Darkmeteor

I have exactly the same glitches since a couple of releases, green pixels and broken VHS style on the backglass on some tables. As for performances, I'm trying XP right now and it's the same as seven, very high CPU utilization and random crash after switching some tables. The error came from lavvideo.ax

Yes I've seen these little green dots everywhere too on backglass videos.

Oh, I thought I messed up when I saw 2 times black knight 2000, yeah I can confirm that bug.

Yes it was with the latest release. Draco1962, It was Seven 64 bit, 8GB of ram, GPU is GeForce GTX660 with 2GB of GDDR5 ram, without PinballX running the utilization is at a normal 1%, nothing else is running. Anyway, I just crashed that windows installation, it just won't start anymore, blue screen each time... So I'm giving a try at a lite XP install CD I had laying around.

It's A LOT better now, but it still slow down quite a bit and CPU utilisation is still almost at 100%. When browsing quickly sometimes the playfield video just crash and I have to restart PinballX to get video on that screen again. Can I do something on my end to get better performances ? I've got shark007 codecs, don't know what else to do :/

3rd screen videos ? Wow man, that's awesome, that means more work recording stuff !

In the meantime I renamed the backglass video folders so they don't play, and now PinballX runs like a charm, even when stressing it.

It's better to separate the audio with PinballX, just put the audio file in the Table audio directory and it will play whenever you are viewing this table, when I tried to have audio in the videos the audio was playing as long as I did not browse on another table with audio in the PF vid.

Am I the only one experiencing low performance when running both playfield and backglass videos at the same time ? So I've been testing PinballX on my quad core i5, no issues at all, but when I tried on my pincab which is a core 2 duo the framerate dramatically dropped when 2 videos are played, to the point PinballX become a bit unstable and sometimes even crashes when quickly browsing. I tried to play with settings in shark007 codecs, but nothing helps... The task manager also shows a CPU utilisation of about 97% while the 2 videos are playing. To be sure of the problem, I then started PinballX on my quad core and limited it to using 2 cores only, and then it started to stutter too. I'm pretty sure a c2d should be able to decode 2 h264 streams at the same time without stuttering, hyperpin runs the videos just fine, and I just tried playing a playfield video in 2 instances of VLC on each screen and got only 34% of CPU utilisation, I really don't know if it's a codec issue or something else.

That synthesis speech saying the table names is pretty cool ! This frontend is getting better and better really fast

My advice for FP tables is to put the all tables in the table directory together, and all the table libs in the library directory, this way the table directory stays nice and clean. So far none of my tables had the same library names.

Wow, thanks, you work really fast It works really nice !

Hello, this frontend is so fast, I love it ! I'm a bit sick of using hyperpin/fplaunch because of the slowness and all the workaround to make things just work. Anyway, I have a request about the audio. I'm guessing some people like me are mixing audio in the playfield videos, for exemple Jurassic Park movie theme in the playfield video from the table. As I would like to constantly have some kind of ambiance, I've tried to put some mp3 in the ambiance folder. Is there a way to fade out the volume of the ambiance while a video with sound is playing ? If it's not detectable maybe adding a checkbox in a database ? That would be awesome to have ambiance and table videos with theme music ! edit : Oh another thing, is there somewhere in the installation dir a file with all the text strings ? (play game, etc...) so I can edit them in my langage ?