settings [RESOLVED] Future Pinball AIO Settings Help

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5 hours ago, Draco1962 said:

In order to adequately support your implementation of PinballX you need to upgrade to the latest as many bug fixes and enhancements have been put in place.

Please consider upgrading before you continue.

Draco:I will upgrade, just need to know how to do this without disturbing my settings?

 

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5 hours ago, Draco1962 said:

In order to adequately support your implementation of PinballX you need to upgrade to the latest as many bug fixes and enhancements have been put in place.

Please consider upgrading before you continue.

Thank-you I just upgraded.

[Mike_da_Spike]

2 hours ago, [email protected] said:

Draco:I will upgrade, just need to know how to do this without disturbing my settings?

 

There's a pretty good manual flthat is distributed with the latest pinballx versions (since pinballx versions starting from June 2022), but it can also be downloaded in the download section. 

It show upgrades and downgrades, but also almost all settings you can do with pinballx.

Glad you upgraded to latest version without issues

[scutters]

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Noticed your launch parameters for FP don't look right. You have;

/open "[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]" /play /exit /arcaderender/STAYINRAM

You should add an extra space before the /STAYINRAM, so change it to;

/open "[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]" /play /exit /arcaderender /STAYINRAM

Don't think that'll have any effect for your issue but worth changing in PinballX Settings.exe Future Pinball section.

Please then retest with the .bat file and attach new copies of your PinballX log.txt and config.ini files, and also a copy of your .bat file.

[Mike_da_Spike]

1 hour ago, scutters said:

You should add an extra space before the /STAYINRAM, so change it to;

Nice catch! I didnt notice that

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Here are those files

 

log.txt PinballX.ini

[Mike_da_Spike]

On 2/13/2024 at 5:41 PM, [email protected] said:

  Thanks for the alt - tab, don't know if mine is working properly - when I finally get it to stay on after continually holding down those keys. there are 6 screens - one shows a black image that if I was running a single table outside PBX would have to be moved to my 3rd screen. So I believe the .bat and your previous help the thing is running but not getting placed on the 3rd screen.log.txt

Looks like al is working. The black screens are from pinballx to hide all on the screen.I use a real dmd, so not sure, but I think you need to drag the virtual dmd to the corre t screen and save that position (right click?)

Right now your launch before is disabled , so dmdext will not launch

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Sorry - I was trying all kinds of settings and didn't notice. I turned it on! Checking again.

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Going to quit on this project. Thanks for your help guys. If I come up with something I'll post it here. Going to try u packs.

[Mike_da_Spike]

10 hours ago, [email protected] said:

Going to quit on this project. Thanks for your help guys. If I come up with something I'll post it here. Going to try u packs.

Don't give up !

try the following :
Just launch the "Start FP - Backbox - DMDExt.bat" when you are in Windows

make sure you have dmdext,exe and dmddevice.ini ar ein the FP folder

if you have a popup like this : follow the steps as in the box (this is an example. could be differrent)

If you see the following screen it is correct :

Also a DMD will be show

move this black box to the correct DMD window , resize if needed and right click. Click "save position globally"

edit the file Start FP - Backbox - DMDExt.bat

and change the last line . Put start in front of the dmdext command :
(like this)

start dmdext.exe mirror --source=futurepinball -q --virtual-stay-on-top --fps 60 --use-ini="DmdDevice.ini"

make sure the fploader is removed or has Rem in front of it.
restart your PC , launch PinballX and launch a table
that should do the trick ! 

(sorry was away from computer for a couple of days)
Let me know if that is working for you

 

 

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Checking it out now. I've reinstalled Future Pinball AIO. I've gone to Pin Up

folder and repositioned my DMD . I'LL GET BACK.

obtw: Me wanting this is probably weird but i love The large DMD displays where I can see them when I'm playing.

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So very glad you talked me out of Quitting = Very Happy Pinhead here!

For those peoples who have been following this adventure - Mike DA Spike - and his co-horts have solved my problems, all my tables that have a  virtual DMD (with this fix) in Future  Pinball will be able to add the DMD to their 3rd screen.

Thank-you so very much. I'll now try to write a .bat file for VPX and other tables to work with PINBALL X.

OBTW   DMDext only works on tables that already have a DMD.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Glad all is working and for vpx

Vpx doesn't need a batch file for dmdext. Pinma.e will take care of the use of dmddevice.dll .

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Mike: I have not looked at any of my VPX tables yet to see if their DMD's are  still in place. I have to separate  the  rules for each Pinball engine in my head.

If I have more problems I'll be sure to contact you. Thanks again!

[Draco1962]

Since this topic was opened for Future Pinball AIO I've marked the thread resolved and set the lock.

Thanks to @Mike_da_Spike and @scutters for your help as always and @[email protected]for reporting back timely with your results.

If any issues with VPX, please open a new thread with pinballx.ini and log.txt files attached to your description of the issue.

Cheers!