Why do I suck at my house?

[Could_Strife007]

Today I played SM at school, and I realized that I'm better than I think I am. At home I have a black IBM keyboard from 1997. It can't hit up+right+left at the same time among other combinations. I think this one of the reasons why I suck at my house. It also could be that my stupid integrated audio chip isn't syncing right. Anyway, I got to school today and I played Gravatronic Oni and got like a high A. Then I come home today and do a fresh install of the latest SM to see what would happen and here's the results:


I know it sucks, but I noticed that during a stream I would randomly get like 5 greats, or it would give me a good right after a hold. It could be my keyboard but I don't know. The thing is that new keyboards suck with these crap soft keys.

What keyboards do you guys have?

[Zaghurim]

RE: Why do I suck at my house?

Shut down processes running in the background. I have to do the same or I get bs greats and misses all the time.

[Could_Strife007]

RE: Why do I suck at my house?

I have absoultely nothing running in the background (besides a firewall)

Here are my specs:
Athlon64 3500+ @2211mhz (just downclocked to see if that was it lol)
1Gb GeiL ram 2t timing
GeForce 6600GT stock
120Gb SATA HD
MSi k8n Nforce-4 Ultra
Onboard surround sound
I built it myself

Do you think ZoneAlarm or AVG would be doing this?

edit: just tried it again with them turned off, not much of a change

[Could_Strife007]

Here's another example, at school I got a high B on Strangeprogram and here's what I get at my house:


???????

[matsownsyou]

maybe youre having a off night

[Shashakiro]

I have that too. I can only play at school.

Gaussian Blur at home: 80 mil.
Gaussian Blur at school: 96 mil, almost FC.
Please blah blah X-rated at home: 77 mil
'' at school: 96.5 mil

It's probably the keyboard, that's what it is for me. Mac keyboards are really nice.

[emccky]

maybe you gotta hit the keys damnit

[Dazzled]

77 => 96.5 is like.... HUGE.

[Demon_Of_The_Comet]

It's the keyboard, i have the Logitech something, i dont know but it's really good.
When i'm at school i get a mediocre A on SSB, but when i get home i get a somewhat high AA on SSB.
I cant even pass StrangeProgram at school XD gay ass Dell keyboards

[staroceanfreakx]

Logitech Elite

[Could_Strife007]

maybe you gotta hit the keys damnit

I know these scores suck, thats the whole point.

Like, you know the slow part in Playdoh with the jumps and the 16ths? I get like marvelous...great...great...great..great at my house whereas at my school they're all >perfects.

I've looked at the logitech elite, is it really that good? (I thought the keys were going to feel 'soft')

[Zaghurim]

Logitech and laptop keyboards are the only thing I'll ever play SM on. Pretty much everything else sucks (there are a few exceptions but you get my point).

[Could_Strife007]

So I found the elite for $29.89 after shipping, is this a good deal?



Oh and IMO, you havn't really used a keyboard until you've used an Avant. All you hardcore poeple would see a definite improvement in dance points. It's basically an exact remake of the legendary Northgate Omnikey

http://www.cvtinc.com/products/keyboards/stellar.htm

[Could_Strife007]

O.K. here's a little more accurate representation [Video Mirror].

During the stream you'll notice I'm doing a little better, most likely because I was not paying attention to the music and actually getting a little ahead. During the rest I'm fairly sure I hit it exactly on the music. This was defintely not a purposeful great attack and I can AA this on a bad day at my school.

So is it my offset? How do I set a global offset?

[edit: I just switched the links 'Video' is the faster one now]
[edit: BTW it's in XviD]

[matsownsyou]

your school plays on 1/1