1080 tables to 4K question

I’m not sure I want to touch this one but… what the heck.

firstly, your post doesn’t tell us if you have the required installs.  For example, the Harry Potter table need pinup player installed to play the accompanied pup pack.  Assuming you do have it installed, if you are not using a front end, Depending on the table, you may need to completely quit VPX between every load of tables to ensure the vpx player has released the pup pack. If you are using a front end that usually closes it for you.

those tables being 4K quality should have zero bearings on running on 1080p monitor.  What can have a bearing is your pc specs and your current setup of VP and all the programs it can use.

if my initial sentence is off putting it’s because whether you get tables from a friend or from a packed download, these tend to be frowned on because of the same reason:   We don’t know if the user is running the latest version of the table and since the user often hasn’t installed everything themselves, there isn’t the earned knowledge that you would have for some of these issues.  Your mention of issues with loading tables hints at this, perhaps you don’t have some of the required programs installed?  In saying that not everyone is technical and this may not apply to you, thus my assistance. Good luck and hopefully the above advice helps somewhat.

additional recommendation:  install vp10.6 all in one to ensure you have the required programs (ultradmd, db2s, vpm, etc)

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He ain’t running the tables off that external drive – is he ?

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Hmm. I have a feeling that it won’t work. First, my cab is running on 8G, Win7, 64bit with a 1080 with 8G video ram. I used to have a 750ti and I can’t recall having any issues related to memory that hasn’t been out of stupidity by someone modding a table. I also have a feeling that adding 4G or ram, won’t work at all. Very often you will see that memory have to be added in pairs. If that is valid for this case, then he has already populated 2x4G and probably needs to buy 2×4 to get it working at all. These should have the same speed etc.

When you say cloned your drive. You are really meaning that ? A true copy of your installation including OS ? If so, you guys are just looky that you didn’t end up with a permanent blue-screen, or maybe they have change it’s color now ;)

Copying VP is simple copying of some folders and registry keys.

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First the most important thing:  Welcome aboard @ronr !!!  Thank you very much for your contributions towards Escape from the Lost World. It’s because of gestures such as your contributions that we end up getting awesome releases so thanks sincerely!

@armyaviation:  Thanks for your help too, I’d have done the same thing :)

Cloning a drive then having it work on other hardware can be problematic but Techs do it all the time too. There is a pattern to follow for it to work but yeah it’s important the hardware is up to the task and of course it’s ALWAYS better to restart from scratch.  Specific to the HP issues, I think if HP is working fine outside of the front end, then it’s basically mission accomplished as far as VPX/Pup is concerned.  Adding the proper memory may work because using a front end impacts available memory the most but yeah, depending on available slots, sometimes it’s better change your existing memory with brand new 16GB solution instead of the old 8GB (2×4), especially if it’s not the same speed.

Good luck and come back to us if you need help RONR!

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Tom

Yeah. This is kind of a rant, but, my view on the current frontend usage. I used VPX for a long time. It was served me well for a long time, but, I struggled with it too because it came bundled with a few dll that fucked me over on each release. Freezy compability mostly. What annoyed me the most was that I never could get any info to what changed in between the version so when PBY came out with a very comprehensive changelog and I had every table already in “vpx format (xml)”, then a switch was completed in under 20 minutes. Never went back. Still use my custom made script to add tables to that format, clean them up etc. Even though guys have made tools – later on that does “kind of” the same thing I’ve done on my side. When I see a pup table – and I don’t run many of them, I’ve got pinup popper installed as well. I tend to add pinup tables to popper and not PBY. I kind of want to keep the realistic stuff on my frontend. There has been a few tables, can’t really remember, but, I believe I did get HP to work on PBY, but, there are at least a few other where I didn’t feel I could be bothered to even try to figure it out. So, I ended up adding it to popper. In short you can say. If you want to play “bling bling” – fire up popper as the frontend on my cab. For the rest, it is controlled by PBY. Honestly, I haven’t seen a table that popper can’t handle. I’ve seen a few that PBY is having issues with. PBX I just gave up upon a while ago. I’m still not changing though. I’m often shaking my head looking in how much people spend on their frontend instead of actually adjusting their tables – but, well, guess that’s just me

Todays rant over.

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