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Pause break will show FP high score in game and is saving them on my mame cab within gameex. Somewhere i have a copy of fplaunch that i modded to work with gameex (think just one line needed changing) i can dig it out. That being said it only really helped with hiding loading stuff and some focus issues, and ofcourse the loading can be hidded with hide desktop for FP and a loader for VP. Mind if I ask why you chose gameex for this purpose over the other FE?. I love gameex for multi emu cabs as its just so mature but for pincabs its not my first choice, but then oddly i would never use hyperspin personally. A bit of topic but can gameex launch straight into a single mame rom on start up as mala can? (prolly should ask that in its own thread sorry)

Well done, do you have any shots of the cabinet in daylight?. Also is gameex managing to save highscores on exit?, I know some work went into fplaunch to get score saving sorted. Are the B2s tables displaying correctly aswell?, if not you could use fplaunch to call both FP and VP. But i have to say gameex does seem to be doing a great job in this set up.

Hi, so i have noticed a lot of people here are having problems with VP so thought i would highlight this install video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZtkOvb8YnY This is not my work but is very clear and should get anyone up and running with the latest scripts and vp version. The only one thing that i do differntly is once the new vpinmame .dll (cabinet build) is put in the pinmame folder i then run the setup.exe again and press the install buttton to register the new DLL. Hope this helps as this guy did a great job.

Cool glad that is sorted.

personally I would always recommend vp 9.12 over the older build as the very latest tables may not run, also the slider to adjust the new alpha ramp settings will increase performance in older cards. As long as you have the right roms and pinmame is upto date and you have the latest scripts (ball collision comes to mind) then for me atleast 9.12 is 100% stable. The latest tables with lots of textures may throw up the odd ofscreen z surface error if you dont have enough memory in you gpu but thats not vp`s fault and the latest builds are less likly to do this that the older. Thats just my personal opinion but the latest build has been rock steady for me, infact a build made fron the very latest source has also given me no problems at all.

Lastly if you google around enough you might just find some unofficial builds of future pinball.exe with some improvements made.

Just wondering if this is a win7 only issue as when it affected me that cab was a win7 box? maybe this is really a gameex issue for tom to look at. I have been following blurs work on fplaunch HERE and he has wrote lines and line of code to sort focus stuff with win 7. Not meaning to harp on but those of you with this issue you have set the screen res to the same as your desktop in the FP config and then changed the properties of the FP shortcut to run as admin and then set it to run in a normal window and if that not working then try running it as a maximised window. Thats what fixed it for me.

Ok, um what version is working?, can put some waits in it. But as draco said if you delay its start then that should solve it. Its best to run a command to kill the script when the emu closes so something like TASKKILL /F /IM "leftclick.exe" in the launch after box of adv emu settings using whatever the app name is ofcourse. one thing I am wondering is if ahk could just remap one of your cp buttons to a mouse button?, below is the ahk script i use to remap two of my buttons (a and s) to F2 and F11 so as to change the viewing angle... #IfWinActive ahk_class FuturePinballOpenGL a::F2 s::F11 #IfWinActive So if we added c::LButton this would remap c to left click only when future pinball was active, is that a better way?. If you want me to make you an exe with your own choice of keys then let me know.

Hi, sorry I can not confirm it works as I do not have the focus issue, was hoping someone with the issue could test it?, I use a similar script that watches for the window class then reassigns some keys, but its the mouse click stuff that is unknown. As its a compiled exe you could use the launch after option in gameex maybe with a 5 or 10 second delay. Probably wont work but I was hoping another would jump on the band wagon and sort it. One thing that is worth trying as mentioned earlier is the tweak to the fp shortcut properties, this solved it for me once when I had the issue.

cool, glad it worked out. To be fair though the install guide does say that it is not recommended to use the installer as it installs old versions that need manual updating.

Coolio, no need to reinstall though, just replace the exe.

Any chance of a video of your offcenter behavior?, never heard of anything like it. Sounds like desktop and full screen tables are mixed up somehow?. Also if you launch toms vpauto app with vp then it will kill the nag screens.

So how is this progressing?.

Thinking about it that wont work with exit at the end unless you wait abour 20 seconds before launching it, as it will open then close after not seeing the correct screen right?. Without exit then it should just keep running and need to be closed externally, I know its the correct window class as I use it to remap some keys on fp start up, its the mouse click syntax that I am unsure of. Anyway here`s my second go leftclick.exe

I am new to ahk so forgive me if this fails but the code below should send two left clicks then close itself if set to launch after in the emu set up. #IfWinActive ahk_class FuturePinballOpenGL MouseClick, Left Sleep, 150 MouseClick, left Exit If not maybe another with more skill can help, anyway its available Here as a compiled exe, please let me know if it works as I do not have this issue.

Ok, I think the change was to swap the "Normal window" value in the run box to "Maximized". Infact make that almost maybe positive!.

Not sure of how much of a help this is but I once solved this on a win7 box by changing a setting that I can not remember in the shortcut properties. Vague answer I know!.

You can use both together

The trial of tuneup is free if thats all you want to do, and its fool proof you just point it at any image then it converts it. Then once done you can just uninstall, you also get to recolour and place the progress bar.

You could use tuneup utilities to change boot logo

what a shame!,not playing nice at all is it.

Sorry to bump an old topic but googling about I have found a thread on the other forum that solves this issue, just ignore the hyperspin stuff. http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14319

Think if you google you can find the older versions, but heres an up to date one.. http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/utorrent_portable Or this is something I keep meaning to try as it looks really handy.. http://www.cameyo.com/ And heres a vid.. http://hak5.org/episodes/haktip-34 What I like is the ability to unplug the drive then say "what torrents?" I kind of have that as all my p2p stuff is on a tiny headless atom pc that lives above my router (just roms and linux distros obviously

I can confirm that the above command line works with the map file. I have set the screen res and full screen switch in the config ini file so I guess that the last part is not needed for me but hey it cant hurt!. Also there is a nice gui/front end available here... http://www.supermode...ic.php?f=3&t=18 Just had my first game of sw trilogy, works great with a trackball!.

Glad to hear it!. You could use a portable install of utorrent on the external drive, then you could move it from puter to puter.