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[tttttwii]

Everything running is fine with the latest vpinmame.dll from the other site. No crashes, no glitches. Thanks!

[toxie]

 

???

 

Thats pretty strange.. Whatever, it seems like except for StevOz's weird rendering problems everybody else is problem-free so far??

 

Just to note, I'm playing desktop tables on a 42" TV in widescreen mode, I am not testing on a cabinet.

 

I had some time to spare and I played a few 9.x tables as well as the Road Kings 9.9.x table and the only things I noticed so far are a 'feeling' of flipper lag (probably due to using the default physics adjustments?) that couldn't be corrected setting the max pre-rendered frames to 1 in VP and in the nvidia control panel and there were two times where VP lost focus.  This was easily resolved by alt-tabbing to bring VP to the foreground and then vpinmame if it was rendering a window and not integrated into the desktop backdrop. 

 

The VP9.x tables I had time to test are:

 

Nitro Ground shaker by Eala

TOTAN 3.1.1 by JP

Eight Ball 2.0 by Megapin

Black Knight 2.1 by JP

High Speed 1.05 by Kruge99

 

 

But this is compared to 9.2.1, right?

[kruge99]

 

 

???

 

Thats pretty strange.. Whatever, it seems like except for StevOz's weird rendering problems everybody else is problem-free so far??

 

Just to note, I'm playing desktop tables on a 42" TV in widescreen mode, I am not testing on a cabinet.

 

I had some time to spare and I played a few 9.x tables as well as the Road Kings 9.9.x table and the only things I noticed so far are a 'feeling' of flipper lag (probably due to using the default physics adjustments?) that couldn't be corrected setting the max pre-rendered frames to 1 in VP and in the nvidia control panel and there were two times where VP lost focus.  This was easily resolved by alt-tabbing to bring VP to the foreground and then vpinmame if it was rendering a window and not integrated into the desktop backdrop. 

 

The VP9.x tables I had time to test are:

 

Nitro Ground shaker by Eala

TOTAN 3.1.1 by JP

Eight Ball 2.0 by Megapin

Black Knight 2.1 by JP

High Speed 1.05 by Kruge99

 

 

But this is compared to 9.2.1, right?

 

 

Yes, this is in comparison to 9.2.1 of VPinball.  What I'm saying is, 9.9.1 is probably good to go unless you want to dig deeper I guess.

 

I've tested a few more random 9.x tables since then and I think this is as good as it gets for me at least and I'm willing to accept 9.9.1 as is until VP10 arrives at some point in the future.

[toxie]

okay, good to know, thanks!

 

and i also know that unfortunately 9.9.0 and 9.9.1 are not the 100% perfect 'final' VP9 versions, but at least i simply have to cut some corners somewhere (VP9, VP10 and VPM development all at the same time doesn't work out currently :/).

[toxie]

..and it's released!

[Shadowsclassic]

Thanks a lot toxie, and enjoy that Brewski!

Wow, ten thousand downloads, VP is going main stream!

[bolt]

Thank you Toxie.

[StevOz]

I have it working fine now without any rendering issues...when I enhanced all the setting using nvidia driver all the rendering issues vanished and the resulting render was improved, without doing this there where still rendering errors, go figure?

 

So if any out there have those issues this maybe the solution.

[jimmyfingers]

Thanks for the update Toxie.  Was this ball ordering fix supposed to resolve the border graphics issues on the ball when the VP "Antialias Ball" option is selected and when it is on an alpha object?  It still seems to exist in tables like Haunted House for the basement window from the main PF and with Fast Draw using a ramp for the reflection aspect.  Both cases can be solved as before by disabling "Antialias Ball" but then the ball doesn't show any transparency.  This was the same as with 990 and all previous versions.  Was there no chance of getting the ball ordering to work with these alpha ramp issues before VP99 development is over?

[DreamTrap]

very smooth now used to get stutter on junk yard and a few others. now it's all gone

Edited by DreamTrap, 06 November 2014 - 03:36 AM.

[toxie]

@StevOz: Cool.. The joy of graphics drivers..

 

@JF: Unfortunately no.. It's just a tiny fix for the single case when you have multiple balls overlapping each other.. Then the antialiasing is fixed.. The more involved cases we have to fix 'somehow' during the later stage of VP10 development..

 

@Dreamtrap: Interesting.. Doesn't make too much sense to me, but maybe its due to slightly different compiler settings..

[paulkyriakides]

Hi Toxie

 

Thank you. When I extract 9.9.1 into my VP folder should I overite all dll files etc.

The reason I ask when I did this with 9.9 it changed the way some tables worked so I left the dll from 9.2 and just added the exe file

[toxie]

You should be able to do overwrite all dlls.. I also use 9.2 with these new dlls.. If it doesn't work then i at least don't understand why, as there is no reason for it..

[newandy]

I am currently running 9.9.0 with the update to use alternate Reg keys then the ones the 9.2 version uses so I can apply different settings.  If I upgrade to 9.9.1 with that change it back to using the same Reg keys as the 9.2 version.  If so is there a way to change that again to use alternate Reg keys? 

 

 

[DreamTrap]

@Dreamtrap: Interesting.. Doesn't make too much sense to me, but maybe its due to slightly different compiler settings..

usually any table that hasn't got the Lamptimer.Interval in it that i can't change to 60 i get stutter. this version said it fixed a memory leak that was probably the cause.

Edited by DreamTrap, 06 November 2014 - 02:59 PM.

[toxie]

I am currently running 9.9.0 with the update to use alternate Reg keys then the ones the 9.2 version uses so I can apply different settings.  If I upgrade to 9.9.1 with that change it back to using the same Reg keys as the 9.2 version.  If so is there a way to change that again to use alternate Reg keys? 

 

 

 

9.9.1 uses the same as 9.9.0. and these are and were always different from 9.2.0 and 9.2.1.

[paulkyriakides]

Hi Toxie

When I overwrote the dll's with 9.9 I noticed 2 things when running tables.

On older tables half the ball would be hidden behind the flippers.

and the tables did not move when pressing the nudge button.

[toxie]

thats super-weird, as the dlls have nothing to do at all with the rendering (only image loading and script parsing,etc)..

[marco helmink]

where can i get the new vpinmame.dll.

My 9.9.1 crashes all the time??

By every table.

 

My others vp9.9.0 and 9.2.1 working fine.

[toxie]

Here: http://www.vpforums....showtopic=27063