Drivers & Software

[johnhardyiv]

Figured I'd break this out into a separate thread for Visual Pinball X. 

Visual Pinball download | SourceForge.net 

https://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/categories/visual-pinball-tables-area/ 

https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showcat=50&dosort=1&sort_key=file_updated&sort_orde...

Visual Pinball X is an old DirectX9 app.  With my new 5600XT and drivers 20.2.2 (and 20.2.1 / 20.1.4) there are visible artifacts/corruption when you play a table as seen below.  It appears that it is trying to anti-alias straight lines and failing, producing these black or transparent blocks (similar to my Links 2003 bug), especially see the bottom parts of the flippers which look chewed up.

Also if you load a table into the editor, and hit F6 to adjust the slope and lighting of the table, the table is completely missing.  Here are some screenshots including the settings which are producing this effect.  Note that my prior card, the R390 (circa 2015) does not have these problems with driver 20.2.2.

The way it's supposed to look, below:

Corsair Obsidian Series 750D Airflow Edition, Full Tower ATX Case CC-9011078-WW
Corsair Hydro Series H115i Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler Cooling CW-9060027-WW
Intel Boxed Core I7-6700K 4.00 GHz 8M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I76700K
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz (PC4-25600) C16 Memory Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B3200C16)
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz (PC4-25600) C16 Memory Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B3200C16)
SAMSUNG SD590 Series S27D590P Black High glossy 27" 5ms (GTG) HDMI LED Backlight LCD Monitor PLS Panel 300 cd/m2 DCR Mega Infinity (1000:1)
SAMSUNG SD590 Series S27D590P Black High glossy 27" 5ms (GTG) HDMI LED Backlight LCD Monitor PLS Panel 300 cd/m2 DCR Mega Infinity (1000:1)
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1 TUF LGA1151 DDR4 DisplayPort HDMI M.2 USB 3.1 Z170 Standard ATX Motherboards
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit Retail from MSFT
Corsair AX Series, AX860, 860 Watt (860W), Fully Modular Power Supply, 80+ Platinum Certified
Samsung 970 EVO 2TB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E2T0BW)
Samsung 850 EVO 2 TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E2T0B/AM)
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 5600 XT 6GB

[kingfish]

I thought these games were OGL?

I notice you have 'surface format optimization' enabled which reduces some video settings. Try it without that.

[johnhardyiv]

Thanks, though wrong game.  I'm talking about Visual Pinball X which coupled with PinMAME allows ROM based pinball games.

The surface format optimization didn't make a difference, I still get the black squares.

[johnhardyiv]

Datapoint: I installed an XFX Fatboy RX590 Black and used 20.2.2 and these issues do not occur, so something with the combination of 5600XT and 20.2.2.

[johnhardyiv · Accepted solution]

This issue appears to have been corrected via 20.5.1 drivers. Just tested successfully w/ an XFX Thic III Pro 5600XT.