Beating the lag with USB3.0

[Leozaur]

Not written in a single guide to reducing the lag, but it was as simple as that for me: if your PC has black and blue USB ports, try plugging the cable into a blue one, it's USB3.0 (black ones are 2.0) with higher speed.

The ones on the front panel seemed offline for me so I never bothered using them, but after a few days of getting distracted on speedy parts because of the lag I stumbled upon discussion about USB speed somewhere while googling for entirely different thing. So I decided to try the ones on the back panel - and voila! >_< I'm happy now. Hope it helps someone too :)

[woodhead]

Blue ones did not work for me either. But it was not lag .It would not recognize the cable.

[Leozaur]

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

USB 3.0 is not recommended with the RS cable.

Whatever would the reason for that be in a 2014 game? if my PC wasn't a dinosaur I probably would't even have a 2.0 host on motherboard. They haven't tested it? But that's more like "don't bug us for suppport if it doesn't work" rather than "not recommended".
Either way, it works great for me.

[Buck]

Originally posted by Leozaur:

Whatever would the reason for that be in a 2014 game? if my PC wasn't a dinosaur I probably would't even have a 2.0 host on motherboard. They haven't tested it? But that's more like "don't bug us for suppport if it doesn't work" rather than "not recommended".
Either way, it works great for me.

The Realtone cable simply was not designed for USB 3.0, that's all. Yes, it's faster, but that alone is not a guarantee of better performance because the RT cable simply does not need nor will it take advantage of that. USB 2.0 can transfer up to 60MB/s so it's more than fast enough for the RT cable's needs.

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

The cable has been the same since the original game came out in 2011. If it works for you great.

The USB 3.0 spec was only just designed in 2008, and was only JUST starting to appear on systems in 2011 when the first RS came out as noted here. This is probably one big reason why the RT cable was designed for USB 2.0, it was simply the best choice at the time. Then as I said, there was no reason to "upgrade" it to be compatible with USB 3.0 because that spec brought no benefits to the table for it.

[Johnnie Concrete]

I use USB 3 with no problems.

[Leozaur]

Originally posted by Buck:

The USB 3.0 spec was only just designed in 2008, and was only JUST starting to appear on systems in 2011 when the first RS came out as noted here. This is probably one big reason why the RT cable was designed for USB 2.0, it was simply the best choice at the time

That makes sense, thanks. Though it's a mystery then why it works better (although there's still a tiny bit of delay left, but not long enough to distract even on faster songs)

...Wish they could support good old ASIO though. I'm not an expert in all this stuff but I have Line6 POD (although very old one), asio4all and a decent sound card that allow me to play through pod farm/guitar rig and mix with other synth software with no delay I can notice at all.