BG/ DMD Reversed - Affects VPX too?

[mriggins]

What am I missing?

Windows 7
PinballX 2.94
VPX 10.4.0

Win7's Displays are laid out like this left to right  - MAIN (1) / BG (3) / DMD (2)

Main Monitor/Playfield = Display 1
BG Monitor = Display 3
DMD Monitor = Display 2

In PinballX settings, if I put the BG on 3 and the DMD on 2, when I launch PinballX they are reversed. The DMD ends up on the bg monitor, and the bg ends up on the dmd monitor. If I quit and go back into settings, and reverse them in settings, then when pinballx is launched they are on the correct screens.

If I set screenres.txt to use bg on 3, and I launch a table manually via VPX, then everything is fine.

If I swap 2/3 in pinballx's settings, so that pinballx displays stuff properly... then start the table via pinballx, pinballx changes screenres.txt so that bg ends up on display 2 resulting in the BG ending up on the wrong monitor when VPX starts.

NOTE:... this same cabinet has been running VP9/Vpinmame/Hyperpin just fine for 2 years. I simply decided to try VPX and PinballX as an alternative, which is saved into a different folder structure leaving the original setup intact.

What can I do?

Thank you.

 

[Draco1962]

You may want to attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files. A screen capture of your Windows display setup will also help.

[Tom Speirs]

Just turn off auto configure B2s under display settings. This will stop it writing to screenres.txt. Alternativly rearrange the screen order in win 7 as pf, bf, dmd.

[mriggins]

7 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

Just turn off auto configure B2s under display settings. This will stop it writing to screenres.txt. Alternativly rearrange the screen order in win 7 as pf, bf, dmd.

Tom, turning off that configure solved it! (I already have my layout as pf/bg/dmd) Why PinBallX has to have the displays swapped in settings, I don't know. But setting Hide DMD/Hide Backglass in the game manager, along with telling the Display Settings in pinballx's settings not to move the b2s, along with setting screenres back to 3 for the bg, solved it! Thanks!

[Tom Speirs]

The screenres.txt issue should be fixed in 2.96. Could you help me out and try it?

The monitor numbering in PinballX has not changed but it should write the correct display number to screenres.txt

Thanks.

Tom.

[djrobx]

I had the problem the OP had also with writing the incorrect number, which I worked around by disabling ScreenRes writing.   But now with WIndows 10 1803, my system no longer maintains display numbers consistently.    The backglass monitor may be ID #1 for two reboots in a row, then on the next restart #1 will be my DMD monitor, and #2 is my BG monitor.    The displays keep their positions  and resolutions fine, just the display ID numbering is inconsistent.

I made an update to the B2S Backglass Server that allows the 4th line to be "@"+ the X starting location of the BG.   This removes the dependency on display ID#s in VPX.   You can find that here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JSEMX6rOkoA8fYcKxY5MUcZEHXIjm38I/view?usp=sharing 

Tom, you may want to consider offering a similar approach (using coordinates instead of display #s) in PinballX.  

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks.

In PinballX I use the .net screen class. Apparantly it returns the screens in no particular order. All I did for the latest is look at the ID and strip out the number. \\Display2 etc.

I actually had issues with B2s myself when using two cards. I ended up having to buy a single new card to resolve it. It would never show on the right monitor. Windows 10 does not seem to like a multiple card setup anymore.

Thanks for the feedback. I will look at it.