I don't think that's right. I just doubled checked and the occurs regardless of whether or not the SB or video are on or not. It's also not my skin because it happens on multiple skins.Zaphirox wrote:
Its either SB lag or Video making it lag but Im not pretty sure I always get this kind of prob since then as well
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Re-checked well one thing for me to guess is the memorysstocd wrote:
I don't think that's right. I just doubled checked and the occurs regardless of whether or not the SB or video are on or not. It's also not my skin because it happens on multiple skins.Zaphirox wrote:
Its either SB lag or Video making it lag but Im not pretty sure I always get this kind of prob since then as well
i have experience gameplay lag after i update(update that contains replay speed of .5x). and memory usage is 200+ at initial instead of 100+mb.
I guess I'll have to just live with the lag. I have 8gbs of RAM and it gets nowhere close to maxing out at any point in osu!.
I've been trying to find the solution for my problem, seriously. If this was discussed somewhere - I didn't find it. Sorry. 
Anyway, here's my problem. As soon as I double click osu!, it's starting picture appears (as usual), but then my mouse disappears. Well, actually it's like the whole game window became transparent and I can't see anything. I can hear the music, I can hear the sounds of pressing buttons, I can play beatmaps normally. But all I see - is my desktop! No sliders, no backgrounds, no hitcircles. Not even a black screen. Nothing.
I tried reinstalling osu!, everything was okay until it started loading all songs I have got thus far. It has crashed (Idk why), and then this bug happened again.
Can you help me with this?
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UPDATE: Thank you guys, I'm tired of waiting, so I've just deleted .cfg file. Obviously, it helped me, not counting reseted settings though C:
Thanks again.
Anyway, here's my problem. As soon as I double click osu!, it's starting picture appears (as usual), but then my mouse disappears. Well, actually it's like the whole game window became transparent and I can't see anything. I can hear the music, I can hear the sounds of pressing buttons, I can play beatmaps normally. But all I see - is my desktop! No sliders, no backgrounds, no hitcircles. Not even a black screen. Nothing.
I tried reinstalling osu!, everything was okay until it started loading all songs I have got thus far. It has crashed (Idk why), and then this bug happened again.
Can you help me with this?
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UPDATE: Thank you guys, I'm tired of waiting, so I've just deleted .cfg file. Obviously, it helped me, not counting reseted settings though C:
Thanks again.
um...I can say that is normal when you play it turns like that too o3ozinckingeye wrote:
i have experience gameplay lag after i update(update that contains replay speed of .5x). and memory usage is 200+ at initial instead of 100+mb.
Lower your resolution and play windowed I manage to replicate that kind of problem but playing on windowed mode with 800x600 solved minesstocd wrote:
I guess I'll have to just live with the lag. I have 8gbs of RAM and it gets nowhere close to maxing out at any point in osu!.
My Osu! starts lagging as soon as there are sliders in the beatmap but as long as there are only hitcircles it works perfectly fine. Also the menu and the audio are not lagging at all. I didn't have any problems with Osu! around 3 days ago but I updated it now so could that be the reason for my problems??
I restarted my laptop afterwards and didn't change any settings at all before the lags started. It's on DirectX with 120fps and Low-End-PC.
I tried changing to OpenGL and a lower fps rate but that didn't help either
I restarted my laptop afterwards and didn't change any settings at all before the lags started. It's on DirectX with 120fps and Low-End-PC.
I tried changing to OpenGL and a lower fps rate but that didn't help either
I have the same lag :<Payaya wrote:
My Osu! starts lagging as soon as there are sliders in the beatmap but as long as there are only hitcircles it works perfectly fine. Also the menu and the audio are not lagging at all. I didn't have any problems with Osu! around 3 days ago but I updated it now so could that be the reason for my problems??
I restarted my laptop afterwards and didn't change any settings at all before the lags started. It's on DirectX with 120fps and Low-End-PC.
