Is timing in this game busted or am I missing something?

[Paulie]

I'm kinda losing my mind here. This has been my experience playing Rift so far:

I run the calibrator. Do the blip test and the visual test. Run the test chart. It readjusts my timing after one attempt. On second attempt I hit all perfects. Feels great. Can't wait to start actually playing the game.

I go play Elusional (Hard). Great chart, Great song. Simple, easy to read. I am *sure* I am hitting the notes on beat. I get more greats than perfects. Everything is way too early.

I manually readjust the offset through trial and error. Get a good score with like 10:1 perfect to great ratio.

Move to another chart.

Same problem. Everything's still either too early or too late and I need to further adjust the offset.

Sometimes it even feels like I get wildly different results playing the same chart back-to-back, without changing anything in the calibration.

What's happening? Is anyone else feeling this? Am I just crazy or is the timing really this inconsistent? I love this game and would love to just calibrate my offset and forget about it, but it really feels like I need to keep adjusting it over and over again.

[Jean]

I have had this issue with rhythm games before and it might have something to do with graphical settings/etc. I would suggest to try running it lower resolution + windowed to see if that fixes it, as I can only assume that something is actually causing the game to lag/put the timng off. My laptop is not TOO powerful so I have found this with games like Muse Dash

[Jho_Hammerbro]

I'm wondering about this as well. Would be great to get to the bottom of this.
Might be worth asking on the official Discord?

[Ibadgrammar]

Originally posted by Paulie:

I'm kinda losing my mind here. This has been my experience playing Rift so far:

I run the calibrator. Do the blip test and the visual test. Run the test chart. It readjusts my timing after one attempt. On second attempt I hit all perfects. Feels great. Can't wait to start actually playing the game.

I go play Elusional (Hard). Great chart, Great song. Simple, easy to read. I am *sure* I am hitting the notes on beat. I get more greats than perfects. Everything is way too early.

I manually readjust the offset through trial and error. Get a good score with like 10:1 perfect to great ratio.

Move to another chart.

Same problem. Everything's still either too early or too late and I need to further adjust the offset.

Sometimes it even feels like I get wildly different results playing the same chart back-to-back, without changing anything in the calibration.

What's happening? Is anyone else feeling this? Am I just crazy or is the timing really this inconsistent? I love this game and would love to just calibrate my offset and forget about it, but it really feels like I need to keep adjusting it over and over again.

after i try demo yes
most note i hate is zombie i never get it right

[Dusty Duster]

matching game fps to monitor refresh rate and having offsets to 0 worked the best for me

[BeanBoi]

Originally posted by Dusty Duster:

matching game fps to monitor refresh rate and having offsets to 0 worked the best for me

how do you match your fps? IK my monitor refresh rate but dont see a setting for the FPS

[Jho_Hammerbro]

Originally posted by BeanBoi:

Originally posted by Dusty Duster:

matching game fps to monitor refresh rate and having offsets to 0 worked the best for me

how do you match your fps? IK my monitor refresh rate but dont see a setting for the FPS

Check the "how to change some game settings" pinned thread in general discussions, it'll tell you how to do it.

[Miunih]

I can FC a lot of the songs. Baboosh Medium is one of the prime examples. Perfects all the way through, and then suddenly at around the time where you get the first 1-2-3 with the yellow blobs and Single big skull into two small skulls.. the game starts lagging for a few seconds and all my timings are off?

I managed to get third place on it, but going from perfects to greats and sometimes even OK! is very frustrating when the game lags, to the point where I even adjust my own pacing to intentionally lag behind the beat for that part.

I did all the FPS and vsync stuff, calibration is perfect, and still it seems to lag at some parts.