PinballX - PinballFX2 Backglasses and DMD

[shane7905]

I'm new to the pincab scene and have a peculiar issue I would love some help with. As of now I only have PinballFX2 enabled in PinballX. When browsing through the pinballfx2 tables in pinballx the table images or table videos play fine. The Backglass images and DMD images / videos never display in the PinballX frontend. When launching the tables the backglasses and DMD stuff works fine inside pinballfx2. This is a 3 monitor setup with 3 screens

Display 1  - 1920x1080  Playfield  270 degree rotation

Display 2 - 1920 x 1080 BackGlass

Display 3 - 1600 x 900  DMD

 

In windows the screens are labeled as listed above. I noticed in pinballx.ini the monitors have the same numbering but when you go into the settings program it shows them as 1,3,4

attached pinballx.ini as well as screenshot of settings gui

 

[Interface]
ShowSystem=False
DesktopModeEnabled=False
EnableAdditionalDetail=False
[Backglass]
UseB2S=False
x=1921
y=0
width=1919
height=1080
monitor=2
AutoPositionB2S=False
[KeyCodes]
quit=27
left=37
right=39
select=13
rotate=82
pageleft=33
pageright=34
exitemulator=81
screenshot=83
screenshotbackglass=83
ingame=80
instructions=73
volumedown=109
volumeup=107
credit=53
plunger=164
[JoyCodes]
Quit=10
Left=0
Right=1
Select=2
Rotate=11
PageLeft=3
PageRight=4
ExitEmulator=12
InGame=13
Instructions=14
Credit=15
Plunger=16
[Text]
Line1=Free Play
Line2=Press Start
Featuring=Featuring
Tables=Tables
All=All
PlayGame=Play Game
Instructions=Instructions
Information=Information
Flyer=Flyer
Gameplay=Gameplay
Tutorial=Tutorial
ExitGame=Exit Game
ReturnToGame=Return to Game
Return=Return
Exit=Exit
Shutdown=Shutdown
[VisualPinball]
WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball
TablePath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\Tables
Executable=VPinballX.exe
AutoConfigure=True
Enabled=False
[SetupWizard]
EmuPath1=C:\Emulators
AssetPath1=C:\Assets
RomPath1=C:\Roms
DefaultPathPrompt=True
DownloadDatabasePrompt=True
DownloadEmulatorPrompt=True
WizardMode=1
CustomArray=
SearchArray=
SavePosition=False
SectionIndex=4
SearchText=
EmulatorIndex=0
EmulatorGroupIndex=0
DaphneIndex=0
HTMLAppsIndex=0
ExternalAppsIndex=0
RadioStationsIndex=0
NewsFeedsIndex=0
MappedDrivesIndex=0
SystemIndex=0
ShowPanel=True
FontSize=1
WindowState=2
WindowSize=650,479
WindowLocation=248,145
[Internal]
lastwheelcachematchsize=0
lastselected=DoomBETHESDA_DoomPinball FX2
filter_year=
filter_company=
filter_custom=
filtername=Tables
[Display]
windowed=False
rotate=270
WheelAutoCrop=False
PlayFieldBrightness=250
[DMD]
monitor=3
x=4040
y=250
width=1200
height=400
Enabled=True
HidePinMAME=True
AutoPositionPinMAME=False
[FuturePinball]
Enabled=False
[Plugin_1]
Enabled=False
Name=PlugInLED.dll
[Plugin_2]
Enabled=False
Name=PlugInSpeech.dll
[Plugin_3]
Enabled=False
Name=QuickLaunch (PinballX Edition).dll
[Plugin_4]
Enabled=False
Name=Xpadder Plugin.dll
[PinballFX2]
Enabled=True
WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
Executable=steam.exe
Parameters=-applaunch 226980 "[TABLEFILE]"
Process=Pinball FX2.exe
WaitFor=11
[GameListManager]
onlinemode=false
 

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Draco1962]

Have you tried changing them to display 1, 2, 3 respectively? Can you please attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files for review? Thanks!

[shane7905]

here you go

PinballX.ini

log.txt

[shane7905]

in the pinballfx2 image those settings position everything correctly 

[shane7905]

just some more info. Attached is screenshot of display settings in windows. Another not i have checked 10 times to make sure the images are named correctly.

[shane7905]

wheel images for each table, table videos and / or table images display correctly

[shane7905]

When i change them to 1,2,3 in the setting gui it puts the playfield on the 3rd monitor and the other 2 are blank. If i edit the .ini with 1,2,3 it shows the playfield on correct screen and the other 2 are blank. While the ini has screens labeled 1,2,3 opening the GUI shows 1,3,4 ( this is odd )

[shane7905]

update: got backglass video displaying correctly but no matter what dmd will not display. I have tried every setting i can possibly tinker with and never works. The odd thing i have noticed is the AMD settings application shows the monitors #d different than windows. AMD settings shows the correct IDs but windows has 2 and 3 flipped. How does pinballX determine what monitor 1,2, or 3 is? AMD settings show my DMD monitor as monitor 3 but setting display3 in pbx settings shows nothing. Again, any help would be appreciated. 

[shane7905]

This is a second attempt at an existing issue i hope someone would have some insight into a fix. The DMD window refuses to display on 3rd monitor or any monitor actually. ( hide dmd is not checked for any table in game manager )

3 screens

1: playfield 1920x1080

2: Backglass 1920x1080

3: dmd - 1600x900

 

Table video displays fine on monitor 1, backglass video or image display fine on monitor 2. In the settings application if i set DMD display as 3 the backglass shows on correct screen but the table video moves to display 3 where the dmd should be. If i set DMD to display 2 where the backglass should be the table video moves to display 2 and nothing shows on display 1 or 3. If i set dmd display to anything else 1,4,5 table video and backglass display correct but no dmd.

 

I attached log and ini

 

 

log.txt

PinballX.ini

[Draco1962]

Sorry, but there is no need for the same issue from the same user in two separate threads, so I merged them.

That said, keep in mind that the issue you are reporting is not a common issue and may actually be an environmental issue for which PinballX is attempting to interpret what it is receiving from your system. 

Issues of this type can take longer to try to resolve, so please be patient and ready to dig in for a bit.

[shane7905]

interestingly if i set backglass to display 3 the backglass shows on display 3 correctly so obviously the monitor is working just the dmd refuses to show

[shane7905]

Holy crap i just figured it out.

I noticed in the pinballx.ini there was not a line monitor = x for the Display Section

[Display]
windowed=False
monitor=0   this line was missing ( as soon as i added this line everything worked )  not sure how or why this was missing.
rotate=270
WheelAutoCrop=False
PlayFieldBrightness=250
FullScreenWindowed=False