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<blockquote data-quote="priested" data-source="post: 113353" data-attributes="member: 3758"><p>My first post but have been lurking for a while. PBA (and Zen) got me back into pinball and I have built a small tabletop cab with an old HDTV as the playfield and a spare monitor as the backglass. Needless to say, like many here I was extremely disappointed when Farsight announced that the PC version would not support portrait mode (at least initially). </p><p></p><p>Well, I have been playing around with the 2 window modes and discovered that I can temporarily make do on my cabinet using a window but I need a little help from those that may be doing this. At first I tried the Full Screen Window mode. While playable, this is really not an enjoyable experience as the screen is squashed at the top and stretched at the bottom. However, the normal windowed mode is actually quite playable using the overhead camera view stretching the window to where the floor portions are off screen. In fact, stretching this way produces a normal "portrait" view that isn't squashed or stretched. However, the problem I have is that the graphics are somewhat pixelated and any anti-aliasing I applied seem to be lost. In other words, it looks like crap. Not so terrible that I wouldn't play it but no where near as nice as Zen's portrait view.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, one benefit is that if your monitors are arranged such that the backglass is the left monitor, the scrolling part of the table menu and DMD during play are displayed on that monitor and out of the playfield.</p><p></p><p>Is anybody else doing this? If so, is there some way of improving the image or getting antialiasing to work in the windowed view?</p><p></p><p>Sorry if this is confusing...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="priested, post: 113353, member: 3758"] My first post but have been lurking for a while. PBA (and Zen) got me back into pinball and I have built a small tabletop cab with an old HDTV as the playfield and a spare monitor as the backglass. Needless to say, like many here I was extremely disappointed when Farsight announced that the PC version would not support portrait mode (at least initially). Well, I have been playing around with the 2 window modes and discovered that I can temporarily make do on my cabinet using a window but I need a little help from those that may be doing this. At first I tried the Full Screen Window mode. While playable, this is really not an enjoyable experience as the screen is squashed at the top and stretched at the bottom. However, the normal windowed mode is actually quite playable using the overhead camera view stretching the window to where the floor portions are off screen. In fact, stretching this way produces a normal "portrait" view that isn't squashed or stretched. However, the problem I have is that the graphics are somewhat pixelated and any anti-aliasing I applied seem to be lost. In other words, it looks like crap. Not so terrible that I wouldn't play it but no where near as nice as Zen's portrait view. Incidentally, one benefit is that if your monitors are arranged such that the backglass is the left monitor, the scrolling part of the table menu and DMD during play are displayed on that monitor and out of the playfield. Is anybody else doing this? If so, is there some way of improving the image or getting antialiasing to work in the windowed view? Sorry if this is confusing... [/QUOTE]
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