FX3 Pinball Playfield and Backglass issue

[Golfboy01]

Hi everyone,

I'm stumped and I am hoping someone has dealt with this issue before. Using PinballX I can successfully start an FX3 table about 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, the backglass moves down to the main playfield and the table view shrinks accordingly (See Photos). The DMD (Pixelcade) is not affected. Sometimes, I can exit the emulator, go right back in and everything is fine. Other times I have to exit PinballX or reboot to get things right again.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated

I am running Windows 10 - PinballX is running as administrator - Everything else is run as normal and I am not running anything in compatibility mode.

Samsung 50' 4K TV (playfield)

Samsung 32" (Backglass)

Geforce GTX 1070 - 8 gig

AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad Core Processor

8 Gig of RAM

 

John

 

 

log.txt PinballX.ini SetupWizard_en.xml

[Mike_da_Spike]

Whats the enablefx.bat doing ?

Is the log file from a successful launch or the bad launch ?

[Golfboy01]

Hi Mike - the log shows when I ran ATFM and got the messed up screen, I exited the emulator and went right back in to play the table and it worked fine.

 

 

john

[Golfboy01]

Mike - Sorry - I found it....enableFX says "Start pinballfx3nosteam.exe"

I built that file - it starts the DMD for Fx3

[Mike_da_Spike]

I really don't know whats going on for you.
What do you use for the backglass ? Doflinx ?

This is my setup :

(I use @joyrider3774 his FX3 launcher to select mode and players)

My PinballFX_start.cmd is this :

TITLE PinballFX3
start "" /min C:\Pinball\DMDext\dmdext.exe mirror --source=pinballfx3 --no-virtual --quit-when-done -d pindmdv3

My XML is setup like this :

For backglass and some effect I used the latest DofLinx
For some reason , it looks like your backglass want to be on the primary playfield and size it.
is your backglass monitor still active at that moment ?
How is your windows display setup ?
If you disable (for a test) your launch before, do you still have the issues ?

If you launch your games from the command prompt, do you have the same ?

Maybe try to set the next in your setting file (under BackGlass)

AutoPositionB2S=False
UseB2S=False

 

[Golfboy01]

Mike,

I don't use Doflinkx.....Do I need to? All my VPX backglasses are DBs2 and they are fine, no issues with future pinball. When FX3 works, it works well.

The backglass monitor is still active - I can move the mouse to it if that's what you are asking.

My windows display setup is per the usual instructions - primary to the left and 2nd monitor positioned to the right and level with the top edge.

Why change the B2s settings? Does that have anything to do with FX3 backglasses?

 

John 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Hey John,

I use doflinx for displaying the fx3 backglass during the game(And also for the direct output toys I have)

No need to use it. 

Where does your backglasses coming from now ?

58 minutes ago, Golfboy01 said:

Why change the B2s settings? Does that have anything to do with FX3 backglasses?

i don't know. That why I said try

[Golfboy01]

I'll try anything. Currently my back glasses for the VPx and future pinball machines are stored in the pinballx media files folders. I believe the FX3 pinball images are stored in the steam folder. There's nothing astounding happening there....

[Mike_da_Spike]

30 minutes ago, Golfboy01 said:

I'll try anything. Currently my back glasses for the VPx and future pinball machines are stored in the pinballx media files folders. I believe the FX3 pinball images are stored in the steam folder. There's nothing astounding happening there....

Are the backglass images controlled by fx3 ? (I need to xheck my cab, long time ago I set it up)

If fx3 controls them, disable them, copy them to the pbx directory and uncheck dmd hide 

(Thats why I use doflinx. Little animated like in vpx)

[Golfboy01]

The back glasses are all in my pinball x game manager. I'm sure they're controlled by pinball x. I will double check this though.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Check this in FX3 :

open your cabinet settings

Check if your Backglass repositioning is set to off