DMD

[duv67]

Hello,
Sorry for the last interrupted post. But I will have more time tomorrow to resolve my problem. 
I remind you that I had a problem displaying the dmd on the Mandalorian table only when launched by pinballx. 
By launching with visual pinball no problem.

I followed your advice and therefore updated the B2S server to version 2.0.3.
After this update still no problem displaying the dmd with a launch by visual pinball but this time by launching by pinballx 
no moredmd on any table.

Thanks for your advices.

PinballX.ini log.txt

[Mike_da_Spike]

If you press alt+tab (keep pressing alt and maybe tab multiple times) do you see the dmd ?

[duv67]

If I press alt and tab I have several windows on the screen: 
visual pinball, pinball backglass, pinballx, virtual pinball player, 
and vitual dmd with the virtual pinball logo in the middle of the window.

[duv67]

I specify that the virtual dmd window is empty just the visual pinball logo in the middle, there is no dmd

[Mike_da_Spike]

If you activate the virtual DMD window with alt-tab. It is still a black screen ?

Thats something I really don't understand.

Can you make a video of it ? Where you activate and high lite the dmd ?

 

[duv67]

Hello,
how to attach a video and what maximum weight should it be?

thanks

[scutters]

6 minutes ago, duv67 said:

Hello,
how to attach a video and what maximum weight should it be?

thanks

Good point, i can't remember what the attachment file size limit is, pictures would probably do instead.

Launch Mandalorian from PinballX, then ALT+TAB take a picture, then try and set focus to the virtual DMD take a picture then too (is the DMD visible anywhere, if it is is it black?). 

Please also attach the Pinballx log.txt file and the FlexDMD.log file (from your visual pinball folder) and your dmddevice.log and dmddevice.ini files from your visual pinball\vpnimame folder, after that table launch and exit.

 

Strange issue!

[Mike_da_Spike]

24 minutes ago, duv67 said:

Hello,
how to attach a video and what maximum weight should it be?

thanks

Link on youtube can also be added.  But if yiu record with obs studio (without sound), de videos will be compressed as well. 

In the bottum of the editor, there is an attach option and shows the  'max total size' to attach

[duv67]

Please find my files. I can send you videos but it will take time because I have an internet speed problem!
tell me if it's necessary

THANKS

DmdDevice.ini DmdDevice.log.config dmddevicePUP.ini FlexDMD.log log.txt PinballX.ini

[duv67]

he first 2 images are with pinballx and the last with vpx

[scutters]

Thanks for the files and images. Not seen the virtual DMD show up like in your image before, stranger still as the flexdmd log looks like it's working ok.

One thing stands out though, what is this app?

Is that a Norton icon? Normally i'd ignore it but the PinballX log is still showing;

09:48:44.15  20/10/2023:  Found PinMAME ROM: genie

.. and that's after launching mandalorian which doesn't use a rom.

Can you try disabling 'Genie' and try again (launch Manadalorian from PinballX), and attach a new pinballx log.txt file as well as the DmdDevice.log file from the vpinmame folder (not the DmdDevice.log.config file) 

[duv67]

Genie is an application that manages my wifi key.
The problem existed long before installing this application.

[Draco1962]

9 minutes ago, scutters said:

Thanks for the files and images. Not seen the virtual DMD show up like in your image before, stranger still as the flexdmd log looks like it's working ok.

One thing stands out though, what is this app?

Is that a Norton icon? Normally i'd ignore it normally but the PinballX log is still showing;

09:48:44.15  20/10/2023:  Found PinMAME ROM: genie

.. and that's after launching mandalorian which doesn't use a rom.

Can you try disabling 'Genie' and trying again (launch Manadalorian from PinballX), and attach a new pinballx log.txt file as well as the DmdDevice.log file from the vpinmame folder (not the DmdDevice.log.config file) 

Genie is also a legit ROM name for a wide body Gottlieb table. Was this table launched during testing?

If so will probably need to get another copy of the log files immediately after launching the Mandalorian table again. Just a observation/suggestion.

Odd that a wifi program would show as a ROM name.

[duv67]

from memory genie must be the rom of a table but I don't know which one!

[duv67]

The ini files were copied just after launching the mandalorian table

[duv67]

I think I will uninstall pinballx and reinstall it. What do you think ?

[scutters]

1 hour ago, duv67 said:

Genie is an application that manages my wifi key.
The problem existed long before installing this application.

It may be unrelated (probably is). Do you know when the problem started (or was it just always the case with some tables?)

1 hour ago, duv67 said:

I think I will uninstall pinballx and reinstall it. What do you think ?

Hold off on that for now

Please do this;

1 hour ago, scutters said:

Can you try disabling 'Genie' and try again (launch Manadalorian from PinballX), and attach a new pinballx log.txt file as well as the DmdDevice.log file from the vpinmame folder (not the DmdDevice.log.config file) 

Why?

1. I want to see if it does clear that Genie bit from the PinballX log or not
2. I really want to see the dmdevice.log file after the issue

@duv67 a couple of other things to confirm please. Is PinballX running under any windows compatibility mode, and im windows display options are you running with scaling set to 100% (see https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/27475-flexdmd-problem-with-pinballx/?do=findComment&comment=211382)

 

[duv67]

'm i sorry but I started the reinstallation before the meal. After three days, I got tired of searching!!!
Not sure that this will solve my problem, otherwise we will be back to the starting point and we will pick up where we left off!

i  confirm PinballX running under any windows compatibility mode, and im windows display options are you running with scaling set to 100%

[duv67]

The reinstallation is done and it hasn't changed anything!
Attached are my files after launching the table by vpx and then by pinballx.
I don't have a DmdDevice.log file in the visual pinball/VPinMame folder !

log.txt PinballX.ini

[duv67]

Here is a screenshot of the folders and files present in my VPinMame folder.

[duv67]

Well, this time no more dmd, the pinballfx3 tables no longer work..
I'll give up, I'll go back with my backup from the beginning of the week. I only had problems with 3 tables without dmd!!!!

[Mike_da_Spike]

Not sure if it was alreasy asked/told, but are you running just the 32bit 10.7.x visual pinball or did you upgrade  to 10.8 ? 

[scutters]

6 hours ago, duv67 said:

I don't have a DmdDevice.log file in the visual pinball/VPinMame folder !

Sorry, after you restore your backup can you check and see if it's in your Visual Pinball folder (after the usual launch of Mandalorian from PinballX). If it is attach that, the FlexDMD.log file from the same location and the PinballX log.txt file (and also let us know if Genie was disabled during the test).

Do the 3 problem tables have anything in common, are they all pup pack tables?

 

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

@duv67

Whats the status of your issue?

[duv67]

As mentioned, I had abandoned the tables which were causing problems due to lack of time. 
I finally had to start from a disk image to have a healthy configuration. 
I reinstalled the tables which were causing a DMD problem and miraculously it is present when launched by pinballx. 
We'll never know what the problem was!