Wimpie Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 I recently added a topper screen. After doing that, the DMD screen in PinballX started showing up on the wrong monitor (invisible,under the playfield). I can move the DMD to the backglass monitor, but NOT to the DMD monitor or the topper monitor. Seems like there's a bug somewhere, preventing the DMD to be shown on display numbers > 3. Log files attached but you won't find anything special in them I'm afraid. log.txt PinballX.ini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 Can you please add a screen capture of your Windows Display settings, like this? Below is mine and yours will appear different. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_da_Spike Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 Not a bug. @scutters has a lot of small monitors connecyed to his system (5 or even more) and all works Whats the status of all your other issues ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wimpie Posted August 20, 2023 Author Share Posted August 20, 2023 It's not because it works for someone else, that there might not a bug. It's not working in my case. And the DMD worked fine before. I'll update the status for my other pending issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scutters Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 I wouldn't put this down a bug in PinballX, it just windows being windows and making a mess of screen numbers. I use 6 screens and nvidia and windows disagree about the screen numbers so what chance does pbx have?. You have a few options; Manually edit the pinballx.ini file to try screen ids > 5 Set the screen id the same as the backglass for the DMD and use the DMD x, y offset values as a relative position from the top left of the backglass Try and clean the windows registry entries for attached screens as described here - https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=49405&p=501605 Personally, option 3 would be last resort and only after backing up those registry entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 I am willing to bet that much of this is stemming from fighting against having the playfield as screen 1. I am curious as to why @Wimpie is having an issue with the playfield set to screen 1 to begin with? Is it because of the cabling set for each monitor is different and Windows is forcing the issue? T This is something I had to address when adding a topper to my min-Pin caused some similar issues - this post sheds some light on the topic: Video port priority order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_da_Spike Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 It doesnt matter on why hardware screen the display is, but it should be the first screen on the left. My order is 2-1-3 as well, (2 = playfield, 1= backglass, 3 = dummy hdmi for toppr/vdmd etc) If really want to have playfield on nr 1, try using dc2.e e from 12noon (https://12noon.com/?page_id=641). With this you can create an xml from your configuration, and modify the with notepad. During launch of windows, import these settings and you always good. I used this on my previous cab to have consistent monitor setup as windows could swap something, but my new pc doesnt have any issue with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wimpie Posted August 20, 2023 Author Share Posted August 20, 2023 3 minutes ago, Mike_da_Spike said: It doesnt matter on why hardware screen the display is, but it should be the first screen on the left. My order is 2-1-3 as well, (2 = playfield, 1= backglass, 3 = dummy hdmi for toppr/vdmd etc) If really want to have playfield on nr 1, try using dc2.e e from 12noon (https://12noon.com/?page_id=641). With this you can create an xml from your configuration, and modify the with notepad. During launch of windows, import these settings and you always good. I used this on my previous cab to have consistent monitor setup as windows could swap something, but my new pc doesnt have any issue with it I will try to swap the order, but guys... I still think it's weird that this can't be handled correctly by PinballX. I have no issues at all with Visual Pinball X: backglass and playfield are shown on the correct monitors without swapping anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_da_Spike Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 25 minutes ago, Wimpie said: I will try to swap the order, but guys... I still think it's weird that this can't be handled correctly by PinballX. I have no issues at all with Visual Pinball X: backglass and playfield are shown on the correct monitors without swapping anything. We can have a long argue about it, but we are just people that will try to help As the creator/founder/master/god himself said : 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wimpie Posted August 21, 2023 Author Share Posted August 21, 2023 This one can be marked as resolved (well, with a workaround). I've placed my DMD on screen 1 with an offset of X=3870. That puts the DMD on screen 3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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