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