pbx not loading future pinball table

[Tom Speirs]

Please replace Pinballx.exe with the attached and let me know the results. Thanks. (I think something changed with OpenGL with NVIdia drivers or BAM itself). Assuming I am right this should work.

PinballX.zip

[bpjacobsen]

Bingo! It's working now! Whaaaahooooo! thanks so much Tom. One last question. How do I tell PBX to close the DMD when existing the table? It stays on now.

[scutters]

2 hours ago, bpjacobsen said:

Bingo! It's working now! Whaaaahooooo! thanks so much Tom. One last question. How do I tell PBX to close the DMD when existing the table? It stays on now.

Nice!

For future DMD a launch after batch file in future pinball config containing something like; TASKKILL /F /IM "Futuredmd.exe" , should do it.

[bpjacobsen]

sorry, you will need to expand on that. what config file are you referring to? Not seeing one in the FP folder only the cfg folder in BAM which is for table configs. Can't this be done in pbx settings for future pinball much like I have it starting future dmd? I thought you could also add something to tell it to close the dmd?

[scutters]

8 minutes ago, bpjacobsen said:

sorry, you will need to expand on that. what config file are you referring to? Not seeing one in the FP folder only the cfg folder in BAM which is for table configs. Can't this be done in pbx settings for future pinball much like I have it starting future dmd? I thought you could also add something to tell it to close the dmd?

My fault... i meant config in pinballx settings.exe for future pinball, launch after section. Similar to your launch before to start futuredmd

[bpjacobsen]

Is the attached correct? the dmd display closes but the futuredmd app remains open but in a shut off state. is there a way to get it to shut completely off? not sure if I did this right?

[Tom Speirs]

Ive not tested but the executable should be TASKKILL. That is a windows utility,

[Mike_da_Spike]

Maybe PBX doesn't have enough rights to kill that process. Try to run pinballX as admin 

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/make-windows-10-apps-always-run-with-administrator-privileges/

 

[bpjacobsen]

PbX is already setup to run as admin. wouldn't the line be similar to the one that opens the dmd though except something that closes it? don't know the programming language enough to sound intelligent so forgive me. For example, the code to open it is Parameters ="(tablefile)" close=1. was thing close = 0 or something to close it? if you get what I'm trying to say. lol

[Mike_da_Spike]

Normally a parameter can contains a lot of things.

Just what the programmer created, but I should assume if you have close=1, that means close=true. If you have close=0 than close is false.

Tasskill is a windows program that with /f (force) kills /im (image name) "process"

This should kill (force stop) the complete process