DMDEXT and PinballX

[jhouff]

Greetings wonderful Pinball People! My computer recently died (lost all my setup) and I’m starting fresh again. I have everything working MINUS dmdext does not work through PinballX. If I launch dmdext via CMD outside of PinballX it works like a charm but when I use the “Launch After” with PinballX it stays black. Oddly enough I can see dmdext is booting via PinballX and it says it’s receiving frames—but again blank.

I seem to remember something about changing the name of a DLL (could have sworn it was changing pindmd64.dll to pindmd.dll)—but alas that is not working.

Edit: Using PinDMDv3 and the 64bit versions of dmdext and pinDMD.dll. No errors in the pindmd.dll log. But please let me know what I can provide (logs, etc).

[Mike_da_Spike]

Hi @jhouff

I'm not aware of any copying in PinballX.

I have the sam econfig as you has.

This is what I put into my 32 bit version of PinballX :

If this doesn't work, check if the virual box is working (that is grapped from meory)

Remove the --No-virtual in it

or use something like :

mirror --source=pinballfx3  --destination=virtual --virtual-hide-grip --virtual-stay-on-top --virtual-position 0 0 1024 --quit-when-done

Hope this helps . 

 

**off topic : Just curious .. what PC do you have right now ?

[jhouff]

Thanks Mike! So turns out we had everything setup the same but it still wasn't working for me; BUT I did figure this all out. So it looks like it was a timing issue. For whatever reason when dmdext would "launch before" Pinball FX3 it was clashing with PinballX still displaying the default "real" DMD video. So what I did was create a .BAT file for dmdext and added TIMEOUT 11 so it was a delayed launch of dmdext; now it's working!

Using Windows 10, Alienware Alpha (for nice small footprint).

Thanks again Mike!

[manples]

Hi guys,

Kinda same issue here. I had to remove the realdmd video as it was messing with the DMD in game (I have a pin2DMD). 

It started after I updated PBX from 2.62 to the last one, and also after I updated the dmddevice.dll (to DMDExt 1.7.1).

Another weird symptom is that I can't exit a game after I launched it with PBX. If I remove the dmddevice.dll then I can exit normally (but no more use of the pin2DMD then...) 

[EDIT] reverted to PBX 2.62 and everything works back normally.