Several new features are now available with this release, including Widescreen support and Autopilot mod, as well as several other bug fixes and optimizations. Of course, the most major change you will notice is that osu! no longer requires codecs to play videos. If you find any specific videos which do not work, please report them.

Tablet not working? Read this. Will be fixed in next public.
Video not working (on a specific map)? Post about it in this thread. Will likely need to be replaced.
Widescreen not "widescreen"? Correct - only the menu is. The rest is letterboxed for the time being. If you prefer stretched, don't use a widescreen resolution.
Loading maps in multiplayer may be a bit handicapped at the moment. I'll see what I can do about this in the near future.

Major Changes:
(+) Added "Mark all maps played" option under maintenance.
(+) Added AutoPilot mod.
(+) Added confirmation button for beatmap rating, and slightly changed design/display.
(+) Added scrollbar to lobby player list.
(+) Added widescreen support
(+) Chat supports multiple links per line of chat.
(+) osu! no longer needs video codecs.
(+) Distance spacing is stored per-beatmap.
(+) In-game scoreboard always shows song leader at all times.
(+) Incoming private messages open in new tabs by default. (Can be changed in Options > Online)
(+) Music control on main menu now has a toggle for permanent display of song info.
(*) 'z' key in editor jumps to first hit object.
(*) Performance improvements.
(*) Bancho announcements contain osu! chat friendly links.
(*) Changed behaviour of hover selection to include the "snapping to current" behaviour.
(*) Changed skinning engine's handling of animations to give correct priority to beatmaps over skins.
(*) Greatly reduced memory requirements of large storyboards by unloading textures after all references are lost.
(*) Improved beatmap deletion - much faster and more reliable.

Full changelog can be found at.. the changelog

Was this the update that osu! just wanted me to do? :U

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Okay well I guess it is xD
Just wanted to say that the new ranking thing is distracting with it's bright yellow-ness. Also, why put rank #1 when someones playing a map? Seems redundant.

ALSO: The background doesn't change if you do F2/Random Map. You have to play it for it change or manually select the song. Just a little thing I noticed :<

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strager wrote:

aburningman wrote:

Also, why put rank #1 when someones playing a map? Seems redundant.

See: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=11286

Eh? That seems kinda dumb. I mean you already see the "champ" before the song is even started, so what's the point? If it's bragging rights, one can see who is #1 on the song selection or even the song page on the site. If it's a goal, then yeah I can see that but shouldn't you be trying you best all the time? And if you can't get past #40 than it doesn't matter what rank #1, anyways.

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Nice work, peppy.
Now, caramell's video is view, hoho

strager wrote:

For replays it's interesting.

Also, people wanted it, so people got it. If you don't like it, too bad. Play another game. ;P

Comments on the updated in-game scoreboard, while we're on the subject:
I dislike the lowered opacity on the non-#1 non-self rankings. All scores should have the same opacity.
I dislike the brightness of the first-place position.

Understandable.
I agree with your comments, though. And could you make them like the blue they were or something? That yellow is just....gah. Also, is it just me or do they seem slightly larger?

Can someone please record the whistle sound? It shouldn't sound different, so is likely an issue with the audio setup (it also sounds fine to me and no testers complained...).

peppy wrote:

Can someone please record the whistle sound? It shouldn't sound different, so is likely an issue with the audio setup (it also sounds fine to me and no testers complained...).

Can you provide a DLL/EXE/whatever to be able to revert to the older version of osu! to record what it was before? Thanks.

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Minor bug:
If you put a video which has video codec problems, video doesn't shows and background turns black.

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Temporary tablet support workaround




You'll have to navigate the menus with the mouse, or you'll spam bancho with "zzzzzzz".
Use this until the bug is resolved.

peppy wrote:

Derekku Chan wrote:

Minor Bug: If you uncheck 'Background Video' in options, it rechecks itself once you've closed and reopened Osu.

Fixed

Thanks. I believe someone already mentioned that opening an .osu file in notepad from the editor doesn't work. If not, there it is. Otherwise, everything looks okay minus what others have mentioned.

I think there's a problem with widescreen support. I picked 1920x1200 fullscreen in Options as that is my monitor's native, in the main menu everything's good, but when I go to multiplayer or single player the resolution goes back to 1280x960 and I get 2 big thick black bars on the sides. Like this:

http://ranka.enigmaticentity.com/images ... hot094.jpg

It's like this during play as well, really annoying. Though if I just pick any of the 4:3 resolutions instead of 16:9 or 16:10 fullscreen will size it up like it was before without widescreen support.

Mystearica wrote:

I think there's a problem with widescreen support. I picked 1920x1200 fullscreen in Options as that is my monitor's native, in the main menu everything's good, but when I go to multiplayer or single player the resolution goes back to 1280x960 and I get 2 big thick black bars on the sides. Like this:

http://ranka.enigmaticentity.com/images ... hot094.jpg

It's like this during play as well, really annoying. Though if I just pick any of the 4:3 resolutions instead of 16:9 or 16:10 fullscreen will size it up like it was before without widescreen support.

This is correct behaviour.

nice work peppy!

I quite enjoy the widescreen mode, and so the autopilot mod.


my tablet click doesn't work (nor it has key binding option), but it's ok. I recently learnt to navigate most menus with the keyboard and do spinners with the z-key.

edit

sneaking icon change too. looks much better.

I don't know about anyone else, but AutoPilot is whizzing out on spinners for me. It will often lag out spinners past when they should end. So AutoPilot will still be spinning when notes are supposed to be coming up.

I'll get a screenshot of it to post here in just a bit.

EDIT:

YellowYoshi1 wrote:

I don't know about anyone else, but AutoPilot is whizzing out on spinners for me. It will often lag out spinners past when they should end. So AutoPilot will still be spinning when notes are supposed to be coming up.

I just tested a couple songs and I'm seeing it too.

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The editor gives the wrong debug information as you can see. The combo and score are different from what it says on the left.



Also, if you start a new map, the editor doesn't read the file attributes anymore such as the Artist and Title. Before they were automatically put in if the mp3 had those fields filled out.

After last update I can't play any beatmaps which include video. The osu crashdown a sayd me this:

"Your graphics card has reported texture corruption.
This is probably a result of not having enough graphics RAM. You may want to try swapping your renderer or lowering your graphics settings."
- How can I do that?!

I have GeForce 6600GT and I run on Win XP SP3.

Before this updated everything was OK, but now... Is posible to disable codec which is included in osu?

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Thanks!

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Finded some errors..
In multi plays, people usually click on F5 to make a new song available..
But now, F5 makes you go out the multi play room, and OSU starts to check "all" beatmaps.
This is very annoying.. Please fix this error.

P.S.1 When playing auto pilot mode, the spinner goes little slower than usual.
P.S.2 When watching replays, sliders go little slow.
P.S.3 Still some maps say about the codec.

What happened to the ouendan2 skin normalwhistle!?

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NavadeHo wrote:

Some nice adjustments, but I have two suggestions:

1. Search players when all online players are on your screen (F9)
2. Option to view only beatmaps you didn't play or/and you didn't FC

Post these in their own post in the Feature Requests forum. I think there's already a topic for the former.

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+ Spectator lags like $%!@#$%!#~#$@!$!

+ One of my beatmaps was gone so I redownloaded it. when the download was done the only thing it showed in osu was 'hitwhistle.wav'. That's not my beatmap D:
After 3 more tries to download it I finally got it though

EDIT: ALL MY OWN MADE RANKED MAPS ARE GONE!!! I TRIED TO REDOWNLOAD THEM BUT THEY DON'T SHOW UP D:

Thank you for this amazing update

Yay! Thanks man!

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Didn't you already have a autopilot mod?

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Every time I start up osu! then go to play songs, it brings up a black screen and processes all the songs I have really quick. It's not really that big of a deal, but it's never done that before. Also, alt-tab'ing out of osu! while it's in fullscreen doesn't really work for me anymore.

Shiftyness13 wrote:

Also, alt-tab'ing out of osu! while it's in fullscreen doesn't really work for me anymore.

Uh, what doesn't work? Nothing happens when you press alt-tab, or what?

Widescreen! Glorious!

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lesjuh: F5 at song select

Shifty: That's expected, afaik

Replays / Spec / Auto / Autpilot / SpunOut / etc lagging? Try turning off the Frame Limiter.

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testing frame limiter off, and eh, still trying to notice if there is really a diff---
oh wait, no difference at all. with or without frame limiter, it still goes at 60fps and much lower (lowest was amazing 33fps).

also, is it just my tablet or tablet support is back?! I was able to click with no problem.

im kinda lost but when i download it dosent open to osu automatically i have to go abck to solo

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The new no-codecs playback is a godsend for me. For some reason all my videos were stuttering, but that seems to be a thing of the past.

That said, I'm a tablet-only player, so hopefully that bug gets fixed soon.

Great update

What the crap, when I change the folder's name, the map doesn't loads correctly anymore...
Why is this? This didn't happened last build methinks... If this is intentional, it's pretty annoying tbh.

