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I have a Visual Pinball cabinet setup running just fine on Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 3. I also have HyperPin working as a front end. Have had this system for a few years now and all has been well. Then I heard about PinballX, saw it on a friends machine and thought it was great. So I just did a new install PinballX 2.14.... BUT, no matter what I do I can't get PinballX to launch. I get a Runtime Error (see my other post Runtime Error on New PinballX Install). So it got me wondering if PinballX can be run on Windows XP. Is it compatible? Anybody out there got the latest PinballX running on WindowsXP? Maybe I need an older version of PinballX with the Shark codecs? Any ideas or advice? Most instructions and posts are geared toward Windows 7 - understandable, but I really like my system and would love to have PinballX on it.

This is a problem I've had for a couple of months now, and I've been unable to fix on my own. I have many retro computer commercials that I used to be able to play between emulated games in attract mode. I am using a cabinet dedicated to GameEx, running Windows XP, installed only Shark007 (the vista codec pack) without any pre-existing codec packs. I have set the codec pack to "use FFDShow" in the first tab. The problem: after playing the first video it shows a blank screen or the last frame of the video, while running the emulator in the background, which can be heard but not seen. The majority of the videos are FLV or MP4 and have been taken directly from YouTube. Works fine: Video thumbnails in gamelists, Multimedia section videos. This only affects attract mode. Strange: HideOS always loads and the desktop is always hidden, despite in Display settings, "Hide Desktop = No", and every emulator has "Show Desktop = Yes". The MAME section doesn't seem to have a setting for this. Ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated.