Carny_Priest

Just the issues you mentioned.

Sorry, mixed you up with someone else having a backglass issue. Installed LAV filters?

Yeah, fix the FP issue first then deal with FX2. Debug one issue at a time.

Might be missing something if you inadvertently deleted something out. Try reinstalling.

I use a mix of mp4 and f4v videos. No problems.

1. Yes, PinballX starts a single player game for you. I'm not aware of options to do otherwise. 2. Do not use auto hide task bar. PinballX will hide the task bar for you when you start PinballX. 3. With PinballX displaying the backglass you don't need Pinball FX2 to display an image also. Just turn off that feature in the Pinball FX2 cab support settings Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The option does not exist in PinballX Settings. It would not be hard to code an ahk script that launches on PinballX start up and/or shut down that replaces the last table played in the ini with a default table. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

What I am getting at is that the backglass image you have may be corrupted. How does the wheel behave when you delete that image? What happens when you replace it with something you know is working? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you haven't yet, install LAV Filters. Does the video play correctly outside of PinballX? If not, try another one. If the video plays outside of PinballX but not in PinballX, try another one. Is the backglass static? Many of them are. If so, it's very easy to just use a static image instead. If there are no alternate version of the video, make your own: https://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/18470-future-pinball-pf-screenshot-black/?do=findComment&comment=162747

Check what I posted here: I don't have a real DMD installed just yet. I'm running a virtual, but at least this script launches dmdext before Pinball FX2. The process will be there waiting to hook into Pinball FX2. Don't know if that will solve flickering, but you can try it and let us know. It would not take much to modify the code to wait for Pinball FX2 to be active before running dmdext if you wanted to test that alternative.

My script - a lot of code commented out because of edits I've made over time, but it works for me. I use a virtual DMD, but the instructions are pretty clear at the code repository for sending frames to a real DMD. https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions I run the script as Launch Before and with Launch Before Wait For Exit set to Yes LaunchFX2.ahk.txt

I don't have a quick answer. It looks like it is troubleshooting time. You say that PinballFX2, VP, and FP run smooth. Is it also smooth with PinballX launching them? If you are setting up these programs to launch from PinballX for the first time then it is possible that you find these may not run as smoothly with PinballX. PinballX does take some resources while running and for your system it may be enough to tip performance over to a level that is not as smooth. Are there any other programs that are running in the background taking resources like an anti-virus, Steam client, etc? In my cabinet, I don't install anything that is not related to running pinball. No email client, no web surfing, etc. Unload/uninstall any programs you don't have to have. As a troubleshooting measure, what happens with the playback performance of the videos if you don't run the DMD? I don't know the quality or age of the videos on the FTP. If they are old and have been on the FTP for a long time, then they likely are out of date and do not reflect the improvements in visual quality of the tables that are currently available at VPF, VPU, etc. The cool kids generate their own media. This tool is specifically designed to output videos that work with the LAV filters. What's more it allows you to maintain a video collection that truly reflects the tables as you like to play them including any customizations that you may make for yourself such as lighting or camera POV adjustments. You might give it a try and see if the videos it generates run more smoothly. https://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/17684-pbx-recorder-captures-playfield-backglass-and-dmd-videos-and-images/

What's the source of your videos? If the video resolution is very high or has high framerate, I could see there being playback issues as you are running them inside PinballX which has some overhead on resources too.

Maybe something like this if PinballX can carry in [TABLEFILE] as a parameter in these apps you can launch on exit from Visual Pinball. I'm not sure if that is doable. KillBackglassRosve.ahk.txt

Yeah, probably. Do you have the source code for it? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Good to hear.

What happens if you run without the supplementary killbackglass app? Do really have backglasses that need to be killed? None of the tables in the sample have file names that look like the old Rosve B2S tables. If this isn't the XML file that you actually use, then send us the full file. Send the source code for killbackglass if there is more going on then just killing backglasses.

A lot going on here. Which one thing do you want to fix?

Nope, those vbs scripts are coded to be backwards compatible. Just overwrite the old ones with the new ones. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The actual file name for the table is X-Files.vpt or X-Files.vpx, right?

Yeah, today's VP beta release fixed that.

Yeah, I believe all of the integrated systems, FP, VP, FX2, TPA have delays built in to deal with focus or menu selection issues. They appear to work for many people, but if not for you then you will have to use a custom system type and code a custom script. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just have PinballX run a AutoHotkey script that launches Kodi. I do it this way so that I can run some Display Changer II instructions, Display Changer II is a little command line display management program, that will clone my backglass screen to show the same visualizations as the playfield screen. And the script will automatically navigate to my music folder. When I exit out of Kodi, Display Changer II will extend the desktop again to my backglass screen before returning focus to PinballX. It's pretty reliable for me. http://12noon.com/?page_id=641 LaunchKodi.zip

To clarify for Josh, I run VP while Task Manager is also running. That solved my issue with launching VP within PinballX and loading large B2S files. I don't know why that works for me but it does.