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Best bet is to just have a backglass video for every table in the media folders!

Glad it's sorted. I don't have any tables without videos so never realised the missing BG video got updated as well during install, thanks for the info.

Cloning a drive to a different setup could cause a load of issues i guess. What happens if BG and DMD are unplugged, so playfield is only connected screen? and is it set as primary already in windows? Probably worth posting a screenshot of your screen set up in windows as well as the log and ini files. (last resort will be follow link in this post, but don't think you're there yet https://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/20798-please-help-pinball-x-back-glass-video-wont-show-up-resolved/?do=findComment&comment=177934)

No way that i know of. Probably best to raise it as a feature request..

ToggleStartWithWindows.exe in pinballx folder?.. i'm guessing that's called by settings.exe when you change the start with windows setting in pinballx settings. @teezr2 It might be worth checking / posting your start up programs in windows for pinballx. Windows start -> settings -> apps -> startup

Try disabling the start with windows option in pinballx (in settings.exe under startup settings) first, then reboot. Let us know what happens, does pinballx still start on reboot, as a single instance, or not at all?

@greynurseI've posted this link before i think; https://mega.nz/#F!p3hREDgB!pEWMJvVQ7t3Sv_TmrxdU-w!52AzHIDR (it's not mine so i'm not uploading to ftp) Plenty of flyers & instruction cards on there, if you have space on your hard drive you can just download the whole lot and copy them to the respective pinballx media folders, then when you add a game this files are already 'pre-populated' - so long as you match the name. I like the sort / filters ideas for game manager!

Two shortcuts to launch at startup? If you exit out of everything and launch pinballx manually do you get the issue?

Note, if you don't want the loading gifs across the middle of your playfield screen then you can resize the canvas used by them. One way to reposition them to the bottom of the playfield screen is go on to https://www5.lunapic.com/editor/?action=quick-upload and upload the gif, Edit->Resize Canvas to 1080w*1920h, leave canvas colour as transparent, then change image position to lower center.. and Bob's your uncle. ... or you could just grab the DMD style gifs for bottom of playfield off the FTP , /-PinballX-/Other Uploads/scutters/Loading Gifs/DMD , i'm not posting them here as they're just the same except for position.

Another LW3 DMD style loading gif, based on colourisation http://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/3287-lethal-weapon-3/ Light and dark version in the zip. Make your choice.. LW3__2.zip

@killa7977 Any good?

Might be timing issue; I think you could also amend your bat file to pass the dmdext parameters on the same line as the start as well. Note, I don't use mirroring so may be off with my suggestion, but knew i'd seen the timing thing mentioned somewhere before. If that doesn't help please also attach your log.txt file (after launching an FX3 table)

Yes!, i think there was a fix for that at some stage. Good to run latest anyway for support. Just install latest version straight over the top. Media and settings won't be changed, just the app. If you still have issues after updating please post back and attach your pinballx.ini and log.txtfiles.

If it's just to test i'd install to a new location and then copy media/database xml across, test then delete.

No problem, glad you got it sorted

I'm a little confused (not for the first time!)... you used pbx recorder to take backglass images, but you also state that you don't have any backglass images or videos for the tables in the media folders. Can you clarify that a bit? I'll assume for now that you deleted the images (or videos) created by pbx recorder later on and you don't have any pinballx media for these tables, if that's the case then is the static image you see the actual backglass directb2s file loading on top of the pup videos maybe?. If you still have the .directb2s backglass file in the VP tables folder try renaming the file extension to .olddirectb2s or whatever and give it a go. If i'm miles off with that suggestion then please also confirm things still work properly if you launch the tables outside pinballx, thanks.

Sorry, bit slow testing, but yeah i get the same issue with game manager in v4.06 - edit a database in game manager and on save removes the alternateexe flag from the xml. What version did you update from where it was working ok?, will probably help @Tom Speirs track it down

I have VPX as a separate system so don't use alternate exe, but i can probably rig up a test Please attach your pinballx.ini, log.txt (after launching a VP9 table) and your visual pinball xml.

