bdormer

It might be something other than the Creators update. I'm running Win10 Creators update and the latest PinballX and my DMD's (minus a small problem with NVidia GeForce Experience) are playing just fine. Maybe check that Windows Game mode is off and GeForce Experience options are all off.

SUCCESS!!! As I looked at the link to the info about Nvidia's GeForce Experience, I recognized those icons. Without even reinstalling GeForce Experience (all I have installed is the NVidia drivers), I hit Alt-Z from the desktop and Viola! All the settings were there - I went thru and shut off everything I could. No more icons. I'm going to follow up on the Windows Gaming (Win+G key) stuff, but I'm pretty sure I have Gaming mode shut off. Looking at the press - it seems that testing so far hasn't really shown much advantage, and some disadvantage, to having Windows Gaming mode on if you already have enough horsepower (which I do - 6 core AMD 3.3 GHz). And I'm not going to have much, if anything running that doesn't need to be there. Thanks for all your help!

Ah! This does have a familiar ring to it. I *DID* just update to Win10 Creators **AND** I installed the latest Nvidia drivers - which forced me to load all the extra crapware, like Geforce Experience (which doesn't recognize any of the pinball emulators as "games"). As soon as I had the full install, I went back and uninstalled all the excess baggage, including Geforce experience - but I'll bet it left bits a pieces of itself behind. I'll take a look and report back - but I have a feeling that this is going to be the resolution. Makes me wish that Nvidia had an option for "just the drivers - nothing else". Thank you very much! bd

OK - here's the latest (and it's a doozy) - the image shows the "chasing arrows" AND, now introducing - the microphone icon!! I have no idea where this is coming from or why it's attached itself to ANY ANIMATED DMD (static images are OK) in PinballX. As requested, I've included my .ini and log files. This install is pretty much from scratch - I was working on this machine for a while back in 2016, then life happened, so I'm just starting over. I'm a Software Engineer by day (sometimes by night) so don't be afraid to get technical with me. I didn't really make any changes that should have added the microphone (or the chasing arrows) to the machine. It was working clean for about 2 weeks and then the arrows appeared and on Sunday the mic showed up. It's just a bare W10 64-bit install, with FP, VP (the all inclusive VPX + prior versions install), PBFX2 and TPA on board. 3 monitors, using on-mobo audio for sound. The emulators all work, but everything (FP in particular) still needs a good deal of tweaking. PinballX.ini log.txt

Just a thought - depending on your OS. If you are using Win10 - it tends to do A LOT of stuff in the background, starting a little while after you start up. It sounds like you have enough horsepower - but check Task Manager and see what's using up your resources. You can jump over to YouTube and find dozens of videos on how to clean up a W10 system to get the best gaming performance out of it. You could also have a thermal problem, your power supply could be unable to pump out enough current (or be flakey) or some piece of hardware (mobo, gpu) could have a fault (you're not overclocking are you? That can cause all kinds of chaos.) Go by process of elimination.

Could this be an indication that PinballX is trying to log in to gameex? It does sort of look like a "working - please wait" type of icon.

Carny_Priest - Thanks for the suggestion - loaded the latest LAV drivers. No change whatsoever. The mystery continues.... NEXT SUGGESTION?

In the lower right of the DMD video (the standard PinballX DMD video NOT a PINDMD) – I suddenly have an icon – looks like 2 white arrows chasing each other in a circle (like the Convert–it icon rotated 90 degrees clockwise) in the lower right of the DMD video playback. I can’t for the life of me figure out what I did to make this appear (or maybe PinballX is just possessed). I’m running v2.36 (latest version) – clean Win10 (64bit) install. Just for giggles – I replaced the “No DMD.mp4” with the DMD file from South Park (first thing that came to mind) and that video ALSO shows the icon. So it’s definitely something with PinballX. Everything seems to work (still setting up emulators – so haven’t launched an actual game yet). The icon isn’t in the video played via VLC – only when PinballX displays it. I’ve tried moving it – resizing it – no joy. Right now – I have it at 1024×256 which is 1:1 and it’s at 0,0 on Display 3 (the Topper displays just fine – but it’s static, not video) It was working great a couple days ago – this happened suddenly. Since I’m still getting everything set up – I don’t really know what I may have changed right before it started – but the options for DMD are pretty limited (display, X, Y, H, W). There are no errors in the PinballX log.