LucasMIDI | [Black MIDI] 9KX2 / 16 Way Legit Run Comparison @LucasMIDI | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 4 minutes ago
After many months of collecting data, recording runs, editing, and finalizing, I have finally completed my set of comparisons. These are all from computers/CPUs that I own and have recorded. Most of the PCs/CPUs are either ones that I got for free, for cheap, or have had for a long time and only put to use recently. I have likely put at least 300 hours into all 3 comparisons, probably even more. Hopefully these are worth it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

9KX2 is an interesting MIDI. Most of the lag comes from pure overlap spam; the MIDI can be nolagged easily by removing the overlaps. Most of the heavy sections are a mix of medium polyphony amounts (2,000-5,000) and high-ish amounts of notes per second (50,000-300,000). When combined, these can lag every PC heavily and bring lower end PCs (Especially ones with potato graphics cards) to extreme lag. I only included PCs that could pass the first 2 crashes here; I do own quite a few other CPUs that are pure potato and are not worth even recording.
The final crash on the MIDI is the most interesting one of them all. It lags terribly on some CPUs (mainly everything before core 2, and Core 1st gen-4th gen, and everything before Ryzen) due to architecture errata. Interestingly, a high clocked Core 2 Duo can pass the final crash but a i7 4790k cannot.
Much of the rest of the MIDI is relatively bland (in terms of crashes) and does not require too much horsepower to pass. Generally this will mean at least 2MB cache and Core 2 speed.

Oh yeah, all 3 comparisons are in at least 4K resolution (Horizontally). This one is 5K (5120x2880), the next one is 5K ultrawide (5120x2160), and the last one is 4K Ultrawide (3840x1440). This made it significantly harder to edit the videos in VSDC (It doesn't like high resolutions that much), and I had to use custom techniques to bypass the resolution limit that was slightly over 4K to be able to create the 5K videos.

Due to YouTube’s 5000 character description limit, I have trimmed quite a few parts off of this (Including PC Specifications) and posted them on google docs. See it here: docs.google.com/document/d/1bWaNzFl57rlkbfJDAg34XXhUnEkIOQYr7XGl7C9_y9A

The other 2 comparisons will be released next week and the week after. Thank you for watching!

Full Comparison Series:
9KX2 16 Way Comparison: youtu.be/7hLNIGR2wNw
Ouranos 12 Way Comparison: youtu.be/tm8s6FC7ao4
Two Faced Lovers 19.4 Million 6 Way Comparison: youtu.be/OxzSUL6Psew

MIDI Info:
Creator: TheSuperMarioBros2
Original Video: youtu.be/E7e36Yc3e3w
Download: On the Video
Notes: 18,000,000
Time: 6:11.4
Size: 137.50 MiB
Tracks: 41
PPQ: 192
Tempo: 60 - 190
Max NPS: 390,022
Max Polyphony: 14,878

Recording info:
MIDI Player: Piano From Above 1.1.0 x64
Audio: OmniMIDI
Soundfonts: Keppy's Steinway Piano, CFaz Keys III, and Arachno Soundfont
Soundfont authors: Bribri, MBMS, and Maxime Abbey (respectively)
The Ryzen 5 5600X and 2600 PCs were recorded with GeForce Experience (Shadowplay) in 1080p60.
All other PCs were recorded with my Elgato Game Capture HD (Capture Card) in 720p60.

Editing Info:
Video Editor: VSDC Video Editor Pro
Audio Editor: FL Studio 20 Producer Edition
Audio Effects: Fruity Reverb, EQ, Soundgoodizer, Loudmax
Thumbnail: Thank you to Knock for creating the Thumbnail for me! My attempts did not turn out as well as I would have liked, so he stepped in to help me. Check him out here: youtube.com/Knockfarted (and this is what it originally looked like: https://i.imgur.com/ARLQxUu.jpg )

PC Specs: On Google Docs due to 5000 character limit: docs.google.com/document/d/1bWaNzFl57rlkbfJDAg34XXhUnEkIOQYr7XGl7C9_y9A/edit

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