i'm confused about the latency settings

[Icedfate]

I don't know how to interpet it or where the settings should be.

I just fired up the game for the very first time and of course, I'm not going to be very good since I never played before and it immediattely wanted me to "calibrate" I did the "up arrow key at the auido latency" and then the "video latency" with the beating heart.

I am sure I missed over a dozen "beats" during the calibration.

in the end, it set the audio at 60ms and the video at 0 ms

it allows me to change it to whatever I want but since I have no idea how to interpret it, i have no idea what the settings mean or what I should set it on.

[CarThief]

Hm, well, hard to explain perhaps, but the calibration is to compensate for any possible lag on the screen compared to the sound and gameplay. So if your screen's half a second late to whatever the game does and what sounds it plays, it will somehow synch up the two, or something like that.

And by pressing the arrow key per bleep sound or heartbeat it can calculate any possible lag, making the game run as smooth and optimal as possible.
So if the gameplay feels off or doesn't respond properly to your movement input, go to options and redo the calibration again and that should fix such problems.

And setting or messing with the lantency numbers yourself is more of an advanced option setting, you should probably let the game create a number and just use that. I suppose the game starts with calibration since it'll dump you into the tutorial straight afterwards, and it's just too important to miss before playing the game.

[Icedfate]

okay well thanks for omeone responding. I just went ahead and started playing the game, it seems fine to me.
I guess.
I played through as Cadence and got to the Necrodancer as Melody and the game crashed...that pissed me off.
I think everything with the calibration is working fine. I find it interesting that it is easier to keep the rhythm than I originally thought it would be. you press it between the beats instead of exactly on the beats.

I'm still nowhere near close to being able to play that character that dies if I miss a beat, Ihaven't unlocked her yet anyway.

[paugus]

Originally posted by FeMaiden:

you press it between the beats instead of exactly on the beats.

Kinda sounds like your audio is off.

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by paugus:

Originally posted by FeMaiden:

you press it between the beats instead of exactly on the beats.

Kinda sounds like your audio is off.

I meant that it seems to give a pretty wide margin for error. I thouht I was gonna need pinpoint accuracy to play this game. Although, I still can't last longer than 15 seconds as Aria...

I wonder if one of the settings is a bit off, since sometimes I move in to attack an enemy and I somehow miss a beat and the enemy goes twice without me noticing what happened.