Visual Pinball Troubles

[Chaos.Tiki]

So its that time, time to install Visual Pinball. Now I have followed a tutorial that was posted on the forums and it led me to ost of what I needed to know when installing. But now, when I try to run a table on it (even the free default tables that come with it), I get an error message saying "could not create off screen surface" i dont know what this means or how to go about fixing it.

Right now I'm trying to get this working outside of GameEx, I'll cross that hurdle once I get this working.

[Tempest]

Maybe this?

http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=6387&pid=71709&st=0entry71709

Otherwise, try googling: visual pinball could not create off screen surface

[8trek]

I have observed this same behavior many times. I am fairly certain it has to do with a memory issue. I've found that if I close vpinvisual program and then re open everything is fine for a while until the memory gets jacked up again. Seems to happen less when running through gameex which would make sense because gameex shuts down the vpinvisual program everytime you exit a game.

[Chaos.Tiki]

Ok, the problem was my resolution, I had it set wrong. But I want to keep this topic open untill I am through with getting Pinball to work in GameEx.

[Chaos.Tiki]

Next problem I have, Some of the tables I have seem to not work. I have my controls set, but all they seem to do is pull the bumper back. It wont move flippers or insert coins or push start. Do I need to have ROMs of these tables as well? Or could this be something else?

Also, if tables work, then what is the purpose of the ROM in addition to the tables?

[Adultery]

Well the ROM has the sounds in it and the DMD info for one.

Check your controls and make sure they work. Make sure you also match tables to visual pinball versions.

[Chaos.Tiki]

I do know the controls work, because they work on a couple of the tables. So it sounds like the tables that aren't working are possibly the wrong versions.