Add a setting to disable kiai note flashing

[mouzedrift]

I myself find this pretty distracting and it actually hurts my eyes while playing faster maps (especially in taiko). I've also seen lots of people who share the same thoughts and would like to see this as an optional setting.

[peppy]

disable the game

[mouzedrift]

I'm not trying to be a troll but this seriously hurts my eyes when playing taiko (i don't notice the flashing in other game modes tho). If this is not going to be added to stable could this be added to osu! lazer?

[peppy]

Have you tried a different skin? if you reduce the coloured area it should greatly degrease the effect of kiai.

[mouzedrift]

Yes, I've also tried to reduce the note transparency, but the note flashing is unfortunately still very instrusive. Therefore, I decided to open this issue to solve the problem (hopefully).

Just to be sure, we're talking about the flashing on the taikohitcircle.png and not about the colour changes of the taiko-bar-right-glow.png during kiai times, right?

[WinterIsPretty]

https://osu.ppy.sh/help/wiki/Skinning/osu!taiko

My skin has no kiai effect so maybe you can go through the skinning wiki to see what elements cause this

[jjhhgg100123]

Curious if this can still be considered, even if it's just included under the existing "Shaders" toggle.

[mouzedrift]

additionally this seems to have a pretty annoying side effect on low end GPU's in my case intel hd graphics 4600. normally the game runs at stable 480 fps but when the kiai effect starts my fps become very unstable and start going down 100 fps and then back all the time resulting in a very annoying hitobject speed-up/speed-down in taiko which can be very annoying and hard to hit.

similar result on lazer except my normal fps are around 200 (draw) and they drop around 150 with kiai which seems better overall compared to stable but the base fps are much worse + micro stutters (not related to kiai) resulting in more screen tearing.

hope this can still be considered until lazer can run better than stable on low end GPU's since i wouldn't mind using lazer if it had the same performance as stable or even better.

[smoogipoo]

Can you show a video of this happening? I have a hard time believing that kiai can cause such a difference since there's no actual draw overhead afaik, even on stable.

[mouzedrift]

https://youtu.be/QoCAKkVMALA here a video on stable i set my obs settings to be pretty minimal so it won't eat many resources while recording since i don't have a working phone atm. first kiai section starts at 0:38 and ends at 1:08. the fps immediately drop in the video every time kiai starts and recover when it ends.

[smoogipoo]

Does this happen with the default skin?

[mouzedrift]

yep and the fps drop seems to be even worse with the default skin

[ghost]

any update on this? please? i seriously sometimes want to quit the game because of kiai flash

[innynips]

Any actual reason for this not to be implemented?