Need 2 screen setup help

[ttrenkner]

I'm relatively new to VP/FP and even newer to Pinball X, so this is probably a really dumb question. I succeeded in getting all my tables set up, including the backglasses, and in getting them into Pinball X. I'm displaying my backlglasses on my laptop screen (screen 1) and my playfields on my Dell monitor (screen 2). Once I'm in a game, everything works as it should, but when I first start up Pinball X, I briefly see the Pinball X logo on my Dell main screen, which quickly reverts to the desktop display. At the same time, the Pinball X table selection screen appears on the backglass screen. When I select "start game," the laptop backglass screen continues to behave is if it were the main screen (i.e. displaying the loading screen) until the game loads, at which point, it displays the backglass and the Dell monitor displays the playfield. When I quit the game, the playfield screen reverts to the desktop display and the backglass screen reverts to the Pinball X table selection display. It seems that no matter how I set the displays in the Pinball X settings, the table selection screen remains on the laptop/backglass screen. In Future Pinball, the table appears only on the laptop screen, and the desktop appears on the Dell.

So far, this is the only problem I haven't been able to solve on my own. Probably so obvious that I just can't see it. I just love Pinball X and can't wait to finish my setup.

Update: I think I fixed this problem. For Pinball X purposes, the Dell monitor needed to be treated as "monitor one" even though Windows 8 indicated that it was still "monitor two." Now I've run into a new issue. I had trouble getting some wheel images and media packs to load properly, especially FP media, even though I believe I had them correctly named, Uninstalling Pinball X didn't help. After numerous error messages and lost entries, the list manager stopped working altogether for Future Pinball, and Pinball X kept crashing when I tried to open it. I could only get it working again by doing an uninstall / reinstall. I did save my Pinball X folder prior to uninstalling, but I can't figure out how to restore the lost games. As I start to rebuild my game list, I'm getting messages indicating that the old games are still there somewhere and that I'm overwriting them. This seems to hold out some hope that the old games can be restored but also the concern that the errors and crashes will just start all over again. It's clear that having never used a front end before I just don't understand how they work. Can anyone help me? I've had enough of a glimpse of PBX to see how wonderful it could be.

In the meantime, I guess I'll invite more frustration by trying to figure out how to get DMDs into my backglass screens.

[CRAIGDEE]

I don't know if this will help with a least one small point but make sure that the media you are using doesn't have punctuation in it's name.

When I was trying to get the back-glass video for Bally's Wizard table to display rather than a static image, I suddenly realised that the back-glass video was called Wizard! (including the exclamation mark).

When I renamed it so that It didn't have the exclamation mark, it displayed just fine.