Setting your latency right is essential for every single rhythm game... but sometimes it's hard to remember exactly what to do. I'm only posting this just after finding out my specific latency, and doing this helped me to enjoy the game a heck of a lot more. I hope it does the same for you too!

Latency settings help to sync your audio, video and controller/keyboard together. If your latency is at 0ms, then your settings haven't been altered at all, and you're entirely at the whim of luck to make sure everything is synchronized.

Your controller, headset, and video can all be synced together at 0ms just fine, but if you're noticing that the game feels really weird or strangely difficult, that you can't connect with the music at all, or that the timing seems a little off, it's time to step away from 0ms and set things up right.

But first of all, you're going to have to check your timing. Do this by playing a song and paying attention to the little bar at the bottom.



If you are hitting early, then little white lines will appear on the left side of the bar. If you're hitting late , then little white lines will appear on the right side of the bar.

Just give it a try and see what comes up for you. After that, determine whether you're hitting early or late and go to the proper section.

If you're hitting early, then your timing bar should look like this.



The way to adjust for this is to adjust your latency NEGATIVELY.

Examples of negative latency values include -10ms, -28ms, etc.

If you're hitting late, then your timing bar should look like this.



The way to adjust for this is to adjust your latency POSITIVELY.

Examples of positive latency values include 10ms, 24ms, etc.

You may be tempted to try and adjust in single digit increments, and I advise AGAINST this. Adjust by increments of ten, and if things start to feel better but not fully synced up, then you can start adjusting by single digit increments.

Also, the best way to remember how to adjust your latency is that you're essentially moving the perfect timing window in one direction or the other. So if you're hitting early and you adjust the latency negatively, you essentially move the timing window to the left of the bar. Or if you're hitting late and you adjust the latency positively, you move the timing window to the right.

Finally, some songs may have some timing issues by themselves regardless of whether or not you set up your latency properly. If you need to change a specific song, go into the song settings and change the song's latency using the same methods as before.

I hope this guide helped you out because sometimes getting the right latency settings feels like it's based on luck. But knowing this should make it a little bit easier to set up your latency now and in the future.

Have a good one!