I tried changing to OpenGL and a lower fps rate but that didn't help either
Ever since the last update to Osu! my game has been getting long sputters of lag, and for the life of me I cannot seem to find out why. I have the same problem, but it starts in the menu and is present throughout my game, regardless of sliders or song selections or the options menu, it lags on them all. My settings have been perfectly fine up until now, so that leads me to believe it is something added to the game.Payaya wrote:
My Osu! starts lagging as soon as there are sliders in the beatmap but as long as there are only hitcircles it works perfectly fine. Also the menu and the audio are not lagging at all. I didn't have any problems with Osu! around 3 days ago but I updated it now so could that be the reason for my problems??
I restarted my laptop afterwards and didn't change any settings at all before the lags started. It's on DirectX with 120fps and Low-End-PC.
I tried changing to OpenGL and a lower fps rate but that didn't help either
Whenever I do multiplayer on here my mouse seizes to move how I want it to. Like if I try to move it straight left, it might go up and to the right. The input is just uncontrollable. Nothing wrong with my Internet, and my mouse has never done this outside of this game.
I found a program wich optimizes the computer to play games. It also closes useless processes to reduce CPU usage, among other things.
More info and download here. Note that you will need an account to use it.
More info and download here. Note that you will need an account to use it.
Gamebooster is pretty much helpful but sometimes not requiredS v p e r wrote:
I found a program wich optimizes the computer to play games. It also closes useless processes to reduce CPU usage, among other things.
More info and download here. Note that you will need an account to use it.
and btw a little note don't defrag the osu directory using gamebooster
what can be the cause for this?
it happens when maximizing the gamewindow or playing maps in osu! standard mode.
taiko, CtB and mania are fine.
the cause might be very poor Graphics, ram and cpu since this is on a Asus VivoTab smart me400c which runs full x86 win8
its a intel atom 1,8 Ghz (might be dualcore) and 2gb RAM, it says that is has a maximum of 725mb grafics ram and i dont know the coreclock
i'd like o know what's wrong if it isnt cause of the performance
it happens when maximizing the gamewindow or playing maps in osu! standard mode.
taiko, CtB and mania are fine.
the cause might be very poor Graphics, ram and cpu since this is on a Asus VivoTab smart me400c which runs full x86 win8
its a intel atom 1,8 Ghz (might be dualcore) and 2gb RAM, it says that is has a maximum of 725mb grafics ram and i dont know the coreclock
i'd like o know what's wrong if it isnt cause of the performance
never encountered anything like this before but its either on the skin or the vramZlofZ wrote:
what can be the cause for this?
it happens when maximizing the gamewindow or playing maps in osu! standard mode.
taiko, CtB and mania are fine.
the cause might be very poor Graphics, ram and cpu since this is on a Asus VivoTab smart me400c which runs full x86 win8
its a intel atom 1,8 Ghz (might be dualcore) and 2gb RAM, it says that is has a maximum of 725mb grafics ram and i dont know the coreclock
i'd like o know what's wrong if it isnt cause of the performance
Posted two methods that I discovered that will improve performance in your game. You can find these in the OP.
Edit: I should note that I don't think this thread is regularly checked for new issues. If your issue isn't tended to within a couple days of posting here contact a member of the support team. You don't need to post your issue here and may post in a separate thread. It is not so easy to troubleshoot such issues in a large thread.
Edit: I should note that I don't think this thread is regularly checked for new issues. If your issue isn't tended to within a couple days of posting here contact a member of the support team. You don't need to post your issue here and may post in a separate thread. It is not so easy to troubleshoot such issues in a large thread.
Thought this'd be the best place to hunt for help.
After playing osu! for a few weeks, I tried my hand at the beatmap editor. After trying .mp4 files into osu!, I converted the file to .mp3 and began mapping. Being horribly inexperienced, I gave up after a few hours and deleted the map, and took a break from osu! for a bit. However, when I came back (this is about the start of July, maybe a few days after), I found immense visual lag on both the menus and game. Turning off all the special effects and turning on the FPS counter, I saw a 10-20 FPS drop in the songs, and up to a 50 or 60 frame drop at spinners. So I ran windows update, updated Avast, updated Java, made sure DirectX was updated as much as possible, ran osu updater multiple times, ran defrags and virus checks, and uninstalled and reinstalled.
