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I have a mixture of mp4 & f4v dmd videos and both formats work fine for me on lcd dmd. I'll try your airbourne f4v later on.. Edit- Gave your airbourne f4v file a go and it worked for me. I use the lav filters from the pinballx homepage, although i have since installed vlc player 2.2.8 32bit as well which maybe changed some stuff(?) . I'm on win10 64bit.

I don't know of anything. Game Manager does list what media is missing but only previews the wheel image, if you don't find anything then maybe a feature request to have optional media preview in game manager? Edit: Had a thought and this sounds a bit messy (because it is) but you might be able to create a new pinballx.ini file (backup current one 1st!) that shows pinball x playfield, dmd & backglass on one screen and then have game manager open on another at the same time. Then restore original pinballx.ini after. Just a thought... and i did say messy didn't i?!

I use company logo's on the 3rd screen for non dmd tables, import via game manager from the pinballx\media\company logos folder. Then uncheck hide dmd in game manager for that table so the image still shows after opening the game. I think if you've recorded a blank dmd video with pbx recorder that the video will take precedence over the image though so make sure you delete that in the dmd videos folder for that system if that is the case.

Depending what you see in the event log it might also be worth temporarily disabling any antivirus / Defender you have running and trying pinballx again, probably not a factor but worth ruling out. If event log clear and not related to anti virus then back up your pinballx media, database & config folders and uninstall / delete current installation completely. Reinstall the 32bit version and test, then copy your config, databases and media folders back across and retest.

The last entry in your log file is "Loading Game Statistics and Scores", in mine the line i have after that is "Main display running full screen windowed." so issue seems to have something to do with one of those lines activities. In your pinballx.ini file you don't have a line like "FullScreenWindowed=False" under the [Display] section which could relate to the info from the log files (there's actually a few lines missing when compared to mine). Do you have a backup copy of the pinballx.ini file from when it was known to be working for comparison purposes?. If not try adding that line to the end of the [Display] section. Also, please confirm pinballx install location/path , if running as admin or not (via right click on pinballx.exe, properties, compatibility, run as administrator), and the exact error message that says unable to load (or screenshot it)

I don't mind being a guinea pig. Count me in!

Was this fixed?.. i'm guessing not because using quicklaunch 1.0.4 with pbx 3.28 32bit on win10 64bit i'm getting the same issues - arguments get removed unless added to settings.xml directly and also get the "could not start process!" error when launching a table. Or is a there a later version somewhere?. Thanks

Sorry... i meant 64bit pinballx, should have been clearer. It's an option during pinballx install.

+1 from me!, by table and or system would be good. Default to the current loading screen if no image found. I did try changing the loading.png image via a launch before bat file, but it seems the loading image is loaded before that fires (or at least doesn't honour the wait for exit flag), which i suppose makes sense as you'd want the loading screen there for any long running launch before activities, Edit: 25/02/19 functionality now added via plugin. Would still like 'native' support in pinballx though

Are you using the 64bit version? You have UseB2S=True in the ini file, B2S is 32bit so that could be a problem. If not try turning that feature off and using backglass videos instead.

Yeah, that would be a problem. I've inadvertently shut down power without shutting down windows before, and yes it did corrupt/reset the pinballx config.ini. Don't do it, always shutdown windows first! - you're asking for problems if you don't, even hardware issues.

PinballX\Config\ folder (or it might be configuration folder, i'm going off memory!)

Ok, well if you can't find anything with the hardware there's only a couple of other things i can think of.. Try setting force fullscreen in VPX (you may need to set the DDraw registry flag for game roms too if you do that, can be done in bulk with setdmd), or an autohotkey script or similar to force focus to VPX after table launch https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinActivate.htm

Ok, so it is a focus thing. Have a look at this thread as option 1... (I would rename vpauto.exe rather than delete it so you have a backup). If that doesn't work i'b be tempted to try a batch file in your pinballx Run Program on Startup settings as option 2, something like the below pasted in notepad and saved as a .bat file (amend the tablename to something you have) that will hopefully preload/cache anything in the same way as when you start a game and have the focus issue now before restarting pbx. START /MIN /HIGH "loadvpx" "c:\visual pinball\Tables\tablename.vpx" TIMEOUT /T 10 TASKKILL /F /IM "VPinballX.exe" /T

So it's only the first table loaded, regardless of which one?.. Sounds like a focus issue anyway, if you ALT+TAB to the VPX table does it then work (will confirm focus issue)? Can you also let us know your VPX settings? - fullscreen set in video prefs, running as administrator as well?

Seasons greetings! Try turning off the auto position DMD via Settings or this line in pinballx.ini to False, AutoPositionPinMAME=True

Anything changed, pinballx or windows updates? Everything running as admin?

Somebody will have done this before i'm sure, but my google skills have failed me, i wanted the pinballx navigation sounds to come out of my rear speakers (front of cab) for 7.1 format so i've updated the existing rflipper, lflipper and select sounds in audacity for that. Maybe of use to others, all in attached zip file - drop them into you pinballx\media\navigation sounds folder (after making backups of course!). Not sure how they'll work on multi audio device setups or in 5.1, they probably won't but i can't test that! Edit - updated with better left right positioning across left <- > right speakers. Attachment updated. navigation sounds.7z

Please post your xml, log and ini files... it sounds like you're adding a new program, so tables on a new system list? (and is the system enabled in pinballx settings?)

Nice one.. sounds like your pinballx issues are resolved, who knows how!! For the tables you mentioned not showing the dmd you should probably continue that on another forum, but as far as i know the games you listed have scores on the backglass itself so the dmd may be redundant (but you could still show it if you wanted). There's a few options; 1/ some backglass files are 3 screen compatible and will show a score or a graphic on the dmd themselves, right click on backglass when game is running and set B2S DMD to visible to test that out. 2/ show a dmd, check in vpinmame setup that dmd should be shown and right click backglass to check DMD option is set to visible. 3/ Set the B2S DMD & DMD backglass options to hidden and in pinballx game manager select the game and uncheck Hide DMD so you can show the same DMD image / video as you have in the front end when playing the game. Hope that helps..

customVP - thanks for the info, guessed it was something like that. Alternative might be to add new system lists for other vp versions, but would be a pain moving all the games and media files across. Depends how many older games you run i suppose. auto config - copies pbx key settings to vpinball key settings, if you've got the keys mapped as you want probably can leave disabled. DMD not starting for some vpx tables - have you checked settings on the backglass for dmd via right click, and vpinmame settings (use external dmd / show dmd check boxes via vpinmame\setup.exe -> Test -> rom name, you'll want one of them checked [show dmd if you don't use freezys dll])? Are you still running the 32bit version of pinballx?, that might be a factor with customvp if running 64bit.

Not really a pinballx issue now.. i don't use FP, you might have more luck on a FP forum unless someone else chips in.

If you find a voice that sounds like the terminator i might enable the plugin myself!

Ahh.. you need to change it in the sapi control panel - of course!!, nicely hidden away by MS. Run C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl