Pinball Arcade running slow..

[melissaaylor]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 15.6-Inch Jet Black Laptop. Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor 2.1GHz.
4GB DDR2 RAM.
250GB Hard Drive.
15.6-Inch Screen, Intel GMA 4500M.
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), 4 hours Battery Life. Is this enough to run the newest pinball table. it runs very slow. What do I do?

[Lord Squeak]

TPA Does require quite a bit of CPU% to run smoothly. That might be on the limit of whats needed.
Try it out on the most simple oldest table you have in windowed mode, open up taskmanager an check how much cpu it uses.

another thing that can slow the game down is v-sync.
If the gpu can't quite deliver 60fps, then v-sync will force the game to wait for the next refresh on the screen, resulting in 30fps (or around 45fps, if its on the edge.) 45 or 30 fps is typical for v-sync issues.
( v-sync waits for the screen to finish drawing the frame its working on, before sending a new frame for the screen to draw, this is to reduce "tearing")

V-sync should be turned off for pinball games . it causes delay on the inputs, and since the screen isnt moving around, but stays in the same place, tearing isnt really an issue. So turn off v-sync, even if you have no problems with the fps. ;)

[Tempest]

It's best to have a discreet gpu from NVidia or AMD. If you have to stick with an Intel integrated gpu, try turning the resolution way down.

[melissaaylor]

thanks peeps. I found this site also> https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

[Lord Squeak]

I wonder why they are called "discreet" , when they are anything but descreet. (especially today with RGB LEDS everywhere!)

*after looking up the spelling, turns out there are 2 different words. "discrete" means seperate.*
TIL

[Tempest]

Sorry for being discreet!