Wolfgang and Firestorm, I’m also fighting the same issue with both Star Trek and Metallica. Spent about three hours today at it before I got frustrated enough to set it aside for a while. Have tried new VPX, different betas, have proper SAM, VPinmame latest, etc. Tried different ROMs, zipped my own from Stern site code, deleted nvram, all the usual tricks with no success. Not new to this, cabinet is a couple years old and loaded with 1000+ tables, so fairly literate at all of this. Have several other VP10 tables working well with newest VPX, so know the VPX is working. One thing we have in common is that we all use XP, hmmm…. I’ll be trying again tomorrow, sooner or later I’ll find the issue as always….really itching to play these two! Randy
Hi guys, so after trying everything, I installed Vp10 on my other pc(which isn’t inside my cab).
I used the Vp10 installer found on the visualpinball forum website.
I just used that; very good – installed everything for me.
I then copied over the Sam pinmame. Files to my pinmame folder, overwriting the relevant files (exactly as I did on my cab).
I used the same roms as on my cab (dl from the vpuni’ site….I got metallica to work!:-)
This confirms that it was not a rom issue, but something not being installed or registered properly – I also ran VP10 as admin (which I couldn’t do on my cab,with win XP (my relatively powerful pc round win 7).
Tomorrow I’m going to test using the VP10 installer on my cab (making sure I don’t erase any tables/roms etc on my cab; I’ve sent a lot of time setting everything up with The Pinballx front end) and seeing if that fixes my problem (I can then juat point Pinball X to the appropriate location when I add it as an emulator).
I will post back with my findings.
One thing I will say though, is that I’m not expecting my cab to run Metallica well,and I’m not sure I’d like to play it at any lower quality than on my higher speced pc, as it looks amazing and runs pretty smooth on the highest settings (hopefully will be able to get rid of the sight flipper lag in my nvidia settings).
Some quick thoughts on the table,now that I’ve managed to play it for the first time (hadnt even played the real machine ; pins are hard to find in the U.K!).
The table is tough! Lots of Centre ball drains!:-) love it though; I’m also a huge ‘tallica fan so…
Massive thanks to Fren’ for an amazing job; really is a work of art and I’m so impressed at how great it looks.
Excited to see how the Walking Dead table will be in VP10.
Anyway, sorry for the long post – I’ve attached a pic from the make shift setup I tried the table on (I even tried the 3d mode at one point, as the tv I used has 3d capabilities ; pretty cool, but more flipper lag and noticeable resolution drop)
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