Tom Speirs

This release is a significant update to GameEx and GameEx arcade edition but involves work mainly on the back end. There are also too many fixes to mention in this release but the original purpose of it was to upgrade the DirectX library from managed DirectX to SlimDX. In addition all video rendering is now GPU hardware accelerated. This all provides significant stability and performance improvements, especially on older hardware. On newer hardware 4k 60fps video previews are no issue at all. There is also a fixed and improved GameLauncher mode and the background snap theme and mode is working as expected again. Again, there are many fixes in and minor improvements in this release. You may find some issues you had fixed and because the changes are so substantial I will provide the previous releases in case I missed something in my regression testing. View the full article

This release is a significant update to GameEx and GameEx arcade edition but involves work mainly on the back end. There are also too many fixes to mention in this release but the original purpose of it was to upgrade the DirectX library from managed DirectX to SlimDX. In addition all video rendering is now GPU hardware accelerated. This all provides significant stability and performance improvements, especially on older hardware. On newer hardware 4k 60fps video previews are no issue at all. There is also a fixed and improved GameLauncher mode and the background snap theme and mode is working as expected again. Again, there are many fixes in and minor improvements in this release. You may find some issues you had fixed and because the changes are so substantial I will provide the previous releases in case I missed something in my regression testing. View the full article

Are you showing any images or videos from PinballX when UltraDMD is running? Is PinMAME working fine? Is it working outside of PinballX?

It shouldn't have done but it would have overwritten what you had. I am guessing its a directx conflict but its odd that your color setting changed. As I cant see how that could happen.

Looks pretty normal to me and working fine. Is there any logging you can do on UltraDMD to see what the problem is?

Please post your log.

Please post your log.

Is it a real color DMD? Maybe the color setting got turned on?

Thank you.

You might. 60fps videos should work well now.

Thanks for the feedback. Ill remove the folder scanning (caching) for the next release. Could you try a simple exit combo and see if that works? The exit combo is actually something Microsoft broke in a windows 10 update. I just tried to work around it.

Yes, primarily and the dirextx9 library API has been upgraded. Video performance will also be much improved on lower end hardware. It has some fairly significant changes in order to accomplish that though so want it tested. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback and help

I can see your system is having trouble playing videos but please try 15.21 and let me know if the MAME launch issue persists. Thanks. Tom.

could you please post your log file.

I made secure connections to the FTP required so that's probably why. You will need to use a client that supports secure FTP.

Just wanted to add that there were a few new features added to GameEx Arcade edition such as trackball support and additional screensaver modes.

yes, hopefully.

I attach 2.66 here. It features hardware accelerated video rendering so it should support 4k and 60fps no problem on modern machines. It also has the change to slimdx which did cause a few issues last time I released it but I believe I have fixed those issues. Please take one for the team and test. There should be no problem overwriting this version with the current official release if it does not work well for you. Thanks. Tom PinballXSetup.zip

15.20 has new screensaver modes. Should be done.

Yes, I don't think GIF are supported as preview snaps. You could always convert the gif files with Convert-It though.

Be aware if you are using "Desktop mode" the front end uses different media folders. If you are in Landscape but not in "Desktop mode" It uses the regular media locations. I expect that is it.

Thanks Ben. Missed this eariler.

1: You can add and remove items from the list but not change the look too much. You can change a few things such as the font and background. 2: The synopsis can be removed. As for the look just need the artwork.

I wasn't even aware you could have a monitor DMD and real DMD playing at the same time. Sounds like it is not detecting your real DMD. Check drivers etc.