Frets of Fire (aka What Guitar Hero SHOULD be)

[vlad321]

Chrizum said:

CaseyDDR said:

Chrizum said:
Meh, rythm games suck on PC.

1) You need a 100% solid framerate. Even the most powerful PC's have frame hiccups every now and then because of background processes.

2) You need to play these kind of games with a group in your living room, definitely not behind your desk.

ignorance is bliss I guess. 

Even the most shit-tacular PC can run music games smoothly. Also if you really want to illegally get rock band songs and beetle songs (which you are doing) just get a proper game like Guitar Freaks / Drum Mania who have been doing this much longer and much better than Activision/Harmonix. 

I'm not a Guitar Hero/Rock Band fan myself, but really, PC's aren't designed with rythm games in mind at all. Even most HD televisions have trouble keeping things lagfree, let alone a PC with all those background processes running.

Really, playing a rythm game, even on a NASA PC, is broken as hell, always.

Playing through Audiosurf I have yet to drop below 60 FPS. Sure it fluctuates between 55 and 65 sometimes but it never "hiccups" as you put it. Same with Frets on Fire, though some mods require more computing, of course. The end result is that it if you know how to manage your computer then theree wouldn't be any surprise processes. Just set everything so that it doesn't run without your say so (which SHOULD be the default, but I guess it's not anymore).