marshallracer wrote:

Edit: sooo, I can tell something's not right .. or atleast I guess so
How I come to this conclusion .. well, I can't start Steam anymore, which was possible before, due to missing libraries

I don't know what to do, but then again I only followed your steps anyway, updating the Kernel (if that's what I've been doing), adding the repo, updating/upgrading and rebooting

Did you follow proper procedure to remove fglrx?

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... st.2Ffglrx

Run the first two commands there (the fglrx-uninstall.sh and the --purge fglrx* ones), then proceed to those 5 below (running every command one at a time also). I never ran into that libgl1-mesa-dri issue that page mentions, but if you should happen to see it during the uninstall process, follow it's recommendation.

After all that, reboot, then you should be back on the open-source radeon driver.

Best to bookmarked it first....

ok, ok, I got everything running now, added oibaf's repo, got rid of catalyst/fglrx and fixed the libgl issue
Thanks alot guys, everythings running and hopefully keeps running for some time

edit: well, almost running .. when I go into beatmap selection the screen turn into something like this and stays like that until I restart osu

happens with and without StrictDrawOrdering

AMD drivers were added to oibaf an hour ago so running an update/upgrade/dist-upgrade should pull in the new driver.
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/g ... lter=saucy

Well, the driver is now downloaded and in I guess, but osu's still not working though .. atleast I'm done with the setup procedure .. am I?
Also, how do I check if the driver I got from oibaf are working? Just to be sure

glxinfo | grep OpenGL will display the currently running graphics card. If it says llvmpipe then it is using software rendering. Although oibaf has the AMD driver on Saucy, it hasn't received the latest mesa/llvm and other assorted packages yet.

martin@martinPC:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD REDWOOD
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

I guess I simply need to wait until everything's ready

marshallracer wrote:

martin@martinPC:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD REDWOOD
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

I guess I simply need to wait until everything's ready

How did you install fglrx before? Did you just use the hardware tab thing from Ubuntu's Software and Sources window, or did you download it manually?

I can't imagine why osu! wouldn't just work properly, especially for a 5xxx card (my rebranded dual-graphics 6xxx laptop and 7xxx desktop ran osu! with both fglrx and radeon on saucy).

Only thing I can think of is an improper setup somewhere (I know when I unintalled fglrx on my 7xxx desktop, I had broken radeon drivers and ended up doing a OS reinstall).

well, the very first thing I did after installing Saucy was downloading the latest drivers from AMD and installing them manually without any problems
Why I had a black screen on osu! then is way beyond my understanding

marshallracer wrote:

well, the very first thing I did after installing Saucy was downloading the latest drivers from AMD and installing them manually without any problems
Why I had a black screen on osu! then is way beyond my understanding

Just to be clear, you installed the 13.11 BETA1 driver? Did you do it in-accordance to this guide?: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... PERIMENTAL

well, for once I tried the latest stable one and the Beta, but seemingly I simply installed it automatically through the installer and I was done with it .. habits of using windows, just installing everything without thinking about what to do or what'd be neccessary

Maybe I'll give it a last try, let's see, but this time I don't want to screw up again

marshallracer wrote:

well, for once I tried the latest stable one and the Beta, but seemingly I simply installed it automatically through the installer and I was done with it .. habits of using windows, just installing everything without thinking about what to do or what'd be neccessary

Maybe I'll give it a last try, let's see, but this time I don't want to screw up again

Ah, yeah apparently running the installer as-is isn't ideal on a few Linux distros (Ubuntu especially; afaik, the installer can only be ran as-is on SUSE). That guide lets you use the installer to generate some saucy-specific installers, which, in-short, leads to a better experience.

Just make sure of that final step to do sudo amdconfig --initial -f before rebooting. Then after reboot, do fglrxinfo and then fgl_glxgears to verify it installed properly. Then try out osu!.

martin@martinPC:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 5670
OpenGL version string: 4.3.12458 Compatibility Profile Context 13.20.16

martin@martinPC:~$ fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
6114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1222.800 FPS
5580 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1116.000 FPS
5210 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1042.000 FPS
6082 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1216.400 FPS
5838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1167.600 FPS
5941 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1188.200 FPS
5894 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1178.800 FPS
[...]

fglrx installed and working (I assume) and no stragely pixelated frame anymore when scrolling through menus .. but osu now stops responding after switching through menus (following was after going back from map selection, applies to other actions aswell)


Saucy pls

Hmm, and this is with the latest version of Wine 1.7 (1.7.4 or 1.7.5; whatever Ubuntu has in it's repository atm), in a clean 32-bit wineprefix with only dotnet20 installed?

Espionage724 wrote:

Hmm, and this is with the latest version of Wine 1.7 (1.7.4 or 1.7.5; whatever Ubuntu has in it's repository atm), in a clean 32-bit wineprefix with only dotnet20 installed?

-Yes
-Yes
-Yes

holy shit this is like, the only thing that won't give me any rest and it isn't even important at all
But through this we'll atleast have a way to help people running osu on Saucy ..I hope

When I typed in "mkdir '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/osu!' && mv osume.exe '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/osu!' && cd '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/osu!' && wine osume.exe" it said "mkdir: cannot create directory ‘.wine/drive_c/Program Files/osu!’: File exists"

It also said something about my OS being a 64 bit OS and the program being 32 bit when installing the dot net 20 thing or whatever...

I don't like Linux. I only use it because it's much faster than my old Windows Vista. Please help - I have no idea what I'm doing.

This is where PlayonLinux aids you with boats script but yeah, when you try to do it with wine itself there was some good suggestion a few pages ago

Espionage724 wrote:

Once you have Wine installed, you first run WINEARCH=win32 winecfg to create the 32-bit prefix (you can close the Wine Configuration window once it appears). Then from there, you run the winetricks dotnet20 command. If it completes without error, you've successfully created a 32-bit prefix If it mentions it can't install on a 64-bit OS, that means the prefix isn't 32-bit.

