PinballX 3.95 full screen exclusive mode

[Tom Speirs]

How are people getting on with this?

Im not getting the issues like before but ingame/pause doesn't seem to return to the table.

[Tom Speirs]

Pause is now working for me in 3.97. 

Is this feature working for everyone else?

It makes the playfield super smooth when navigating.

Im not sure if I fixed the issues or its a result of 1909 or newer drivers.

[Mike_da_Spike]

I will try tom later today. I used this feature, but turned it off after It didn't work anymore and you mentioned it was hard to fix 

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Hey Tom,

Just to be sure (because I don't really understand those settings).

You mean full screen exclusive mode within vpx, right ?

And pbx must run in Full screen mode, not windowed ?

 

Edit : tested to set vpx full screen exclusive mode, started game from pbx. Put it in pause, and went back to the game, but focus not on game(flipper buttons won't respond), but see the correct screens. Alt-tab brings me to the correct screen 

[scutters]

I gave 3.95 a quick go yesterday in fullscreen exclusive, it was very smooth in navigation - but unfortunately it didn't like having the media player display over the top of the backglass in attract mode (https://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/22325-plugin-pinballx-media-player/), which make sense because it's exclusive(!), but i guess it proves it was working. For me i'll be using fullscreen windowed but i'm sure it'll be great for others, thanks for continued updates Tom.

 

[Tom Speirs]

1 hour ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Hey Tom,

Just to be sure (because I don't really understand those settings).

You mean full screen exclusive mode within vpx, right ?

And pbx must run in Full screen mode, not windowed ?

 

Edit : tested to set vpx full screen exclusive mode, started game from pbx. Put it in pause, and went back to the game, but focus not on game(flipper buttons won't respond), but see the correct screens. Alt-tab brings me to the correct screen 

No, this is only purely to do with PBX and always was. It is referring to fullscreen windowed (false for exclusive).

[Mike_da_Spike]

4 minutes ago, Tom Speirs said:

No, this is only purely to do with PBX and always was. It is referring to fullscreen windowed (false for exclusive).

Ah ok. 

So, if full screen windowed is set to no, is that exlusive or must it set to yes ? (Little bit confusion for me)

[scutters]

Don't know what you did Tom, but just tried v3.97 and whatever you did to fix the pause issue also means i can now have the media player in attract mode on top of the backglass with fullscreen windowed set to No (previously pinballx minimized itself)

Is there a definitive way to prove if pinballx is running exclusive rather than just fullscreen?

[Tom Speirs]

The log should say if it is running in windowed mode (not exclusive).

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Lol. I was always running in full screen exclusive mode. Never discovered issues with it

[Tom Speirs]

No worries. 

It was always disabled though until this release even if set. It was default too.

[scutters]

Hmm... 3.97 shows as full screen windowed in the log when my config means it should be exclusive.

Reinstalled 3.95 and that is exclusive without any change to settings?

Logs etc attached..

PinballX.ini log 395.txt log 397.txt

[Tom Speirs]

Looks like I undid the code by mistake. Please try 3.98. Available shortly.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah so same for me with 3.98. All working but does not return to table after pause menu.

[scutters]

Confirmed v3.98 is back to exclusive fullscreen for me (and like v3.95 not compatible with media player plugin with visible player, not a problem though as i can just to it pbx back to fullscreen windowed [or set plugin to non visible])

[Tom Speirs]

Pause is working now in 4.00 at least for me.

[Tom Speirs]

25 minutes ago, scutters said:

Confirmed v3.98 is back to exclusive fullscreen for me (and like v3.95 not compatible with media player plugin with visible player, not a problem though as i can just to it pbx back to fullscreen windowed [or set plugin to non visible])

It should still work if it is not on the primary display as far as I can think. So perhaps try and bring it to the front/focus. It could be when the display is initialized its losing focus.

[scutters]

27 minutes ago, Tom Speirs said:

It should still work if it is not on the primary display as far as I can think. So perhaps try and bring it to the front/focus. It could be when the display is initialized its losing focus.

Yeah, it's a little bit strange as it's only a small window on backglass, but causes pinballx to minimize when shown. Might just be a windows media player 'feature' with exclusive fullscreen apps.

[Tom Speirs]

I am just going to disable it again. It seems it causes videos to stutter and probably causes other issues.

Windowed runs pretty fast these days anyway.

[scutters]

Fair enough, i'm not sure if navigation was any smoother or not for me with it enabled. I might just have perceived a placebo effect initially, but i certainly didn't notice the difference when i went to 3.97 from 3.95 and assumed it was still running exclusive anyway.

[cherga]

Just installed 4.01 and DOF no longer works for me... was working fine on 3.94... rolled back to 3.94 and all is working again.

 

log.txt DirectOutput.log

[Tom Speirs]

Please post log from working version too.

[cherga]

Sorry for the delay... please see attached.

DirectOutput.loglog.txt

[Tom Speirs]

hmm. I cant think what has changed. Its not the full screen exclusive because that has been disabled again and plugins initialize before that anyway. Rest assured I am looking into it though. Thank you for letting me know.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Not sure if it helps, but my plugin still works. Tested all version from 3.95 and up (to get full exclusive mode) but Dof still works for me