diff --git a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Timing/EffectSection.cs b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Timing/EffectSection.cs
index 8d12317ee9..9be663bb26 100644
--- a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Timing/EffectSection.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Timing/EffectSection.cs
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ using osu.Framework.Allocation;
 using osu.Framework.Bindables;
 using osu.Framework.Graphics;
 using osu.Game.Beatmaps.ControlPoints;
+using osu.Game.Configuration;
 using osu.Game.Graphics.UserInterfaceV2;
+using osu.Game.Rulesets.UI.Scrolling;
 
 namespace osu.Game.Screens.Edit.Timing
 {
@@ -41,10 +43,8 @@ namespace osu.Game.Screens.Edit.Timing
             omitBarLine.Current.BindValueChanged(_ => saveChanges());
             scrollSpeedSlider.Current.BindValueChanged(_ => saveChanges());
 
-            // adjusting scroll speed on osu/catch rulesets results in undefined behaviour during legacy beatmap decoding, and generally shouldn't be shown.
-            // todo: there should be proper way to identify such rulesets, but this should do for now.
-            var ruleset = Beatmap.BeatmapInfo.Ruleset;
-            if (ruleset.OnlineID == 0 || ruleset.OnlineID == 2)
+            var drawableRuleset = Beatmap.BeatmapInfo.Ruleset.CreateInstance().CreateDrawableRulesetWith(Beatmap.PlayableBeatmap);
+            if (drawableRuleset is not IDrawableScrollingRuleset scrollingRuleset || scrollingRuleset.VisualisationMethod == ScrollVisualisationMethod.Constant)
                 scrollSpeedSlider.Hide();
 
             void saveChanges()