USB Polling Issues - CrashCringle12/Simply-Love-SM5 GitHub Wiki

USB Polling Issues

If your judgment distribution graph on Screen Evaluation has multiple individual "spikes" like Cloud Strife's hair in FFVII, your dance pad hardware is polling at a low rate.

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Fixing this is outside the scope of Simply Love as a StepMania theme. You may need to install drivers for your OS, modify hardware inside your dance pad, or both.

Modifying L-Tek Dance Pad Hardware

StarlightLumi wrote a guide for modifying L-Tek Dance Pads to poll at 1000 Hz:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Modifying-an-L-tek-Dance-Pad-to-Poll-at-1000hz-on-/

StarlightLumi's L-TEK guide was based on original code and efforts by natano:
https://www.natano.net/blog/2019-12-14-usb-polling-adventure/

Windows

sahunt has a guide on modifying Windows to poll at 1000 Hz:
https://www.hackmycab.com/?portfolio=usb-polling

Linux

geefr has a wiki page on identifying and troubleshooting USB polling issues in Linux:
https://github.com/geefr/stepmania-linux-goodies/wiki/So-You-Think-You-Have-Polling-Issues

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