My osu build is b20130626, and I'm using Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Home Edition Version 2002. I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2 GHz processor speed. But osu ran perfectly before this incident, so I don't know if the physical specs are the issue.
After playing osu! for a few weeks, I tried my hand at the beatmap editor. After trying .mp4 files into osu!, I converted the file to .mp3 and began mapping. Being horribly inexperienced, I gave up after a few hours and deleted the map, and took a break from osu! for a bit. However, when I came back (this is about the start of July, maybe a few days after), I found immense visual lag on both the menus and game. Turning off all the special effects and turning on the FPS counter, I saw a 10-20 FPS drop in the songs, and up to a 50 or 60 frame drop at spinners. So I ran windows update, updated Avast, updated Java, made sure DirectX was updated as much as possible, ran osu updater multiple times, ran defrags and virus checks, and uninstalled and reinstalled.
My osu build is b20130626, and I'm using Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Home Edition Version 2002. I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2 GHz processor speed. But osu ran perfectly before this incident, so I don't know if the physical specs are the issue.
From all what I read I do not understand xD included in Osu and instead of having the 150 FPS drops me to 20-10. ALL I turned off. Help please c
I'm getting random slowdown on beatmaps at the start and at random intervals during. On a i7-4770k and a gtx 770, I have it limited to my monitor refresh rate, which is 144fps. I have also tried to remove frame limiting but that did not help as well, even tho it's always at 2500+ fps it's still slowing down at times.
This post is going to be messy. I have limited knowledge on this. Some of what I say is based on observed opinion.
You should try switching to OpenGl if you're having performance issues. Updating your drivers may help as well. There are probably performance related settings that are reducing stability of the frames. osu! may not be receiving enough resources to run for example. It wont help if you're using the highest resolution setting for your super wide screen with HD osu! textures. You can try using a lower resolution to stabilize your frame rate.
You may be experiencing input lag. Movement of the cursor requires frames to reflect movement. Large changes to the frames being processed can have an effect on how accurately you can move the cursor. You should try to reduce the amount of frames the game drops/adds during spikes. You can try the game's frame limiter. You can use a custom value by editing the config file (maxes at 500). If that doesn't help stabilize your spikes, you could try a program that reduces frames.
I'm not really knowledgeable about refresh rates of monitors. Sorry!
@rip Could you explain what you mean by slow downs?
You should try switching to OpenGl if you're having performance issues. Updating your drivers may help as well. There are probably performance related settings that are reducing stability of the frames. osu! may not be receiving enough resources to run for example. It wont help if you're using the highest resolution setting for your super wide screen with HD osu! textures. You can try using a lower resolution to stabilize your frame rate.
You may be experiencing input lag. Movement of the cursor requires frames to reflect movement. Large changes to the frames being processed can have an effect on how accurately you can move the cursor. You should try to reduce the amount of frames the game drops/adds during spikes. You can try the game's frame limiter. You can use a custom value by editing the config file (maxes at 500). If that doesn't help stabilize your spikes, you could try a program that reduces frames.
I'm not really knowledgeable about refresh rates of monitors. Sorry!
@rip Could you explain what you mean by slow downs?
@TheVileOne
It's really hard to explain, but I would experience slowdowns on the game, kinda of like when you play something in 60-144fps its SUPER SMOOTH, and when it suddenly drops to 20-30fps it feel REALLY SLOW. That kind of slowdown, but I was still at 144fps all the time.
After doing some testing I can now confirm that I have found a fix to this issue. I'm on Win 7 and I managed to fix these random slowdown by disabling Aero, now it's always super smooth. Seems like it was causing problems, how
I have no idea but it works. 
It's really hard to explain, but I would experience slowdowns on the game, kinda of like when you play something in 60-144fps its SUPER SMOOTH, and when it suddenly drops to 20-30fps it feel REALLY SLOW. That kind of slowdown, but I was still at 144fps all the time.
