usually reboot that often)
However, I want to run Stepmania fullscreen on my primary 144Hz screen, without having to fiddle in the settings each time.
What I did was basically:
* Change from Windowed to full screen
* enable/disable vsync
* change the framerate lock to 150 (this however does not appear to do anything)
I attached some stuff if thought might be important.
Preferences.ini (from my home directory):
[Options]
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AdditionalFolders=
AdditionalSongFolders=
AllowExtraStage=1
AllowHoldForOptions=1
AllowMultipleHighScoreWithSameName=1
AllowMultipleInstances=0
AllowMultipleToasties=1
AllowMultitexture=1
AllowSongDeletion=0
AllowUnacceleratedRenderer=0
AllowW1=Everywhere
AnisotropicFiltering=0
Announcer=
ArcadeOptionsNavigation=0
AttractSoundFrequency=EveryTime
AutoJoin=0
AutoMapOnJoyChange=1
AutoPlay=Human
AutogenGroupCourses=1
AutogenSteps=0
AxisFix=0
BGBrightness=0.700000
BackUpAllSongSaves=0
BackgroundFitMode=CoverPreserve
BannerCache=LowResPreload
BlinkGameplayButtonLightsOnNote=0
BreakComboToGetItem=0
CelShadeModels=1
Center1Player=1
CenterImageAddHeight=0
CenterImageAddWidth=0
CenterImageTranslateX=0
CenterImageTranslateY=0
CoinMode=Home
CoinsPerCredit=1
ComboContinuesBetweenSongs=0
ConstantUpdateDeltaSeconds=0.000000
Cookie=
CourseSortOrder=Songs
CoursesToShowRanking=
CurrentGame=dance
DancePointsForOni=0
DebounceCoinInputTime=0.000000
DebugLights=0
DefaultLocalProfileIDP1=
DefaultLocalProfileIDP2=
DefaultModifiers=Overhead, Midi-note-3d
DefaultRecordLength=4.000000
DefaultTheme=default
DelayedBack=1
DelayedCreditsReconcile=0
DelayedModelDelete=0
DelayedScreenLoad=0
DelayedTextureDelete=1
DisableScreenSaver=1
DisableUploadDir=0
DisabledSongs=
DisplayAspectRatio=1.777778
DisplayColorDepth=32
DisplayHeight=1080
DisplayWidth=1920
Disqualification=0
EasterEggs=1
EditClearPromptThreshold=50
EditRecordModeLeadIn=1.000000
EditorMemoryCardOsMountPoint=
EditorNoteSkinP1=default
EditorNoteSkinP2=default
EditorShowBGChangesPlay=1
EnableAttackSounds=1
EnableMineHitSound=1
EnableScoreboard=1
EventMode=1
FailOffForFirstStageEasy=0
FailOffInBeginner=0
FastLoad=1
FastLoadAdditionalSongs=1
FastNoteRendering=0
ForceLogFlush=0
ForceMipMaps=0
FrameLimitPercent=0.000000
GetRankingName=On
GlobalOffsetSeconds=0.000000
HarshHotLifePenalty=1
HiddenSongs=0
HideIncompleteCourses=0
HighResolutionTextures=ForceOn
IgnoredDialogs=
InputDebounceTime=0.000000
InputDrivers=
Interlaced=0
Language=en
LastConnectedServer=
LastSeenInputDevices=
LastSeenVideoDriver=OpenGL
LifeDifficultyScale=1.000000
LightsAheadSeconds=0.050000
LightsDriver=
LightsFalloffSeconds=0.100000
LightsStepsDifficulty=medium
LockCourseDifficulties=1
LogCheckpoints=0
LogFPS=1
LogSkips=0
LogToDisk=1
LongVerSongSeconds=150.000000
MachineName=
MarathonVerSongSeconds=300.000000
MaxHighScoresPerListForMachine=10
MaxHighScoresPerListForPlayer=3
MaxInputLatencySeconds=0.000000
MaxRegenComboAfterMiss=5
MaxSongsInEditCourse=-1
MaxTextureResolution=2048
MemoryCardOsMountPointP1=
MemoryCardOsMountPointP2=
MemoryCardProfileImportSubdirs=
MemoryCardProfileSubdir=StepMania 5
MemoryCardProfiles=1
MemoryCardUsbBusP1=-1
MemoryCardUsbBusP2=-1
MemoryCardUsbLevelP1=-1
MemoryCardUsbLevelP2=-1
MemoryCardUsbPortP1=-1
MemoryCardUsbPortP2=-1
MemoryCards=0
MenuTimer=0
MercifulBeginner=0
MercifulDrain=0
MercifulSuperMeter=1
MinPercentageForMachineCourseHighScore=0.000100
MinPercentageForMachineSongHighScore=0.000100
MinTNSToHideNotes=W3
Minimum1FullSongInCourses=0
MonkeyInput=0
MoveRandomToEnd=0
MovieColorDepth=32
MovieDrivers=
MovieTextureDirectUpdates=1
MusicWheelSwitchSpeed=15
MusicWheelUsesSections=Always
MuteActions=0
NetworkStartOffset=-3.000000
NeverBoostAppPriority=0
NeverCacheList=
NumBackgrounds=20
OnlyDedicatedMenuButtons=0
OnlyPreferredDifficulties=0
PAL=0
PadStickSeconds=0.000000
PalettedBannerCache=0
PercentageScoring=1
PreCacheAllWheelSorts=0
PreferredSortUsesGroups=1
Premium=DoubleFor1Credit
ProductID=1
ProfileCourseEdits=1
ProfileDataCompress=0
ProfileStepEdits=1
ProgressiveLifebar=0
ProgressiveNonstopLifebar=0
ProgressiveStageLifebar=0
PseudoLocalize=0
QuirksMode=0
RandomBackgroundMode=Animations
RefreshRate=0
RegenComboAfterMiss=5
SextetStreamInputFilename=Data/StepMania-Input-SextetStream.in
SextetStreamOutputFilename=Data/StepMania-Lights-SextetStream.out
ShowBanners=1
ShowBeginnerHelper=1
ShowCaution=1
ShowDancingCharacters=Random
