1.56 DMD Problems with VP

[imagamejunky]

Hey Tom (and everyone else),

The new 1.56 version has brought back the virtual DMD bug that I discussed earlier in previous versions. To refresh your memory, in Visual Pinball the virtual DMD is showing up when it is supposed to be hidden when the table is launched from PinballX. It is correctly hidden when the table is launched directly from the Visual Pinball executable.

Please help again.

Thanks

Nick

[Tom Speirs]

I cant think what has changed in 1.56 that would do that if it was definitely fixed in 1.55. Did you try 1.55? If the virtual DMD is not set to display on the playfield monitor you shouldn't get this issue but again nothing has changed from 1.55 to 1.56.

[imagamejunky]

Hi Tom.

I can't comment on 1.55 because I never got the chance to try it. I went from 1.54 to 1.56.

To be clear, ALL of my VP tables are running perfectly when I open up the VP executable directly. These problems ONLY occur when I launch a VP table from PinballX.

I did some more testing and..

The problem I am seeing with 1.56 only seems to affect the B2S.Server backglasses. It hasn't affected the B2S.Exe backglasses (like Cirqus Voltaire). The virtual DMD is showing up on the backglass only. NOT on the playfield. This makes me believe that the problem is a conflict between PinballX and the B2S.Server.

With 1.53 I was seeing the virtual DMD on the playfield of some tables and on the backglass of others depending on where I had placed this dmd BEFORE I hid it originally. This virtual DMD was showing up for ALL VP tables when launched from PInballX 1.53, but not from VP directly.

With 1.54 the virtual DMD's were hidden as they were supposed to be. Everything was great!!

Something has definitely changed between 1.54 and 1.56.

You posted this comment when you released version 1.56.."Improvements to Visual Pinball - ensures any B2S executables are closed. Will show a backglass and DMD image if available in place of a video after launching a table." Could this be the culprit?? Those of us with a real DMD do not want a virtual DMD to show up after launching a table.

Hope this helps.

Thanks again.

Nick

[Tom Speirs]

Could you please try the attached. Have you got the hide backglass set in the XML?

PinballX.zip

[imagamejunky]

^{YES!! 1.57 fixed it!! Thanks Tom!!}

^{And no, I do not have the backglass hidden in the XML}

^Nick