Pinballx Game manager not retaining import items

[Zahaa]

In the pinballx game manager running as admin I have two boxes not retaining the import settings. Terminator 2 and Star trek TNG importing wheel,playfield, backglass etc shows it imported and updated then after the items are saved. The program is closed and reopened all setting are reverted to Org missing status. I have 10 other boxes that loaded just fine. I looked through the forums and didn't find anything similer to what i am experieneing. I have tried all the items on those boxes and readded them and no change. Any insight would be nice. TKX

PinballX.ini

[Zahaa]

Question for the masters. What I I file holds the settings for wheel image,playfield, backglass etc.?

[Zahaa]

Or xml

[Scooby1]

Hey guys,

I found this post as I'm having the same issue. I'm using the Game Manager to change media files for each table. For some reason, a few tables will not save the files I import (even though I click yes when it asks me if I want to overwrite the previous file. For example, I have attempted several times to change the Wheel for Medieval Madness and Funhouse and also the playfield for Addams Family.

I can enable is disable tables without problem, but changing the above files doesn't not change anything when PinballX is loaded.

I looked in the XML file, but don't see where to make these changes. Can anyone please let me know where else I can manually change these media files for PinballX? Or, is there a trick to getting Game Manager to save these changes?

Thanks in advance!

[rockyrocket]

I noticed this once and it was because some of the names that the games manager was using had illegal chars for an XML (spaces I think) so would not save - manually editing the media files and XML solved things.

Should really of filed a bug report - sorry everyone .

Hangs head and hopes tom reads this.

[Scooby1]

Thanks rocky. I was able to get a couple of tables' media to change to what I want.

Now for some reason, when I launch and exit Medieval Madness, I see an old BG with the speaker grills showing (instead of the BG video or image I have in my media folder). This is strange since I no longer have any MM BG images in my media folder with a speaker grill on it. I attached pics of the launch/exit BG and the BG when the table is playing.

Where is this BG coming from?

Where does PinballX look for BG images during table launch and exit (since it's definitely different than what I imported from the Game Manager)?

[rockyrocket]

Did you enable Db2s in the frontend?, not sure if PinballX reads the screenres.txt file and resizes the Db2s screen to cut off the grill.

Think I may of saw this myself and returned to just using a static image in the front end?, others can probably comment on this better?.

[Scooby1]

Thanks for the reply. I do not have Directb2s enabled in PinballX. I didn't think this is the correct setting for my system, but since I'm running a 3 screen setup and my Directb2s back glasses are running properly when playing, might this work?

I can always try it, but wanted to get your thoughts on different settings for this strange issue.

Thanks!

[rockyrocket]

Try it, but really I was concluding that db2s was the cause, but if it is not enabled then I do not know.

Are the BG`s a static image?.

[Scooby1]

All of my BGs are BG videos and are stored in my PBX media folder. The DB2S option doesn't seem to change this. Even though the images popping up during table launch and exit look like DB2S, they are bland/faded and static images.

There must be somewhere these launch/exit images are being stored...I just can't locate them anywhere on my system.

Any other suggestions where I might look for these images or even better, where I can force PBX to only use the same BG video (or even one of my static images of the same table) that I actually have in my media folder?

Thanks!

[Scooby1]

I thought I'd bump this post, since I still cannot locate where this image with the speaker grill is coming from or how to remove it.

Does anyone have an idea of where the image might be (it's not in my PBX media folder anywhere) and how to remove it from showing up when I launch or exit this table?

[Draco1962]

Did you try running a search on your hard drives using TABLENAME.* as your search paramater? If you do so you should see all instances of that table name, whether ROM or image and where they are stored.

[rockyrocket]

Did you try running a search on your hard drives using TABLENAME.* as your search paramater? If you do so you should see all instances of that table name, whether ROM or image and where they are stored.

Or by .PNG/.JPG?

[Scooby1]

Thanks for the ideas. I searched both of my drives and found the culprit under PinballX>Media>Visual Pinball - Physmod 5>Backglass Images.

I don't recall creating a separate folder for Physmod table media and this file name was not exact how the table is named elsewhere. This one seemed fairly hidden, but glad to have found it!

Now that I see this media folder, I'm removing it and making sure I have only BG videos for all my VP tables in PBX. This seems to be working, as I now have the same BG video as my DB2S BGs (well, most of them are the same). This makes for a more seamless experience when exiting one table and launching another.

Great stuff!