TPA on Windows 7 Looks Awful

[Flippy]

I've tried different configurations, changing the graphics setting.
Is TPA simply going to look like I'm playing it on a Super Nintendo on Windows 7 Home Premium?

 

[Sexton Hardcastle]

Time for the obligatory question: what are your system specs and what is the actual problem you're encountering?

 

[soundwave106]

Looks fine on my Windows 7 machine. What's your video card, that probably makes a bigger difference? (I have two 1600x1200 monitors running off an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti.)

 

[Flippy]

Well, guess I should have mentioned that -- it's a strange setup.

I'm running it on a Virtual machine on a brand new iMac.
Because the iMac Pinball Arcade has no mappable controls so I can't use my X-Arcade stick.

I installed the Windows 7 from my old PC because I still had the setup disc -- & it looks terrible.

But... I'm not having the flipper lag I had when I set it up on my PC.
Suppose I thought the iMac would handle it?

Sigh, back to the iPad.

 

[TomL]

Well, guess I should have mentioned that -- it's a strange setup.

I'm running it on a Virtual machine on a brand new iMac.
Because the iMac Pinball Arcade has no mappable controls so I can't use my X-Arcade stick.

I installed the Windows 7 from my old PC because I still had the setup disc -- & it looks terrible.

But... I'm not having the flipper lag I had when I set it up on my PC.
Suppose I thought the iMac would handle it?

Sigh, back to the iPad.

Sounds like a problem with the settings of the VM. Nothing to do with TPA.

 

[Flippy]

Yeah, I'll try to fiddle with that some -- I thought it might be Win 7 since it basically looks as rough as it did on the same PC.
Thanks for the insight, I know it's a weird kind of conundrum......

 

[Zappa]

Looks amazing on mine. I flip the monitor 90 degrees and make it much better.

 

[AshleyAshes]

Could you at least provide a screenshot so we can all see what your idea of 'Aweful' looks like?

 

[Flippy]

Sure thing --

Just figured that it's running on Direct X 10. Is that a problem?

 

[Flippy]

 

[Flippy]

 

[Mike Reitmeyer]

What resolution do you have it set to? To me that looks like 640x480 in a large window.

 

[Flippy]

It's on 1600 X 1200. Tried fiddling with those settings, no difference.

Can't seem to get TPA to go into Configuration Mode.

 

[mpad]

Did you mess with the display driver?

 

[AshleyAshes]

Yeah, I'm gonna go with Occam's Razor and blame this on your virtual machine setup.

 

[Flippy]

Probably so -- it confuses the situation but when I set up TPA on the PC it pretty much looked just the same.

Somewhere in there I'll figure it out.....

Thanks for everyone's help.

 

[TomL]

Did you use an offlabel knockoff OS? "Winjoes Sven"?

 

[Flippy]

Did you use an offlabel knockoff OS? "Winjoes Sven"?

Not sure -- I'll look back at the box.
It should be legit, it was nearly ten dollars at K-Mart.