DRM needs to be removed

[rukiaxplay12]

it makes the game not run right by lagging or game wont load up right i got to play like 4 song be for this ♥♥♥♥ started to happen

[cold side of the pillow]

Same, really thinking about uninstalling this game on PC and getting it on Switch or something else, because this problem makes the game unplayable :/

[rukiaxplay12]

yes and it will be like wwe 2k22 and take for ever to fix this problem

[wasdf999]

no issues here!

[Błażko]

I've had the same issue, setting my audio interface buffer size to 16 helped with it

[Apriarcy]

No lag here, idk if DRM is your issue

[ANGELfromSKYE]

I also had the lagging, but by putting steam in offline mode, it has been running smoothly again for me

[Steve]

The game is unplayable for me, due to the constant stuttering. It throws everything off and is just unpleasant to listen to.
But I don't want to stamp my feet just yet, in case its simply my PC is not good enough to run it.
Posting some info below, does it scream out to anyone that my PC specs are simply not good enough?
Everything else runs pretty fine for me and I play heavily modded ARMA III, which is notorious for a badly optimised engine etc, but I am always able to run it just fine.
I've played these Miku games for a good few years now and was so looking forward to this one, purely from a modding standpoint. But the (vanilla game) stuttering is mind bendingly infuriating and I simply cannot ply the actual game at this moment.
I've checked through the fixes and added the mods that appear to be current fixes until SEGA release some kind of patch, but nothing is working sadly.
Is it the below specs that are causing me my misery ?
My processor is pretty damn old, I am wondering if it's that ?

GFX Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. The graphics run absolutely fine, it seems, its the sound itself that is stuttering almost all the time...

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Edition Windows 10 Pro
Version 21H1
OS build 19043.1706
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0
3 screens running each at 60hz
Sound output is running through an M-Audio AIR 192/14, and I am also wondering if this might be the issue, but I am too dumb to know what to change in my sound output settings, that might help ?

[🐺-Wolferatus-🐺]

i had no issues untile i activated the VIP DLC, after that i got shuttering too in some songs, not all.

[BoozeJunky]

I'm running it on two different systems. A Ryzen 3600 w/ 6600XT, and a laptop with an Intel Core i5-10300H w/ GTX 1650. The AMD system is constantly connected to the internet via Ethernet cable, while the Intel/nVidia system is on a less stable wifi connection. Both systems have stuttering at about the same rate. Not in every song, but at least once or twice in every second or third song - seemingly randomly.

It doesn't make the game unplayable, but it does make it functionally un-Perfectable unless you get lucky or already know the song by muscle memory.

[LunarNeko]

After almost 30 hours of almost stable gameplay, the game doesn't launch at all for me any more. None of my other games are having issues so I've concluded after a long process of troubleshooting that it simply isn't a problem on my end. I cannot help but think that Denuvo might be the culprit.

[rukiaxplay12]

if there is any other problems keep Reporting them

[Kaldaien]

Even if Steamworks DRM is removed, nothing's going to change.

[MetalGearOpz87]

Originally posted by Guren:

Same, really thinking about uninstalling this game on PC and getting it on Switch or something else, because this problem makes the game unplayable :/

Too bad the Switch version doesn't have Future Tone.

[Steve]

What i've noticed ( for me ) is that the music becomes utterly un-synched from the button maps, when it starts to stutter. The graphics are running incredibly fluidly for me, but when the sound stops stuttering, the music hasn't jumped on ( it's like a series of fast-burst pauses rather than jumping audio ), it will continue on from the stutter. So you'll be hearing a certain part of the song, but because the graphics and button maps continue on as normal, with zero frames dropped, the then current button map will be for a part of the song that is 5 or so seconds AFTER that bit of the song that will be currently playing, making it impossible haha :D

I'm still somehow of the mind that my issue is to do with my M-Audio AIR 192/14 and that might be causing my sound issues, as the game appears to be running completely perfectly otherwise. My M-Audio is my soundcard, as it were ( external sound device for running low latency guitars into your PC, as it were ) and that could be causing a conflict perhaps. Then again all my other games' sound is only ever fine. I am so confused! :S