Mike_da_Spike

Technicly I give it a shutdown, via start button or via PinballX, but looks like windows is hybernating it. (Thats what I suspect from what I see from the event). Need to dig in more for whats happening. Maybe had to do with the breakup of Bill andMelainda (just kidding) Just wondering if I'm the only one ..

Hey all, I think I have this since I updated my cabinet to Windows 21h1 last week. During cold reboot, my cabinet is starting, and PinballX is started without focus (not during all cold boots, but i this week happened too much that I noticed it) I see that the statistics plugin is loaded , but rest is minimized. Clicking on the PBX icon in the taskbar (or alt-tab) will show the playfield and backglass videos; Also it looks like that the "Hide taskbar" function is not hiding the taskbar (I thought it should disappear) I also noticed that the log file doesn't show "Machine just booted so waiting 6 seconds" Checking my eventlog (cabinet was really powered off), the event shows that my cabinet is online for almost 24 hour (and the event is generated between events from yesterday): Anyone got an idea and am I the only one ? PinballX.ini log.txt

Never tested it with FP, but vpx pause indeed and goes to pinballx . Clicking on resume continues the vpx. Not sure how FP works

I dont see anything strange, beside that you have a 64bit operating system and using the 32bit of PinballX. Have you tried to use the 64bit version of PBX as well ? (Just run the installer again and make sure you install the 64bit)

This morning I installed Windows 10 21H1 (that's the latest version). I restarted my cabinet and PinballX is launching. Waited a bit and attract mode was starting. I launched a table, waited a while and exit the table. Came back into PinballX and waited. Atrract mode was still working for me. I still run PBX v5.12 64 bit. Maybe post your log file (after issue is happening) and your settings file)

Gotcha ! Thanks Tom

@Tom Speirs, not to rush you Tom, but did you read this post ?

As I mentioned, this wasn't caused by PinballX (As I thought in the first place). Again ,sorry @Tom Speirs that I thought it has to do with your code. It took me a couple of weeks (limited time as well), to investigate this one. Noticed that when I enabled the DOF plugin from @swisslizard that the stream deck getting slow. I grabbed the latest code from github (from MJR), but the plugin is there as well. I was confused by the log file of the plugin, that even a single button press of the flipper results in multiple entries in the log file, but that's normal behavior. When I made a test program , that only initiated the dof.dll , I didn't had any issue, but when I load the config for the table "PinballX" , I had the same strange behavior. I noticed that this was caused by the initialization of my Teensy board (to control my LEDS). The same happen when I launch an VPX table with the teensy enabled as well. I tested it to changed the COM port of the Teensy to other ports, but same result After a long search, I tried to put my Stream deck not attached to an USB hub, but a direct USB port on the main board I have USB hubs, because a lot of devices requires an USB port : 2 external USB ports for Keyboard and any other device (Kinect that is not internally attached) 1 USB port for teensy board 1 USB port External 7.1 sound card (SSF) 1 USB port for my LEd-Wiz 1 USB for my PinDMDv3 1 USB for mouse 1 USB port for Stream Deck The PC only got 6 USB ports ..... Just an update for anyone who will face the same issue as I had

I'm still a bit confused (sorry, thats my fault) You want the videos with an underlay to be displayed from the front end during fx3. Fx2 is working fine, but fx3 is only showing the dmd with a black border, right ? But the videos you created for fx2 all contains a border, but the fx3 videos not containing a border. If you replace the fx3 videos with a border, will they show correctly? Is that your issue, or am I still not on the right track (sorry for the questions, just want to help) Edit: just thinking , are you using pupplayer to add the underlay video for your dmd ?

I think I understand (sorry, I am Dutch.) But in your photos, the fx2 are all videos with a frame (underlay), in a resolution that fits to your dmd scree (4:3 ?). Looking your fx3 folder, I only see bethesda_skyrim and the 3 Aliens tables with a frame. Rest of the videos shows like a 4:1 resolution (so no frame) Is skyrim (and aliens) looking fine and the others with a black frame ? (And curious, are those the DMD videos I created ?)

I don't understand exactly what you pmean with Dmd underlay videos. And what media did you change from documents to c: drive ? Maybe post your log file and your ini file to see how your fx3 is setup

If you install 4.65, can you confirm it is still working ? At the download page, you can select all previous versions

Lol. To be honest, I'm not sure how Tom starts pbx (maybe via a service). I don't see anything in run key or startup folder

Did you run the togglestartwithwindows.exe ? This will turn of or on the auto start pinballx after windows starts. Otherwise place pinballx.exe shortcut in your startup folder

What update of W10 did you install ? 21h1 ? Or the may monthly security update for 20h2 ? Or another update ? edit : I updated my cab with "May 11, 2021—KB5003173" (I have W10 20h2) and PBC is working fine. After reboot PBX will still launch and attract mode is also working for me

No, pinballX is your frontend. Try to get it started from the command line. If you.got tables started from vommand line, you adopt it to pinballx

Yes. Logs and pinballx.ini would be helpfull

Within settings.exe you can remove the reset system from the exit screen Put enable restarr to No will hide it in the menu

OMG ! I will test further, but thought the issue was with PinballX, but I disabled all my plugins and now the device is working .... So hold off @Tom Speirsto check code. Need to check which plugin this is causing it EDIT : Ok, an apology from my site to @Tom Speirs is needed. The strange behavior is caused by "DirecectOutput Pinball X" plugin. Disabling this plugin, makes the device working as it should be (but now I don't have the nice flashes/lights and effects) Sorry Tom to put extra work to you. Never realized it could be a plugin ....

I did some extra testing, but looks like it is the Stream deck device that is conflicting with PinballX (on software level). I lowered the Joy settings and that causes that Joy stick 2 buttons are seen as Joystick 1 within PinballX. Same behavior when pressing 1 on Joystick 2, it will take a long press or even lock it (I think the same issue as mentioned Controller issue (one press causes multiple presses) - General - Spesoft Forums (gameex.com)) Checking the Joy input, it is not receiving any input on Joy1, but all on joy2. But I see on Joy2 that keys pressing are getting slow or even stuck On the stream desk I also mapped an button to the "P" key (just a send key) to pause a game Outside PinballX , the button works as expected, but launching PinballX, the key press sometimes holds the key for multiple seconds (or even get it pressed, until I close PinballX and than it works like a charm The Stream Deck is a HID -compliant device. It uses software to translate the input keys to mapped actions. My assumption is that PinbalLX program conflicts with the software of the stream deck. Is PinballX doing some extra checks on keyboard input, or tries to overrule input (or something ?) The stream desk device is a really need device and bought it specially for the cabinet to extend my missing buttons (with no need off having a keyboard attached to the system)

If you have a 3rd screen (not real dmd), I thought you can move the dmd within Pinball Wicked to that screen. To be honest, I didnt check for a long time to Wicked. Maybe I should update my cab as well

I think he wants "pinball HD collection" (program that can be bought on Steam) to be setup on his cabinet. I don't have it. Although I read it has cabinet support, i will stivk to my emulators. I bought Tpa, fx3, zaccaria, pinball wicked and another from steam and I never play them. Maybe when Zen comes with a new one this year (fx4 ?) I will buy it, but not sure

You probably didn't setup the ini file correctly

Isnt all media on the FTP ? Should ne available via gamemanager/database manager