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Have you seen this? Table sound when browsing tables http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?/topic/13893-Table-sound-when-browsing-tables These work really well because they're good representative sounds and highlights of the game being played, not just the sounds that may or may not exist when the table is turned on.

Wow.... that did it! I don't understand the logic or what I did wrong. Apparently I should've paid more attention in math class. Thanks GTXJoe for getting me going.

UPDATE: I realized my screenres settings were wonky, so I changed them. THere isn't any differnece in where the DMD is placed when I play a game, however, I've noticed that all of my backglasses are now configured to display the grill (I had it hidden because of my 3 monitor setup). Now, when I run PBXRecorder, it doesn't give the DMD size error message, but it is recording the backglass as the DMD videos. These new settings/logs are: Log: January 09,2016 17:38:083C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PinballX\PinballX 2.02\PinballX200100130XMLPathArray[1]=C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PinballX\PinballX 2.02\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball\Visual Pinball.xmlWorkingPathArray[1]=C:\Program Files\Visual PinballTablePathArray[1]=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\TablesExecutableArray[1]=VPinball992.exeXMLPathArray[2]=C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PinballX\PinballX 2.02\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball PhysMod 5\Visual Pinball PhysMod 5.xmlWorkingPathArray[2]=C:\Program Files\Visual PinballTablePathArray[2]=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\TablesExecutableArray[2]=VPinball99_PhysMod5.exeXMLPathArray[3]=C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PinballX\PinballX 2.02\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball X\Visual Pinball X.xmlWorkingPathArray[3]=C:\Program Files\Visual PinballTablePathArray[3]=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\TablesExecutableArray[3]=VPinballX.exeXMLPathArray[4]=C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PinballX\PinballX 2.02\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball 9.2\Visual Pinball 9.2.xmlWorkingPathArray[4]=C:\Program Files\Visual PinballTablePathArray[4]=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\TablesExecutableArray[4]=VPinball921.exeWorking on Visual Pinball.xml (17:38:53)VirtualScreenWidth = 4304TotalScreenWidth = 2944 PF_width = 1920 PF_height = 1080 BG_width = 1360 BG_height = 768 DMD_oldwidth = 1024 DMD_width = 1024 DMD_height = 768 XDMD_X = 0 DMD_Y = 0 DMD_X = 1920 2001 (Gottlieb 1971)MISSING: DMD VideoLaunching table: C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\Tables\2001 (Gottlieb) (1971) 1.1 FS.vptVideo and screenshot capture (17:39:29)Recording "C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PBXRecorder (64 bit)\dmd.mkv"Convert Videos to .f4v if video was captured (17:40:12)Converting to "C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PinballX\PinballX 2.02\PinballX\Media\Visual Pinball\DMD Videos\2001 (Gottlieb 1971).f4v"Table done (17:40:20)Screenres.txt: 1920108013607682001024768000

Thanks gtxjoe (and everyone) for considering my problem. Here are the contents of my screenres.txt file: 19201080136076820096030033053350 Here is what seems to be the important parts of my PBXrecorder.log file: XMLPathArray[3]=C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PinballX\PinballX 2.02\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball X\Visual Pinball X.xmlWorkingPathArray[3]=C:\Program Files\Visual PinballTablePathArray[3]=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\TablesExecutableArray[3]=VPinballX.exe XMLPathArray[4]=C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Pinball_Emulation\PinballX\PinballX 2.02\PinballX\Databases\Visual Pinball 9.2\Visual Pinball 9.2.xmlWorkingPathArray[4]=C:\Program Files\Visual PinballTablePathArray[4]=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\TablesExecutableArray[4]=VPinball921.exe Working on Visual Pinball.xml (21:40:20)WARNING: DMD window too large - auto-resizing. Review screenres.txt DMD settingsVirtualScreenWidth = 4304TotalScreenWidth = 6185 PF_width = 1920 PF_height = 1080 BG_width = 1360 BG_height = 768 DMD_oldwidth = 960 DMD_width = -921 DMD_height = 300 XDMD_X = 3305 DMD_Y = 335 DMD_X = 5225 ______________ Working on Visual Pinball PhysMod 5.xml (21:42:40)WARNING: DMD window too large - auto-resizing. Review screenres.txt DMD settingsVirtualScreenWidth = 4304TotalScreenWidth = 6185 PF_width = 1920 PF_height = 1080 BG_width = 1360 BG_height = 768 DMD_oldwidth = 960 DMD_width = -921 DMD_height = 300 XDMD_X = 3305 DMD_Y = 335 DMD_X = 5225 ____________ Working on Visual Pinball X.xml (21:43:17)WARNING: DMD window too large - auto-resizing. Review screenres.txt DMD settingsVirtualScreenWidth = 4304TotalScreenWidth = 6185 PF_width = 1920 PF_height = 1080 BG_width = 1360 BG_height = 768 DMD_oldwidth = 960 DMD_width = -921 DMD_height = 300 XDMD_X = 3305 DMD_Y = 335 DMD_X = 5225