ShowDanger=1
ShowInstructions=1
ShowLoadingWindow=1
ShowLogOutput=0
ShowLyrics=1
ShowMasks=0
ShowMouseCursor=1
ShowNativeLanguage=0
ShowSongOptions=Ask
ShowStats=1
ShowThemeErrors=0
SignProfileData=0
SmoothLines=1
SongBackgrounds=1
SongsPerPlay=3
SoundDevice=
SoundDrivers=
SoundPreferredSampleRate=0
SoundPreload16bit=1
SoundPreloadMaxSamples=1048576
SoundVolume=1.000000
SoundVolumeAttract=1.000000
SoundWriteAhead=0
StretchBackgrounds=0
SubSortByNumSteps=0
SuperMeterPercentChangeCheckpointHit=0.050000
SuperMeterPercentChangeCheckpointMiss=-0.200000
SuperMeterPercentChangeHeld=0.040000
SuperMeterPercentChangeHitMine=-0.400000
SuperMeterPercentChangeLetGo=-0.200000
SuperMeterPercentChangeMiss=-0.200000
SuperMeterPercentChangeMissedHold=-0.000000
SuperMeterPercentChangeW1=0.050000
SuperMeterPercentChangeW2=0.040000
SuperMeterPercentChangeW3=0.020000
SuperMeterPercentChangeW4=0.000000
SuperMeterPercentChangeW5=0.000000
TestInitialScreen=
TextureColorDepth=32
Theme=XV
ThreadedInput=1
ThreadedMovieDecode=1
ThreeKeyNavigation=0
TimeMeterSecondsChangeCheckpointHit=0.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeCheckpointMiss=-0.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeHeld=-0.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeHitMine=-2.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeLetGo=-4.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeMiss=-4.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeMissedHold=-0.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeW1=0.200000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeW2=0.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeW3=-0.500000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeW4=-1.000000
TimeMeterSecondsChangeW5=-2.000000
TimingWindowAdd=0.000000
TimingWindowJump=0.250000
TimingWindowScale=1.000000
TimingWindowSecondsAttack=0.135000
TimingWindowSecondsCheckpoint=0.166400
TimingWindowSecondsHold=0.250000
TimingWindowSecondsMine=0.090000
TimingWindowSecondsRoll=0.500000
TimingWindowSecondsW1=0.022500
TimingWindowSecondsW2=0.045000
TimingWindowSecondsW3=0.090000
TimingWindowSecondsW4=0.135000
TimingWindowSecondsW5=0.180000
TrilinearFiltering=0
TugMeterPercentChangeCheckpointHit=0.002000
TugMeterPercentChangeCheckpointMiss=-0.002000
TugMeterPercentChangeHeld=0.008000
TugMeterPercentChangeHitMine=-0.040000
TugMeterPercentChangeLetGo=-0.020000
TugMeterPercentChangeMiss=-0.020000
TugMeterPercentChangeMissedHold=0.000000
TugMeterPercentChangeW1=0.010000
TugMeterPercentChangeW2=0.008000
TugMeterPercentChangeW3=0.004000
TugMeterPercentChangeW4=0.000000
TugMeterPercentChangeW5=-0.010000
UpdateCheckEnable=1
UseUnlockSystem=0
VideoRenderers=opengl
VisualDelaySeconds=0.000000
Vsync=1
Windowed=1
XWMName=StepMania 5
[Game-dance]
Announcer=
DefaultModifiers=Overhead, Midi-note-3d
Theme=XV
[Game-pump]
Announcer=
DefaultModifiers=
Theme=_fallback
[Game-techno]
Announcer=
DefaultModifiers=
Theme=_fallback
Basic system information:
OS: Arch Linux
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.8.13-1-ARCH
Shell: fish
Resolution: 3840x1080 (both screens are 1920x1080)
DE: KDE5
WM: KWin
Theme: Breeze [GTK2], [GTK3]
Icon Theme: breeze
Font: Noto Sans Regular
CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K CPU @ 3.9GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 960
RAM: 2184MiB / 7950MiB
/etc/xorg.conf
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 375.26 (builduser@felix) Fri Dec 16 13:16:44 CST 2016
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 370.28 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-17) Thu Sep 1 20:22:52 PDT 2016
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Samsung SMB2430HD"
HorizSync 26.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 24.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 960"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "HDMI-0: 1920x1080 +0+0, DP-4: 1920x1080_144 +1920+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-6"
Option "metamodes" "HDMI-0: 1920x1080 +1920+0, DP-4: 1920x1080_144 +0+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Screen Configuration:


My 60Hz monitor is plugged in via HDMI, the other one is connected through DisplayPort.
Help is greatly appreciated, but please don't go out of your way just to help me. I will survive on 60 FPS too, don't worry about me.
Last edited: 9 January 2017 2:41pm