I don't know if this will be helpful to anyone or not but what the heck. I just recently tried downloading this table to give it a spin and found it to be unplayable. The problems I have are sound samples severely stuttering and out of order. Also, when I exit the table, sound will not function for any table I load (without restarting
VP). I do not think this has anything to do with UW's table design (GI lighting or not) since I can play all of his other tables smooth as silk. However, this is the only Gotlieb table from this era that I have on my test rig. But I do have dual boot....so I installed
VP, VPMame, Hyperpin on my XP 32 bit disk and tried again. The problem is gone and the table plays smooth as silk, just like all of his other tables. I have read in other posts that UW thinks that some stutter is possibly a sound emulation issue. I would tend to agree with this considering the sound issues I encountered with are with WIN 7 only. Since the issues went away on my XP 32 bit disk, I have to wonder if this is possibly a 32 bit 64 bit issue (other posters have indicated similar issues with XP 64) or just a Gotlieb sound emulation issue. I do not have a copy of XP 64 to confirm with, but it does seem strange that alot of the issues reported with this table come from people running 64 bit OS flavors. Again, this leads me to believe this would be an emulation problem, possibly only affecting the Gotlieb tables and or 64 bit OS.
Has anyone got this playing smoothly on any 64 bit operating systems?
Might just be that the PinMame team may need to look at this at some point.
FYI...
Sys Specs
Intel I5 2300
8 Gig Ram
1TB HD
ATI 4650 (Crappy ATI card by any standard and still plays all UW's tables smoothly execpt this at 64 bit)
Sound Blaster sound card
WIN 7 (Crappy)
XP 32 (Great)
Would like to hear from others having similar problems or sucess. I would really like to hear from UW on what he thinks. Seems like he gets alot a flack for high end tables, but I don't see any performance issues on any table I have downloaded of his (except for this and I think its an emulation issue).
Also..if UW reads this. Can't wait for BBB it looks awesome but understand the delay since I have read that you started reproducing table authors (good plan for the future...lol). Also, just wondering maybe...someday....NM for JP AFM table?? Love the work and keep it up! You are da Man!
Edited by chinzman93, 17 February 2012 - 03:46 AM.