Drum Chart Stops after 20 seconds

[italianstal1ion]

Every time I run my drum chart, any drum chart, on Phase Shift 0.90 or 0.92, the notes for the chart stop appearing after 20 seconds. This happens in "real" or regular mode. The song continues to play, its just that the notes disappear. They are still in the notes.mid though, they all work on FoFiX. I can provide a video on request.

[David]

Can you post an example chart?

Thanks
David

[italianstal1ion]

Here's a video: - watch at about 0:18. Notes are supposed to be there. Here is the chart shown: www.mediafire.com/?spf5st46lc9ds56

But see the thing is, every chart does this. Not just that chart. Every chart I play in Phase Shift. So I don't think it's a chart problem (could be my computer?)

Video brings up another couple of points too:
1. Why does the yellow lane always have a cymbal note, even when its a tom, when the other lanes never do? Shouldn't it read from the notes.mid to see if the note is a cymbal or not like Rock Band? If you aren't playing in pro mode, all the lanes should just be normal ones.

2. No way I could ever hit the first 5 notes of this song. I like wait times before the notes start. I know this comes up a lot. Sorry.

[asskickulater]

Aug 10, 2011 22:20:22 GMT italianstal1ion said:

2. No way I could ever hit the first 5 notes of this song. I like wait times before the notes start. I know this comes up a lot. Sorry.

open the chart into eof, add leading silence (set to about 2000 ms) save, and problem solved.

[David]

I'm not having any problems with this chart. We have been having lots of strange issues like this since 0.90 and I think it's related to a possible memory leak that I haven't been able to track down. Can you try disabling the song previews in the menus and try again. As this is the main feature added in version 0.90. If not can you try fiddling arround and see if any options / different profiles and profile settings effect the issue.

Thanks
David

[italianstal1ion]

Disabled song previews - didn't fix.
Using Guest / New profile - didn't fix.

I disabled everything in the options that I could. Tried most/all selections for each menu option if there were multiple - nothing fixed the problem.


Also, when I press TAB during the song, the song first restarts instead of opening the options menu. Is this a feature or what? When I press 1 (green) the same thing happens, or if I press 2 (red) it goes back to song selection screen. This happens while I'm playing drums. Haven't tried other instruments.

Small thing: Shouldn't the "Now Playing" graphic be removed if "play song during menu" is disabled?

[David]

When you disabled the song previews did you restart the game afterwards?
If not can you try that.

Thanks
David

[breadache]

I've seen it stop like that before, I thought it was a deliberate symptom of failing the song. Like in the video (made me feel strange that it was my chart lol) you don't have the bot enabled, so it fails. And that point, ordinarily it would pop up the fail screen, try putting the bot on.

I also noticed you're playing 5 lane, which is why lane 2 and lane 4 are always cymbal symbols. It was GHWT I think made those two dedicated cymbals in their charts because of the kit. I think it would be kind of nice for the notes to use pro data in displaying cymbal or tom in 4/5 lane playing anyway, because I do use the WT kit.

[italianstal1ion]

Fixed - you're right Breadache. I turned on the bot and the song worked fine. It is because it fails and that's where the notes stop appearing. But the fail menu should come up shouldn't it? That's the only error I guess. And I turned back on all the options, still works fine.

I didn't notice I was on five lane, that's odd. But it explains the cymbal notes. Thanks.

[David]

However, this shouldn't happen anyway. Can you confirm to me that you restarted the game after disabling the menu previews and testing the issue?

Thanks
David

[italianstal1ion]

Aug 13, 2011 7:38:46 GMT David said:

However, this shouldn't happen anyway. Can you confirm to me that you restarted the game after disabling the menu previews and testing the issue?

Thanks
David

Yes. Turned on game, song previews enabled, issue persists. Disabled song previews, exited game. Opened game, issue persists.