GSGregg

Just Frog-King Wonderful; I'm two-for-two with bogus topics. After consulting Properties for all PBX downloads to compare dates, etc., it turns out that after downloading version 2.06, I ran pinballxsetup for version 1.98 again (all those disk-with-carton icons look so much alike) which, obviously, would update nothing. This time I made certain that I ran setup for 2.06, and things are as they should be. Marking this topic as Resolved is going to serve as my only New Year's 'resolution'..... Gregg

Here's hoping that my Q is indeed sufficiently similar to the original.....it's been a while since I had 'time to play', and tonight my PBX install (v1.8) gave me only a box with "Version Expired. Please Install New Version." So I downloaded v2.06 and installed it with a new desktop shortcut (overwritten, I thought), but I still get the expired notice. Clicking Properties revealed no different release info or version #, so I can't tell if the shortcut was actually updated. I overlooked something simple before; have I done so again? (I read the documentation referred to by tthurman in post #3, and I thought it was cut-and-dried, but.....) Thanks. Gregg

Oh-h-h Kay! It took me only five months (not seven) to realize what was up; the 'dead' keypresses were simply coincidental, as I had never ENABLED the games in the XMLs---I guess I thought they were enabled by default---live and learn. (I had enabled a few in the Game List Manager and was able to play but not submit) As far as submitting scores to PINemHi Leaderboard, I had followed PeH-LB instructions re its config file, but not seeing instructions for the pinemhi config file in the PinballX Setup Wizard, I overlooked that one and never typed in the appropriate paths. Having finally gotten things right, I can say that PinballX is working fine. My apologies to Draco1962 (and indirectly to Tom) for the waste of time on what amounts to a bogus topic. GSGregg

Same non-recognition with either board. Changed back to old keyboard, swapping USB ports with an XHDD, booted PinballX: same non-recognition. Plugged new keyboard into swapped port, booted PinballX: same non-recognition. Checked Device Manager for drivers: C:\WINDOWS\system32\kbdclass.sys C:\WINDOWS\system32\kbdhid.sys Drivers dated 7-1-2001, same pair used for each keyboard. Updating drivers produced nothing.

Heh heh. I'm channeling Bill Clinton; "That depends on how you define navigation." Basically, I can do anything that involves mouse-clicks, but nothing that requires keypresses: Rotate wheel (Left and Right Arrow keys) Select Table (Enter key) Exit Emulator / Quit (Escape key) I guess the other nine functions require a table being played? What if I delete the keyboard codes and run an ini to verify that they have been changed? Then when I re-enter them we'll definitely know which codes are generated. Does that sound like it would have any diagnostic value?

Sorry---by 'navigate', are you referring to PinballX, or the computer in general? The K120s (all four of them over five years) were fine until the Shift keycaps split the rubber membrane and the split would momentarily catch the cap and hold on just long enough to delay flipper release. Only after my fourth board being used for several extra weeks, due to my not really wanting to go shopping, did the switch actually fail to make contact occasionally; at that point I had had enough. The Corsair's mechanical switches give something substantial to pound down on when multiball gets fierce. 'Business as usual' referred to PinballX starting when the desktop icon is clicked, then going through all of the stuff in the log entries through "Starting", which takes 4 to 4.7 seconds. EDIT: PinballX Version 1.98 added about a minute to that. After that, I guess, comes Table selection, and that requires a keypress (Enter), right? But there's no indication of PBX receiving a keycode.....not even from the Escape key, which otherwise functions consistently when I close VP, FP, early PINemhi (later PeH has Esc remapped to 'E'), and others. I have even retyped the keycodes in Setup, using the listed codes, but afterward, PinballX.ini always shows the correct ones, so the board must be generating what it's supposed to.....

I put my Logitech K120 rubber-dome board back in, and it was business as usual, except that I had never sat still long enough to realize that Attract Mode works---as per setup, one minute of inactivity starts cycling the Wheel every fifteen seconds (I changed that to FIVE seconds so it would be less boring)---and any key begins a new minute, so PBX is detecting something..... I don't think the mouse is causing anything, because it will start PBX by clicking the desktop icon, close PBX by clicking the taskbar button or the red 'X' in the upper right, AND select and start games using the Game List Manager. So, now the new keyboard is back in.....any straw-grasping is certainly welcome, thanks. Gregg

Thanks, Draco and Rusty, for mulling this over. I had probably rerun the 1.92 Setup.exe three or four times since the original Nov. 24 install, and did it once more a while ago---with no change. So, I downloaded and installed v1.98; except for "Featuring 32 Tables" instead of just three, and one extra log entry about caching wheels for overlays, there was no change. My keyboard is a brand new Corsair Vengeance K70 with mechanical switches (Cherry MX Red). It and my wireless mouse's receiver both connect through USB, but there has not been any indication of trouble in that area. I have opened Event Viewer many times, but am unaware of any entries regarding hardware / USB. I also searched for a driver update, but there is none. I tried to find a way to verify which keycodes are being generated by one's keyboard, but struck out. Does such a tool exist?

After being unable to get PinballX to do anything beyond "Sure plays a mean pin - ball", it occurred to me that my logs lacked entries for 'Exit System Control Pressed' which should have been produced by the Escape key, right? So I tried all keys and while they work on other tasks on the computer (especially VP / FP), they don't cycle the Tables wheel, select a table or close PinballX (or, probably, anything else they're supposed to do). Is there something I should check / uncheck? Thanks; Gregg

Hello; sorry for the lame questions, but except for PINemHi LeaderBoard I have zero frontend experience. I guess I can't expect a working wheel since I don't yet have the images for it, but is there no other way to pull up a menu, select and start a table from the XMLs? (Almost forgot---I'm running XP on Desktop---no cab.) I used the Game List Manager to start and play Future Pinball tables Medieval Madness Ultra 1.19 (from PINemHi LeaderBoard FP.xml) and Star Trek_V100 (whose wheel image was supplied in Demo Media); neither sent a score (or even my user name) to the PeH website. I also used the GLM to try to play Visual Pinball tables Stern - The Lord of the Rings v1.4 - Megapin (which I added to the Manager) and Jack-Bot_VP91x_1.1.1 (which was already in PINemHi LeaderBoard VP.xml), but both produced the error:The system can't find the file specified. In an exchange over at VPForums, DnaDisturber straightened me out on the GLM not being the way to start tables in PBX. http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=27513&page=3#entry289612 I'd appreciate being told / shown which 'buttons to push'.....Thank You. Gregg .ini: log: