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okay... so here's the latest on this puzzling situation. I'm going to assume there are others out there with same problem. Pausing inside of PX only works if it's a 9.1.5 version in my case. I'm running this version as well as VPinball991 and vpinball-9_9-accelmod-8-20-2014. If i'm playing a game in either of the 2 later versions, when i attempt to resume game the resume/quit window is in the forefront and can do nothing other than hit the pause button again which brings me back to the resume/exit game menu in pinballx. All 3 versions have the same key settings. Any power users out there than can give me a clue?

yes, i've gone over that one already. thanks.

Hey Draco, Any idea on this? Thanks.

.swf files when opened in ie or other browser which have a special bar at the top for zooming indicate that those files will cause this bevavior described. As a work around not using those swf files and instead using a .png seems to prevent the zoom setting to revert back to non-full screen.

I was premature in saying this issue was solved. Upon further review it appears certain .swf files for whatever reason cause the adobe flash player to revert back to a non-full screen vew setting. Going to attach one that causes this issue. On second thought guess i won't, says i don't have permission to upload this kind of file.

SOLVED. figured out if i right click on the card and choose full screen in adobe settings, this change stays in affect. Not sure why it did sometimes before but not always... regardless that seems to have done the trick.

Got a weird one here. Using .swf instruction files. After viewing more than a couple different instruction cards they begin to show zoomed out at random. Instruction cards are on the backglass monitor. Never had this issue before and cards would always appear "best fit, auto-zoom". This issue is reproduceable 100% of the time. step 1. restart pinballx, step 2. view card for 1 table, step 3. view card for another table, step 4 go back to first table and view card again, now it appears like the image attached.

thanks, see attached. log.txt

Sorry guys, i've spent hours sifting through the different topics on this, messing around with mappings and have attempting every solution mentioned. Attaching my configs. Here's my deal: Hitting P on the keyboard during game to pause and hitting P again does resume... no problems. When i use a button on my cab assigned to P, the first time I hit the button it does take me to the pinballx menu giving me the option to stop playing or go back to the game..... However, when i attempt to go back to the game i see the vp "resume, quit, edit script" menu and can do nothing at this point. Also worth mentioning, the button #'s inside the pinballx setup end up showing different than what's assigned in vp keys settings. As an example, if i assign a cabinet button to a key in VP it shows up as Button 8, but when i assign same cabinet button inside PinballX it will appear as Button 7. Any ideas? PinballX.ini

after a little more effort all tables from both versions show up together upon startup... at the moment i'm not sure why but will keep my fingers crossed this behavior will continue. thank you for the replies.

yes, it's enabled. after reviewing other threads about game manager removing mods to the xml i've opted to stay away from directly editing the xml. so... still no idea how to show all games among all systems upon startup. thanks.

i downloaded the pdf but did not see what i was looking for upon first and second attempt.... if you are saying you know the answer to my question is in there then i will look a third time... if you are saying you don't know but "think" it should be in there then my guess is it's not in there. Again, all i'm asking is when i start PinballX i want it to default to all games and their respective tables. I've managed to create a group and know how to navigate to it but just not seeing how to have it load this group upon startup. Regardless, i will keep digging just thought i would save myself the time by posting in this forum. thanks.

Using a couple different versions of vpball so i have the main visual pinball enabled as well as a "other system" for my other versions. How does one go about setting up pballx to show all tables of all versions upon startup rather than defaulting to just the main visual pinball emulator? Thanks.

The problem with emails, forums, and the like, things can be taken out of context or greatly exaggerated. I thought my question to Draco was valid however my wording was obviously not thought out well enough in my quick reply. Apologize to all those offended. I am not running anything out of the ordinary as it pertains to the OS... Win7Pro 64bit, this is not a lite or hacked version. I agree it does sound like something to do with environment but was hoping i wasn't alone and someone out there may have run across this as well as a solution. Yes to running as admin and the other potential solutions/tries suggested by zeenon.

zeenon, hey there, any thoughts, appears i'm not the only one having this problem. draco... curious... if you don't use the software why are you on these forums?

zeenon, attempted your idea # 1 and answer to idea # 2 is no, also turned off aero. Still getting same behavior. yes, first time only after a computer restart this happens, after second and consecutive pinballx startups no problem.... i guess i'll have to write a stupid startup batch file to start pinballx once, kill it, then startup again. Looks like i'm not the only one... according to delta6014. anyone else? regardless.... thanks for the response zeenon... if, that is, your real name? :=)

see attached. not using the startup option... problem happens first time i run from shortcut or executable. PinballX.ini

Have you had a chance to look at this yet? thanks.

ini file attached as well as list of codecs added os is win7pro, log file below.. 14:48:58.7 12/6/2013: PinballX - Version 1.7014:48:58.7 12/6/2013: Loading Settings14:48:58.8 12/6/2013: Initialize Component14:48:58.8 12/6/2013: Initialize Display14:48:58.8 12/6/2013: Loading PlugIns14:48:59.1 12/6/2013: Created DirectX BackGlass Window14:48:59.2 12/6/2013: Hiding Cursor14:48:59.2 12/6/2013: Hiding Taskbar14:48:59.2 12/6/2013: Load Game List14:48:59.2 12/6/2013: Loading Database: Visual Pinball14:48:59.2 12/6/2013: Finding and matching artwork and videos14:48:59.4 12/6/2013: Loading Game Statistics and Scores14:49:01.1 12/6/2013: Initialize Audio14:49:01.1 12/6/2013: Set Keyboard Controls14:49:01.1 12/6/2013: Initialize Joystick14:49:01.2 12/6/2013: No Joysticks Attached14:49:01.2 12/6/2013: Started14:49:20.2 12/6/2013: Launch System14:49:20.2 12/6/2013: Waiting for threads14:49:20.4 12/6/2013: Disposing display14:49:22.2 12/6/2013: C:\ARCADE\Visual Pinball\VPinball915.exe /play -"C:\ARCADE\Visual Pinball\Tables\Champion Pub, The (DB2S).vpt"14:49:22.2 12/6/2013: C:\ARCADE\PinballX\vpauto.exe 14:49:30.1 12/6/2013: Found PinMAME ROM: cp_16.nv14:49:52.5 12/6/2013: Exit System Control Pressed14:49:58.4 12/6/2013: C:\ARCADE\Visual Pinball\pinDMD-CLR.exe 14:49:58.5 12/6/2013: Created DirectX BackGlass Window14:50:04.2 12/6/2013: Exiting14:50:04.4 12/6/2013: Showing Taskbar14:50:04.6 12/6/2013: Unhiding Mouse Cursor14:50:04.6 12/6/2013: Disposing Plugins14:50:04.6 12/6/2013: Saving SettingsPinballX.ini

I've installed pinballx on a couple machines now and using latest and greatest version on both. For some reason on one machine the program minimizes about 5 seconds after initial startup. Any ideas?

nevermind..... cursor does disapperar after game starts, my bad.

thanks, yea i suspected that might be the case too. I was contemplating doing what you mentioned but ended disabling the pinballx.bat in msconfig and using the pinballx.exe in startup and downgraded to a few earlier versions... working right now so don't want to rock the boat. Very odd problem.

happening to me too.... any solution to this yet? pinballx has stopped working, if you choose view problem details says event name: APPCRASH fault mod name ntdll.dll

using latest and greatest pinballx, mouse cursor will not disappear... please help!

When starting vpinball games i get a blank screen. Any ideas? works fine outside of gameex, just happens when launching within gameex.