After doing some testing I can now confirm that I have found a fix to this issue. I'm on Win 7 and I managed to fix these random slowdown by disabling Aero, now it's always super smooth. Seems like it was causing problems, how
I have no idea but it works. haha i awhile ago i had this sudden delay on my cursor and i was raging all over =3=ll, but then after a day of idiotically flipping tables, i finally found out that i was on vertical sync. So it wouldnt hurt to try pressing F7 if there was like a delay for no apparent reason. idk, change it to like unlimited or something. Food for thought xP 
Every time I go to play a beatmap on osu!, my game is lagging a whole lot! What do I do about this?
you could try to disable the video, storyboard and beatmap skin? Also in options you can try disabling some of the settings for details settings.aliciasimoned wrote:
Every time I go to play a beatmap on osu!, my game is lagging a whole lot! What do I do about this?
Since last Update i've been getting a small delay at the start of some songs, it's not that big, but if the Notes start at the same time the music kicks in (like with no break or spinner before the first note of the song) it can be annoying.
it doesn't happen all the time, and it's accompanied by a "click" type sound (I can hear with my headphones on very high vol) when it does right at the start.
it doesn't happen all the time, and it's accompanied by a "click" type sound (I can hear with my headphones on very high vol) when it does right at the start.
So, i basically removed the major lag from my PC by using OpenGL. There are still some minor lag, but they are tolerable. I highly recommend you to switch to OpenGL first if you experience any huge lag.
I'm still waiting for that OpenGL osu! peppy
I'm still waiting for that OpenGL osu! peppy
My game is experiencing severe game lag. i am already in OpenGL but lag is still getting worse and worse. What do i do about this
I can't beleieve how well this worked. Hands downWinshley wrote:
Hmm, there's no problems to your drivers. Try disabling Windows Aero (use basic theme instead).
I play my trump card http://osu.ppy.sh/forum/t/141925
billy96 wrote:
So, i basically removed the major lag from my PC by using OpenGL. There are still some minor lag, but they are tolerable. I highly recommend you to switch to OpenGL first if you experience any huge lag.
I'm still waiting for that OpenGL osu! peppy
I used openGL and now I cant click anything. I cant even go Option and change it back to directX
cant do anything D:Hold SHIFT during starting osu!, and say no to openGL
If you've done all you can on the software side and nothing improves, and you're serious about wanting to play osu! without lag, you will have to seriously consider upgrading your hardware - at least to the level where it can play 2010 and newer 3D games without lag - and this means a discrete/dedicated graphics processor / GPU / videocard for desktops and certain laptops, and better laptops with more powerful graphics hardware for the rest.
Lasi i recall, a barebones desktop hardware package (4-core CPU, 4 GB DDR2 and motherboard with AT LEAST ONE PCI-Express x16 slot i.e. graphics card slot) will run at least $200, and a (PCI-Express, of course) graphics card will run anywhere from $75-150 or more. And please, don't be a cheapskate, get a Power Supply Unit (PSU) that is AT LEAST 500 Watts or more (and should have most, if not all the needed power connectors).
The rest are irrelevant with MAYBE the exception of Serial ATA standard hard disk drives, or if you intend to go bulls to the walls, an SSD for your Windows OS + performance emphasis programs e.g. osu! and the rest on some massive capacity SATA drive. (While you can still use your good old PATA/IDE hard drive, it probably won't be as fast in terms of program / file / song / beatmap loading times.
Of course, all of this assumes you can build your own PC and have the OS installation disc, drivers, etc.
Having a UPS is optional (maybe if your power company is a reliable one) but if you do, get one that is rated MORE than your PSU's max output + all vital peripherals' wattages. Just because the UPS says 600VA does NOT mean it can support 600 watts (it doesn't) - go look for the rated max wattage output of the UPS in battery power mode. I personally run my tower, modem, router and monitors on a 1200 watt UPS unit, and have been laughing off brownouts, power outages and power glitches/spikes/drops ever since.
Lasi i recall, a barebones desktop hardware package (4-core CPU, 4 GB DDR2 and motherboard with AT LEAST ONE PCI-Express x16 slot i.e. graphics card slot) will run at least $200, and a (PCI-Express, of course) graphics card will run anywhere from $75-150 or more. And please, don't be a cheapskate, get a Power Supply Unit (PSU) that is AT LEAST 500 Watts or more (and should have most, if not all the needed power connectors).
