Mike_da_Spike

Not u derstandinb completly how you update your media.. How do you 'upload' them ? Anything in your log file ? Not using game list manager, so sorry for my questions

Too bad . dbm is using pinballx to record videos and only bulk videos can be controlled with that option.

Depends. Using the "bulk video" button, will record only the checked parts. The "create videos, will create all videos. I'm always use bulk videos, check the pf and bg and only missing videos

I checked your video and indeed strange. This implicates that your flex DMD is also showing on your main screen as well. . Or ... The hardware video capture is mixing up your playfield with your DMD display. are you using Windows to record or nvidia capture ? Maybe any settings you need to adjust over there ? EDIT: Don't think it has anything to do with the recording, but noticed, you don't have set 'Full screen Exclusive hack' to Yes within PBX for Visual Pinball As this will focus the screen, maybe it is worth to test it

Are you using vpx 10.7 or 10.6 ? If you use 10.7, can you try to set this table (with alternate exe) to vpx10.6 ? Also noticed that your pbx version is running 10 versions behind, maybe try to upgrade that as well EDIT : Just tested on my cab as well. it is launched within 10 of seconds and nice transition between loading videos and table. 06:34:04.07 7-6-2022: C:\Pinball\Visual pinball\VPinballX.exe -play "C:\Pinball\Visual pinball\Tables\VPX\AC-DC_Premium-1.5.vpx" -ExtMinimized 06:34:05.06 7-6-2022: C:\Pinball\PinballX\vpauto.exe 06:34:08.89 7-6-2022: VPX Full screen exclusive mode detected 06:34:08.89 7-6-2022: VPX Full screen exclusive focus hack set 06:34:14.11 7-6-2022: Found PinMAME ROM: acd_170hc 06:34:14.12 7-6-2022: Hiding PinMAME Window 06:34:14.12 7-6-2022: Setting DMD position 06:34:14.25 7-6-2022: Visual Pinball Player window foreground: 9 and to just to be sure :Do you have set Visual Pinball to use Full exclusive mode ? And set PinballX system full screen exclusive mode to Yes ?

Ok. Not at a pc yet (I normally do all 'support' via my tablet) , so will check the video later on. i see from the log that it recording backglass and dmd videos. Is your issue only caused by this table or also other tables(and isn't this a pup pack video?)

I am not able to see your video. Can you post the pinballX log.txt and pinballx.ini ?

Glad I could help !

Dbm logs are in the sub folder logs of the dbm install directory, but think we don't need them, as pbx wont record the video. Can you check pinballx settings.exe and check if your backglass monitor is configured on the correct display ?

To be honest, I dont have a clue If you have the opportunity, try to create the videos's and post your pinballx.ini and log.txt and also your Databasemanager.ini and log file What type of video creating do you use ? Bulk or a per table recording ?

I switched over to pinscape last year as my virtuapin controller stopped working. Bennefits of it, is that the board can be replaced by a cheap board and reprogram it. I went for the kit with the analog plunger. It is a potentiometer that you can attach to every analog plunger (I alread had a plunger). The potentiometer makes the plunger much preciser than a analog to digital convertor. What do you want with force feedack ? Use DOF ? Pinscape has some ports for adding lights and/or feedback devices. I already had a ledwiz with 32 ports. If hou don't use that much, the pinscape can be enough as well (but realize that flashers and rgb flasher take up a lot of ports) Note : if you want to use device like knocker, solenoids, blowers etc, do not attach them directly to you vontroller, but use small relais. Als use diodes to not blow up you device or psu Surround sound feedback is really a must have (my opinion). It is not too expensive, but gives a very good pinball experience ( if the table author didn't mess with the sounds) What kind of full DMD do you want ? Lcd or real 128x32 leds ? Good luck with your journey!

that file didn't come automaticlly, so I say : User error !

I will change my avatar to this : Why don't you want to use it ? Any specific reasons ? I thought that people just wanted to have this enabled for better performance

On top of my head, it was a plugin or setting. Wil check later on for you EDIT: If it is only for your PinballX system, my assumption is that you have a file called "- system -.mp3" in your Media\Visual Pinball\Table Audio folder.

Can you enable that and try again ? I always run in Force exclusive mode and don't have any issues And also upgrade to PBX 5.43. Tom did some stuff with VPX in the latest version

Not 100% sure, but isnt this a plugin ?

Is your visual pinball set to 'force full screen exclusive' mode ?

Same behaviour for me as well

Sorry, dont use it (yet). Waiting until you write the documentation for it

Thanks buddy, getting slowly there.

I finally got the cab closed again. Because I was not able to remove the front frame of the monitor, I put some black tape on it to mask the white colored frame. Intention was to brush it black, but this was a cheap and easy fix as well. Time to play again

I have 1000+ vpx tables, so no limit on tables. Not sure about the minimum requirements of pbx. You have an i7 , but 3rd gen. Not sure about your video card. Do you have any errors in eventlog ? My assumption is that it is somewhere a limitation on a hardware component

@scuttersand myself released a small update. It a bug fix release that was found by @MrGrynch (thanks for that) Issue was that when checking an instruction card with multiple pages (SWF file) that the preview didn't show the selected instruction card. This could also happen with the "overwrite" dialog. We also discovered that some PC's didn't show the instruction cards during the overwrite file dialog (just 2 black screens) Going through the code, we speedup the preview of showing swf files with 425% (calculation was done before and after fix) Something that bothered me for a long time, was that the Icon didn't show correctly in explorer for 'medium' icons : This is fixed now as well, and icon should be shown correctly NOTE : be aware that Windows has an icon cache, so could take some time before you notice anything See https://neosmart.net/wiki/clear-icons-cache/ for clearing the cache Big thanks for @scuttersfor his help again and also to @MrGrynchfor reporting the bug

I will check that as well, but at the moment I tested, I had the "all tables" filters. Maybe it is easier to read all xml files and the result shows the system - table ? +1 . And also search on unicode ? EDIT : Tested it with my Visual Pinball System : In your log : Error when reading the file C:\Pinball\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball\Visual Pinball.xml : System.Xml.XmlException: System does not support 'Windows-1252' encoding. Line 1, position 31. ---> System.ArgumentException: 'Windows-1252' is not a supported encoding name. For information on defining a custom encoding, see the documentation for the Encoding.RegisterProvider method. (Parameter 'name') at System.Text.EncodingTable.InternalGetCodePageFromName(String name) at System.Text.EncodingTable.GetCodePageFromName(String name) at System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(String name) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.CheckEncoding(String newEncodingName) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args, Exception innerException) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg, Exception innerException) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.CheckEncoding(String newEncodingName) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseXmlDeclaration(Boolean isTextDecl) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename) at PinballX.PinballXDatabases.GetTablesInfosFromDatabases(SystemInfoFromConfig systemInfos) this is my XML : Visual Pinball.xml

I gave it a try as well, but this is not for cabinet users I asume ? Only works for keyboard (not joy buttons). the search was blank for me and didn't show any results. I could not close the window anymore and needed to force the process to quit. Dialog was on playfield, but not rotated. but, I like the idea PinballXSearchGame_logs.txt