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I am a lifetime member of not only GameEx but also PinballX and I have been distracted for a few years now ... just getting ready to get back to my arcade and I have a nag screen popping up now ... I am still on Win7 on that machine and don't really want it online unless I have to because of support reasons or features ..... I tried to run the registry key again and a few reboots but nothing seems to help .... I also see the Evolution is up and going now, should I move onto that? .... I have a good romset that I am happy with and the family only plays a handful of games ... What should I do with this system? .... Will also be working on my Original Virtual Pin that is almost 8 years old now, time to make it 4k I think. Thanks for your time

Very nice looking Thank you I am grabbing the Zip from Mega

So ... I stepped out of pinballX and was doing my testing in Windows only ... as it makes sense that if PinballX is seeing a non-idle state then so must windows. I followed some suggestions from this thread and from MJR and I think I have my problem .... bad driver install from the freescale board. I have removed all drivers and reinstalled and that seems to have fixed the issue .... I had the Game Pad Test window open in Window along with notepad and the onscreen keyboard. The only thing that was making anything happen was the x-y axis was always in motion. So my first thought was "this is the problem Great" .... but the problem would still happen (no windows screen saver and no pinballx attract mode AFTER the first game played) if I unplugged the freescale board while windows was running ..... only on a fresh boot without the board plugged in would I get a successful Windows screen saver and pinballx attract mode ..... What still baffles me is the fact that PinballX will do attract mode for hours with no problem as long as I didn't play a game. So I can only assume that the driver is getting hung up someplace after the card is accessed for data? .... I don't know. Anyways, I think we will call this one solved here and I REALLY really appreciate your time and help and suggestions. Sorry for getting annoyed but I very seldom ask for help and just need a different perspective on the problem.

Thanks guys I am out of town atm ... but will try these suggestions for sure ... I was at the point of not knowing what to try next. Make cense to me and will try tomorrow. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

Well that was a nice effort but unfortunately incorrect as the red you highlighted was the exit of the table Star Wars after 33 minutes of play. I was under the impression that there is log that shows more detailed information than this one? OK so let me see if I have this right .... both parties are pointing fingers and saying it must be the others fault. But since there is no logs saying anything is going on it really is not happening at all? Cool thanks for you time. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

would be nice to get some feedback as to what the logs say about why pinballX will not start attract mode after I play a game in VP. I obviously gave too much information and got no official help about the logs themselves. Thanks

Yes RustyCardores that was my suspicion also but I was looking for a more "yes it seeing this keystroke xyz at these times" to help MJR fix the code in some way. @Draco1962 I am not using any of that software as the code is all contained in the Freescale board. The only calibration required is a built in tool that MJR created. No dead zone adjustments that can be manually made. Mabel it needs some and that would solve this issue .... thanks for the suggestions guys. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

So I am having a problem with attract mode starting up again after I play a table and exit back to PinballX. If I boot the system and walk away it will go into attract mode no problem and will continue to run in attract mode. Until I play a table and exit back to the front-end and then no attract mod no matter how long I leave it sit. I have attached my log from a long day of running and my settings xml I can tell you when this started to happen, it was right after I did the DIY plunger for MJR found here http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=28313&hl= If I unplug the Freescale board it will have no trouble going back into attract mode no matter the tables I play and exit. I know that is the cause but I would like someone to look at the files and see exactly what is happening so I can let MJR know, and see if there is something he needs to do to fix it, or if there is something I need to adjust in PinballX settings. I suspect a keystroke is being registered but that doesn't make sense because it will go into attract mode before I play my first table of the day. The code MJR has written for the nudge on the freescale board does have a self zeroing feature that runs all the time and I suspect this is the cause ... Thanks for your time. PinballX.ini log.txt

Awesome Thank you Draco1962 and Namsan using your media ... now to find playfield, audio, and DMD video. have to live with screen captures for now

ok if you would like to use the DirectB2S option in PinballX then make sure it is enabled, then you are going to need to use the mouse on each table while browsing your tables and adjust them just as you would when playing the game. You will have to right click on the BG and then select grill hidden from the drop down box. You will have to do this for all that show the grill, Tom says that there is no other way to do this as the builder of the B2S file chooses the default setup. Since PinballX uses a fresh copy of the B2S and not your already configured existing saved B2S file we have to go through them one by one. I had about half of my tables to do ... or about 120 BG's. So with DirectB2S set to yes PBX will look for that file first, then it will look for a video file of the correct name and finally it will look for a still image. if you have those things in the proper location then it comes down to making sure the name is the same. I hope this helps.

Tom, exceptional work as always! It seems to be working great for me. The Download page still shows version 2.01 as current but the frontend says new version 2.02 so to be sure that the current download is 2.02? Also, did we find a way to make the default show no grill or do we have to right click on each one and change to Hide Grill and save? Thanks for all the great improvements and I will be donating again for all the hard work you put into this awesome software.

Just wanted to Bump this for an update to the artwork for the latest 3 tables, Portal, Avengers - AoU and SW Rebels. Does anyone have this on the FTP site yet? I can not seem to find it. Mostly because I am having trouble getting on the FTP again and don't have the time available to figure it out. thanks

Sweetaaa! On the FTP I assume?

Mpad, where did you read about this? I would like to see what they are saying. I believe you 100% I just would like to be a part of that discussion, If you can link it that would be cool ... thanks

Happy New Year from the east coast

Thanks Tom for the update, I received my PayPal recurring payment cancelation notice today and came here to see the reason. Hope this gets straighten out and it is not too much work for you.

Thanks Jeff for all your hard work ... The media update is much appreciated.

.I can't find the post right now as I am on my phone, but they said they were not looking to support a real DMD because of the colors they have chosen for each table for the DMD. They were looking to stay consistent with their original design.

Go to PinballX >> Media >> databases >> and the folder for Zen pinball... I named mine differently... but in that folder there needs to be 2 .xml files for the sort list to contain its own Zen selection. So mine is Zen FX2.xml and the other one is Zen Pinball FX2.xml. So on my sort list menu I have a selection for Zen Pinball FX2. The second .xml is a exact copy of the first .xml file and it can be named anything you want to name it and show on your selection menu. You would do the same for PA. I hope this helps

Sorry to ask you of this but I would like for the wheel to match the ones that you have in your download pack after donation. I like those wheel images of yours better, a little cleaner looking on my cab imo. But thank you for the link I did get the rest of the media over there.

Just thought I would bring this up again ..... can always use more friends .... That and NukeLauncher has made the effort to play the Zen tables so easy-to-use now that I will be playing them much more. Sure the Force feedback is not there but I was playing them a lot on the Xbox before I built a Pincab. That and the wife likes them too.

Well I figured it out after another 20 minutes .... testing every table confirmed works inside PinballX ... I had to change my Grid to; GridDimensions = 7x8 I guess that has to do with the Venom to be released soon. Thank you for this great software.

First off this is awesome software and I donated right away ... Thank you for your hard work and sharing your programming skills. I do have a problem and I am sure it is me but after 5 hours, no combinations of settings seem to work for me. I have read this thread complete and tried all suggestions. I think I need some fresh eyes on it. I can not get the table selection to work properly. It never picks the correct table inside PinballX. If I use the CMD example it will go to the walking dead just fine. I have changed the .xml file name to Zen FX2 but I am consistent with that naming throughout, I did this because I already had the PFX2 installed and working until the last 3 tables ... it is just to much to change every time ... for me anyways. I like the Zen FX2 naming as it is eaier for me and others to distinguish. Thank you for your timeNukeLauncher.ini Zen FX2.xml PinballX.ini log.txt

Hmmm the place where I play often has one Fix it Felix Jr ... I did not know they never released it ... I will play it the next time I go there.

Maybe I am missing something .... if you have it all setup the way you want it and it is not on very often ... why even have a network connection? Disable any network connections there might be and good to go. Easy enough to tell windows not to automatically look for updates when it is online along with any other software like flash player and reader. If there is no network connection enabled there will be zero slowdowns from update checks.