Thank you Carny_Priest. Sorry, but I can't figure out how to load screen shots, so hopefully my desciprionts will work. My screens are arranged as follows: The leftmost of 3 screens in my display properties is my main playfield. It is configured to be my main display, and is my playfield. The orientation is landscape. The dimensions are 1920x1080 (native resolution). My middle screen is screen number 2. It is my backglass, and the dimensions are 1360x768 (native resolution). The rightmost screen is screen number 1. It id the DMD. It's dimensions are 1024x768 (native resolution). All of the screen are top-aligned. I do not beleive that some part of the DMD is located outside the bounds of your Windows desktop. It is not pushed up against the edges of the screen, it looks right (with a bit of space on all sides), and works well in all other applications. Does this provide the information you need? Thanks for any help you can provide! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I've been using this tool and have replaced all of my table and backglass videos and images with it. Wow! What a game changer. It is great to have accurate previews of the different tables and versions, and to have the game appear exactly as the user expects. Thanks for much for this tool! I have not been able to get it to record DMD videos. Everytime it goes to a new xml list file, I get a warning message that my DMD screen is larger than the maximum allowed. I am using an old Dell 15 inch LCD for my DMD display, which was pretty high resolution (at the time). I can't recall the resolution right now, but I am thinking/guessing it was 1280x1024 ? I can get the actual values if needed. Is there a way to change or fix this? Thanks!!!

Thank you Draco1962 for your willingness to look at this! I think I am posting this correct.... The pinballx.ini contents are: The log.txt contents are:

This is driving me crazy,and I hope someone can help. The preview videos for both the backglass and playfield have stopped working. Here's what I have done and seen so far: I installed a fresh install of PinballX and moved the media files from the old install's directory. And then the videos worked! Then.... i renamed the new directory to the same name as the previous one (after renaming the previous one as well), and the the videos stopped working. Argh. So, I changed the directory name of the fresh install back to what it was (something like PinballX_new), and then the videos started working again. Yay. Then, the next day, the videos stopped working, even though nothing had changed. Argh. Now, it seems that no matter what I do with directory names, the videos will not play. Who knows, maybe everything above was random. Regardless, I can not get a single video to play in any circumstance. Can anyone help?

Thanks for that direction, Shuwatch! I checked the link, and that did help. I am using an X-Arcade controller and I also have a keyboard attached (maybe someday I'll build or buy a proper cabinet, but for now a keyboard is acceptable). The problem was that I was not running PinballX in Administrator mode. I missed this detail when I set up my new PC. Now that I know the problem, I can see that many people have troubles related to Compatibility mode and with Administrator mode of the various software. If it is in the setup guide, then I missed it. Not to nitpick, but this should be excruciatingly clear in the setup guide since it is such a common problem. Bold text, red letters, a checklist, etc. Now that I have PinballX working, I can't imagine going back to Hyperpin. This is SO much easier!

This must be a pre-noobie question. I can not get Visual Pinball to quit without getting the pause menu first (that has the options - Resume Game, Debug Window, and Quit to Editor). I then have to click 'Quit to Editor' which takes me back to Visual Pinball, which I then have to quit as well. I see lots of forum posts about getting everything else to work properly, but I can't get this basic function working. Can someone tell me what the basic setup is? What files do I need, where do they need to go, what settings need to be, etc.? And, sample files (if needed), where they go, etc.? And if changes are needed to settings file somewhere, exactly where I can find that file? I hate to ask such stupid questions, but I have been struggling with this for a long time now. I had it working on a previous PC, but since I upgraded I can't get this to work. I am running Windows 8. Thanks in advance.