Going out of my mind – no DMD in VPX fullscreen

[edasner]

Apologies in advance for my ignorance, and my many thanks to all of you who work on virtualizing the pinball experience and preserving an important part of history.

I’m trying to get my DMD to appear in fullscreen mode in VPX using any table in my library.

When VPX starts, the DMD is in a separate window I see when I hold Alt-Tab to switch windows.  It’s working, but doesn’t appear in the fullscreen window of the table.  I’ve tried changing the stayontop = false in DMD Device config but still nothing.

I’ve tried every manner of Google search and there’s nothing clearly working.  I would even be willing to go windowed mode but it’s frustrating playing a cabinet without the DMD.

Can anyone please help?

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[outhere]

Post your DmdDevice.ini

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[edasner]

[global]
; how to downscale SEGA 192×64 pixel games to smaller displays: fit, fill or stretch
resize = fit
; flips the image horizontally
fliphorizontally = false
; flips the image vertically
flipvertically = false
; enable or disable frame-by-frame colorization (inactive in VPX bundle)
colorize = true

; a DMD that renders with nice dots on a computer monitor
[virtualdmd]
enabled = true
; virtual dmd stays on top of all other windows
stayontop = true
; hide the resize grip
hidegrip = false
; x-axis of the window position
left = 0
; y-axis of the window position
top = 0
; width of the dmd in monitor pixels
width = 1024
; height of the dmd in monitor pixels
height = 256

[pindmd1]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a pinDMD1
enabled = true

[pindmd2]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a pinDMD2
enabled = true

[pindmd3]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a pinDMD3
enabled = true
; COM port, e.g. COM3
port =

[pin2dmd]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a PIN2DMD
enabled = true

; if enabled, writes frames to an .avi file
enabled = false
; path to folder or .avi file. if folder, gamename.avi is used.
path =

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[outhere]

More info
https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions

When the game is running hit F1 make sure external DMD is checked

Areas in red set to false
Areas in Blue Are for setting the location and the size of the DMD

[global]
; how to downscale SEGA 192×64 pixel games to smaller displays: fit, fill or stretch
resize = fit
; flips the image horizontally
fliphorizontally = false
; flips the image vertically
flipvertically = false
; enable or disable frame-by-frame colorization (inactive in VPX bundle)
colorize = true

; a DMD that renders with nice dots on a computer monitor
[virtualdmd]
enabled = true
; virtual dmd stays on top of all other windows
stayontop = true
; hide the resize grip
hidegrip = false
; x-axis of the window position
left = 0
; y-axis of the window position
top = 0
; width of the dmd in monitor pixels
width = 1024
; height of the dmd in monitor pixels
height = 256

[pindmd1]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a pinDMD1
enabled = true

[pindmd2]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a pinDMD2
enabled = true

[pindmd3]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a pinDMD3
enabled = true
; COM port, e.g. COM3
port =

[pin2dmd]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a PIN2DMD
enabled = true

; if enabled, writes frames to an .avi file
enabled = false
; path to folder or .avi file. if folder, gamename.avi is used.
path =

 

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[edasner]

Nope, nada.   Made all the changes above, still did nothing.

Using South Park as an example, the table works fine, the DMD works fine, and the DMD shows up as a separate borderless window/process in the upper right corner of my desktop.  The only thing that’s visible when the table comes up fullscreen is the brick background with the outline of the table theme.

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[outhere]

You’re running a single monitor desktop or a cab?

Any chance you can post a picture of what you’re trying to say

if you’re not sure click on the icon at the top right for posting pictures

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[edasner]

Sorry I thought I had posted this earlier, but I’ll try a different way:  https://imgur.com/a/lOcaxTE

In the first image, you can see the DMD and table processes are working fine.

In the second image, you can see when I switch back to full screen, the upper right where the DMD is supposed to be is not there.  To be clear:  the DMD can be switched to and is borderless, but then I don’t see the table when I switch back to it.

EDIT: In the third image, you can see the DMD window as it appears on my desktop, over my browser.  I would expect it to appear up and to the left of the table at the same time, but no dice.  Right place, but doesn’t overlap.

EDIT 2:  Running single monitor, 1920×1080 from a GTX960 Core i7

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[naeromagus]

If your running only virtual Dmd. Pindmd 1-3 should be set as false.

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[edasner]

naeromagus wrote:

If your running only virtual Dmd. Pindmd 1-3 should be set as false.

I did all that.  Made no difference in the table.  I had already turned off “Use External DMD” but switching it on, resetting, then switching it off and resetting again did nothing.

Current settings here: https://imgur.com/JwW7CGs

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[outhere]

In the F1 menu turn off show DMD and turn on external

Then go to your device DmdDevice.ini file and adjust those areas in blue to where you want it

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[edasner]

Turned off Show DMD, turned on external, same result – doesn’t appear on top of the table.

Changed X and Y location in the DMD ini file, same result no matter what values I put in, positive, zero or negative, up to the limits of my display resolution.

 

 

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[outhere]

What is the location of your DmdDevice.ini file

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[Badazzwi]

Did you have a working setup at any point or is this a fresh setup?

Hi my name is Barry and I'm a virtual pinball addict.

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[edasner]

outhere wrote:

What is the location of your DmdDevice.ini file

C:\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\DMDext

 

Badazzwi wrote:

Did you have a working setup at any point or is this a fresh setup?

Fresh, using VPX 10.6 Installer

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[outhere]

Download the x86 file and unzip it in your VPinMame folder and adjust the InI file and should start to work
https://www.7-zip.org/
Right click the zip file before unzipping And make sure the file is not block
C:\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\
https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/releases/tag/v1.7.1

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[edasner]

Updated the DMD with the 1.7.1 release in the \Visual Pinball\VPinMAME directory, and it also made no difference…

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[outhere]

Post the new DmdDevice.ini file

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[Loganchihuahua]

As far as I have had experience, you need the freezy 1.71 dll and the DmdDevice.ini in C:\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\.. Not \dmdext\

 

Also in dmddevice.ini you can try ;

hide the resize grip
hidegrip = true

 

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[edasner]

OK…it looks like it’s mostly fixed!

To summarize, the solution to no DMD in single monitor in VPX 10.6 was:

• Download DMD 1.7.1 from https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/releases/tag/v1.7.1
• Replace the files in the \Visual Pinball\VpinMAME directory
• Set stayontop=true, width=512 and height = 128 (for my 1080p setup)

What doesn’t work now is hitting F1 to bring up options for the table.  Very strange.

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[outhere]

What game or all

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