Case Study in Backglass-caused Ball Stutter: Funhouse

[ph349397]

I’ve been playing these two Funhouse tables on my two screen cabinet (1920×1080 playfield, 1280×1024 backglass, GTX 1650, i3 proc):

https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/funhouse-williams-1990/

https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/fss-mod-funhouse-williams-1990/

I have all the VPX graphical bells and whistles turned off and only use the anti-aliasing feature of my graphics card (NVIDIA Control Panel setting).  See images below for my VPX and Funhouse table settings.

When the ball travels across these rails and the lights are flashing, there is noticeable stutter/frame skips:

I tried running the table without the backglass and this stutter/frame skipping goes away.  The backglass I am using is this:

https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/funhouse-williams-1990-2-3-screens-directb2s-b2s-db2s/

So question is:

1. Are there any settings on the backglass that can improve this?
2. Are there any settings on the table that can improve this?
3. Can the backglass be edited to strip out the stuff that is causing the stutter? I’d be fine if there was no active lighting of the upper/art area of the backglass, if it was just static.
4. Also, what do you call the LED/DMD area on this type of backglass?  It’s not really a DMD right?  Is it referred to as the LED?

Thanks in advance.

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[JR]

During game play, have you right clicked on the backglass and set the performance tuning options to highest settings possible?  This has helped my set up run smoother.

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[Teahaus]

You should have pre-rendered frames set to 1.

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[Tom]

Did that fix it.  What’s your computer specs

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[JR]

Also, under Table I have the 1st 4 options set to Off and the rest default.

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[ph349397]

Here are the changes I made.  Unfortunately I don’t *THINK* I saw much of an effect, but I need to do more testing.

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[Teahaus]

It looks like you’re not using the latest B2S server version.  I would update that as well and see if it helps.

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