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Looks like the tables are shutting down fine. I previous had a problem when I was using the same Exit button in PBX and VPX but I corrected that. If I do a CNTRL ALT DEL and look at task manager nothing looks out of norm. When I previously had a common Exit Button, it was creating multiples copies of VPX etc. This is no longer the case. Just have to ALT TAB to be able to load the selected table which is obviously unacceptable for a cabinet. All programs set to Run As Admin

I have a two monitor cabinet configuration with a pinDMD V3 from VirtuaPin. I have tested several tables standalone with Visual PinballX and they run fine. Windows 7 64 bit Nvidia 1060 Pinballx 2.7 When i try to Run a tabel from PinballX the first table runs great. I then hit my Exit button to return to PinballX Menu. This works great a menu comes up as expected. I t=can progress through Menu selection as expected. My problem starts when I try to start my next Table selection. I get a black sceen that indicates LOADING on the playfield while the backglass loads the selected backglass. The Playfield stays on the loading screen until I ALT TAB to it, Once it is selected (receives focus) the correct playfield is loaded and I can proceed playing the table. Same scenario happens with subsequent table selections. Tables run fine once they are loaded but I have to ALT TAB to them to get them to load. Don't want to use keyboard in cabinet snf should no take ALT TAB intervention to load. Log.txt and PINBALLx.ini enclosed. I have seen alot about ALT HOT Key but thought that was a thing of the past. Please HELP!!! log.txt PinballX.ini

Tom - I believe things are working as designed now. I deleted the exit button mapping in VPX as it is not needed in cabinet mode. This seemed to eliminate the freezing "LOADING" screen. It was as if the system was confusec at times on which one VPX or PBX to exit. Part of my problem appears to be my being impatient. My system moves very fast through the menu selection process but it takes several seconds for the new table to load. More testing testing to see if I can improve that with different options selected. I will check to make sure Pinmame is in cabinet. Does the fullscreen vs windowed option make any difference when it comes to load time. DDraw = 0 for every table in registry. Thank you again for your support. Great product and proud to be a contributing supporter.

Tom - version 2.70 resolved the error issue in the log and things are much improved. I have included my log.txt file. As you can see from the log.txt file I played Bad Cats twice without issue. Then I selected Spidermam. The backglass loaded quickly but the playfield got stuck on a black screen with text LOADING displayed as if it was loading the game as expected. I had to ALT TAB a few times to finally enable the playfield screen to load. Then I was able to play fine. This black "LOADING" screen sticking has many times in various retries on several working tables. Not sure why its hanging up. I noticed when I hit ALT Tab there were several more windows active than I expected. It is like screens are sometimes not getting killed properly on exit (and/or a focus issue) Got any ideas? Thank you so much for your help. I feel as if I am almost there. I am also enclosing my pinballx.ini file in case that helps. log.txt PinballX.ini

Ok - I have loaded 2.68 and I still have the same issue. Error still indicated in Log which I have enclosed below. I verified my mapping and am pretty sure that is not an issue. rablack - I have no joystick, only button. I referred to joy mapping because that is the way it is referred to in the virtuapin plunger kit. Scenario - verifed Bad Cats runs perfectly in VPX. Started PBX and loaded Bad Cats. Everything loaded correctly on backglass, external DMD, and playfield. DMD said to insert coins (as expected). When I pressed the insert coin button it game me 1/2 credit (as usual) so I pressed it again to get full credit so I did. DMD said hit START. I noticed when I first pressed the insert coin button the bonebuster creaan came up on the backglass and the playfield. The PBX menu was displayed on the bonebuster playfield ust like I was back in {BX mode. Keep in mind the DMD thinks it is in Bad Cats mode but the backglass ansd playfied are show Boneuster for some reason. When it press start the PBX menu comes up with the PAY GAme, INSTRUCTIONS, ETC. listing. I select PALY game and Batd cats loads on the backglass but the screen goes bl;ack. I have to CTRL_ALT_DEL to end tasks. Still getting the error as indicated in the Log file enclosed even after 2.68 installed log.txt

My start button on my table is mapped to the Start Game selection in Visual Pinball. This button is mapped to the Select funtion in joysrick mapping in PBX. Is that a problem? It seemed like an obvious mapping but maybe that is it.

Thanks Tom. Glad it wasnt another error on my part. You guys have been great helping me out. Would that cause the return to menu after hitting the credit button. It is much more sluggish than I expected. I must have some pinballx.ini settings not optimal

Tried it with the same result. Really weird. I add two credits and the PBX menu pops up with bonebusters on the backglass. I select play and eventually Bats Cats will load. Still takes longer than expected. See the erro message below from the Log.txt file. Same error as I got before. Log.txt enclosed The value of argument 'value' (0) is invalid for Enum type 'ProcessPriorityClass'. 22:40:03.8 3/30/2018: Parameter name: value 22:40:03.8 3/30/2018: at System.Diagnostics.Process.set_PriorityClass(ProcessPriorityClass value) 22:40:03.8 3/30/2018: at PinballX.FrmMain.q() Getting closer- at least the game will play now. Did you see anything wrong in my Pinballx.ini file? log.txt

OK - I found a large part of my problem was due to utilizing the import media function in Gamemanager. It basically overwrote several of my table names, the majority of which I was testing with. I cleaned all of that up (I hope - lots of testing to go). Now i am able to launch a table successfully. It still takes a long time to execute. I tried playing Bad Cats. It took a long time to load - almost a minute. I put in two credits as requested and when I hit start it return me to the PBX menu. I pressed start again and then, after a 15 second delay, t loaded the game and I was able to play it correctly. Seems like I still have something screwed up in my setup but I am getting closer. Bad Cats works great runining from VPINBALLX outside of PBX. Log files etc. below Any recommendations greatly appreciated . PinballX.ini log.txt Visual Pinball.xml

I will try more troubleshooting Friday.