(Why do I change the folder's name? To keep my /Songs folder clean and pretty, what's wrong with that? I usually remove the ID of the beatmaps downloaded by pack)
(Yes, I've already tried F5ing alot. Restarting osu! makes the beatmaps appear again, but they are gone once I click them)

Aside from that, the extra-features are pretty awesome. The integrated codec is full of awesome.

Gens wrote:

What the crap, when I change the folder's name, the map doesn't loads correctly anymore...
Why is this? This didn't happened last build methinks... If this is intentional, it's pretty annoying tbh.

(Why do I change the folder's name? To keep my /Songs folder clean and pretty, what's wrong with that? I usually remove the ID of the beatmaps downloaded by pack)
(Yes, I've already tried F5ing alot. Restarting osu! makes the beatmaps appear again, but they are gone once I click them)

Aside from that, the extra-features are pretty awesome. The integrated codec is full of awesome.

Yeah for some reason moving maps around in subfolders or renaming subfolders is causing cache corruption in osu!

in the meantime, to solve the problem, you'll have to delete osu.db and have the program rescan from scratch and the maps will all be playable again. Also avoid moving anything into a subfolder or renaming a subfolder after this until a new version comes out.

james039 wrote:

Yeah for some reason moving maps around in subfolders or renaming subfolders is causing cache corruption in osu!

in the meantime, to solve the problem, you'll have to delete osu.db and have the program rescan from scratch and the maps will all be playable again. Also avoid moving anything into a subfolder or renaming a subfolder after this until a new version comes out.

Ok, I'll try to follow your advice then.
Thanks!

Hi!
My TabletPC doesn't works (lag clicks). My TabletPC has a TouchScreen and this viewtopic.php?p=122634#p122634 doen't works. I havn't mouse TT^TT I want to say it to you and, if you know how, tell me how repair it xD

SORRY! (My english is baaaad... I do my best >0<)

dahlia-chan wrote:

My TabletPC doesn't works (lag clicks). My TabletPC has a TouchScreen and this viewtopic.php?p=122634#p122634 doesn't work.

It doesn't work, how so? Can't you hold the pen to the screen the entire time you play, and just press z/x to click instead?

aallie wrote:

I just now noticed some quite annoying game lag whenever I have windows live messenger (version 8.5) or tweetdeck (a twitter app that works with adobe AIR) open

Is MSN Messenger 8.5 the newest one, where they use coloured squares instead of icons for status? That thing's a piece of shit; I get system-wide graphical lag (ie not just in osu) when someone signs in or out. Try either setting your status to busy or under Tools > Options > Alerts, disable all alerts.

So yeah.... Just to kinda repeat what I said before: Can you PLEASE change that awful yellow ranking during game-play back to gray? The 1st ranker will still stand out and everything.
...Just asking...

awp wrote:

dahlia-chan wrote:

My TabletPC doesn't works (lag clicks). My TabletPC has a TouchScreen and this viewtopic.php?p=122634#p122634 doesn't work.

It doesn't work, how so? Can't you hold the pen to the screen the entire time you play, and just press z/x to click instead?

It's hard to do that for me. I allways play holdding my TabletPC with my left hand. I don't have any free hand to press z/x.

awp wrote:

aallie wrote:

I just now noticed some quite annoying game lag whenever I have windows live messenger (version 8.5) or tweetdeck (a twitter app that works with adobe AIR) open

Is MSN Messenger 8.5 the newest one, where they use coloured squares instead of icons for status? That thing's a piece of shit; I get system-wide graphical lag (ie not just in osu) when someone signs in or out. Try either setting your status to busy or under Tools > Options > Alerts, disable all alerts.

I know what you mean. I was lagging really bad last night, and when I checked task manager, MSN Messenger was using around 50% CPU. Argh I hate that thing.

Start a song, don't skip the waiting time. Hover over skip button when waiting and leave it alone. You'll see it's blinking during the gameplay. Also, osu likes to crash on beatmaps with videos.

I can't wait for the next public. Is there any way to revert osu to a previous version, so I can use my tablet (I cant bind keystrokes to pen actions, so that's out of the question)? Or wouldn't it be better to release the next poblic sooner since it's a critical bugfix?

SoonDead wrote:

I can't wait for the next public. Is there any way to revert osu to a previous version, so I can use my tablet (I cant bind keystrokes to pen actions, so that's out of the question)? Or wouldn't it be better to release the next poblic sooner since it's a critical bugfix?

Can you switch your tablet settings from a "pen mode" to a "mouse mode"? That's what I did with mine and it works. Also, peppy is on vacation so there's little chance of another public until he's back.

This dosn't work with Wacom Bamboo One tablets because there aren't any options to assign buttons to tablet pen-tap >,<

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