[RESOLVED] Pinball X taking black PLAYFIELD screengrabs

[Itchigo]

I tried

31 minutes ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

I think you need to point it to the pinballx directory where the executable resists, not your xml

I tried that with the same thing. 404 xml not found. 🤣

I also copied my xml to the PBXX64 folder, and it still couldn't find the xml. (Yes, I changed the paths).

[Mike_da_Spike]

Can you post the pbxrecorder log ?

[Itchigo]

October 19,2024 05:50:12
Version 2.1

Monitor Count: 2,  Primary Monitor: 1
Monitor 1: 1920x1080 (\\.\DISPLAY1)
Monitor 2: 3840x1080 (\\.\DISPLAY2)

Pinballx.ini
8
C:\Users\Itchiogo-Cab\Desktop\PBXRecorder_x64
2
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
15
0
15
180
1
0

Identify all VP XML files...
Skipping disabled/non-VP system: .xml

Total number of VP systems found: 0

0 new recordings out of 0 tables. Finished (05:51:06)

[Mike_da_Spike]

That doesn't show much ..

Can you attacht the pbxredorder ini fe as well?

[scutters]

23 hours ago, Itchigo said:

I still get the same thing. It should be pointed at the same folder that my xml is in, right? I have that path correct (Pinballx/databases/VPX)

It should be pointed at the main PinballX folder - e.g. C:\PinballX not Pinballx/databases/VPX or the pbx recorder folder (C:\Users\Itchiogo-Cab\Desktop\PBXRecorder_x64 as shown in your log)

23 hours ago, Itchigo said:

Also from running this, it looks like it's geared towards videos, not screengrabs

It is but works for image capture too, just deselect the video capture options when you run it and select the image captures you want.

23 hours ago, Itchigo said:

Also, in other systems, when I change it to Visual Pinball from Custom .exe, Pinball X hangs. If I click the playfield (focus) then I have to CNTR/ALT/DEL to exit.

That is strange. Are you running VPX 10.8 in fullscreen?, if so that might be the same issue as https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/30044-pbx-wont-exit-freezes/

 

Suggest you leave the system type as visual pinball and change the path for pbxrecorder and see if you can get that to work, then worry about the pbx issue (investigate or change system type back to custom)

[Draco1962]

I will also throw a caution out there for directing almost anything to C:\Users\ path as there are generally higher protections placed by Windows that can result in read/write errors. Moving PBXRecorder_x64 to the root of your c drive or other drive would likely be best.

[Itchigo]

Ok. I finally got the PBX Recorder to work. I pointed it at the Pinball X folder. I changed the Other Systems from Custom to Visual Pinball and it worked.

 I still have bad screenshots. Here's the logs. Catacomb seemed to time out (goes to what I was saying about table loading times). What I see in the Catacomb screenshot is what I see when running a heavy table on PinballX. Things tend to load on top of one another until it's fully running. I don't know if I need a better processor or video card to help with this. Once things are loaded I don't have any table stutter.

PBXrecorder.ini PBXrecorder.log vpinball.log PinballX.ini

[scutters]

@Itchigo from the vpinball.log it looks like you're running the opengl version of VPX (v10.8.0 Beta (Rev. 1975 (051104c), windows OpenGL 64bits)

Is there any chance you grabbed the debug version rather than the release version (think that would affect the load times).

Suggest trying the non GL (so DX9) release version as that might be a factor in the screenshots / image capture.

This one;

 

[Itchigo]

I definitely had the GL, not the Debug version. After switching to the Release version VPinballX-10.8.0-1975-051104c-Release-win-x64, it's finally taking screenshots under the PBX Recorder. Yay!

But, they look like this.

 

vpinball.log

[Itchigo]

Resetting to low end default settings seemed to fix the graphical issues.

I'm good now. Pinball X is still having issues, but the PBX recorder is working fine now.

 

Thanks guys.