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Revision as of 17:05, 3 February 2021

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Although this product has been released, it remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
osu!
osu! cover
Developers
Dean "peppy" Herbert
Engines
opsu! LWJGL
Release dates
Windows September 16, 2007
macOS (OS X) October 17, 2015[1]
Linux Early access
Taxonomy
Monetization Free-to-play, Subscription
Genres Music/rhythm
Osu! on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game needs a fix to work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later (see API for details).

Key points

Completely free.
Runs well on low-end hardware and many options dedicated to raise frame rate.
Constantly updated and community providing new content.

General information

Official wiki
Official forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Developer website
DRM-free
osu!lazer – future open source version in early development, not feature complete.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Developer website
DRM-free
opsu! – unofficial open-source client for the rhythm game osu!, written in Java using Slick2D and LWJGL
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Online features require an osu! account.

Game data

General settings.
General settings.

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\osu!.<user-id>.cfg[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\scores.db[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
osu! account stores high scores and ghost data.

Video

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
2D Game
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
2D Game
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Softening filter option.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Frame limiter enables vsync.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
960FPS, 240 FPS, 120 FPS, 60 FPS and unlimited. Unlimited can be restricted to gameplay only to reduce GPU heating.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Also supports Nintendo's Wii Taiko Drum controller,[2] tablets, arcade controllers and many more[3]

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.
Includes audio calibration with wizard.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music and effects. Ability to mute hitsounds.
Surround sound
Editing a beatmap to use a 5.1 .wav file disguised as an .mp3 file, will cause the beatmap to crash, whereas using stereo files would work.
Subtitles
Depends on played beatmap.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Only when minimized to tray by pressing Insert.
Language settings.
Language settings.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Bulgarian
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Filipino
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese
An up-to date page of all supported languages can be found here
Audio and subtitling depends of played beatmap.

Network

Online settings.
Online settings.
Online features require an osu! account.[4]
Features osu! Chat which uses IRC protocol[5] Automatically joins channel #osu when game is opened.
Uses a custom anti-cheat system.[6]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
16 Either head-to-head or team.
Asynchronous multiplayer
Highscores, ghosts

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9 Compatibility Mode needs to be enabled to use DirectX
OpenGL
Used by default
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Official 64-bit support requires osu!lazer
macOS (OS X)
Official 64-bit support requires osu!lazer
Linux
Official support requires osu!lazer

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Other Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Total size after installation at July 27, 2014‎ was 89 MB.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References