Edit : regarding my personal problem .. the solution was disturbingly easy ...


Why not using proprietary drivers provided by Ubuntu?
I decided to uninstall fglrx manually and choose fglrx-updates here, restarted Ubuntu to be sure and voila, osu!'s finally running (a bit slow due to StrictDrawordering I guess, but still)

I managed to get osu! running on Arch, but if I run it this happens:

Sound is not working (guess I didn't make wine use alsa, I'm not sure about it yet)
Default skin is using the old skin, no idea why
Any beatmap can not be loaded
No beatmap backgrounds at all

Framerate is fine though, it's really smooth EDIT: just need to install some libraries, resolved everything but this

Sliders look terribly ugly
Fonts look terrible (maybe I should change the font rendering in wineprefix, but I'm kinda sleepy so doing that later when I wake up)

Commands I did

$ su -c "pacman -S wine winetricks lib32-alsa-lib lib32-mpg123 lib32-giflib lib32-libjpeg lib32-libpng"
$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
$ winetricks dotnet20
$ cd /mnt/sda2/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/osu\! (Basically my osu! folder, obviously)
$ wine osu!.exe

Using Wine 1.7.5, kernel version is 3.11.6-1 and it's Arch's stock kernel.

Extra stuff, just in case.

┌─[yucachaaaan @ kininarimars]-[1:57:05]
└─[~]-[$]> lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon 7550M/7570M/7650M] (rev ff)

Using xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-intel as drivers, disabled the ATI one using

# echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

since it tends to overheat. I don't think it'll affect anything if I turn it on, I did just to check *just in case* and it's still the same.

Screenshot

Shock_T wrote:

When I typed in "mkdir '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/osu!' && mv osume.exe '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/osu!' && cd '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/osu!' && wine osume.exe" it said "mkdir: cannot create directory ‘.wine/drive_c/Program Files/osu!’: File exists"

It also said something about my OS being a 64 bit OS and the program being 32 bit when installing the dot net 20 thing or whatever...

I don't like Linux. I only use it because it's much faster than my old Windows Vista. Please help - I have no idea what I'm doing.

Go to your home folder, press CTRL + H to unhide all files/folders, and delete the .wine folder (as long as you don't have anything in it you want to keep); then do WINEARCH=win32 winecfg to make the 32-bit prefix. Then try the guide again, or try PlayOnLinux if you want.

marshallracer wrote:

Why not using proprietary drivers provided by Ubuntu?
I decided to uninstall fglrx manually and choose fglrx-updates here, restarted Ubuntu to be sure and voila, osu!'s finally running (a bit slow due to StrictDrawordering I guess, but still)

Hmm, hasn't crossed my mind to try that lol, but great that it works Last time I tried that though, it ended up breaking Unity strangely...

mekadon wrote:

Sliders look terribly ugly
Fonts look terrible (maybe I should change the font rendering in wineprefix, but I'm kinda sleepy so doing that later when I wake up)

Not entirely sure what's up with the sliders (maybe try the Force slider setting from osu!'s Options), but as for Fonts, maybe try installing gdiplus with winetricks?

Espionage724 wrote:

mekadon wrote:

Sliders look terribly ugly
Fonts look terrible (maybe I should change the font rendering in wineprefix, but I'm kinda sleepy so doing that later when I wake up)

Not entirely sure what's up with the sliders (maybe try the Force slider setting from osu!'s Options), but as for Fonts, maybe try installing gdiplus with winetricks?

Tried forcing slider rendering, doesn't work. Gdiplus helps with my fonts though.

Another interesting thing I find, the window moves by itself when on Taiko mode.



I'm not sure if it's due to my window manager (dwm), but I made an openbox session (just a tiny edit on ~/.xinitrc), and it works...

Yeah, that happens on xmonad as well. If I sink the window and force it to tile it stops moving. I think the window border is messing it up.

m42a wrote:

Yeah, that happens on xmonad as well. If I sink the window and force it to tile it stops moving. I think the window border is messing it up.

Hmm from winecfg, try toggling the settings that reference to controlling Windows and Borders.

Both the "Allow the window manager to decorate the windows" and "Allow the window manager to control the windows" work when unchecked, but they cause ugly and out-of-place Windows-style titlebars to be drawn on top of the window and cause the osu! cursor to be offset from the actual mouse position. Emulating a virtual desktop and running osu! in fulscreen also works, but then I can't see the window title. Sinking the window is, IMO, the least bad option.

m42a wrote:

Emulating a virtual desktop and running osu! in fulscreen also works, but then I can't see the window title. Sinking the window is, IMO, the least bad option.

What does sinking a window mean? I know it's a term used in xmonad, but I'm not sure how do they call it in DWM.
Maybe I'll try get osu! running on qemu, but I don't really want to install things I don't use often lol. Maybe I should just load an openbox session instead of DWM in ~/.xinitrc, but it's really a pain editing every time I want to play osu! (btw other games I tried that run on wine works fine)

I'm not sure how much this applies to dwm, but in xmonad, there are 2 types of windows: floating windows, and sunk windows. Floating windows can be moved around and resized using the mouse. Sunk windows are arranged by the window manager rather than the user. So if you sink osu!, when it tries to move the window manager says "No, you go over there" and the window stays in the same spot.

And when I say "virtual desktop" I don't mean something like qemu or virtualbox. In winecfg, there's an option under the Graphics tab to create a windows desktop to run the wine program on rather than letting it use your Linux desktop. This desktop acts like a window in your Linux desktop with Windows windows inside it. If you run osu! in fullscreen there's only 1 window, so it looks normal.

when i try to wine osume.exe i get this:

Unhandled Exception:
System.InvalidProgramException: Invalid IL code in #ryb.#syb:#Zqb (string[]): IL_0165: stloc.3   


[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.InvalidProgramException: Invalid IL code in #ryb.#syb:#Zqb (string[]): IL_0165: stloc.3   

can someone help me? I added repository, i also setup 32-bit prefix for wine, i have installed net framework 2.0... any ideas?

can someone upload a video on how to install that I can not really

can someone upload a video on how to install that I can not really

If doing it manually seems too complicated (even though it really isn't), install playonlinux http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html and use this script to install osu! http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1856-osu.html

It's pretty much literally the same procedure, just that the script does it for you.

