chadman

Well just like bringing the car to the mech, the issue can't be reproduced and I have no idea what fixed it. Seems to come up almost instantly again like I would have expected. So the magic was let the computer sleep overnight and get some rest, because that's all I did. It might just be some odd order of doing something that caused it before, but it was easy to reproduce and now I just can't. Thanks, Chad.

I started over and this time I did not use the Visual Pinball install that comes with PinballX. Also got my folders all cleaned up and have it all running in one folder that is sorted. Before stuff was all over the place. Big thanks for the help and great catch Mike with the other location being called for music. That's the secreat sauce that led me to the fix.

I have an issue that sometimes that app that pops up that ask for player numbers that Joyrider created has a long delay before I see it. Just kind of thinking out loud, but it's almost as pinballx is not calling it right away, but it's not consistent. Sometimes the app comes up instantly like I would expect. Other times it takes like 10 or so seconds before it pops up. I can never reproduce any delay in Joyriders app, but not sure what would cause that to hand since it's called before the table launches.

Well huge thanks to all of you that do this for free and thanks to @scutterstoo for their assistance with the app. I already started to re-image back to my base OS and try to clean this stuff up some so it's right going forward.

I built my cab years ago and it was really under powered, and I did a poor job of setting it up. Recently I replaced the computer and just re-did all the software. I really like how I have it working, but it's all over the place as I was figuring it all out. I have all kinds of folders in the root of C and now this huge baller installer thing on another drive. I was so happy to get all the Steam stuff working so well I hate to start over again. I got some apps that someone named Joyrider had created to select the player numbers and the wife and I love that feature with pinballFX. It would be great to have all the software installed in a single location, but I know it would take so much time to do that. Also huge shout out to Mike and that database app! So nice to drag/drop stuff compared to the last time I built this cab. I'm so amazed how cool some of this stuff is, but it's hard to find info and takes some time digging.

Draco, I tried the pinup popper, but do not use it. I use PinballX as my front end, but thought that baller installer with the guided config would be the way to go for the backend part of vpx.

I just checked and it is the 10.7.0 build they are using. That said, it works fine with my tables if I run them only from within 10.7.0. The only issue is when they are launched with PinballX. Doing a little more digging I found an env var that was set when I installed DMDext and that was pointing to that Visual Pinball that was installed. Well guess that explains where I went wrong. I have only been running Steam tables in the past and used that location in Visual Pinball to run DMDext for those Steam Games. My thinking was that this baller installer would really help with the setup of VPX and I would keep it all separate and use PinballX to launch those games.

Great find and thank you! So my music folder is on my S:. I used some installer called the baller installer and the reviews seemed good on that. I'm not sure how the Visual Pinball folder got on my C:, but I thought that was part of PinballX install process. I have been doing the testing and running everything from that new folder that ballerinstall created. I know my system is kind of all over the place. My thought was to move the VPX stuff to my other drive going forward for space. Maybe thats a bad idea. I have a bunch of other systems running now, but this VPX stuff is brand new to me and has been a little slow.

Here you go. It is running fine if I launch it from vpx app.. I also using the vpx custom setup, not the default one. When I tried the default I had issues with key mapping and a few other things. log.txt PinballX.ini

So I'm new to getting vpx tables working and this is my 3rd table I'm trying to get working. Currently I have only been running FX2, FX2, Wicked, and Zaccaria tables I have purchased and they all work great on my system now. For my VP tables I used the baller installer. I'm trying to get this Grateful Dead table working and it plays great in VPX with pinball sounds and music. When I view this with PinballX it looks great and seems to load fine. Then I click the button to enter a coin, click start, and get a BASS music\sound error from the table telling me it could not play a file. If I turn off the music backglass, the issue is resolved, but then I lose my music. Just not sure why it runs fine from the ide, but fails on the front end. Sure it's something I missed somewhere.

Thanks so much for checking and sorry for my late reply. I did get this working and it was an issue with focus and using full screen setting. Got it working great now with FX3 and Zaccaria. Also a huge thanks for you database app! I have used that so much getting this all setup and it really works well. Great app! Chad

Sorry this topic is a little old, but I'm trying to get Joyriders app to work and can't get it to stay in focus. I have not tested the one mentioned in this app, but it sounds like it works the same way. I can press alt/f4 and it puts focus on the app and then works great. I have also tried the 3 setting available in the .ini file and have not had any luck regardless of how those are set. I'm sure it's something simple, but anyone have this or Joyrider's app working on a recent copy of FX3? Chad

I have the same issue. I see the video fine in PinballX and as soon as the launch the table the image freezes. FX2 still work fine.

not happy that they changed the names of some of the tables. Have to go back and update backglass, wheel, and dmd names again.

offline mode in steam kind of sucks. I have never had good luck with it. Also with FX3 it looks like to does some type of connect every table I start. Not sure if it works offline or not.

I don't see it posted in the latest release. only see 1.52 and that's older.. I was able to download the new source code and compile the new dmdext.exe. Works great! hlr53, ignore my PM, I got it working and thanks for asking freezy about it. Great job Freezy! this makes the games look so much cooler!

Looked at the source code and it does point to fx2. I tried to modify it, but can't compile it because I'm missing a bunch of references. Think it's beyond my lame skill level.

When read the options for dmdext I see pinballfx2 listed, but not pinballfx3. If I enter pinballfx3 it does not work. I'm not sure, but I think it must be hard coded in the .exe file. Kind of lame without the cool dmd. Also fx3 requires a keyboard to enter high scores...errrrrr.

I can't get my real DMD to display for Pinball FX3. Had anyone had any luck with dmdext,exe? do we need a new version of this to work with fx3?

what are the -app settings? I cant get mine to start.