jamai36

Each individual table in my tables folder is made up of sub folders, hundreds of them - for each table. I am guessing only the root Tables folder itself, not the sub-folders, are searched. I can *.vpx and move all of the individual tables to root directory if I need to. That's interesting. Hmm.. must be a setting, as most of my tables do not have/save high scores, yet some do. I did get a pack of tables of someone and those tables have a lot of issues like 90 degree flipped dmds etc. I feel it's possible that all of those tables are just plain messed up because the user may have gone in and played around with various settings for them.

Yeah nvram folder is good. After trying out some more tables, I still only have the one table that saves Highscores, but I think it may really have just been down to bad luck. Some of the tables I tried have default high scores, which I wasn't beating. Some other ones don't seem to support high scores at all (they are older tables and don't ask for initials or mention any high scores on the DMD). The only table that does work - Excalibur - supports high scores but has no defaults, it's the only one like that - so it's not surprising that it works. I am guessing high scores have to be programmed into the ROM or whatever, or maybe it's some sort of setting I have to manually enable for these tables? It just so happened that a lot of the first tables I tried didn't have that built in - I guess? I'm still not sure of the other two issues though (1.5 speed on almost all tables and not recognizing .vpx files unless they are in the root Visual Pinball folder specified). Also thanks for the help so far! edit: Looks like using an fps limiter did the trick for the speed. Not sure why it started happening after using PinballX but it looks good now. Really just the vpx files not detecting, which I am starting to worry is intentional.

As requested: I'm not sure about vpinmame saving them or how to check for that, but I know for the game it does work with, it creates a high score txt file in the High Scores folder within PinballX (and also displays it in the information section inside the front end). With any other game it creates no such txt file in there. PinballX.ini Statistics.ini

Hey! Going down a bit of a rabbit hole here, but I have run into a number issues that Google is having a hard time solving. The background is I am running PBX as a frontend for VPX and only VPX, mainly to save highscores, as I already had Launchbox set up as a front end and outside of not saving high scores, works fine. However, with PBX I have run into a number of minor problems that combined - become a bit of a dealbreaker. I am hoping some of these can be easily rectified. As a note, even though I have PBX set to load through Launchbox, I have tested PBX without Launchbox, and all of the problems persist in the exact same way. 1. Most tables run at about 1.5x speed. It seems to be the VPinMAME tables, only, though. They run perfectly fine when run independent of PBX. 2. 5/6 tables tested so far do not save high scores. The fact that 1/6 has makes it weirder - may just bad luck with the small sample size? Not sure. 3. The Game Manager only detects .vpx files in the root directory. i HOPE it's just a checkbox I missed, because it would be an absolute nightmare to reconfigure at 434 tables to be run out of the root directory (and an eyesore). Surely it can't look for vpx files in the folders? I looked at previous posts and a log is typically requested, so here is one running Dungeons and Dragons, a table that has both issues of not saving a high score and running at about 1.5x speed: 12:50:02.64 2020-01-21: PinballX - Version 4.06 x64 12:50:02.68 2020-01-21: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (16GB) 12:50:02.68 2020-01-21: Loading Settings 12:50:02.70 2020-01-21: Initialize Component 12:50:02.71 2020-01-21: Initialize Display 12:50:02.75 2020-01-21: Testing Flash engine. 12:50:03.92 2020-01-21: Loading PlugIns 12:50:03.93 2020-01-21: Looking for startup images 12:50:04.14 2020-01-21: Hiding Cursor 12:50:04.15 2020-01-21: Hiding Taskbar 12:50:04.15 2020-01-21: Getting GPU and CPU Information 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: 6 cores, 12 threads 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: Displays: 1 12:50:04.17 2020-01-21: Load Game List 12:50:04.20 2020-01-21: Loading Database: Visual Pinball 12:50:04.21 2020-01-21: Loading Custom Database: dwad 12:50:04.21 2020-01-21: Initial load gamelist took: 15ms 12:50:04.24 2020-01-21: Finding and matching artwork and videos 12:50:04.25 2020-01-21: Took: 15ms 12:50:04.25 2020-01-21: Loading Game Statistics and Scores 12:50:04.94 2020-01-21: Main display running full screen windowed. 12:50:05.00 2020-01-21: Loading Surfaces 12:50:05.04 2020-01-21: Finished Loading Surfaces 12:50:05.04 2020-01-21: Initialize Audio 12:50:05.14 2020-01-21: Set Keyboard Controls 12:50:05.14 2020-01-21: Initialize Joystick 12:50:05.22 2020-01-21: 3 Joysticks Attached 12:50:05.22 2020-01-21: Started 12:50:08.92 2020-01-21: Launch System 12:50:08.92 2020-01-21: Waiting for threads 12:50:08.92 2020-01-21: Disposing display 12:50:09.10 2020-01-21: E:\Downloads\Visual Pinball\VPinballX.exe /play -"E:\Downloads\Visual Pinball\Tables\Dungeons&Dragons (Bally 1987) v1.1.1.vpx" 12:50:09.12 2020-01-21: E:\Program Files\PinballX\vpauto.exe 12:50:18.54 2020-01-21: Found PinMAME ROM: dungdrag.nv 12:50:18.94 2020-01-21: Visual Pinball Player window foreground 12:51:00.94 2020-01-21: Hidden Visual Pinball Editor Window 12:51:30.83 2020-01-21: Exit System Control Pressed 12:51:33.37 2020-01-21: Main display running full screen windowed. 12:51:39.94 2020-01-21: Exiting 12:51:39.96 2020-01-21: Showing Taskbar 12:51:39.96 2020-01-21: Unhiding Mouse Cursor 12:51:39.97 2020-01-21: Disposing Plugins 12:51:39.97 2020-01-21: Saving Settings 12:51:39.97 2020-01-21: Bye Any help would be great - thanks!