Solved: What back glass application to use with PinballX?

[jangus]

What is the recommended back glass application to use together with PinballX)

[Draco1962]

PinballX would be my immediate answer. Not sure what you are asking though. Can you provide more details?

[jangus]

Well, as I have problem to get the back glass to show when running the PinballX I thought that a separate program to handle the back glass where needed. If it is not, I have to recheck my settings again to see what is wrong.

The back glass show when in game select mode, but not when playing.

[Draco1962]

Post copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files if you are unable to resolve the issue. Thanks!

[jangus]

The requested files

PinballX.ini

log.txt

[Draco1962]

How many monitors do you have? I ask becaue your playfield is showing as monitor 4. Usually this will show as monitor 0. I wonder if this may be confuzzling things for PinballX.

[jangus]

I have 3 monitors named in Windows as 1, 2 and 3

In PinbalX I have set the:

• Monitor 1 as playfield (GeForce)
• Monitor 2 as Back Glass (Built in)
• Monitor 3 as DMD (Built in)

The motherboard has one built in graphic card and then I have a GeForce in a PCIe-slot.

I am not at the VP computer at the moment so I do not know the total numbers of monitor connections.

[Draco1962]

Try changing the playfield to monitor 0.

[jangus]

Now I have taken a look at the settings again. The playfield screen where set to 5. But I never did that, I selected it to 1. Might have accidentally changed it?

There is not way to choose monitor 0. The ini file says monitor 0 but in the settings I can only choose 1 and upward. Probably as it use to be in programming, zero-based array or something.

Anyway with the screens selected as :

• Monitor 1 as playfield (GeForce)
• Monitor 2 as Back Glass (Built in)
• Monitor 3 as DMD (Built in)

I do get the:

• Playfield on the right monitor and a static backglass on monitor 3.
• When I start a table the text "Loading" appear on screen 1 and at a second later the BG disappear.
• Just before the text "Loading" changes to the selected table I get the DMD on monitor 2. And the BG still does not show up.
• When I end the table and get back to the screen where I choose tables the static backglass is back on monitor 3.

I attach the log and ini files again.

The resolution on the monitors is:

1. 1920x1080
2. 1680x1050
3. 1280x1024

log.txt

PinballX.ini

[Draco1962]

I wonder if it is your monitor dimensions? In the pinballx.ini:

[Display]

Monitor=0

rotate=270

Windowed=False

WindowWidth=480

WindowHeight=720

WindowX=0

WindowY=65

PlayFieldBrightness=230

WheelTextColor=ffffffff

WheelTextOutlineColor=ff000000

InfoTextColor=ffffffff

InfoTextOutlineColor=ff000000

FilterTextColor=ffffffff

FilterTextOutlineColor=ff000000

MenuColor=ffffa500

[backGlass]

monitor=1

x=0

y=0

width=1680

height=1050

[DMD]

Enabled=True

monitor=2

x=0

y=0

width=384

height=96

You need to change these via the Setup application (or manually within the pinballx.ini) to reflect the correct width and height as they currently do not match the descriptions you have given (with the exception being the Backglass - Monitor 1 per the .ini).

[jangus]

I have no idea how the "WindowWidth=480" and "WindowHeight=720" got there.

I changed it now to the correct numbers in the ini-file.

But I still do not get the backglass to show.

Am I supposed to have more then one type of backglass? One for demo mode and one for play?

I have one and only one png-file for the table saved in the "C:\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\Backglass Images"-

[jangus]

No one?

Am I needed to edit the table script? I know that I should have to do that if I used HyperPin.

[Draco1962]

You may need to go through the Pinballx Setup documentation. It is possible that some of your application settings are not proper (such as setting PinballX to run as administrator, etc.). It is also possible that you are getting a display conflict with using the built-in GPU for your DMD and backglass.

[jangus]

I have read an older version as I somehow where unable to download the latest version. But the link you gave me do work fine and I have read it.

I found the problem. I needed to install the directb2s server. I where told in another forum to use the PinballX and not to use any backglass servers. So that was what I did (probably I misunderstood something). (See also my question in post #1 above).