PUP table issue

[polishedball]

On  Harry Potter, Batman TAS, superman TAS.  I have an issue where when launched from PinballX the back glass flashes between being correct and solid black.  If run from VPX directly there is no issues, the backglass stays there the whole time with no black screens.  Hopefully I explained that well enough.  I have use B2s turned off and checked or unchecked for show backglass makes no difference.   Thanks for any help with what I have done wrong.   

 

1. Give a brief description of you sytem setup (2/3 screen setup, feedback, addressable leds) ~ 2 monitors + a pin2dmd display
2. Are you using any 3rd party add-ons (dmdext, doflinx, PUplayer)  Yes all three are installed
3. Define which emulator you are having issues with (VPX, Future Pinball, FX3)  VPX
4. Is the issue table specific or an issue for all tables? If so please state the table name.  Pup tables Harry Potter,  Batman TAS, Superman TAS (others flintstones, TNA, JP etc run fine)
5. Does this issue occur only when launching the game via PBX? Yes it runs completely fine from launching direct via VPX, the error only shows using the frontend
6. What Version of PBX are you on?  4.62
7. Attach your Pinball X xml, ini, and log files, DO NOT COPY THE CONTENTS INTO YOUR QUESTION, attach the actual files.  

Not sure where the pinball X XML is.   

log.txt PinballX.ini

[Tom Speirs]

This is tricky for me, so much of others peoples stuff to get, setup and troubleshoot. Perhaps someone else can better identify the issue so I can actually help?

[polishedball]

Thanks I'll do some more troubleshooting and report back later.  I have this same setup less the pin2dmd running on another minipin I built and it runs fine there (atleast harry potter I don;t have the others loaded on that  vpin) .   It is running a bit older version,  maybe I will upgrade and see if the problem occurs.   I have an image of it to go back to if it does break it.  

 

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

I'm not a real fan of puppacks, but for some tables I need to have it (like harry potter, guardians of the galaxy etc.)

I need to check my setup for it. What I understand is that the puppack is loaded, but pinballx wants to put the black screen on top of it ? 

Is pinballx running as Admin ?

I will be at my cab in an hour and will check with latest release of pinballx

[Mike_da_Spike]

I played HPGOF with PUP pack for you
I have a real DMD , but it was not enabled in HPGOF. I didn't get it to work when it was released, but now it is working (So I enabled it)

This is my backglass setup in pup player :

I cannot find any settings further that should hide your backglass for 
I see in my registry that B2S server is used too  

maybe try to launch a 'normal' table with backglass and check if this is set :

[polishedball]

I'll double check my settings later tonight but they should be as you posted.  

 

Also is there a DB clean function anywhere in pinballX,  while everything works and looks right in both game manager and the other manager and plays displays correct other than the glitch I mention above, I wanted to do a quick test with pinballY.  I had pinballY read and use pinballX as I was curious how the table would play, it did not get valid information.  It listed multiple extra older deleted tables files etc.  I am wondering if something maybe hanging around in my DB that somehow confuses these couple tables.

 

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

What do you mean with a DB clean utility ?

Settings for pinballx are in the INI file.

The database files for tables are 'just' xml files and cannot do much damage by launching a table.

[polishedball]

Ok thanks minimal knowledge here on how it all works,  my thought was if there were muliple entries somehow with the same name or close, maybe it would cause an issue.  Like I said it was odd as in the past I have had pinballY read pinballX and all just worked (I just prefered to stay with pinballX) but this time trying that pinballY was a hot mess of garbage muliple table entries bad links etc and didn't just work.  This made me think maybe something was off or corrupt in my database files somewhere.    

[scutters]

Think this is an issue for real dmd users (i'm not one)..  

See this similar post;

Try turning off dmd videos in game scipt and/or pup

[polishedball]

Thank you this does seem to be the exact problem I have and why I don't see it on my other vPin that doesn't use a real DMD.