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Sorry hadn't checked in for a bit. It works the way I have it above with the seprate call to run the tables in Non-EFD, and I don't have any performance hit so it's fine that route. One thing of note it is limited to DMD tables where PinMAME isn't used, so PROC and FlexDMD are problematic, but IronMaiden (Which uses PUPPack) is fine. But its not a PBX issue though as I can replicate it launching the table off the command line I have a feeling its' somewhere in the 'external' dmd settings which I've not kept up with.... somewhere, and I've not really run into it before as I only have 3 tables which don't use PinMAME, and only 2 of those are causing issue.

I'm wondering if this is my issue - I've followed the instructions for Flex/P-ROC and they're working just fine - on the right screens in the right place, but I've not done much in the way of messing with the DMDDevice stuff - I assumed most of it (Freezy's stuff) was for running output to a real DMD, but I get the impression things have changed in this area and its now being used to output to a 'virtual DMD'? To be clearer I'm not sure it is a focus issue - it looks like the correct window has focus (and the buttons work) but I don't see the playfield I see the desktop/VP Editor in EFS mode (no taskbar, no mouse cursor etc) but until I alt tab all the way back to the VP Player and then it shows up, but I *think* VP Player does have focus. Its weird. I've worked around it for now, all tables in EFS apart from those two, but I might give it another look. For now I'm going to go play CCC - I've missed Cowboys Vs Aliens

And one final update I was being dumb - created a pair of exe converted AHK scripts to launch the two tables, before figuing out I could of course just call the params via PBX under a different emulator name which is much simpler (Just got used to using AHK to do custom calls when I built my driver MAME cab with GameEX as the front end) All working now, but still wonder if I've got something done in an old way which is why I have the issue in the first place....

To reply to my own comment I can work around this -DisableTrueFullScreen in a batch file for the two non PinMAME tables will do the trick and just set them up as a different emu in PBX. A bit hacky though TBH I'm a bit out of touch with the current best practices - I though EFS was the go to option and I've had it set like that for years. My cab is not exactly running the latest hardware - i5 2500K, 8GB RAM, and a GTX970 - but I've got (and have always had) the settings pretty much maxed out (BruteForced 4X AA etc) and I don't suffer much in terms of performance issues so in a lot of ways I've not really kept up with new developments other than keeping the software, B2S and PinMAME current. (It is due a 1070 when I get around to replacing that out of my primary PC) What is surprising me is that more people haven't had the same issues - I'd assume there are a bunch of people getting FlexDMD tables running via Frontends and I'm not seeing a huge amount of info on issues - which leads me to believe it's my config in some way. I'm more of a purist when it comes to pinball so I've not really worried too much about UltraDMD or FlexDMD / non-ROM based games until GOT, so I may be missing some knowledge that is really basic on that side of things though.

Had a bit of a look into this and I now know what the issue is. I grabbed the launch params it's going to use to start CCC and stuck them in a batch file. Launching it produces the same result as launching via PBX (unsurprisingly) - DB2S and DMD present and correct, but no playfield (although I *think* the playfield does have focus) until you alt tab all the way back to the player. However, if I switch off Excusive Fullscreen in VPX it launches correctly fine, so its an issue in that area not PBX. So that's the issue isolated, but I'm not really sure how to resolve it - I want to use EFS and it's a global reg key if memory serves.

Will do - just powered the cab down, so will be a job for tomorrow It's a strange one, and like I say it's *only* with non ROM tables, the 86 tables that use a ROM are all perfect. It does seem to be the editor with focus in both cases - I either get that or the 'loading' splash depending on the 'Full Screen Hack' setting in PBX. TBH I've not done much fiddling with PBX for years, although since I've been through the settings today I'm pretty sure I don't have the -minimised flag, just the /play - so I'll give that a shot Otherwise I was thinking 2x ahk lauch scripts with a wait and keystroke send and a separate 'emulator' for the 2 tables - but that just seemed like overkill Your name and avatar seem familiar - are you on VPU with the same - I think we both had and fixed the same issue with ACDC's DMD positioning in the script if so.

Just getting around to playing with GameOfThrones, and all works fine on a direct launch from VPX Launching via PinballX and I end up with the wrong screen in the editor screen displaying on the playfield monitor so I need to alt tab to get it back to the VisualPinball player, the table is loaded - it's just tabbed to the editor. I had this issue with CCC, and never really looked in to it. I seem to recall many years ago I did solve it for CCC on my old cab, I think I added a delay and alt+tab using an AHK script, but rather than going down that road I figured I'd ask and see if anyone had a better solution. All the PinMAME based tables launch fine - it's just the two don't that cause me issues. I've tried the FullScreen Hack option in the settings (which just gives me the loading screen, but with the table loaded under it) and the delay start option at 5 seconds I do run VPX in excusive full screen. Running latest and greatest of both VPX and PBX. Any ideas?

I've managed to achieve what I was after, bit hacky but does the job. AHK script to fire GameEX Arcade in standard mode, wait for focus, and then send DOWN and ENTER which selects the all-games list. Make that an EXE and bung in in the startup folder Now, if I could just get the MAME bezels to play nice I'll be sorted - But that's not a GameEx thing obviously, that's MAME, screen res and my lack of knowledge about lay files I suspect. (I have them selected as cropped in Mame, and they show up correctly, but are just slightly chopped off at the edges)

That's *almost* exactly what I'm after, what would be even better is if you could amalgamate all the systems into a single wheel or at least select which wheel it showed first (maybe you can?)

Oh, wait - it's a different launcher, not an option isn't it? That rings a bell now.

Looks about right (and looks very similar to what I have on my driver, which runs 'full' GameEx - RacerMame being based on an old build) Dumb question, how do you enable it?

Hi all LONG term user here (14 years - just looked up the email with my original key and it's from 2009!, GameEx and then both GameEx and Arcade) Using GameEx Arcade on my arcade cab, I have a pretty limited game list but I do have MAME, M2, M3, a couple of Demul and a few oddities (American Laser Games) I have them all setup to show on the all games wheel and all work perfectly There are a couple of tweaks I'd like to make which I'm not sure are possible: Remove the Genres, Search Games and Arcade games, and the other emus from the home screen - Basically just leaving All Games and Shutdown / Exit (Both of those I know you can choose to hide) And/Or Jump straight to the all games wheel on start-up. I've done some digging and these have been mentioned before as feature requests, but I'm not sure if they are a thing, a planned thing, or a thing you can do in the INI? Running 18.10 Arcade Cheers