Katsuo wrote:

when i try to wine osume.exe i get this:

Unhandled Exception:
System.InvalidProgramException: Invalid IL code in #ryb.#syb:#Zqb (string[]): IL_0165: stloc.3   


[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.InvalidProgramException: Invalid IL code in #ryb.#syb:#Zqb (string[]): IL_0165: stloc.3   

can someone help me? I added repository, i also setup 32-bit prefix for wine, i have installed net framework 2.0... any ideas?

Hmm, that error particularly I believe occurs when dotnet20 wasn't installed properly. I might recommend trying it again.

the specified location is not supported???? no found!!!! help meee please

boat wrote:

If doing it manually seems too complicated (even though it really isn't), install playonlinux http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html and use this script to install osu! http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1856-osu.html

It's pretty much literally the same procedure, just that the script does it for you.

^the specified location is not supported^ no found! help me

ukeluppi wrote:

boat wrote:

If doing it manually seems too complicated (even though it really isn't), install playonlinux http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html and use this script to install osu! http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1856-osu.html

It's pretty much literally the same procedure, just that the script does it for you.

^the specified location is not supported^ no found! help me

Can you get the screenshot or quote of the exact problem?

Hmm, I'm unsure about how to troubleshoot POL issues, but last time I checked, I believe the process was pretty smooth. Only thing I could suggest is to maybe start over from the beginning and remove the old osu! install.

Okay, here are my general points of advice for running osu! in Arch Linux (I recently bought a new hard drive and had to do it all again)
1. Create a NEW, FRESH 32-bit wineprefix. ($ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX='~/.wine'; rm -rf ~/.wine; wine 'wineboot') or so
2. Install .NET 2.0 ($ winetricks dotnet20)
3. Install image libraries. (# pacman -S lib32-libpng lib32-giflib lib32-libjpeg-turbo)
4. Install graphics libraries. (# pacman -S lib32-mesa) but choose your graphics card of course ($ lspci | grep VGA)
4. Set proper audio output in Wine. ($ winecfg)

DO NOT run osu! with Mono though that seems counter-intuitive; it will immediately throw an InvalidProgram exception.
If you get pink sliders and backgrounds do not load, etc, you need the 32-bit image libraries mentioned above.
If you aren't using open-source driver for your graphics card, you probably should be, but it's your system so you know best.

These steps work for me. It is very finicky but once you get it, it should run absolutely fine. Good luck

bahamete wrote:

Okay, here are my general points of advice for running osu! in Arch Linux (I recently bought a new hard drive and had to do it all again)
1. Create a NEW, FRESH 32-bit wineprefix. ($ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX='~/.wine'; rm -rf ~/.wine; wine 'wineboot') or so
2. Install .NET 2.0 ($ winetricks dotnet20)
3. Install image libraries. (# pacman -S lib32-libpng lib32-giflib lib32-libjpeg-turbo)
4. Install graphics libraries. (# pacman -S lib32-mesa) but choose your graphics card of course ($ lspci | grep VGA)
4. Set proper audio output in Wine. ($ winecfg)

DO NOT run osu! with Mono though that seems counter-intuitive; it will immediately throw an InvalidProgram exception.
If you get pink sliders and backgrounds do not load, etc, you need the 32-bit image libraries mentioned above.
If you aren't using open-source driver for your graphics card, you probably should be, but it's your system so you know best.

These steps work for me. It is very finicky but once you get it, it should run absolutely fine. Good luck

I really do not understand anything, you could upload a video tutorial

ukeluppi wrote:

I really do not understand anything, you could upload a video tutorial

Maybe, if you don't understand what I said or don't want to research the stuff, Linux isn't really for you.
I would do a video tutorial but I think my explanation is good enough... I am getting a new laptop soon and I will try and install osu! on there, too. I will make note of everything I do from a fresh Arch install.

The 5 stuff in my post I wrote in brackets, you must type them in a terminal, but please research all the commands I posted so you don't do anything silly - in particular, 'rm -rf ~/.wine' will remove your entire Wine prefix.

For those Arch users, I realised there is an "osu!" package on the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/osu/). I haven't tried it, yet.

bahamete wrote:

For those Arch users, I realised there is an "osu!" package on the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/osu/). I haven't tried it, yet.

judging at the pkgbuild it should be pretty much the same anyway. Also for convenience I just write a bash script that launches the game and dumped it into /usr/bin so that I can run it with dmenu

Decided to give myself a try on Xubuntu 12.04. Would have used Arch but due to its bleeding-edge nature it tend to give me packages which were not "just works" and actually made me go nuts. Also pacman managed to screw up my system half a year ago too.

Loads up fine although it takes a while. Framerate can never get past 60fps no matter what I do (245fps max on Win7 though) and I get both input and audio delay which are really noticeable in standard mode but it's rather less noticeable in osu!mania. Framerate would drop down to <35fps in some cases especially on beatmap select. The only biggest problem in here is that the slider shows up pitch black (and virtually invisible with 100% background dim).

Katsuo wrote:

when i try to wine osume.exe i get this:

Unhandled Exception:
System.InvalidProgramException: Invalid IL code in #ryb.#syb:#Zqb (string[]): IL_0165: stloc.3   


[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.InvalidProgramException: Invalid IL code in #ryb.#syb:#Zqb (string[]): IL_0165: stloc.3   

can someone help me? I added repository, i also setup 32-bit prefix for wine, i have installed net framework 2.0... any ideas?

