Optimal settings and window size?

[Chainsman]

What are the optimal settings and window size to play?
Some window sizes I get shimmering/pulsating no matter what my settings are.
I have a fairly high-end video card.

So far the tablet version is so much better looking than I can get this one to look... and my tablet is higher resolution than my PC screen is.

[lamouettasse]

The optimal settings for you should be: max res you can pull from your screen, best graphics settings you can pull from your GPU without the ball stuttering or things like that. Otherwise in the best case scenario this game should be at his best with a nice HD screen.

Regarding your shimmering/pulsating problem I think you should check for dust in your GPU fan as an overheating GPU is expected to display artefacts and have less performance that it should have if it was operating in a more standard temp scale. Also if your PC ain't up to display frames at the same rate as your screen can display them you should notice a clear line breaking your graphics when the camera moves. For example when the table is displayed before a game, when the camera slowly pans and moves over the table this "line of breakage" can easily be spotted on a struggling computer. If you spot it then you should choose a lower settings for the size of your display, and why not ease a little those AA settings and things like that. You should also consider that having an high end GPU won't compensate for a loosy CPU or a slow RAM or a system that is completely saturated with craps running in the backgrounds. In my case the game works like a charm on a 4770 with 8go and a Radeon HD7850 as GPU and everything is set to max except the display size: 1280x1024.

I also find the android version somewhat more appealing graphically than the pc version. However I'm playing it on a crappy old TFT with no HD hope whatsoever. So I'm quite far from being able to display true HD and this in my mind accounts for the android version having more appeal to me than the pc one, as my tablet is HD. However I absolutely love the lighting effects in the PC version, a thing my tablet can't pull.

[Chainsman]

No. I want it in a window, not full-screen. I own dozens of other games that run beautifully in a window without the problems that Pinball Arcade has.

Dust and fans? No. You just don't know what you're talking about. These are artifacts of how Pinball Arcade draws it graphics and nothing else.

[MAHAMA ②⓪②⓪]

Not that it's any of my business, but why are you so adamant about playing games in a window? Also, what's the current resolution you're using on the desktop and which Pinball Arcade window sizes have you tried?

[RedRaccoonDog]

Laptop user detected.

>Gaming
>Laptop

Pick one.

If its not a laptop, then i dont wanna imagine the type of toaster you have hooked up to your "high end video card" that a tablet would have a larger resolution than it and out perform it.

[Chainsman]

This conversation is just silly. I play many games in a window and they are fine. My video card is a GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 1 gig GDDR5. My processor is a six-core AMD. The computer is far more than adequate.

The Pinball Arcade is the only one that does not work properly. Its graphics implementation needs much improvement. My tablets are far better at rendering The Pinball Arcade.

And with that I'm ignoring the rest of your worthless comments about dust and fans and toasters and why you can't imagine running any game in a window. Just solve the problem.

[Chainsman]

Someone commented but deleted the comment. Whatever. There is no reason I should not be able to play this game in a window.

[darthbc]

yeah, i hope they can smooth things out going forward

[MikeFarSight]

Originally posted by Chainsman:

This conversation is just silly. I play many games in a window and they are fine. My video card is a GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 1 gig GDDR5. My processor is a six-core AMD. The computer is far more than adequate.

The Pinball Arcade is the only one that does not work properly. Its graphics implementation needs much improvement. My tablets are far better at rendering The Pinball Arcade.

And with that I'm ignoring the rest of your worthless comments about dust and fans and toasters and why you can't imagine running any game in a window. Just solve the problem.

1920x1080
Windowed
Post Processing: On
Anti-Aliasing: 8X (12 and 16X usually get reverted to 8X in DX9 because of hardware/software limitations)
Texture Filtering: Aniso (x16)
Ball Reflection: High

Maximize window to fullscreen, otherwise you will get artifacts due to scaling. If you want a smaller window, then choose a lower resolution. 1280x720 for example.

[TTV TIOSNAF]

Originally posted by lamouettasse:

The optimal settings for you should be: max res you can pull from your screen, best graphics settings you can pull from your GPU without the ball stuttering or things like that. Otherwise in the best case scenario this game should be at his best with a nice HD screen.

Regarding your shimmering/pulsating problem I think you should check for dust in your GPU fan as an overheating GPU is expected to display artefacts and have less performance that it should have if it was operating in a more standard temp scale. Also if your PC ain't up to display frames at the same rate as your screen can display them you should notice a clear line breaking your graphics when the camera moves. For example when the table is displayed before a game, when the camera slowly pans and moves over the table this "line of breakage" can easily be spotted on a struggling computer. If you spot it then you should choose a lower settings for the size of your display, and why not ease a little those AA settings and things like that. You should also consider that having an high end GPU won't compensate for a loosy CPU or a slow RAM or a system that is completely saturated with craps running in the backgrounds. In my case the game works like a charm on a 4770 with 8go and a Radeon HD7850 as GPU and everything is set to max except the display size: 1280x1024.

I also find the android version somewhat more appealing graphically than the pc version. However I'm playing it on a crappy old TFT with no HD hope whatsoever. So I'm quite far from being able to display true HD and this in my mind accounts for the android version having more appeal to me than the pc one, as my tablet is HD. However I absolutely love the lighting effects in the PC version, a thing my tablet can't pull.

[Chainsman]

What resolutions can I use that don't mess up the aspect ratio or cause artifacts? I've not found any of them other than 1920x1080 which is way too large. There is no reason I can't run this in a window without aspect ratio distortions and artifacts. I play lots of other games this way. I'm suggesting that Farsight needs to fix this glaring problem.

[MikeFarSight]

All of these are same aspect ratio

1280x720
1366x768
1600x900
1920x1080
2560x1440

If still an issue with those resolutions, please send some screenshots to [e-mail] and link this discussion.

[Chainsman]

Great information, thanks! Can you make these settings in the application so we can easily select the correct ones? Thanks very much.

[chadeburk]

I can't get mine outta windowed. I set all my setting full screen, post pros on, 16x, 16, high ball res, and, it opens in window. Here is what's weird. Every time I open The Pinball Arcade the setting thing pops up along with a window that says cdm32.

[MikeFarSight]

In your save game folder do you have a file called settings.dat
C:\Users\username\My Games\Pinball Arcade

If so, delete it, run the config tool and see if it creates a new one. If it does and you still have this issue, email that .dat file to [e-mail]