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<blockquote data-quote="SilverBalls" data-source="post: 222649" data-attributes="member: 340"><p><strong>Fixed!</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks again Robert for the many suggestions. Much appreciated. The issue persisted with everything I tried. Even when I dragged TPA to the playfield only (in windowed mode) and switch a logo on, it stuttered and teared, but with the logo on it was smooth.</p><p></p><p>However it is now FINALLY working smoothly <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. And the reason is bloody <strong><u>Aero</u></strong> like you mentioned before. I can't believe it. Let me explain.</p><p></p><p>For my cabinet I used to have a few services disabled. Unecessary services such as Desktop Composition, Themes, etc. This is because when I built my cabinet in 2011 it was necessary to get smooth gameplay under XP, and when I installed Windows 7 I just switched off these things that I never use.</p><p></p><p>However a few months ago whilst using Unity3D Pinball I was getting tearing when using the cabinet mode. At the time I read that switching on Destktop Composition/Aero can solve the problem. Therefore I switched on the service 'uxsms' as the following page explains:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://ccm.net/faq/30281-how-to-rapidly-enable-or-disable-aero-under-windows-7" target="_blank">http://ccm.net/faq/30281-how-to-rapidly-enable-or-disable-aero-under-windows-7</a></p><p></p><p>This solved my Unity3D tearing problems. If I stop the service I get tearing. This led me to believe I had Aero switched on, so when you suggested it before I made sure the service was running and it was. Unity3D was also playing smoothly which led me to believe it was switched on.</p><p></p><p>After trying all your suggestions, I read back through your posts and saw the Aero thing again. After looking at some windows themes I actually saw there are Aero themes (tbh I never use them and stick with the classic look). I thought what the hell, let's switch one on just in case - and everything is super smooth!</p><p></p><p>I don't know why just enabling the service for Unity3D Pinball fixed that but not for TPA. Maybe it has something to do with having the applications overlapping each other, and by actually having an Aero theme enabled transparency is handled differently or something? Anyway I am over the moon!</p><p></p><p>It might be worth adding something to your install guide to say if you experiencing tearing or stuttering actually select an Aero theme. Just switching on the above service is not enough - you must actually select an Aero theme.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again to you and NoEx for so much of time helping me to resolve this. It will be interesting to hear if this also fixes it for NoEx.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SilverBalls, post: 222649, member: 340"] [b]Fixed![/b] Thanks again Robert for the many suggestions. Much appreciated. The issue persisted with everything I tried. Even when I dragged TPA to the playfield only (in windowed mode) and switch a logo on, it stuttered and teared, but with the logo on it was smooth. However it is now FINALLY working smoothly :). And the reason is bloody [B][U]Aero[/U][/B] like you mentioned before. I can't believe it. Let me explain. For my cabinet I used to have a few services disabled. Unecessary services such as Desktop Composition, Themes, etc. This is because when I built my cabinet in 2011 it was necessary to get smooth gameplay under XP, and when I installed Windows 7 I just switched off these things that I never use. However a few months ago whilst using Unity3D Pinball I was getting tearing when using the cabinet mode. At the time I read that switching on Destktop Composition/Aero can solve the problem. Therefore I switched on the service 'uxsms' as the following page explains: [url]http://ccm.net/faq/30281-how-to-rapidly-enable-or-disable-aero-under-windows-7[/url] This solved my Unity3D tearing problems. If I stop the service I get tearing. This led me to believe I had Aero switched on, so when you suggested it before I made sure the service was running and it was. Unity3D was also playing smoothly which led me to believe it was switched on. After trying all your suggestions, I read back through your posts and saw the Aero thing again. After looking at some windows themes I actually saw there are Aero themes (tbh I never use them and stick with the classic look). I thought what the hell, let's switch one on just in case - and everything is super smooth! I don't know why just enabling the service for Unity3D Pinball fixed that but not for TPA. Maybe it has something to do with having the applications overlapping each other, and by actually having an Aero theme enabled transparency is handled differently or something? Anyway I am over the moon! It might be worth adding something to your install guide to say if you experiencing tearing or stuttering actually select an Aero theme. Just switching on the above service is not enough - you must actually select an Aero theme. Thanks again to you and NoEx for so much of time helping me to resolve this. It will be interesting to hear if this also fixes it for NoEx. [/QUOTE]
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