what's with the shoddy image quality on tegra 3

[suade907]

Hi I just picked up a Acer A510, I also have a older tegra 2 A500 but noticed that when playing pinball on both devices the image quality on the tegra 3 device is far inferior even though the screen is better than the older tegra 2 device. It's almost as though there is a haze over the image. The detail is lacking as if it's washed out. The older tegra 2 A500 is razer sharp.

Please let me know if a fix is in the works. Thanks.

[Solitude]

Hi I just picked up a Acer A510, I also have a older tegra 2 A500 but noticed that when playing pinball on both devices the image quality on the tegra 3 device is far inferior even though the screen is better than the older tegra 2 device. It's almost as though there is a haze over the image. The detail is lacking as if it's washed out. The older tegra 2 A500 is razer sharp.

Please let me know if a fix is in the works. Thanks.

Since every device is a little bit different, we'll have to get our hands on one and test it out before we have an answer for you. Better hardware doesn't mean a better experience unless the software is designed and tested with that hardware - and we won't have the opportunity to do so at the moment as we are focused on getting the PS3 and Vita games done. However, we definitely will be supporting the game for a long time, so hopefully we'll have more information soon after we ship on those other platforms.

There is also the possibility that the A510 isn't handling the software the way it's expected to. There was another Tegra 3 device (HTC One X) that did not handle our game well at all until it got a system update.

[BarbieBobomb]

Hi I just picked up a Acer A510, I also have a older tegra 2 A500 but noticed that when playing pinball on both devices the image quality on the tegra 3 device is far inferior even though the screen is better than the older tegra 2 device. It's almost as though there is a haze over the image. The detail is lacking as if it's washed out. The older tegra 2 A500 is razer sharp.

Please let me know if a fix is in the works. Thanks.

Hey! Thanks for letting us know. We just got Tegra 3 devices in the office so we'll be ironing out the kinks soon! We have no way of testing out tablets before they hit the market so we apologize for the inconvenience while we get things figured out.

[suade907]

Hey thanks guys glad you are on top of it. It's good to hear a dev team that cares like this. Kudos to you, thanks again..

[MrDaaark]

It's probably a screen issue.

Got a few tablets here, and Zen looks horrible on the Lenovo IdeaPad K-1 because the screen has very poor contrast ratio. It does look foggy, and all the details (ball, flippers, table art) tend to melt together.

The IdeaPad has more built in storage, and the same specs as my Transformer, which cost 200$ more, but the screen (among other components) suffered to get it at that price point.

[CrazyCoder]

Graphics are fine for me on HTC One X and ASUS Transformer Prime, better than on Tegra 2 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

However, I have small lags on HTC One X, it's noticeable on the SL table when the ball is near flippers, it makes the game uncomfortable and hard to catch the momentum of the ball to predict the flipper hit as the ball slows down and then accelerates. It's definitely performance shuttering, probably related to ball reflections in certain table areas. Transformer Prime has no such problem.

I've tried several different kernels for the HTC One X, but they all have similar problem with Zen Pinball. One of the kernels claims that it has the latest Tegra drivers inside. I can play many other heavy games with no lags on HTC One X, I hope it would be possible to do some performance tuning inside the game engine to make sure that it runs smoothly on all the Tegra 3 devices.