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| arcadepcnut:
That's a little bit smoother than mine but I'm running at at 1900x1680. Can you try running Jurassic park any version and lord of the rings? You don't have to do a video. At this point I decided to pull the motherboard out if my main pc core 2 duo 4.4ghz and reinstall everything on the pincab. Been working so much lately that I haven't had time to do that. Thanks for the video . I'm curious to know if you can play lord of the rings or especially Jurassic park on yours I also have a friend who has a GeForce 2gb card. Should I try to buy that from him? 2ghz video card make more difference than a 4.4ghz processor? I think it's a GeForce 480 --- Quote from: vidmouse on January 10, 2013, 12:05:18 pm ---Did a little more work on trying to figure this out for you... here are my video settings in Visual Pinball: Full Screen, 1280x1024x32 resolution, At Full Screen antistretch the ball to my monitor 16:9, all Details are checked, Hardware Device rendering checked, Troubleshooting options checked, Max Texture Unlimited, Alpha Ramp slider all the way to the left. Running Directx 9.0c on WinXP32 SP3 w/ the following PC specs Mobo: Biostar K8M800 Micro Motherboard - Via K8M800, Socket AM2, MicroATX, Audio, Video, AGP 8xk ... CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Processor 2.40GHz, 1MB Cache, 1000MHz (2000 MT/s) FSB, Brisbane, Dual-Core, Retail, Socket AM2, Processor with Fan Memory: 2GB (2x Patriot Signature 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory or similar brand) Video Card: 1GB card (forget the brand, ATI?) Monitor: Hannspree HF-259HPB 24.6" Widescreen LCD HD Monitor - 1080p, 1920x1080, 16:9, 1000:1 Native, 3000: Dynamic, 2ms, 60Hz, Integrated Speakers, VGA, HDMI Backglass monitor: unknown, about 19" IPAC2 (which in hindsight I didn't really need, I have a spare gamepad I could've hacked but oh well) Altec Lansing Speakers w/ sub Logitech keyboard optical mouse And here's a sample video playing ST:TNG on Visual Pinball, to give you an idea of the speed: --- End quote --- |
| vandale:
hi, my advice is to turn off the animated backglass, just edit it out of the table config and run a compile in VP. I run a 3 monitor setup on a 2.2ghz dual core pentium, 2GB DDR2 on a OEM Acerboard with a $69 Nvidia 1GB video, second cheapest I could find. HDMI to a 43inch Philips 1080p panel via HDMI, 26inch back glass viewsonic and 17inch DMD philips. This runs 300 frames a second on T2 Chrome @ 1920x1080 but if I run animated backglass (UVP) I get 60 fps and it runs like crap. When you are playing, all you look at is the dmd and playfield, who cares about the back glass doing the odd thing now and then, haha turn it off and try again. Cheers Gene |
| vidmouse:
--- Quote from: arcadepcnut on January 10, 2013, 06:30:53 pm ---That's a little bit smoother than mine but I'm running at at 1900x1680. Can you try running Jurassic park any version and lord of the rings? You don't have to do a video. --- End quote --- Lord of the Rings runs fine. I'm not in front of it right now otherwise I'd report the fps. I seem to remember Jurassic Park being ok too but I'll have to wait till tonight to check it out. Maybe lowering your screen res would help? |
| arcadepcnut:
Thank you for the ideas. I guess different people's ideas of "ok" are different. I wouldn't think your machine could run pinball at all :) You running hdmi out? That's kind of too low resolution for me. I turned off uvp back glass and tried again. Little bit better but not much. I tried just running visual pinball with no back glass whatsoever and no frontend at all I'm thinking os corruption or some sort. I care about the back glass I like it ;) Why even build a pinball machine if your not interested in the best recreation possible. Don't get me wrong that's for your help I'm starting to see its not my hardware or people would have said so. I'm going to scrap the project and start over from scratch rebuilding machine --- Quote from: vandale on January 11, 2013, 03:27:43 am ---hi, my advice is to turn off the animated backglass, just edit it out of the table config and run a compile in VP. I run a 3 monitor setup on a 2.2ghz dual core pentium, 2GB DDR2 on a OEM Acerboard with a $69 Nvidia 1GB video, second cheapest I could find. HDMI to a 43inch Philips 1080p panel via HDMI, 26inch back glass viewsonic and 17inch DMD philips. This runs 300 frames a second on T2 Chrome @ 1920x1080 but if I run animated backglass (UVP) I get 60 fps and it runs like crap. When you are playing, all you look at is the dmd and playfield, who cares about the back glass doing the odd thing now and then, haha turn it off and try again. Cheers Gene --- End quote --- |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: arcadepcnut on January 11, 2013, 04:32:54 pm ---Thank you for the ideas. I guess different people's ideas of "ok" are different. I wouldn't think your machine could run pinball at all :) You running hdmi out? That's kind of too low resolution for me. --- End quote --- I don't think anyone is expecting you to run it at low-resolution, but knowing what the result of doing so is, will be invaluable to figuring out the issue. Also consider that you are only running a 24" table. Are you really going to notice it that much if you use a lower resolution which allows the tables to run fluidly and keeps you from needing to invest a good chunk of money in a new system? --- Quote ---I turned off uvp back glass and tried again. Little bit better but not much. --- End quote --- The fact that you saw an improvement when you did so is pointing to system load as part of the problem. --- Quote ---I'm starting to see its not my hardware or people would have said so. I'm going to scrap the project and start over from scratch rebuilding machine --- End quote --- Think big :). If super smooth, regardless of table or what might be going on with the extra features, is what you are after, you will need a machine which is 1.5 - 2x more powerful than what makes some of the tables run well. From what I have seen, the recommended system specs for all of the extras is a fast quad-core, 4-6 gigs of ram and a fast video card with 2gigs. I have seen some with systems far below those specs say they were happy with the performance they have, but they seem to be in a lucky minority. RandyT |
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