I had the same error.

And I found earlier in this thread that boat had this error too.

boat wrote:

Well I got it running without reinstalling, I just messed up the prefix step..

I had to make sure to do
export WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wine32
before
wine osume.exe

I also had some trouble running the game.
in winecfg I checked the emulated esktop (in the graphics tab)
and in the osu!<username>.cfg file I changed the resolution to match the resolution of the emulated desktop,
Only thing left to make it playable is the framerate I guess

mumumumumumumumumum

I don't got linux available as of now so I can't really test things out but I've posted on the POL forums for some help, I'll get back to you once I've gotten a reply.

In the meantime you could try launching it through the terminal using LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine osu.exe

From what I've gathered though I can not promise anything, at least not through POL alone as it can't set the LANG variable on it's own.

Please Video!!!! tutorial please

Apparently it can set the LANG variable, so if anybody wants to test this out, I would highly appreciate it.
Save this http://www.boaty.org/POL/osu%21installer and run it through "Tools > Run a local script"
Here's a map with Japanese characters to test it out with https://osu.ppy.sh/s/106
edit: tested it myself and the Japanese didn't work, unfortunately.

ukeluppi wrote:

SPOILER

You're using osu!install.exe. Either you altered my script, you're using a different one or you're trying to install it without one at all, which doesn't work and generates this error message.

If you can't install it manually you can find my script here here, in the link above (osu!installer) or through the POL client.

url failed playonlinux help meee

https://imgur-archive.ppy.sh/uARrAKj.png

Got this. It works fine few weeks ago though (I'm guessing it's because of updates, since arch)
EDIT: Reconfigured wine again and worked again. Huh.

boat wrote:

In the meantime you could try launching it through the terminal using LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine osu.exe

Didn't work for me either, installed takao/tahoma just in case and still didn't work.

I imagine for it to work you first have to install and configure a Japanese locale, which will take some time for me to sort out a script for, if that would even be possible to do through POL.

I'll look into it but I don't have much time to spare so don't expect it any time soon, not from me at least.

ukeluppi wrote:

url failed playonlinux help meee

?

If you can't get a visual installer from the official POL script repository to work then perhaps you should reconsider your choice of OS.

There is nothing wrong with the script itself, all you have to do is run it, not the osu!installer.exe.


jeez

I actually found the solution. What I did was copy all my fonts from Windows into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts (I think just copying msgothic.ttf msmincho.ttf is enough, my entire font folder in Windows is almost 1GB ._.) and Japanese fonts finally works

so what do you want to do for yout POL script is probably wget these fonts into the font folder in wine

I uploaded them, for those who need it,
http://nadeko.tsundere.my/dump/msgothic.ttc
http://nadeko.tsundere.my/dump/msmincho.ttc

Those who got the same issue, just copy the two fonts into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts, you don't need to $ export LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" I think.

Hi.

Too lazy to read the entire thread, so i'll just ask here.
I'm planning on using ArchLinux as my main OS at the desktop PC. And the only thing i'm aware of is osu! performance under wine.
Can someone report their pc configuration and fps you got under linux? Also, if you can, tell me the fps you got on the same machine under windows.

ohyou wrote:

Hi.

Too lazy to read the entire thread, so i'll just ask here.
I'm planning on using ArchLinux as my main OS at the desktop PC. And the only thing i'm aware of is osu! performance under wine.
Can someone report their pc configuration and fps you got under linux? Also, if you can, tell me the fps you got on the same machine under windows.

~120fps with a laptop with Core i7-3517U @ 3GHz, 1GB AMD Radeon 7570M, 8GB RAM and the game at 800*600 resolution.
~400fps on Windows on 1366*668 resolution, 800*600 is around ~800-1000fps

I do not understand, my English is bad, playonlinux not found There is an easier method

I have 60-80 fps in linux
and 1500-3000 fps in windows ^^'

I found instructions on how to improve fps in wine, but it involves recompiling the kernel. Seems very risky as I haven't ever done that before. :p

Updated installer with the fonts. Korean requires the title to be romanized and Chinese should work as well.

http://www.boaty.org/POL/osu%21installer
http://www.boaty.org/POL/osu%21installer.tar.gz
these are invalid, I'll edit this when I've fixed them, in the meantime use the script from the pol repository

Or just download the fonts yourself and as mekadon already pointed out put them into the /windows/fonts/ folder.
http://www.boaty.org/POL/msgothic.ttc
http://www.boaty.org/POL/msmincho.ttc

I'm running Arch Linux with a Radeon HD 7770, and I have quite a few issues running Osu. After the first couple of songs (it varies) the game will start consistently crashing before any song can be played, and on some startups the sound just doesn't work at all. I've tried both with boat's POL installer and with the AUR installer. There are several places it likes to crash:

1. Exiting the options screen
2. Entering the song list screen
3. Picking a song (but not yet picking the difficulty), after a couple of seconds
4. Picking the difficulty, before the song loads -- by far the most common and so far I haven't managed to get past this after my first couple of times

Nothing is printed in the terminal around the time of the crash. Is there anything I can use to debug this, or has someone solved a similar problem?

I got osu! to run on Linux Mint, however I have a problem with text strings in the game, which seem to get cut off near the end of the text. Also, when I make a link for the osu!.exe and run it, osu just crashes on startup. What can I do to fix these issues?

(I followed this to set it up)

Frizz wrote:

...Framerate can never get past 60fps no matter what I do (245fps max on Win7 though) and I get both input and audio delay which are really noticeable in standard mode but it's rather less noticeable in osu!mania. Framerate would drop down to <35fps in some cases especially on beatmap select.]

Try using the enviroment variable vblank_mode=0 if you haven't already.

mekadon wrote:

ohyou wrote:

Hi.

