Ballspeed on some tables poor....

[MrTwister]

Like Star Trek. Ballspeed between STNG and aFM is extreme.. Its like i will play STNG in space without gravity...sloooooooow..
theater of magic .. Ohh it ok, but not best (sometime slow)

And thats no slowdown from the app...

Will that be corrected?
(I've an IPad1)

 

[Carl Spiby]

STTNG is a widebody, its quite typical that they play slower.

 

[MrTwister]

STTNG is a widebody, its quite typical that they play slower.

Hä?? I know the real table. An the PA version is fsr away from this... Its extteme slow (my oppinion)

 

[Longi]

Circus Voltaire IMO have the same slow ball speed.

 

[norbert26]

STTNG is not that slow on my device faster the most of the other DMDs but not as fast as flight 2000 which is like a waxed table that never wears down.

 

[dtown8532]

My wife has an ipad 1. I have an ipad mini. My brother has an ipad 3. I've played TPA on all of these devices. The ipad 3 played the fastest and smoothest which each "weaker" device playing a little slower. Processing power. Tablet and phone makers want you to upgrade. It's business.

 

[norbert26]

My wife has an ipad 1. I have an ipad mini. My brother has an ipad 3. I've played TPA on all of these devices. The ipad 3 played the fastest and smoothest which each "weaker" device playing a little slower. Processing power. Tablet and phone makers want you to upgrade. It's business.

as long as its not stuttering or having frame rate issues i am OK with it. In the case of F2K i would like it to slow down a tad. I am playing on a touch screen not a full bodied pin with real flipper buttons in an arcade. What we need it a pitch control for table pitch slower devices speed can be turned up as needed. devices that are going to fast can be lowered a tad. as far as hardware i would expect a few years out of hardware investment and lets not forget what got invested into APPS themselves.

 

[dtown8532]

as long as its not stuttering or having frame rate issues i am OK with it. In the case of F2K i would like it to slow down a tad. I am playing on a touch screen not a full bodied pin with real flipper buttons in an arcade. What we need it a pitch control for table pitch slower devices speed can be turned up as needed. devices that are going to fast can be lowered a tad. as far as hardware i would expect a few years out of hardware investment and lets not forget what got invested into APPS themselves.

So far my expectations of a life span for an ios device for me has been two years. Now, technically, the iPad Mini is a front row Apple product. Meaning that, currently, it is the newest version of its line. But, since it's basically an iPad 2 on the inside, the Mini is already starting to show its age. You can see that ios 7 is taxing the device. It's certainly not awful but does display noticeable lag and I've observed more app crashes than with ios 6, possibly due to limited amount of RAM.

One thing I'd like to say about ball speed, though. I also have an iPhone 4s, which is similar to the iPad Mini in terms of hardware: A5 chip and 512mb of RAM. However, TPA runs better on my phone than it does on the Mini. For example, TZ on the Mini is pretty slow but on the 4s, it runs smooth. Ideas as to why this is?

 

[norbert26]

have you gone into >general>accessibility>reduce motion turn ON it should appear green. This took care of stuttering with BH . Also close background APPS if your not using them.

 

[dtown8532]

have you gone into >general>accessibility>reduce motion turn ON it should appear green. This took care of stuttering with BH . Also close background APPS if your not using them.

Yes and yes. I am EXTREMELY anal retentive.

 

[haj]

I'm on an iPad2 and I feel recent physics changes have made ball speed much faster, actually a bit too fast on some tables like F2K, WWind, HH and so on. I'm anxious when iPad5...could be really so fast for most tables...

 

[pinballchris]

If wide body tables are supposedly slower, why is HH so darn fast?

 

[dtown8532]

If wide body tables are supposedly slower, why is HH so darn fast?

Probably so the average buyer (i.e. someone not on here) doesn't fall asleep while playing them. Both Genie and Flight 2000 are way faster than real versions that I've played. However, when I'm talking about TZ being slower, I'm talking about the ball having an almost stuttering movement to it.

 

[blonder]

Is the problem I have too. I've also opened a case with Farsight and they told me there is a similar problem for Android users.
I've also seen that the ball seems slower in the central part of the table, while faster in the upper part or on the ramps. Oddly, in TZ, game speeds up during multiball, sometimes.

I have an ipad2 and the problem it's not hardware related: if you look at the CPU consumption below, it never exceeds the 50% with no other application running and with the device rebooted before the test.

 

[Baron Rubik]

One thing I'd like to say about ball speed, though. I also have an iPhone 4s, which is similar to the iPad Mini in terms of hardware: A5 chip and 512mb of RAM. However, TPA runs better on my phone than it does on the Mini. For example, TZ on the Mini is pretty slow but on the 4s, it runs smooth. Ideas as to why this is?

Smaller screen = less GPU demand maybe?

 

[canuck]

On my iPad3 at least, ballspeed is slightly but noticeably faster in landscape than portrait...so it makes sense that performance is dependent on the amount of pixels the hardware has to push. After all, the table is about an inch smaller in landscape, thus less rendering.

 

[Kolchak357]

When I went from an ipad 1 to an ipad 4 there was a very noticable speed difference. I'm not a tech wiz so I don't know it it's the way the app is programmed or hardware upgrade. But the 4 runs very smooth and fast. Some tables are even too fast for my liking.