[RESOLVED] DMD Images/Videos only show on first run of pinballx

[allknowing2012]

What I thought was never working, I discovered works only on the initial startup of pinballx. When I first start pinballx all the dmd images and/or videos show up real nice for each table. I play a game, hit "esc", return to the m enu and I no longer see images/videos in the dmd slot. BG videos/images are there, games play nice but the menu mode doesnt want to show the dmd stuff anymore. If I exit and start pinballx again they show just fine.

Config is in my other thread if that is required. How should I debug this? I dont see anything in the logs.

[Tom Speirs]

Please post the log.

[allknowing2012]

I noticed that if I alt-tab to the desktop then alt-tab back it shows up. I also had mixed success unchecking the "hide dmd".

I'll grab another log tonight as well. Is there a way to not reset the log prior to starting pinballx?

log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Do you have a real DMD display? As according to the log it is only detecting 2 displays.

[allknowing2012]

No its a gutted Ultrapin with a new pc. So the bg is one monitor .. top 2/3rds is the bg and the bottom 1/3 is the dmd portion.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah that setup is not supported in PinballX. It needs a whole monitor for the DMD. Obviously though you can run Visual Pinball Like that most likely.

[allknowing2012]

I will attach the log files .. I think I found a workaround. If I uncheck the Hide DMD, it, I assume, doesnt bother to remove the dmd image/video and simply places the live image on top. When I exited the game, that window gets closed and the menu dmd image/video shows again. It seemed to work in the quick few cases I just tried over the lunch hour ;-)

I tried unchecking one .. played it .. exited .. all good.. I played a table with it checked .. exited .. gone .. alt-tab to bring it back. Repeated that a few times. I also tried an older version of pbx that you/was posted on another thread. No difference in how it handled the situatoin.

If this unchecking does indeed work then I think I have all my issues ironed out with pinballx and vp. Time to play!

Thanks.

log1.txt

log2.txt

log3.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Glad you found a workaround but I never intended it to work like that!

[Draco1962]

Sounds like that falls under "Undocumented Feature."

[Tom Speirs]

Here, try the attached. If it works I will include the change. It will check if the DMD is on the same monitor as the Backglass and bring it to the top window. You should not need to do anything else.

Cheers.

Tom.

PinballX.zip