Too lazy to read the entire thread, so i'll just ask here.
I'm planning on using ArchLinux as my main OS at the desktop PC. And the only thing i'm aware of is osu! performance under wine.
Can someone report their pc configuration and fps you got under linux? Also, if you can, tell me the fps you got on the same machine under windows.

~120fps with a laptop with Core i7-3517U @ 3GHz, 1GB AMD Radeon 7570M, 8GB RAM and the game at 800*600 resolution.
~400fps on Windows on 1366*668 resolution, 800*600 is around ~800-1000fps

Sakisan wrote:

I have 60-80 fps in linux
and 1500-3000 fps in windows ^^'

I found instructions on how to improve fps in wine, but it involves recompiling the kernel. Seems very risky as I haven't ever done that before. :p

Thank you kindly.

Hi, I have a quick question regarding importing beatmaps. I went through the tutorial at the beginning of the thread and everything works like a charm, except directly loading beatmaps via the "open with osu!" option in the browser download window doesn't work – that's not a big issue in itself, but I didn't notice that until I had tried importing several beatmaps that way. Now I just copy/paste them into the "Songs" folder, but those few beatmaps I tried importing directly are now "permanently" broken for my installation, even if I delete and re-download them. That's why I'd like to know if there's any way of clearing the "Failed Imports" cache of the program without reinstalling it (I'm kinda afraid of re-installing since this is the first time I got osu! to run this smoothly under Linux and I don't want to risk breaking my install).

Thanks in advance for your answers!

What makes you think reinstalling will break anything though?

Espionage724's guide on first post still working for 'buntu 13.10 i386.
Thank you so much, I wa unable to make osu! work in debian, even in sid. virtualbox+ubuntu working fine !

If you only seem to get 60fps, use

vblank_mode=0 wine osu\!.exe

(Or however you normally invoke osu!), It makes your graphics card ignore your monitor's refresh rate (which is probably 60fps).
However, why people want to play with over 60fps is beyond me. It causes tearing and unnecessarily wastes battery life.

Wow, the snow update somehow broke my osu! installation on Ubuntu 12.10. and now I can't start up the program at all, not even if I try re-installing it.
For some VERY strange reason this update also seems to have had some weird effect on my wine installation, as I keep getting the "winemenubuilder.exe has encountered a serious error" problem , no matter what I try to start with wine.

Also, @boat: Something always breaks when I try to tinker around with it under Linux. No exceptions. This time, even pressing the "update" button was enough. :/

edit: Suddenly started getting a more precise error message from osu!.exe: "Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process ID=0x24 (36), Thread ID=0x25 (37)."

Aposke wrote:

Wow, the snow update somehow broke my osu! installation on Ubuntu 12.10. and now I can't start up the program at all, not even if I try re-installing it.
For some VERY strange reason this update also seems to have had some weird effect on my wine installation, as I keep getting the "winemenubuilder.exe has encountered a serious error" problem , no matter what I try to start with wine.

Also, @boat: Something always breaks when I try to tinker around with it under Linux. No exceptions. This time, even pressing the "update" button was enough. :/

edit: Suddenly started getting a more precise error message from osu!.exe: "Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process ID=0x24 (36), Thread ID=0x25 (37)."

I'm getting the exact same error - winemenubuilder.exe breaks as of the 15th's snow update.
If you want to set WINEDEBUG=warn+all you'll be able to see all sorts of ridiculous messages you probably don't care about - https://gist.github.com/plausibility/7982450 has a wine debug stack trace and all that jazz.

Peppy, what have you done to us poor Linux users?

I can also confirm this problem.

Sort of a fix in the mean time - I pulled an older version of osu (from a few days ago) from my laptop and dropped that into my wine folder and ran that directly.
You can get it here if you want to try yourself: http://gibsonsec.org/~zed/files/osu!.exe (md5sum: d47ef68157ed98a4973a7b0d53eddc78)
Hopefully peppy won't mind me distributing this as a fix in the mean time.

zed-kun wrote:

Sort of a fix in the mean time - I pulled an older version of osu (from a few days ago) from my laptop and dropped that into my wine folder and ran that directly.
You can get it here if you want to try yourself: http://gibsonsec.org/~zed/files/osu!.exe (md5sum: d47ef68157ed98a4973a7b0d53eddc78)
Hopefully peppy won't mind me distributing this as a fix in the mean time.

Thanks a lot, sir! This version works flawlessly. Now to remember not to update it until the end of winter!

Confirmed here too...

but then... is there anyway to disable autoupdate, it keep updating to the latest update

lemonadejuice wrote:

Confirmed here too...

but then... is there anyway to disable autoupdate, it keep updating to the latest update

I've just been keeping a copy of the functional version handy, then when it eventually updates itself into a not working state, I just copy the old version over the new version and start it.
That seems to trick it into thinking it's up to date(-ish) for one or two starts.

Same error.
will be because of the snow at the start? i hate the xmas(?) #OkNo

EDIT: instaling xna31 with winetricks, works. Thx Itachi

hello guys i have solution for this problem i made a video tutorial http://youtu.be/SPWR8PDrytQ
i hope it will be helpful
tested on linux mint 16

If anybody wants to take over maintaining the POL osu! installer, PM me. I don't got the time or interest to keep at it myself.

You don't need to do anything special with this issue nor download older version of osu!. Open up terminal and enter:
winetricks dotnet35
if it fails don't care about that and install also
winetricks xna31
It should start now!
On my second computer dotnet35 fails so I installed xna31 and then again dotnet35 but it fails again. But who cares? It works.

Itachi17 wrote:

You don't need to do anything special with this issue nor download older version of osu!. Open up terminal and enter:
winetricks dotnet35
if it fails don't care about that and install also
winetricks xna31
It should start now!
On my second computer dotnet35 fails so I installed xna31 and then again dotnet35 but it fails again. But who cares? It works.

