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Best done in VPX video options, set to 1; It will look for tables in your tables folder as setup in Settings for Table Path Don't think i've ever seen a rom / SS table without high scores, and enabled by default. From your stats file i don't have any of the tables you do so i can't confirm, but maybe there is a rom setting to enable high scores... news to me but possible, try going through the options for the roms (have a look on vpforums for rom adjustment guides)

Easiest way to check if saving to high scores in game is to enter initials exit out and then restart game, see if high scores are there still. You can probably also just add a load of credits and exit out, restart and see if they're still there. Both ways should save to the same romname.nv file in your Visual Pinball NVRAM folder.

Strange issues! Can you post your pinballx.ini file (attach it rather than paste contents) from the pinballx\config folder as well as statistics.ini from the databases folder. Thanks Edit- just re-read your post. Re the high scores not saving, are you saying they're not available to pinballx in the front end, or that vpinmame isn't saving them (in game)?

You need to attach your pinballx.ini and log.txt files, maybe screen shot of FP game keys settings too. Is pinballx and/or FP running as admin?

Did you record against game description or name in pbx recorder? Is it all new videos or just some tables? Please also attach copy of your pbx recorder log file, and your visual pinball xml.

You need to attach copies of your pinballx.ini & log.txt files But as you're a new user, i have to ask have you installed any emulators?, pinballx is only a front end to open other applications and it comes with example media and game listings for a few tables but not the applications themselves. If you install only pinballx you can try to open one of the example entries, it will fail and just exit back out as you describe.

Re pbxrecorder - i think you are correct that setting VPX to fullscreen exclusive is the cause of the issue there. From the log you're running Version 1.3beta, pbx recorder added fullscreen exclusive code in V1.6. So... either turn off vpx fullscreen mode before recording, or update pbx recorder !

Does it always error on that game exiting? If it's every time you could try deleting the .nv nvram file for the rom. You'd lose your game data though. If that doesn't help adding pinballx.ini and log.txt files as attachments might throw up some clues.

You'll need to attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files (after the issue). Thanks

Can you attach your pinballx.ini and log.txt files and give a bit more info on your setup and the issue... Do you have the taskbar disabled in windows on the BG screen and it gets enabled somehow, or is it enabled there but now appears on top of the BG video/image?. I just have the taskbar on playfield screen, might be worth trying that in windows if you have it enabled on all screens.

Might be worth disabling your largest system (vpx) in settings.exe first (before deleting tables), and seeing if issue recurs if you leave it running a while to help prove if a memory issue. Does task manager hint at any bottlenecks when the issue is present?

Is the black DMD screen you see a blank window, or is your windows desktop black (so it could either). Can you see anything for the DMD video if you press ALT+TAB?

Also make sure you have LAV filters installed, available here https://www.pinballx.com/

In Settings.exe go to Display settings, set Auto position DMD = No Or in pinballx.ini set this line = False; AutoPositionPinMAME=True

There is another option, for tables you don't have videos for yet you could add static backglass images. Pinballx looks for videos first then images. Depends if you'd be happy with static images i guess, should be plenty on the FTP (as well as stock backglass videos of course, but they might be harder to identify as not your recordings later)

Different style, call it a pseudo progress bar(?). 1st frame is dark transparent so blends in pretty well from black screen flash. Won't be doing a gif version of this as it's all partial transparency. 48 frames (16*3 loops), works best for me around 10 or 15fps - so ~ 4.8 or 3.2sec loading video loop duration... but can be as fast or slow as you like! e.g. entry in the loading vdeo tool (https://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/23167-app-create-launch-videos-from-playfield-with-overlay/) [Overlay1] VideoLengthMs1 = 3200 ImageMask1 = "frame%%.png" BitRate1 = 5 Frames.zip

Attach your pinballx.ini and log.txt files (after trying to launch the table) Does the table load at all (can you see it if you alt+tab)?

Yep, it's not quick getting the 'source' 128*32 images sorted. But at least i've got the conversion to 1080*270 gifs pretty much nailed now!

@Mike_da_Spike's DMD style loading video sequences as loading gifs; Thanks for these Mike! Bottom of screen versions on FTP /-PinballX-/Other Uploads/scutters/Loading Gifs/DMD. Zip has light and dark versions for centre of loading screen overlay. GIFs.zip

Working for me with filezilla

A minute's not long enough? Anyways, for anyone interested / still using pbx recorder here's an updated script / exe with a couple of extra options to output playfield @1920*1080 (for 4k users who either want to save space or gain a little performance [this also speeds up playfield image snapshots for table loading images if you're using that option]), and optional output as yuv420p which may also help with perf ( https://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/20809-266-here-hardware-accelerated-video-rendering/?do=findComment&comment=178204). @gtxjoe / @Carny_Priesthope you don't mind me posting here, will delete if you wish! PBXrecorder.zip

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..