[RESOLVED] vpinballx gui showing after loading videos

[duhyrb]

I am having issues where on some tables, large and small, where when launching from pinballx the loading video will show before the table shows up. Sometimes its very brief, sometimes 10-15 secs before the table loads.

I have vpinball running in exclusive mode and I have exclsuive mode hack enabled in pinballx, I assumed this would fix the problem but it does not. I also have the extra wait to show desktop at 30 but it also does not help.

Is there anyways to get the loading videos to stay longer? I have tried using loading images and currently am using "Loading Image Changer" Version 2.3.1 By scutters" which I love, would just like to hide the vpinball gui a little longer.

Any input would be appreciated, attached are my logs.

Thanks!

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Edited February 14 by duhyrb

[scutters]

Are you seeing a black screen or the visual pinball editor instead of the loading image/video while the table is loading?

Try adding the -minimized flag to the Visual Pinball launch parameters on one of your VP systems and see if that helps if it's the VP editor.

E.g.

Current launch parameters;

/play -"[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]"

Suggested launch parameters;

-minimized -play "[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]"

 

[duhyrb]

thank you, I will try that. I am seeing the editor but will try your changes shortly. Thanks for the feedback. Love your plugin by the way!

[duhyrb]

I have tried that change and out of 10 tests I saw just a black screen for 5 secs. Much happier with that than seeing the UI. Thank you!

[scutters]

  On 2/14/2025 at 10:04 PM, duhyrb said:

I have tried that change and out of 10 tests I saw just a black screen for 5 secs. Much happier with that than seeing the UI. Thank you!

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Is that before or after the loading media?

Fullscreen exclusive with the VPX GL version can produce a momentary black screen as the game appears on screen, or if it's a delay before the loading media appears then it might be due to media in use (file size etc).

[duhyrb]

I am not using GL and it is after the loading media before the game shows onscreen... the loading screen plays and then on some tables I will see a black screen now (where I would see vpinball gui before) for 1-10 secs. But again it is not every time.

[scutters]

  On 2/14/2025 at 10:19 PM, duhyrb said:

I am not using GL and it is after the loading media before the game shows onscreen... the loading screen plays and then on some tables I will see a black screen now (where I would see vpinball gui before) for 1-10 secs. But again it is not every time.

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It might happen with the DX version too now (i'm sure it never used to!). You could try turning fullscreen exclusive off in VPX, but then performance in game might suffer... so you may have to just live with it.

[duhyrb]

I can live with the black screen, 100x better than seeing the vpinball editor. Thank you again for the help!