Damn, you're not kidding. Installing xna31 and dotnet35 via winetricks also worked for me (even though like you said the dotnet30sp2 installer failed which looks like because of a parsing error in the winetricks script, so only dotnet30sp1 is the highest version actually installed).

The winemenubuilder.exe crash still happens when launching anything from that wineprefix, however. You can safely disable "winemenubuilder.exe" via winecfg though. This obviously stops it from crashing, and is perfectly fine since all it does is change filetype associations, add menu items, or create desktop links, according to winehq.

Dunno what that last update did, but I can't even get 20fps now. We really need that Mono build if things are gonna break left and right like they do now.

Fenek Alfa wrote:

Dunno what that last update did, but I can't even get 20fps now. We really need that Mono build if things are gonna break left and right like they do now.

Hm, that's weird. My fps is the same at about 120.

Fenek Alfa wrote:

Dunno what that last update did, but I can't even get 20fps now. We really need that Mono build if things are gonna break left and right like they do now.

Did you try run osu! with vblank_mode=0?

vblank_mode=0 wine osu\!.exe

as bahamete wrote?

Are you using open source drivers for your graphic card or proprietary drivers? Didn't you accidently uninstall some 32-bit libs?
I did it when I was removing wine and trying patched version and after that both versions were broken. When I ran some game, I was getting really low fps. When I started osu! I got a black screen. Then I opened Steam for Linux and he ask me to install some 32-bit libraries and then both versions of wine started working properly. So try to run Steam for Linux if he ask, let him install it.

PS: Without this repo https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers/ opensource drivers for graphic cards are worse. So if you add it you can get better performance.

PS2: If you are using the opensource drivers you can't get higher than 60 fps without vblank_mode=0.

I'm using NVidia's proprietary drivers, and Steam still works. And vblank has nothing to do with it, since I was running it earlier at around 180 fps

Itachi17 wrote:

You don't need to do anything special with this issue nor download older version of osu!. Open up terminal and enter:
winetricks dotnet35
if it fails don't care about that and install also
winetricks xna31
It should start now!
On my second computer dotnet35 fails so I installed xna31 and then again dotnet35 but it fails again. But who cares? It works.

I haven't tried osu! yet recently (just got done installing some Xubuntu though), but last I checked, only dotnet20 was still required.

"If" I understand right, dotnet35 installed dotnet20 as well as 3, leading to more bulk that you don't necessarily need, along with increasing the risk of conflict if you use the same wineprefix for other stuff.

But in any case, both of those statements are just what I assume; haven't really tried it myself for a while, but I'll be sure to soon.

666th post :p

zikxxx wrote:

hello guys i have solution for this problem i made a video tutorial http://youtu.be/SPWR8PDrytQ
i hope it will be helpful
tested on linux mint 16

Thanks, it worked fine in Ubuntu 12.04.

I have been unsuccessful in using osu! on Fedora 20, with wine 1.7.5. My current problem is that while the game opens and music plays, the display remains black - I can't see any visual elements at all.

I had to install both dotnet20 and xna31 to get this far. I'm currently using nvidia proprietary graphics though I might also try with nouveau as this smells like a driver related problem. My nvidia driver version is 331.20.

EDIT: I'm stupid. Forgot to install 32 bit nvidia libs (xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i686). Had them with nouveau. I'm surprised it got as far as it did without complaining.

Espionage724 wrote:

Itachi17 wrote:

You don't need to do anything special with this issue nor download older version of osu!. Open up terminal and enter:
winetricks dotnet35
if it fails don't care about that and install also
winetricks xna31
It should start now!
On my second computer dotnet35 fails so I installed xna31 and then again dotnet35 but it fails again. But who cares? It works.

I haven't tried osu! yet recently (just got done installing some Xubuntu though), but last I checked, only dotnet20 was still required.

"If" I understand right, dotnet35 installed dotnet20 as well as 3, leading to more bulk that you don't necessarily need, along with increasing the risk of conflict if you use the same wineprefix for other stuff.

But in any case, both of those statements are just what I assume; haven't really tried it myself for a while, but I'll be sure to soon.

666th post :p

Yeah you are right. That's why I have separate prefix only for osu!. On my computer I had only dotnet20 and started at wine version 1.5.25 and without any error continuosly updating to the newer version of the wine. Now I have this patched version of wine -> https://launchpad.net/~foresto/+archive/winepatched/. Only one time it crash! and I have to ran osume.exe. No more issue I spotted. And I have nvdia proprietary drivers 313 updates installed through jockey-kde. Before few days osu! wont started. So I tried installed dotnet35 and xna31.(peppy wrote this in the linux installation manual, but also only dotnet20). So after that it starts working.(but the installation goes to the dotnet30)That's what goes for my computer. On my notebook I have updated and optimized open graphics drivers. -> https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers/ I have osu! in separated prefix with dotnet35 and xna40(installed today, trying something). + strictdrawordering=enabled(I have amd graphic card, without that the scroreboard and other text are broken) The only issue is that not every update completed successefully. So when it crash I run osume! and everything is working fine from the may's wine version 1.5.31 to the actual 1.7.8. Playing solo, multiplayer, Tag coop, creating beatmaps. Max fps 60. Running nicely. running osu! with vblank_mode=0 gave you higher fps, but I don't using it, because on 60 fps its fine.

I have also another prefix with dotnet20 only for osu! and that prefix is working on my notebook. But on my computer it wont start until updated dotnet. Strange

zed-kun wrote:

Sort of a fix in the mean time - I pulled an older version of osu (from a few days ago) from my laptop and dropped that into my wine folder and ran that directly.
You can get it here if you want to try yourself: http://gibsonsec.org/~zed/files/osu!.exe (md5sum: d47ef68157ed98a4973a7b0d53eddc78)
Hopefully peppy won't mind me distributing this as a fix in the mean time.

