[RESOLVED] VPM handling 4.67+

[BrandonLaw]

Fellas, just seen the 4.80 drop and thought I may be in luck with the .exe changing back to whatever 4.67 was capable of doing, but alas, no dice.  4.67 is the last version where PBX calls VPM correctly to my PinDMDv3.  I'm just wanting to know what changed inside of PBX.exe to bust VPM going forward from there.  I install 4.80 and all of its components, but change just the exe back to 4.67 and boom...vpm working inside of PBX again.  

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Hey  buddy, post the log and your ini file for Tom. I'm sure he can fix it

[BrandonLaw]

7 minutes ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Hey  buddy, post the log and your ini file for Tom. I'm sure he can fix it

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Will do as soon as I get home.  I knew someone would ask for it...:)

[Draco1962]

46 minutes ago, BrandonLaw said:

Will do as soon as I get home.  I knew someone would ask for it...:)

We ask all to attach at the least their pinballx.ini and log.txt files whenever reporting a problem. Takes out much guesswork!

[BrandonLaw]

PinballX.ini

 

log.txt

 

Thar she be.

[BrandonLaw]

Trying to keep this alive as I'd like to take advantage of the newer features of the .exe.  Let me ask the community this:

What DMD and VPM are you using?  If you're using a PinDMDv3...did you upgrade the Firmware to enhance the color depth?  I did, and have a feeling that may be killing it for PBX.  VPX works fine...it's JUST this .exe after 4.67 leaves my DMD blank.  Something is amiss.

 

(Trying not to move to Popper )

[Mike_da_Spike]

Im using a pinDMDv3 as well with the modified firmware.

But not using vpm in frontend,  but just videos I created.

Maybe @Tom Speirsknows of anything changed between the versions that could break your DMD

[BrandonLaw]

4 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Im using a pinDMDv3 as well with the modified firmware.

But not using vpm in frontend,  but just videos I created.

Maybe @Tom Speirsknows of anything changed between the versions that could break your DMD

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Thanks for the info, @Mike_da_Spike  Can you do me a favor and hit your settings and just try vpm for PBX real quick?  Fire up pbx and see if you get the rom to show on a rom-based table with no dmd art.  What's strange is on different .exe's, it has different behavior....one exe will have it blank..another will only show what was previously working like an image or a vid from fx3 on the vpm table.

[Mike_da_Spike]

If I have time, I will  test it early morning.

Never used it before, but will let you know

[BrandonLaw]

I really do appreciate it.  

I have a feeling it's not the 'norm' for folks to use it.  I enjoy the rom and scores being displayed live.

[Mike_da_Spike]

@BrandonLaw

I trsted this morning with different version of pbx, but even with4.80, the DMD keeps working on tbe majority of the em tables.

A few tables showed a flickering rom display, some showing still my videos from real dmd folder (maybe it doesn't match table with rom), but most are just initializing and starting

The log file doesn't show anything besides that the dmd is initialized. 

The only thing I noticed is that when the rom launch and  displayed, I could not quit pbx by alt-f4 (i dosabled the exit to windows, so for 'maintenance ' I break out with that key combination).

 

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@BrandonLaw

I'm not a real dmd user so don't think any tests i do will be any use to you.

But if VPM on real dmd is working for Mike in PinballX then it might be worth installing the 64 bit version of pbx (i assume Mike will be using that) to see if that works for you. 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Good thought Scutters !

Sound like you are sober again. Welcome back to earth 

 

I'm indeed using the 64 bit version of pbx, my assumption is that everybody was using it at this moment (except 1 person where it crashes during startup)

[BrandonLaw]

Thanks for the input, fellas.  I am in-fact using the 32bit.  I will give this a go and see how she fairs.

[BrandonLaw]

So....I absolutely value this forum and the members involved, but Popper has swooned me.   Thanks for the assistance, guys!  Love ya.