Play Cursor not visible with fast tempos

[oxxi]

The play cursor isn't visible on fast tempos when I uncheck 'follow song'. Also when the tempo is slow enough to see the play cursor it is flickering. I didn't have this issue before and I'm on the same computer.

[Saga Musix]

This mostly happens because OpenMPT does not double-buffer the pattern display, which does not play well with the compositing window manager used by default in Windows 7.
There are several factors that may come into play why it just started happening for you, e.g. because the compositing window manager was not used (on Windows 7, it can be disabled if you are not using Aero, but Aero designs require it) or because you used a different audio configuration with a different period setting, which directly influences how often the display is updated.
Ultimately we need to start double-buffering the pattern editor (just like the instrument and sample editor), not doing it is a relict of old times, but until then, I can only recommend trying to experiment with the period settings in the sound card settings or disable the compositing window manager if you use the "classic" Windows look anyway.

[oxxi]

It looks like it's working now but it still flickers a bit and I'm on the classic windows theme, overall though it's tolerable. I had to lower the latency on my new soundcard's own device menu. I was originally reducing the latency on MPT itself but it didn't do anything. Also disabling the window manager didn't improve the issue. Thx for the help.

[Saga Musix]

I had to lower the latency on my new soundcard's own device menu.

If you're talking about ASIO, the latency that OpenMPT likes to use is just an indication to the driver, it doesn't need to respect it at all - there is a minimum and maximum latency the driver reports, and oftentimes these two numbers are identical - namely the latency that you specify in the driver panel.

[LPChip]

Ah yeah, I reported the same issue. There already is a bug report in the Issue Tracker and Manx took a look at it.

This mainly happens with high latencies as far as I can tell and doesn't matter if you have samples or vst's. ASIO is far more noticable on my end, but it does happen with WASAPI too on very high latency settings.