Great! This launcher fixes this problem in my box! My wine version is 1.6 stable, with winetricks and dotnet35. Thank you very much!

Hi. I'm not used to linux ( ubuntu 13.04 ) and i'd like to play osu!. I installed it 3 month ago. It worked well but one day suddently i had an error message. So i tried to install it with ur guide but i have some problems.

". Create a osu! folder in the Program Files folder in your Wine prefix, move osume.exe to it, and start osume.exe"
I don't find the Progam files folder :/ i searched everywhere but i don't know where it is.
So i tried to open osume.exe without moving it and i have this

""
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x79394e36).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:79394e36 ESP:0033e608 EBP:0033e66c EFLAGS:00010206( R- -- I - -P- )
EAX:00000000 EBX:00881f78 ECX:00881204 EDX:0000040c
ESI:00000000 EDI:0033e64c
Stack dump:
0x0033e608: 799cd70a 00000135 00000000 00000000
0x0033e618: 79110ad4 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x0033e628: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x0033e638: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0x0033e648: 00000000 00000000 00000012 00000000
0x0033e658: 0033e6a8 7936a6d3 00881f78 00382010
Backtrace:
=>0 0x79394e36 in mscorlib.ni (+0x2d4e36) (0x0033e66c)
1 0x793952f4 in mscorlib.ni (+0x2d52f3) (0x0033e6a8)
2 0x793694b6 in mscorlib.ni (+0x2a94b5) (0x0033e6f8)
3 0x79369312 in mscorlib.ni (+0x2a9311) (0x008815c4)
4 0x0000001c (0x790fa3e0)
5 0x00000010 (0x02440002)
0x79394e36: cmpl %eax,0x0(%esi)
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (75 modules)
PE 400000- 44e000 Deferred osume
PE 5e380000-5e409000 Deferred diasymreader
PE 64020000-64033000 Deferred mscorsec
PE 78130000-781cb000 Deferred msvcr80
PE 79000000-79045000 Deferred mscoree
PE 790c0000-79ba6000 Export mscorlib.ni
PE 79e70000-7a3d1000 Deferred mscorwks
ELF 7b800000-7ba5b000 Deferred kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b810000-7ba5b000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bce4000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bce4000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7df6a000-7e09e000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7df80000-7e09e000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7e0e4000-7e167000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7e0f0000-7e167000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e167000-7e2a5000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7e180000-7e2a5000 \ ole32
ELF 7e2a5000-7e2e7000 Deferred rsaenh<elf>
\-PE 7e2b0000-7e2e7000 \ rsaenh
ELF 7e2e7000-7e301000 Deferred imagehlp<elf>
\-PE 7e2f0000-7e301000 \ imagehlp
ELF 7e301000-7e315000 Deferred softpub<elf>
\-PE 7e310000-7e315000 \ softpub
ELF 7e315000-7e34b000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7e320000-7e34b000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7e34b000-7e352000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e352000-7e35d000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e35d000-7e36d000 Deferred libxi.so.6
ELF 7e36d000-7e371000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e371000-7e37c000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e37c000-7e386000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e386000-7e38c000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e38c000-7e390000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7e390000-7e397000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e397000-7e39b000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7e39b000-7e3bc000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7e3bc000-7e4f1000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e4f1000-7e503000 Deferred libxext.so.6
\-PE 7e520000-7e5ab000 \ winex11
ELF 7e5ab000-7e6b4000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7e5b0000-7e6b4000 \ comctl32
ELF 7e6b4000-7e783000 Deferred crypt32<elf>
\-PE 7e6c0000-7e783000 \ crypt32
ELF 7e783000-7e7b9000 Deferred wintrust<elf>
\-PE 7e790000-7e7b9000 \ wintrust
ELF 7e7b9000-7e863000 Deferred msvcrt<elf>
\-PE 7e7d0000-7e863000 \ msvcrt
ELF 7e8ad000-7e8d5000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e8d5000-7e90e000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e90e000-7e927000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e927000-7e9c2000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e9c2000-7e9dc000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7e9d0000-7e9dc000 \ version
ELF 7e9dc000-7eafa000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7e9f0000-7eafa000 \ gdi32
ELF 7eafa000-7ec55000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7eb10000-7ec55000 \ user32
ELF 7ec55000-7eccf000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7ec60000-7eccf000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7eccf000-7ed3f000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7ece0000-7ed3f000 \ advapi32
ELF 7ed65000-7ed72000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7ed72000-7ed7e000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7ed7e000-7ed97000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7ed97000-7eda0000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF 7efa0000-7efe3000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7efe3000-7efec000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF b7428000-b75dc000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF b75dc000-b75e1000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF b75e2000-b75fd000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF b7611000-b77c7000 Dwarf libwine.so.1
ELF b77c9000-b77eb000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
ELF b77eb000-b77ec000 Deferred [vdso].so
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000e services.exe
0000001d 0
0000001c 0
00000016 0
00000014 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000012 winedevice.exe
0000001b 0
00000018 0
00000017 0
00000013 0
00000019 plugplay.exe
0000001f 0
0000001e 0
0000001a 0
0000002d (D) Z:\home\keito\Téléchargements\osume.exe
00000030 2
0000002f 0
0000002e 0 <==
00000031 explorer.exe
00000032 0
System information:
Wine build: wine-1.7.8
Platform: i386
Host system: Linux
Host version: 3.8.0-32-generic
""""
I don't understand anything. I'm sorry if the problem has been already resolved but i don't speak english very well and reading 40 pages is too long :/
Thanks for the help.

Briesmas wrote:

Hi. I'm not used to linux ( ubuntu 13.04 ) and i'd like to play osu!. I installed it 3 month ago. It worked well but one day suddently i had an error message. So i tried to install it with ur guide but i have some problems.

