I finally got past that freezing screen. I copied over my DMDDevice64.dll from VPinMame to Pinballx dir and it now runs. I installed latest 6.23 and it runs, yeah!!!!!! (I don't have my table images or backglasses or dmd images working, but that should be an easy fix, thanks guys. I hope this can help others.
I see a super small bug in the log
07:47:06.2 12/10/2024: Unitialize Real DMD Device
should be Initialize Real DMD Device.