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Future Pinball Backglass Issue

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scottacus Super Member!

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I Just added my first future pinball table to PinballX and now when I start PinballX and scroll through my VP tables, my playfield, BG and DMD all display fine until I reach the FP table.  It displays its playfield and BG but when I scroll to the next FP table, the FP BG stays in place.

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Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

Carny_Priest GameEx God (Top Rank)

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If you haven't yet, install LAV Filters.

Does the video play correctly outside of PinballX? If not, try another one. If the video plays outside of PinballX but not in PinballX, try another one. Is the backglass static? Many of them are. If so, it's very easy to just use a static image instead.

If there are no alternate version of the video, make your own:

https://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/18470-future-pinball-pf-screenshot-black/?do=findComment&comment=162747

scottacus Super Member!

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Thanks for the reply, I have the LAV filters installed and the VP BG, DMD and playfield videos all have played great for some time.   The new addition is a single FP table, Bond 50.  Once PinballX scrolls to the Bond 50 table, the BG gets stuck on the Bond 50.png artwork and no other VP tables will show up even though their playfield videos and wheel art do.

Draco1962 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Can you provide a copy of your log.txt file from when it gets stuck? I'm not sure if it will tell us anything but worth a shot.

Carny_Priest GameEx God (Top Rank)

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What I am getting at is that the backglass image you have may be corrupted. How does the wheel behave when you delete that image? What happens when you replace it with something you know is working?

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scottacus Super Member!

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Hi Carney Priest thanks for looking into this!  My problem is a weird one and I wonder if this is a bug in PinballX or if the program on my system is the problem.

I noticed when PinballX froze and I opened Task Manager that only one instance of "PinballX Back Glass" was running but two instances were running when PinballX was running correctly.  I assume one instance of PinballX Back Glass was for the BG and one for the DMD and the lack of a second instance is what caused me to think that the lack of a DMD file for Bond50 was the root cause of these problems.

PinballX runs great, unless it is missing a DMD video or image file.  That was what was making Bond50 fail because I didn't have any files in the PinballX/media/Future Pinball/DMD... folder for this table.  I removed a DMD file from one of my vp tables and it froze the screens just like Bond50 did.  I confirmed the problem by putting a blank Bond50 DMD video file into the Future Pinball/DMD Video folder and now Bond50 seamlessly displays its backglass when the next table is scrolled to, a full set of Playfield, BG and DMD load.

What do you think, am I missing some file that acts as a error handler for PinballX if a DMD media file is missing?  If I remember correctly PinballX puts up a generic screen for missing Backglass images but just leaves the 3rd monitor DMD blank (shows WIndows desktop) if there is no file.

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