". Create a osu! folder in the Program Files folder in your Wine prefix, move osume.exe to it, and start osume.exe"
I don't find the Progam files folder :/ i searched everywhere but i don't know where it is.
So i tried to open osume.exe without moving it and i have this

[...]

I don't understand anything. I'm sorry if the problem has been already resolved but i don't speak english very well and reading 40 pages is too long :/
Thanks for the help.

as you're new to linux i have to ask you, did you know hidden folders (and files) starts with a "." ?
if i were you i'd look for a .wine folder or something like that to find the Program files but i don't have wine installed, and don't know it well, so it's only a guess.

---

You can try to install xna 3.1, it worked for me. However it can cause problems if you use more applications with wine. If it's your case, you should imo create another wineprefix for osu. Sorry for my English.
Terminal> winetricks xna31

-----
Personally I'm using Debian Testing (Jessie) x86_64, Wine 1.7.9 32bit custom build inside i386 chroot (i use schroot), after installing dotnet20 and xna31 osu! is sometimes a bit laggy but quite playable on my Intel GMA 4500 MHD and Core 2 Duo (GM 45 chipset)

Updated my guide a bit and clarified a few things: p/2577747

It would seem xna31 is necessary now also. If you only installed dotnet20 and osu! crashes on startup, try also installing xna31.

@Zikxxx

Thanks for the tutorial, it works for me perfectly~

Ubuntu 13.04
kernel 3.8.0-31 AMD catalyst 12.104
NetFramework 2.0+XNA 3.1+wine 1.6
Radeon HD7770
osu works but i have something like this:

800x600
FPS
game:
Windows ~900FPS
Ubuntu ~90FPS
menu
Windows~500FPS
Ubuntu~80FPS
1366x768
Ubuntu
gameplay ~31FPS
choose beatmap menu ~19FPS
osu isn't playable on wine

@Kiciuk
enable Strict Draw Ordering in winetricks for fix this problem this should work

Hmm, so, it would appear xna31 isn't actually needed. Installing xna31 installs dotnet20sp2, which is what is needed.

I was able to get osu! running by just installing dotnet20sp2.

Edit: Even dotnet20sp1 works with osu!. Just plain dotnet20 doesn't though.

I'm working on a slight different installation guide that would involve putting osu! in it's own prefix and disabling winemenubuilder (to get rid of the annoying error about it since dotnet20sp1/2), along with a proper desktop shortcut and icon. So far, the only downside is that you have to manually transfer .osz files to the Songs folder...

I'm playing osu! on playonlinux but the sound is playing with a robotic static like effect, it didnt do this until i played for a while. osu! is using dmusic to run the sound.

quigon157 wrote:

I'm playing osu! on playonlinux but the sound is playing with a robotic static like effect, it didnt do this until i played for a while. osu! is using dmusic to run the sound.

Sounds like it could be related to either ALSA or PulseAudio (although I think PoL defaults to ALSA). I might suggest trying the other out (would have to edit the registry I think or use winetricks).

Thank you

If using fglrx, it would appear that you may be required to use a CSMT-patched version of Wine for osu! to work properly at all. Without a CSMT-patched Wine, osu! would randomly lock-up during things like song select, skin selection, etc. (tested on openSUSE 13.1 and Ubuntu 13.10 with a Radeon HD 7850, both with 13.12 and 13.11 V9.95 BETA).

Currently, I'm using a patched Wine from foresto's PPA.

I also noticed I had to have compositing enabled on Xfce (4.12 on Xubuntu 13.10) in order for osu! to fullscreen properly with fglrx.

I finally got osu! running by installing dotnet20sp2 (after suffering from a bad case of ignorance), however, whenever I move the window, the following error occurs:

Attempted to install xna31, to no help.

Also, seeing that this thread has now become 42 pages long (and seeing as there are just a few other threads about it), why don't we create an article for all of the useful information at https://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/Linux? There's already an install guide at https://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/Installation but it lacks a lot of specific information and troubleshooting, not to mention the fact that it still states dotnet20 as a dependency, which should now be dotnet20sp2. I might jump on it in an hour or two if nobody else does, but I'd like to get some practice in now that I have it working again.

[Kitty] wrote:

...Also, seeing that this thread has now become 42 pages long (and seeing as there are just a few other threads about it), why don't we create an article for all of the useful information at https://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/Linux? There's already an install guide at https://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/Installation but it lacks a lot of specific information and troubleshooting, not to mention the fact that it still states dotnet20 as a dependency, which should now be dotnet20sp2. I might jump on it in an hour or two if nobody else does, but I'd like to get some practice in now that I have it working again.

Hmm, I may do it at some point (or check/edit it later if someone else gets to it). I recently updated the notes over on the Wine AppDB page though.

(idk if anyone here did it, but merging the Test notes over to Public and then changing Test to Beta was not the best idea imo... doesn't really make any sense. I got some cleaning up to do now)

As a minimum, you could get away with even dotnet20sp1. Not really sure if osu! runs any differently between dotnet20sp1 and dotnet20sp2 though, but from what I've seen, dotnet20sp1 is fine.

Winetricks does a 2-step process (I think it goes dotnet20 then dotnet20sp2), but PlayOnLinux makes it a 3-step process (dotnet20, dotnet20sp1, then dotnet20sp2) which seemed rather... excessive.

So basically, for a more minimalist install, dotnet20sp1 works, but I guess if you want to be up-to-date, dotnet20sp2 works also.

My osu works perfectly on Arch (using the AUR package), except for one thing.. Input lag is ridiculous, something like 300ms, the game is unplayable Anyone know of a fix?

Tear wrote:

My osu works perfectly on Arch (using the AUR package), except for one thing.. Input lag is ridiculous, something like 300ms, the game is unplayable Anyone know of a fix?

Is the input delay present with both keyboard and mouse/tablet/pointing device?

Not really sure what you could try. Maybe toggle Vsync (either in-game or with GPU-specific settings). What's your hardware and kernel?