scutters

A couple of wheel options for @unclewilly's FP->VPX Robots Invasion table.. Basic on/off using BG images from the table; Or one based on the FP version (using backglass video from FTP); Take your pick. (right click and save as for now until download pack updated)

From the log file attached to - https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/29651-dmd-is-allways-displayed-in-the-3th-monitor-only-if-i-start-tables-with-pinballx-in-outside-all-works-fine/#comment-215408 19:54:10.48 15.04.2024: C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\VPinballX10.7.3.exe -Extminimized /play -"C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\Tables 10.7.3\Black Hole (Gottlieb 1981) vpx 1.1.vpx" 19:54:10.54 15.04.2024: C:\PinballXneue\vpauto.exe 19:54:18.96 15.04.2024: Visual Pinball Player window foreground: 8 19:54:19.61 15.04.2024: Found PinMAME ROM: blkhole2 19:54:19.61 15.04.2024: Setting DMD position 19:54:19.62 15.04.2024: Move and resize PinMAME Window 19:54:29.46 15.04.2024: Exit System Control Pressed This looks normal and the game exited when the Exit button was pressed. Is the issue still present?

Yes! 👍 Under settings.exe go to Display Settings, Try changing the 'auto position dmd' setting to No, And also change the 'auto position DirectB2S' to No

For info, the general recommendation is NOT to install Visual Pinball to the Program Files folder. It is better to install to install to C:\Visual Pinball or similar. Not sure if the issue here is with windows permissions or not (copies of the requested files will help), but it may be better to reinstall Visual Pinball to a different location now rather than have issues later and have to move it then.

Please attach your pinballx\config\pinballx.ini and pinballx\log\log.txt files. Not sure but i think you want to select a table with one click launch disabled to see the menu options (rather than pressing exit / escape)

paid https://www.pinballfx.com/

Yep, all free!

It's not an issue then

Hi Tom. I'm normally a cab user so i don't know if the semi transparent wheel on desktop is a bug, or is it by design?

You're right.. just tried 6.04 and it was there too!, how did i never spot that before? (too much tinkering around with other stuff to actually look at the wheel image i guess ) Edit - the semi transparency of the wheel for the selected table seems to be linked to the 'Main Display Rotation' Display setting. Horizontal - semi trans, 90 or 270 degrees - opaque. That's probably why i missed it before.

Only tried 6.06 on the desktop so far, i see the a semi transparent wheel image for the selected table; PinballX.ini log.txt

My understanding is that popper/vlc uses mainly CPU for video rendering too. But there may be a difference for apngs, as i think only the selected games wheel is animated (PinballX animates all, so could be up to 5 at a time). Don't really know though. Just my personal opinion, playfield 4k videos at 30fps rather than 60fps isn't really a reduction in quality if the video is just the tables attract mode (so just lights changing) but may be noticeable if you like gameplay videos. Format of the video, audio and length could make a large difference too. For the wheels using compression should be fine (just like a lot of tables use compressed webp images for the playfield in vpx). You may struggle to get the highest quality experience on mid range hardware without some compromises. But like i say, just my opinion... i've never liked having having unnecessarily bloaty files on my system

Apngs are more resource intensive than static wheel images. Non animated wheel images shouldn't cause any problem though (i assume you used those before without issue?). Are you using an SSD to store the PinballX media with exceptions set in Defender / anti-virus software for PinballX? It may well be that the apngs just aren't optimised though, there are some pretty big ones about - pingo or pinga may be able to help with that (copy the wheel images somewhere so you have a backup and then try and compress them and see if that helps, copy back from the backup if you want to rerun the compression with different settings).

Thanks for the help. We'll get that fixed properly in the next release.