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You do over time adjust to some level of lag, and some people are more sensitive to it than others. Antialiasing / graphic settings (in game or gpu) may introduce some lag, but usually the main cause is screen processing. Activate the tv's game mode if you haven't already https://displaylag.com/how-to-enable-game-mode-on-your-hdtv/ Even with game mode active some tv's will still have noticeable lag when compared to a good monitor side by side.

Lol.. ok then, if it is broken - fix it if you can, otherwise just try and forget about it!

I run PinballX as admin still, nothing else (i'm dof'less) I could probably remove admin on PinballX, but if it ain't broke...

Ahh,, pesky win7 compatibility mode! Thanks for posting your solution

Lol... that's probably why i was confused by the question!. You do know this is a PinballX front end forum don't you?! Recommend you give PinballX a go, it'll make your life a lot easier out of box. Config is simple, and if you do get any issues we'll be around to answer any questions

A video will help us understand the issue, also as draco requested please confirm if the issue is with all pup packs or just one table. (at the moment i'm not sure if the table launched above is stranger things or stranger things SE) As Mike says, the config that we can see does appear ok. Not sure what you may or may not have set to run as admin though and that may affect things, at one time it was recommended that pinupdisplay.exe was run as admin (not sure if that is still the case). Also, check the troubleshooting guide here https://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=puppack_troubleshoot , it could be performance related.

Hi Nick, welcome to the hobby! I've read your question a couple of times, but sorry not sure if i understand it. It sounds like you have two batch files one to launch with a table and one to launch on close. PinballX has launch before and after options that sound like what you want, but you may not have got as far as loading / configuring the front end yet?

A Spanish manufacturers list? I don't think it's readily possible within PinballX at the moment. If you're willing to do do some work then i think there are two options; Add 'ESP' or another identifying code to table descriptions or another field (like the comment in PinballX database manager) for the tables and then use that in the filtered list. If you're comfortable with xml xpath queries then you could use a custom database instead of a filtered list, have a look at this post if you want to try that https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/23385-obsolete-guide-automated-custom-lists/, this shows how you can set it up so that the custom database can auto refresh at PinballX startup.

You've mixed up the FP and VP launch parameters in the config. Try this version PinballX.ini (note, this is your config with the launch parameters updated)

Yes, some details / similar question here; (just the first couple of posts in that thread, then it goes off on a bit of a tangent) Let us now if you need more info

Please attach your Pinballx log.txt and pinballx.ini files (the log should be from after launching a table and seeing the issue) By pinup plugin i assume you mean pinup player (for in game videos etc), if so don't most of them replace the backglass? (I tried them for a while but ended up removing most of them after a while so i may not be fully up to speed with pinup player). Also. are you using the latest version of pinup player?

Regular star ratings would be unaffected, the unicode stars would be part of the table description which is a different field to the game rating field. Alternatively you could include text like Hard, Easy etc as part of the table comment field which you can also use to build filtered lists.

For VP the parameters are different to FP For VP try something like -minimized /play -"[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]" (and for VP also set enable launch before to No)

I can reproduce the volume key settings reset to defaults if cleared in settings by PinballX. Maybe try setting them to something else (unused / unmapped) rather than clearing them in settings?

PinballX database manager (https://www.gameex.info/forums/files/file/2499-pinballx-database-manager/) can create filters for you, and in the latest release you can use the unicode 1,2 and 3 star symbols as table difficulty ratings to the description field to filter on

Hi Tom , As i understand it from PinballX 4.83 animated png's now need to use the .apng file extension rather than .png. A while back i did animated company logos (https://www.gameex.info/forums/files/file/2503-animated-company-logos/) which are a mix of gif and animated png files using the .png extension. The animated pngs are now static in 4.83 (gifs are fine), it's no biggy for me to change the file extensions to .apng - but when i tried that PinballX doesn't see the files (and uses the 'no image.png' instead). So i guess apng just needs adding as a valid file extension / type to other media types like it is now for wheel images. Also, for info - will apngs be valid for all media areas in PinballX where pngs can currently be used? (i don't think people would use an apng table image when they can just use a video instead but could be used for overlays etc i suppose so just handy to know where they will be valid) Thanks (if you need a log or config i'll post them, but i don't think they're needed for this one)

For a test can you install to a new location / folder and see if you still get the error with just the default databases / media that come with the installer? Might be a corrupt media file (animated png?) somewhere in your setup, this might help prove that.

Here you go Tom hot off the press, test wheels for your VP database. File names use table names not description. I've used your db and confirmed the cropping still occurs with these, and if you scroll left and right for a while 4.81 32bit will eventually give the error in the log and hang. I am also using animated company logos but haven't seen the hang problem using just those. If you think it's the related to the file size, compression or number of frames then i can have a rethink (or maybe that idea to have an option in PinballX to only animate the wheel for the selected table would help, dunno..) Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks mate! 2030459074_testvpwheels.zip

Yeah, spot on Mike.. Tom does a great job! Tom - can you send me a database xml for your tests?, then i can tailor the test apng wheels to it so you can just drag them across.

No worries.. think we're all sick of this crap now

Can do. I'll get a job lot built that had that cropping issue too.. maybe i'll get a 2 for 1 fix!

Just tried 4.81, still get the occasional PinballX hang (where i need to kill it) when using multiple apng wheel images. I know a fix wasn't mentioned in the release note, but i was hoping! As you can see from the log, no games launched at any time, just scrolling round the wheel. No pattern to when it happens that i can see. log.txt

So just to confirm we need to convert from swf to png/jpg now? (and someone needs to clear up the FTP!)

PinballX Database Manager can help with the filtered list creation if you want lists by decades etc (which would use the year field), see 2nd post in this thread. If all you want is lists by decades you can probably do it in less than 30mins. And yes, i didn't think you'd be able to hide the yyyy prefix if added to the game description field, sorry if i gave the impression you could. Did you start PinballX twice when testing?... weird things happen if two instances are running. If you're sure you only started it once and the problem continues after a reboot then please raise that as a new issue (and attach you log and config files). Thanks

Nice workaround. The only problem i've had with colors using a gtx1080 where windows decided it new better than nvidia color settings was at windows startup, i got round that by disabling the windowscolorsystem\calibration loader task in task scheduler. Just as a side idea on the original issue, with a gtx1070 maybe you don't need to run VPX in exclusive fullscreen?... but as you've got a workaround already it's just a thought.