The rest are irrelevant with MAYBE the exception of Serial ATA standard hard disk drives, or if you intend to go bulls to the walls, an SSD for your Windows OS + performance emphasis programs e.g. osu! and the rest on some massive capacity SATA drive. (While you can still use your good old PATA/IDE hard drive, it probably won't be as fast in terms of program / file / song / beatmap loading times.
Of course, all of this assumes you can build your own PC and have the OS installation disc, drivers, etc.
Having a UPS is optional (maybe if your power company is a reliable one) but if you do, get one that is rated MORE than your PSU's max output + all vital peripherals' wattages. Just because the UPS says 600VA does NOT mean it can support 600 watts (it doesn't) - go look for the rated max wattage output of the UPS in battery power mode. I personally run my tower, modem, router and monitors on a 1200 watt UPS unit, and have been laughing off brownouts, power outages and power glitches/spikes/drops ever since.
Actually, any laptop featuring 3rd and 4th generation of Intel I-series should be able to run osu! smoothly since they use HD4000 / HD4500 (or something like that) which is good enough to run osu! decently, same applies for PC, if you don't play any other games than osu!, I'd more recommend buying motherboard with support for Intel's Integrated GPU within CPU, possibly HD4000, and it will work like charm.
Anything related to laptops
I suggest switching to windows classic(no theme), resolution 800x600, apply gamebooster 3, close any background programs running(torrents, setups, browsers, IRC, scheduled scans and updates, firewalls[depends]..etc. ]
Another thing is using framerate 60/120 don't use unlimited since the last time I used speedfan with the unlimited on laptop actually overheats
Higher the fps higher the processing you can use customframerate=60 , MyPCSucks= 1 in the [userhere].cfg
When downloading beatmaps use this method
close osu, download new beatmaps and drag them to the songs folder so once you open up osu its processing
Q.Lag Persist when laptop heats up?
A.Reboot/Restart PC/laptop
Q.Screwed up hitcircles and sliders?
A. Reboot/Restart PC/laptop
Q .Updated Osu?
A. Reboot/Restart PC/laptop
I suggest switching to windows classic(no theme), resolution 800x600, apply gamebooster 3, close any background programs running(torrents, setups, browsers, IRC, scheduled scans and updates, firewalls[depends]..etc. ]
Another thing is using framerate 60/120 don't use unlimited since the last time I used speedfan with the unlimited on laptop actually overheats
Higher the fps higher the processing you can use customframerate=60 , MyPCSucks= 1 in the [userhere].cfg
When downloading beatmaps use this method
close osu, download new beatmaps and drag them to the songs folder so once you open up osu its processing
Q.Lag Persist when laptop heats up?
A.Reboot/Restart PC/laptop
Q.Screwed up hitcircles and sliders?
A. Reboot/Restart PC/laptop
Q .Updated Osu?
A. Reboot/Restart PC/laptop
Is this thread supposed to be resolved?
I didn't either. I went directly to the resolved forum without checking.
Kert wrote:
Probably I should repost hereI always have a HUGE lag spike when the online scoreboard appears (after loading) when I'm already playing the map..
My only workaround is to switch to a local one.. Or sometimes I'm lucky and scoreboard loads fast, before notes appear
Can some optimization be made on this?
well... my problem is on Catch the beat...
everytimes i play a beatmaps... the catchers always can't be moved for a while ( a half secs)
when i change to vsync there's no change at the lagging... please help...
everytimes i play a beatmaps... the catchers always can't be moved for a while ( a half secs)
when i change to vsync there's no change at the lagging... please help...
I have the 3rd problem in the start of the topic.
Basically, whenever I'm playing, it just freezes lightly and I miss a note for no reason.
I can't play like this and I've tried closing ALL background processes, all USB ports removed, but it still happens. What the hell is going on?
Basically, whenever I'm playing, it just freezes lightly and I miss a note for no reason.
I can't play like this and I've tried closing ALL background processes, all USB ports removed, but it still happens. What the hell is going on?
I have this problem where my hit circles, sliders and spinners are delayed from the song. The hit circles don't match with the beat of the songs. I have the same problem with all of my beatmaps. What should I do?