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[maceman]

... another thing to always consider, although unlikely i suppose, is a bad GPU. I forget the one program, but it is like cpu-z for GPU's...maybe it was GPU-Z or something, but it might be interesting as well to run that while in VP to see what you card is doing.
These problems sometimes are tough to solve, but there must be a sol'n!

@Blur- thanx man. Appreciate your help. I have a couple questions for you at a later date in regards to the fplaunch, but i need to get this straightened out first

[chocky909]

All my other games play flawlessly. Metro 2033, Crysis, Arkham City. Also Future Pinball plays brilliantly since I updated the nVidia drivers. Like I said I'm going to reinstall VP and see what that does. That'll have to be tomorrow though.

I'm so happy I'm finally getting somewhere though. I've had this lappy for about 4 months and this problem has been getting me down so thanks for the help so far.

[chocky909]

I'm stuck now. I completely reinstalled VP and it makes no difference. I've tried switching everything 'off' in the NVCP and it doesn't help either. I was really hoping that something would change but I've hit a bit of a dead end now. Any suggestions?

[blur]

try opening vlc player in the back

[chocky909]

Did you mean to see how VLC played while VP was stuttering? Well, I played a 1080p MKV and it played smoothly as normal and didn't seem to affect the speed of movement on the table which I was playing simultaneously.

[maceman]

..what blur is referring to is that for some strange reason, on some win 7 machines, the vid card doesn't seem to kick in high gear. So what we've found is that sometimes opening something like vlc or for me on my cab i open Vpforums.org to the home page and leave it while i run my cab, and my frame rate increases by a very large amount.
In saying that, i don't seem to need to do that on this new win7 64 bit machine....

Can you do me a favour and just check again that you set you NVCP to "MAX Performance" rather than adaptive, under 3d settings, power management mode: prefer max.

Maceman

[chocky909]

Ah OK. No, it didn't seem to make any difference and anyway I've had Firefox running in the backgorund most of the time although I have switched everything off in case that was an issue and it makes no difference.

I just changed that setting as you suggested but no or little difference. I'm bamboozled. That brief elation of thinking I'd enabled the GT555 is starting to turn to despair again.

Edited by chocky909, 11 January 2012 - 02:37 AM.

[chocky909]

Update: I've connected my laptop to my 1080p plasma via HDMI with the laptop display switched off and it runs absolutely perfectly and this is with HDR ON. It couldn't be smoother at 1600x1200 windowed so I think this clarifies that the problem is not with the capability of my card rather the way the laptop uses it when the laptop screen is my primary display.

I'm open to any suggestions in the meantime. I will try anything.

[blur]

and what if you have playfield on plasma and bg on laptop?

this means you won't ever be able to play on laptop only

by the way - you have power cord connected all the time? - without power laptops go to savy mode so everything is slower

Edited by blur, 11 January 2012 - 08:27 AM.

[maceman]

What happened to the OP??

Anyways, another thought i just had is, what are your power settings set to in the power options in control panel? If it is not set to MAX Performance, the laptop will reserve power by not kicking in the video card fully.

Maceman

Edited by maceman, 11 January 2012 - 03:12 PM.

[blur]

everybody should have max performance set - not just laptop users, power saving degrades vp performance very much

[chocky909]

Most of the time it is plugged in and I've checked that power saving options are off.

Interestingly I've managed to get it to play properly on the laptop screen. I booted up this morning and the HDMI cable is still connected but the TV was off however, it played perfectly on the laptop screen which is interesting. I was disappointed to find out that just plugging an HDMI cable in on its own didn't trick the laptop.

I'm going to try connecting 1 and 2 monitors later and see how that works. I was using a 23" 16:9 1920x1080 monitor and a 20" 4:3 1600x1200 together with my desktop. My laptop has a displayport so I can technically connect them simultaneously so I'll see what happens then.

Edited by chocky909, 11 January 2012 - 08:27 PM.

[FDSystems]

BUMP!
I have now a Samsung laptop, with I5 & NVidia GT540M card,6Gb RAM & I´m getting all types of the WEIRDEST glitches & behaviours I´ve seen on this forums.Till now I could only play reasonably Rawd´s Triple Strike (Highly recomended ! ), but with HR OFF (!) in the editor.
There´s another thread about the same type of problems here :
http://www.vpforums....i...t540m&st=20

but the thread stops abruptly at about the same date than this one !

As I actually do not have time available due to real life, work in particular, I´d like to know if anybody with the same card has found satisfactory settings?

Otherwise I will have to find the time to post some weird screen captures & try to solve with your help, VPF friends.!

Edited by 1234fd, 03 April 2012 - 01:12 AM.

[FDSystems]

Anybody?
Anywhere?
Anyhow?

[blur]

older nvidia driver helps

also setting vp to 16 bit colors also helps

[FDSystems]

older nvidia driver helps

also setting vp to 16 bit colors also helps

Do you have an idea where to start ? How much older ?
I´ve got rid of the graphic glitches, with tables like UW Kings & Queens, & Rascal´s Flying Turns for example. I get a lot of ball stutter with Gator & 4 Millions BC by Starman ! I haven´t tried yet any VPM table or tables with transparency.

This is the most powerfull latop i´ve had til now & the worse to play VP.I never had any problems with ATI, other than the machine capacity.

Thanks for any hint !

[blur]

search forum, there was a thread in which mameman or maceman or somebody else said what version he used, maybe there was some tweaking (adding new gpu to inf file of older driver)

[maceman]

BUMP!
I have now a Samsung laptop, with I5 & NVidia GT540M card,6Gb RAM

Hi 1234... but is your laptop an optimus based laptop? You didn't mention that yet, but we are assuming you may be because of posting on the optimus thread. Once i know what system you have, I can add further help.
Cheers,
Maceman

[FDSystems]

BUMP!
I have now a Samsung laptop, with I5 & NVidia GT540M card,6Gb RAM

Hi 1234... but is your laptop an optimus based laptop? You didn't mention that yet, but we are assuming you may be because of posting on the optimus thread. Once i know what system you have, I can add further help.
Cheers,
Maceman

Otimo!
Great !
Optimus !
Thanks in advance!

[maceman]

Ok, so if it is Optimus based, what driver are you using for the Intel onboard video card and what driver for the nvidia?
I found with mine, it depended on the combination i used.

Maceman