One other thing I noticed is if I repeated hit the START button to initiate a table from the menu, the system will get really screwy and according to the Task Manager I have more than one instance of PBX running.

Tom - reading some of the forums reference vpauto.exe related to focus issues. That's why I asked about it and whether it should be running. I have seen the playfield indicate "loading" and then the table appear on the playfield. I have seen some of my other log.txt files that have indicated a specific table loading with the same result of PBX menu showing on top of it and appears to be taking the focus. I agree the log.txt I uploaded doesn't appear to launch a table at all. I have tried ALT-TAB to change screens but that doesn't solve the problem. I have also run the VERIFY function in PBX and it indicates Visual Pinball is fine. Maybe I need to uninstall Pinballx again and do a registry clean before reinstalling. Maybe the DDRAW variable is set incorrectly in the registry. I am fairly new at this pinball software but I had good success building a raspberry Pi based arcade so I thought I'd give it a shot. I really appreciate you help on this. I am pulling my hair out and dont have much left to pull.

Not sure what VPAuto.exe does? Could there be a connection here?

rablack97 - it may be tomorrow before I can get you a screen shot. Gotta help my son move tonight. Tables run fine when I launch with VPinballX.exe. I lutilized GAMEMANAGER to add tables to PBX. Basically the PBX wheel stays overlaid on top of the selected table when I hit PLAY. It loads the playfield and backglass but the PBX menu is overlaif on top. When I press a button the RETURN, EXIT, SHUTDOWN at the DEFAULT Filter (70s, 80s, 90s, ALL TABLES, etc.) menu is displayed at the top of the playfield in its normal position

Thank you so much for responding Tom. Your product is awesome and this is so frustrating that I am having issues. The files I posted earlier were from a session when the problem occurred. The lines below are from my Pinballx.ini file. They are correct as per my installation. When I ran setup in Pinballx I actually browsed to the tables to ensure they were correct. Your comments confirm exactly what I am seeing. It looks as if the table never launches. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Pinballx with only two tables and the result remains the same. Tables run fine when starting from VPinballx.exe. When I select the table from the PinballX menu, it loads the table and backglass but the Pinballx menu is still overlaid on top of it like it still has control. If the paths or filenames were incorrect, I would think it would not know which table and blackglass to load. Hence by frustration. WorkingPath=C:\Visual Pinball TablePath=C:\Visual Pinball\Tables Executable=VPinballX.exe Parameters=/play -"[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]" I am running two monitors with and external PinDMD3 from virtuapin. Could this be some kind of PINMAME issue? IWhen I run PIMMAMECheck (SP?) , it tells me it is unregistered and I am missing the MSSFTMDT.DLL file (cant remember exact spelling) Google tells me others have the same issue with no problems). I am open to any suggestion you may have. THANK YOU again for trying to help.

Dont know to get a screen shot. Alt tab showsvthe various screens but does not fix issue when i alternate windows. Happens on all tables. The playfield is whatever table is selected with the pinballx screen overlaid on top of it.

The pinballx menu is immediately displayed after a table loads. I see the playfield and the backglass and the table audio plays. Immediately the pinballx is displayed on top of the table and pinballx responds to any keys or buttons pressed like it never got into vpx control. This happens on any table. I uninstalled and reinstalled pinballx tonight eith the same result. I have invested alot of money in my setup and am getting really upset I cannot get the frontend to launch a table. Pinballx looks like it is running great until it gets to turning over focus. Cant for the life of me figure out why the pinballx menu pops back up on top of table. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP.

Thanks rablack. There has to be something about my settings or configuration that is an issue. Maybe I need to reinstall Pinballx and visual Pinball and see if it still occurs. Certainly open for better options.

Pardon my ignorance but do you mean I need to put this in the script for each table. If not, where? Thank you very much

On business travel. Will upload files and check mapping tomorrow night. I think i tried remapping the start key to test with same result but not sure. Really wierd. It loads table and menu goes away until I hit start or any key for that matter if memory serves me. It is like table is ready for run command but pinballx still has control of buttons. Files have been uploaded

Requested files loaded below. I have verified the mapping and the focus seems ok. It is really weird that he Pinballx menu remains overlaid on the playfield after the table is loaded. For this log. I started Pinballx and selected THE BADCATS TABLE. The table and backglass looks like it loaded (Pnballx menu was still overlaid). When I push START it is as if the menu was still active and PINBALLX never gave control to Visual PinballX. Please HELP! Visual Pinball.xml log.txt PinballX.ini

On business travel. Will upload files and check mapping tomorrow night. I think i tried remapping the start key to test with same result but not sure. Really wierd. It loads table and menu goes away until I hit start or any key for that matter if memory serves me. It is like table is ready for run command but pinballx still has control of buttons.

When i select a table to launch, it says loading. Then the table and backglass are loaded and look great. Now the problem. When I press Start the Pinballx menu pops up instead of starting the table. Tables work fine when launched manually outside of Pinballx. What am I missing? It is like Pinballx is still in control and Vpinballx never gets control. Please help! Want to surprise my daughter with cabinet this weekend.