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Itg2 Pc Download Openitg / Notitg FAQ itg2 pc download OpenITG / NotITG FAQ. OpenITG is a modification of StepMania 3.95, inspired by the In The Groove series. It's an older (but still powerful, and not outdated!) version of StepMania. You can play a large catalog of (sometimes modded!) simfiles, use custom themes, and do almost everything that you can do in StepMania 5! You can find modded simfiles for OpenITG, for example, in TaroNuke's channel, WinDEU's channel, or PuuroKulho's channel. There are a complete database available here. A full zip file can be found here. You can download OpenITG here! What is NotITG? NotITG is a custom version of OpenITG made by TaroNuke, that allows you (and developers) to do more things. It has been created on March 2011, and is currently very active and updated with new features! There are many simfiles for that version, and there are always new ones! You can find a complete database of NotITG files there! The latest release of NotITG can be found there. Subscribe to TaroNuke's channel to make sure you're up-to-date! Are they similar to StepMania 5? No, No , No , No and No! Okay, they are all based on Stepmania, they are all rhythm games, they have the same gameplay, but ITG and SM5 runs differently! On ITG, scripts are based on XML files, while SM5 uses Lua files. ITG uses Lua 5.0, while SM5 uses Lua 5.1. Those terms may be unknown to you, but they mean that any modded simfile from SM5 won't work in ITG, and any theme or noteskin from ITG won't work in SM5 (or vice-versa)! So please, don't try a SM5 thing on ITG, or an ITG thing on SM5. It's just a waste of time. Of course, standard simfiles runs pretty well on both, since they read both .sm files! Okay, I want to install OpenITG/NotITG now! Nope. You need to know a few important things before trying to install OpenITG or NotITG : Don't install ITG in the Program Files folder! Yes, we know that it's the default location, but that's dumb. Program Files is a folder which requires elevated privileges to write inside it. It means that you have to launch ITG as an administrator in order to play it, which is not recommended at all. You can install it anywhere else if you want to. For example, you can have a C:\Games, a folder on your Desktop, on an external drive. Everything that isn't Program Files is good! If it's crashing, it's not broken! If you have any issue while launching the game, just continue to read this page! You will easily and quickly fix any occuring issue. Again, This is not SM5 . Don't try any SM5 theme or noteskin! There also are themes for ITG, like Simply Love, or GrooveNights. Before asking any help, make sure you read the totality of this page ! It most likely have a solution for your problems. If you understood these things, you can now install ITG! How to install OpenITG. Download OpenITG. Like any program, follow the instructions, but make sure that you install the game outside of the Program Files folder! Now, you can launch it! The executable is at (The location where you installed ITG)/Program/OpenITG-PC-SSE2.exe . How to install NotITG (the easy way) How to install NotITG (manually) Download the latest release (as a .exe) of NotITG. Drag and drop the downloaded .exe in the folder located at (The location where you installed ITG)/Program/ . That's all, just run the .exe now! Troubleshooting. A problem? An unexpected crash? Can't run the game? Here is a list of the most common errors! The game crashes on boot with a video card error. You have an error like this : Open the file at (The location where you installed ITG)/Data/Static.ini Go to the bottom to find "Windowed=0", set it to "Windowed=1". Save the file, close it, and restart the game! The game crashes randomly with a "Access Violation" error. Make sure that the game is located outside of Program Files. If it happens while launching a specific simfile, contact the file's author. If your game isn't in Program Files, feel free to ask the UKSRT Discord for help! Many people will help you! When launching a simfile, I'm having a white screen. Go into (The location where you installed ITG)/Data/Static.ini and add "VideoRenderers=opengl" at the end. Save, and restart. D3D is causing issues with some effects. My game is crashing when going to "Graphic Options". Open the file at (The location where you installed ITG)/Themes/home/metrics.ini Near the bottom, under the section " [ScreenGraphicOptionsBasic]", there is a line called "LineNames=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8". Replace it by "LineNames=1,2,3,4,5,6,7". (Just remove the ",8"). Save the file, close it, and restart the game! How can I install Songs? Open the archive (zip, rar, . ), and follow these simple steps: If the song archive does contain a readme.txt, READ IT . If the archive does contain a "Songs" folder, and/or "Courses", and/or "NoteSkins", just drag all the folders in the root of your ITG installation. If the archive just does contain a single folder, and inside it, some files (.png, .sm, .ogg, other folders, . ), you have to drag that folder into a group in your Songs folder (The location where you installed ITG)/Songs) . For example, if you're downloading NEXT STAGE, a file made by Daikyi, you could create a "Daikyi" folder inside your Songs, and inside it, drag the NEXT STAGE folder. You should have the Songs Folder, a group (here, "Daikyi"), a song (here, "NEXT STAGE"), and inside it, the files. After any of those methods, you have to restart your game. A song isn't appearing! Make sure that the song is located at the right place. It should look like (The root of your ITG installation)/Songs/(a group)/(the song)). If not, follow the "How can I install songs?" section. Try to open the .sm file with a text editor, and check if there is a "#SELECTABLE:YES;" line. If there is a "#SELECTABLE:NO;", replace the "NO" with "YES". If there is no "#SELECTABLE" line, just add it at the beginning. Did you restart your game after installing it? It's needed, so close your game and start it again. If you still have issues, don't hesitate to ask in the UKSRT Discord! How come "scalable" noteskin is highlighted in the NotITG v4 theme? It's because you don't have that noteskin. Please download it and place it in OpenITG/NoteSkins/dance. © HeySora · This website is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. · NotITG is managed by TaroNuke. In The Groove 2 PC for StepMania 4.0 Themes and Installation Guide. Post #1 · Posted at 2010-10-22 11:53:41pm 10.7 years ago. hellrazor Member + 586 Posts Reg. 2006-10-27. Several people have asked for the StepMania theme that I play on because it's extremely well suited for home play. It's the theme from In The Groove PC, modified for ITG2, and attached to StepMania 4.0 to unlock it further (because the basic ITGPC doesn't let you play .mp3 files, and this way you can swap themes back to SM4 for all the DDR functions, or even Online functions still with the nice ITG noteskins). It's a nice theme, try it out. 1 Download the .zip file, unzip and run the StepMania-CVS-20060627.exe. Why?: To install StepMania 4.0. 2 Run the StepMania 4 program once, then exit. Why?: To install some necessary folders that are created when you run the program. 3 Rename your Noteskin folder to something like NoteskinSM4DefaultThemeONLY, and place the folder named Noteskin from the .zip folder in your StepMania directory. Why?: You need to do this because the ITG theme EXPLICITLY needs these special noteskins to work, they are 3-D noteskins and they are fantastic to play with, you may want to keep the default noteskins in case you ever want to play in the default StepMania4.0 theme, so it's best to just rename that file for now so you can access it later if you want. If your happy with the ITG noteskins, then you can just delete the noteskins that came with StepMania4.0. 4 Delete the folder named: Themes, replace it with the folder named: Themes from the .zip file in your StepMania directory. Why?: This has all the theme data you need, including the theme you just deleted, but it's been renamed and a few more options are included. There's no reason to keep the theme folder that came with StepMania4.0 at all. 5 From the Data folder in the .zip, you will want to copy/paste the Static.ini and the two Splash images, into your Data folder in your StepMania directory. Why?: I believe the Static.ini has some data necessary to run the theme properly, such as ITG timing windows, the Splash images will just make the loading screen seem more professional. 6 From the Save folder in the .zip, you will want to copy/paste the Preferences.ini file into your Save folder in your StepMania direcotry. Why?: I believe this also has some data necessary to run the theme properly.
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