Getting started

[Retrotechy]

I'm having a bit of trouble setting up PinballX.
It's been a few years since I've played around with Visual Pinball, but I've got it all downloaded and setup on my desktop computer. I've got 2 tables working at the moment, Big Game and Terminator 2, both of these tables are for VPX.

During the initial setup of PinballX, I saw that the executable is set for VPinball_9_0_2.exe, I've changed that to VPinballX.exe and set the paths to the correct directories.

I launch Game Manager, select Visual Pinball, click add game, then click on import table, select a table but nothing happens after that. The fields remain blank.
Can someone point out where I'm going wrong?

[Draco1962]

Start with this. It's a little dated but the basics have not changed.

 

[Retrotechy]

Another quick question.

Finally getting somewhere, tables now fire up and work,, but the B2B on the 2nd screen is far to big. I've gone into settings and set the Backglass to 1024x768, but nothings changed.

[Retrotechy]

O.k got the back screen sorted out, but now I have another 1.
More a Visual Pinball thing, but I can't seem to resize the DMD. Tried it on 3 tables, I right click on the DMD, get the border/title up. Stretch it out to the size I want, right click the border/title away and it shrinks back to it's original size.

[Outhere]

 DMD Size and Location
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1) Right click on DMD and enable Border
2) Click and drag DMD to new location.  Click and drag on edges to resize
3) Right click and hide the border (If the DMD moves back or changes to orig size, try moving it to desired location, shake it a little before hiding the border)

http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=tutorials&article=136

[Retrotechy]

I can't believe it, shaking the DMD around after resizing fixed the issue.