Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date, and make sure your desktop color quality is set to 32bit (Desktop > Right Click > Properties > Settings > Color Quality). If you are getting lag with fretsonfire, then. So I would suggest that you read the song makers posts to find out what difficulty the songs have been made for, and if the fretter has not posted the difficulty levels in their topics, then it is most likely that the difficulty level fretted is Amazing / Expert only.
These notes are put in by the note editor that they use to fret their songs, and this is to ensure that if the song is played in Guitar Hero and it only has one difficulty level, then the game will not crash. The fretter who created the song did not make that difficulty level for that song. If you play a song and there are only a few notes in the start and then no more notes after that (also called dummy notes), then. Some people have found that assigning strum to f12 or right-shift solves the problem.Īnother way to play 3 note chords is to get RF-Mod and go to player 1 settings and turn on 2 note chords only, You will only have to hold the two outside notes, and the middle will be hit. That, or try switching which key is used to strum.
Usually using 1-5 rather than the f1-f5 keys works. The only way around this (short of buying a new keyboard) is to remap your keys. This is because the manufacturer is looking for a way to save on costs, and they think that certain key combos would very rarely be used (aside from in FoF obviously). Some keyboards have certain key combinations that cannot be pressed together. If you can't play certain key combinations on your keyboard, such as a two note chord, or a 3 note chord, then. Open up fretsonfire and go to play game, if done correctly, then the songs will appear in the list. If the extracted contents are loose (not in a folder) then you will need to put them in a folder.ĥ. Extract the file straight into your fretsonfire/data/songs folder or right click it and choose extract here, and then open up your fretsonfire/data/songs folder, and drag the extracted folder into your songs folder.Ĥ. If you have WinRAR good, if not then you can get it here.ģ. Download the file to somewhere easy to find such as your desktop.Ģ. If it does not appear in the list, then look in that songs folder, and compare that folder with other folders in your songs folder.ġ. Once you have put the file in your fretsonfire songs folder, then all you will need to do is open up fof, and go to 'Play Game', if you have put the song in correctly, then it should appear in the list. (If you do not have a songs folder in your data folder, then you will need to create one.) If you extract the files, and they are not in a folder, then put them in a folder, and then put that folder into your fretsonfire songs folder.
RAR file with WinRAR, you can either click on 'Extract To' and then navigate to your fretsonfire songs folder, or you can extract it to your desktop, and then drag the folder that's extracted from it, into your fretsonfire songs folder. You do not need to buy it, and can carry on using it as much as you like, just close that message.
After a 40 day trial period you must either buy a licence or remove it from your computer. Please note that WinRAR is not free software. When you use it, it might eventually say something like. To extract this, you will need a program such as WinRAR. RAR file, you will need to extract the contents of it (usually a folder with a few files in, such as- song.ogg, guitar.ogg, notes.mid, song.ini, label.png).
RAR file, or how to ADD DOWNLOADED SONGS to your fretsonfire, then. If you dragged your songs folder out, drag it into this,
Or if you want it closer to rockband or guitarhero, get this instead (full playable release of 1.2.451 with FoFiX mod)- viewtopic.php?p=358245#p358245 If you have a load of songs already and dont want to delete them, then move them out of the folder before you do this.ĭelete your fretsonfire.ini, and the fretsonfire text document (Start > Run > %appdata%/fretsonfire/)Įither download this (full playable release of 1.2.451 with RF-Mod). It is highly recommended that you do this.
If you are using Frets On Fire Version 1.2.512 or 1.3.110 (Newest Versions) then-ĭon't, they are full of bugs, and therefore causes most people problems, and been the reason for so many topics in this section of the forum. IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE FORUM RULES OR THE FAQ, THEN IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU DO SO.