[RESOLVED] Dmd Videos freeze frame at game start

[dielated]

Just changed my GPU and started having an issue where Dmd videos that used to play during gameplay now freeze-frame when the game is booting and just show a still.

After changing my GPU I had to change my display output settings (in nvidia control panel) to use '1080p' HD rather than native resolution. When loading a table my playfield now goes black black momentarily (turn to fullscreen mode) and that is when the video will freeze frame. I have already been running VPX in fullscreen mode with a nvidia card and this didn't happen. I am running PinballX in fullscreen, non-windowed mode. My Dmd videos in the PinballX menu all still work well.

I just ran one of the culprit games, exited and attached my log and ini - curious if anyone has any suggestions?

log.txt PinballX.ini

[Mike_da_Spike]

Did you have msi afterburner running with your old gpu as well ?

What if you disable this during table lsunch?

[dielated]

Msi afterburner was running with the old GPU but I have Uninstalled it. New gpu comes with firestorm software which is running.

-oh I see I must have left afterburner as a pinballx startup program. Will try adjusting and report back

[dielated]

I removed msi afterburner as a startup program and made sure all overclocks are turned off, unfortunately the videos still freeze.

[scutters]

Sounds gpu driver version or setting related, but what and where i don't know (and it is a guess). Did you fully uninstall old gpu drivers and do a 'clean install' ?

Probably also worth updating PinballX too.

Out of interest, what is the native res of your playfield that you changed from to use 1080?. A 1070 should be able to handle 4k without any problems.

[dielated]

I didn't fully uninstall the old drivers, that didn't occur to me - just took out the old 1050ti , in with the new 1070 and installed the software.

Sorry for this wall of text:

I didn't change my playfield resolution, but in the resolution drop down in Nvidia Control panel I just changed to '1080p 1920x1080' rather than 'Native 1920x1080'. This fixed 'grey screen' problems I was having with the new 1070 - whenever a game started my blacks would turn grey, the card would ignore my gamma and colour settings. (Apparently a documented issue for Nvidia cards??)

When I changed to the '1080p' option my screen now goes black on loading a game (never did before, just showed PinballX loading image until game started) but now does load the games properly, with my Nvidia colour settings etc.  But now this new behavior of my screen turning black seems to freezing my PinballX videos...

In the end I found an easy work around just by making the videos I wanted to play into 1 video pup packs - but I will look at uninstalling/ reinstalling my graphics drivers again. And yes I probably should try updating PinballX too...

[scutters]

Nice workaround.

The only problem i've had with colors using a gtx1080 where windows decided it new better than nvidia color settings was at windows startup, i got round that by disabling the windowscolorsystem\calibration loader task in task scheduler. 

Just as a side idea on the original issue, with a gtx1070 maybe you don't need to run VPX in exclusive fullscreen?... but as you've got a workaround already it's just a thought.

[dielated]

Hm thats funny - I was wondering if it was something with the windows color config settings, I tried using the default schemes as well as doing the calibration, didn't seem to change my grey screen problem - I hadn't thought to try disabling the task but thats a good idea,  I might try that and run a game with my old settings to see if that changes the grey screen issue.

I had the same thought that the 1070 might be okay non-exclusive but when I went back to windowed full screen it did take back the performance slightly.  It did allow the PBX DMD videos to run, but I had just 'seen the light' in the performance increase to the 1070, couldn't go back to the stutter :/