@Mike_da_Spike Nice!.. I just have it on the virtual DMD in attract mode when i'm playing music on the cab, Sometimes a virtual dmd comes in handy over a real one

*** NOTE - PinballX V4.88 and later has the option to display date & time on the playfield screen so this plugin is partly superseded, but it may be of use to you if you want more customisable options than the inbuilt PinballX version (location, font etc) *** This plugin will display a clock (time or date & time) in PinballX. If you've seen the statistics display plugin then this plugin will look familiar, like that plugin you can choose the location and appearance of the clock, with background as transparent, image or colour etc. You can choose to display the clock in PinballX all the time or only in attract mode, it is always hidden when a game is launched. That's pretty much all there is to it. No more excuses for not having the tea ready when your better half returns home from the bingo! Installation Extract the contents of the zip file into your PinballX\Plugins folder, unblock the dll file if required (https://www.limilabs.com/blog/unblock-dll-file) and then enable the Clock plugin in plugin manager. Make sure you change the display config to match your setup and preferences. Configuration Display Window Details Section Use the options in this section to change the location and appearance of what is displayed. X Position, Y Position - Top left co-ordinates for the window to be displayed from Width, Height - Display window size. If you set a screen size too small to display all lines of the selected data then the text will scroll upwards. This is useful if you want a single line displayed with changing text, in that case size the window according to your selected font and Preview the window to fine tune sizing. Rotation - Use the up/down arrows to rotate the displayed window (0,90,180 or 270 degrees), useful to display on Playfield screens (note that if doing so this will not be compatible with PinballX running in exclusive fullscreen mode) Display Font - Font type, colour and size used Centre Text - Centre align text in the display window horizontally. Approximates centre vertical alignment. Colour, Transparent, Image - Set background Colour, to Transparent or use Image (note that images are stretched/squeezed to fill your selected display window size) Opacity - Overall opacity of the displayed window Preview - click to preview the display location and selected font and colour options Date Time Format Pick the format of time (or date & time) you want to display. Note that exact formats will depend on your region, and can be adjusted in Windows. Alternate Display - If you select to display a date and time format you can check this box to alternate between the two. Attract Mode Check this box to display the clock only in PinballX attract mode. Issues If you have any issues then please attach the PinballX.in & Log.txt files as well as the plugins PBXClock.ini & PBXClock_log.txt files along with a description of the problem. Thanks Thanks to Mike_da_Spike for testing and suggestions, Tom Speirs for PinballX and Adultery for the plugin template. Changes 28/11/19 V1.0.0 Initial release 28/01/20 V1.1.0 Fix format issue 21/10/20 V1.2.0 Centre text option now also aligns text vertically as well as horizontally. 11/05/23 V1.2.1 Fixed clock disappearing behind PinballX playfield on game exit and makes sure a 'rotated' clock updates correctly. ** if updating from a previous there is no need to replace the PBXClock.ini file (you'll lose your settings if you do), copy the PBXClock.dll file from the zip only ** PBXClock V1_2_1.zip

@freezy - thanks for adding the version to the download page Just noticed another very minor thing on TNA, version 1.3 shows as 3 days ago, it's actually 3 hours ago as seen in comments, and on download page. Sorry for being a picky twat.

You need to attach your pinballx.ini and log.txt files (look in pinballx\config and pinballx\log folders) Might be as simple as changing numbers in pinballx\settings.exe Display Settings section. Also, make sure you have the latest version of pinballx installed.

Don't think the backglass is using videos, you're set to use B2S files in the Pinballx (which is fine if intentional, just a bit slower to show than videos), it's the Use DirectB2S option in settings.exe if you want to disable that and use videos for the backglass. Definitely install the LAV filter as Mike suggested, that might help playfield videos.

Attachment in first post updated to V1.3 Fixes regional setting issue, thanks @joyrider3774 for reporting that Adds optional attract mode summary data for all systems ( @killa7977 - i know it might not be ideal, but it's as close as i can get to your request) Added optional display window rotation. Note, there is more overhead to the plugin if rotation is set <> 0 as the display data is effectively mirrored with rotation. System data now also refreshed when attract mode starts rather than just on startup Thanks once again to @Mike_da_Spike for finding the time to test it out on his system

I don't think he wants a most played xml database, but wants the most played tables info currently displayed on the systems menu to be displayed (summarised for all systems) when he's viewing the all tables list. Edit: @killa7977 i may be able to add something like the above as an option, but only for pinballx attract mode (so normal table data when navigating the wheel manually), when attract mode starts display a summary of system level data across all systems (regardless of what wheel list you're viewing). Any use (if that makes sense)?