Thank you! The only issue I have is that turning 3D Acceleration off makes my game virtually unplayable while recording. Does the DX8 mode not induce the amount of lag that the other one does? And is the DX8 mode reachable on the Steam version?

What specifically does this github thing do and how do you install it? Because I'm pretty sure I'm having the same issues in the sense that turning 3D Acceleration off makes the game run significantly worse than with it.

I decided to get into speedrunning a few days ago, and I've been watching a bunch of clips (namely from boopiper and courtemanche among a few others like RubyCored etc. etc.) and I've noticed a couple things. I chose this game because it's one I actually own and I felt it to be considerably more approachable than the other games I had in my library.

I noticed a bunch of things that were employed in the #1 run in the category I just ran (100K Zen). I noticed people able to get many tens or hundreds of matches even after the level was over. I was able to do this a little bit in my own run but how fast do you have to be before the "timer" is done and the game registers the "next level" animation to run?

Another thing I was thinking about during my own run was that are star gems and hypercubes worth the game pausing for their animations? Like does their points to time ratio make up for the time in inactivity they cause?

Other than those, is there any other tech I should know about? I'm aware of deleting a gem by doing the funny swappy thing - I would do it a lot just as a little casual joke but I've never really been able to do it in a practical application. I'm also already aware of what I can only consider being called the "Elite Technique". I've never been able to pull that one off. Any help/guides would be greatly appreciated!