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Hey! Going down a bit of a rabbit hole here, but I have run into a number issues that Google is having a hard time solving. The background is I am running PBX as a frontend for VPX and only VPX, mainly to save highscores, as I already had Launchbox set up as a front end and outside of not saving high scores, works fine. However, with PBX I have run into a number of minor problems that combined - become a bit of a dealbreaker. I am hoping some of these can be easily rectified. As a note, even though I have PBX set to load through Launchbox, I have tested PBX without Launchbox, and all of the problems persist in the exact same way. 1. Most tables run at about 1.5x speed. It seems to be the VPinMAME tables, only, though. They run perfectly fine when run independent of PBX. 2. 5/6 tables tested so far do not save high scores. The fact that 1/6 has makes it weirder - may just bad luck with the small sample size? Not sure. 3. The Game Manager only detects .vpx files in the root directory. i HOPE it's just a checkbox I missed, because it would be an absolute nightmare to reconfigure at 434 tables to be run out of the root directory (and an eyesore). Surely it can't look for vpx files in the folders? I looked at previous posts and a log is typically requested, so here is one running Dungeons and Dragons, a table that has both issues of not saving a high score and running at about 1.5x speed: 12:50:02.64 2020-01-21: PinballX - Version 4.06 x64 12:50:02.68 2020-01-21: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (16GB) 12:50:02.68 2020-01-21: Loading Settings 12:50:02.70 2020-01-21: Initialize Component 12:50:02.71 2020-01-21: Initialize Display 12:50:02.75 2020-01-21: Testing Flash engine. 12:50:03.92 2020-01-21: Loading PlugIns 12:50:03.93 2020-01-21: Looking for startup images 12:50:04.14 2020-01-21: Hiding Cursor 12:50:04.15 2020-01-21: Hiding Taskbar 12:50:04.15 2020-01-21: Getting GPU and CPU Information 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: 6 cores, 12 threads 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: Displays: 1 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: Load Game List 12:50:04.20 2020-01-21: Loading Database: Visual Pinball 12:50:04.21 2020-01-21: Loading Custom Database: dwad 12:50:04.21 2020-01-21: Initial load gamelist took: 15ms 12:50:04.24 2020-01-21: Finding and matching artwork and videos 12:50:04.25 2020-01-21: Took: 15ms 12:50:04.25 2020-01-21: Loading Game Statistics and Scores 12:50:04.94 2020-01-21: Main display running full screen windowed. 12:50:05.00 2020-01-21: Loading Surfaces 12:50:05.04 2020-01-21: Finished Loading Surfaces 12:50:05.04 2020-01-21: Initialize Audio 12:50:05.14 2020-01-21: Set Keyboard Controls 12:50:05.14 2020-01-21: Initialize Joystick 12:50:05.22 2020-01-21: 3 Joysticks Attached 12:50:05.22 2020-01-21: Started 12:50:08.92 2020-01-21: Launch System 12:50:08.92 2020-01-21: Waiting for threads 12:50:08.92 2020-01-21: Disposing display 12:50:09.10 2020-01-21: E:\Downloads\Visual Pinball\VPinballX.exe /play -"E:\Downloads\Visual Pinball\Tables\Dungeons&Dragons (Bally 1987) v1.1.1.vpx" 12:50:09.12 2020-01-21: E:\Program Files\PinballX\vpauto.exe 12:50:18.54 2020-01-21: Found PinMAME ROM: dungdrag.nv 12:50:18.94 2020-01-21: Visual Pinball Player window foreground 12:51:00.94 2020-01-21: Hidden Visual Pinball Editor Window 12:51:30.83 2020-01-21: Exit System Control Pressed 12:51:33.37 2020-01-21: Main display running full screen windowed. 12:51:39.94 2020-01-21: Exiting 12:51:39.96 2020-01-21: Showing Taskbar 12:51:39.96 2020-01-21: Unhiding Mouse Cursor 12:51:39.97 2020-01-21: Disposing Plugins 12:51:39.97 2020-01-21: Saving Settings 12:51:39.97 2020-01-21: Bye Any help would be great - thanks!

Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello and let everyone here know how much I appreciate the GameEx front end. I am using the Arcade Edition and have it customized with the wonderful Draconus theme -- couldn't be happier! Thanks again. You all are super cool.

Hi guys, I have been fortunate enough to be able to purchase a pre-built 3 screen Pinball Cab - it has tables etc installed and runs through Pinball X but as a Techy I like to play - and I want to learn how to add/update tables etc. I have tried to add a few but cannot get them to work, either the screens dont work (mainly the DMD) or there are script errors when I run the table - I have all the LEDWIZ installed but again, nit quite sure how to set it up yet. I have created an account here to download media packs etc, but on the FTP it says my password is invalid, even though its the same password I use for this forum, and of course this works Any help, links, info etc would be greatly appreciated. The guy I bought it from has been very helpful but he is away until Sunday, and seems as tomorrow I am off work, I thought it would be good to spend a day sorting it Just an example, I updated Attack from Mars VPX 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 but it gave errors, so I changed it back to the 1.1.0 and now that gives script errors - I am hoping this is something simple to fix? Thanks in advance

First off, I'd like to say hello to all. I'm extremely new to the virtual pinball scene but I'm just about ready to jump headlong into it. I showed my mother-in-law a video of a virtual pinball machine as they are currently in the process of building on a game room on their house. She was so enthralled with this concept that she has commissioned me to build her one (I'm quite PC savvy). I'm trying to get everything ready so that I can get an itemized list of the things she'll need to buy. So far I've got this for the PC: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive As far as the displays are concerned, this is where I'm having trouble. I think she wants a play field around 42"-46" and maybe a 27-32" backboard, but for the DMD - i'm confused. I like the look of the 3rd LCD monitor rather than the original DMD looks. Mostly because the animations are more smooth, and they are in color. I understand the "originality" factor in all of this - and I'm sure I'll probably get shot down as it seems most every thread I've read they say that the Vishay's are superior to a plain old monitor. Is there any reason, besides making it look as close to original as possible, that one would pick a Real DMD over a monitor that is in place of a DMD? Any and all criticisms are welcome - as I stated I'm a complete newbie and could use the guidance.