PinballX causing my Screen Resolutions to go wonky

[JLPicard]

Got a problem keeping my Screen Res’s set.  I am almost done with a cabinet, going to have three screens eventually, but I am trying to get the Playfield and the Backscreen set up before I tackle the DMD screen, so for now, it’s a two screen.

The playfield is a 1920×1080 Samsung HD and the backscreen is a 1366×768 HD Sceptre.

I can load and play several VP 9.95 games, and with my Screenres.txt set to:

1920
1080
1366
768
3 (2 doesn’t work here so I tried 3 and it works)
All other entries are 0

This Screenres.txt works fine if I load and play games in 9.95, but as soon as I loadup PinballX and choose one of the games I have installed I get all sorts of odd screens going on and resolution changes.
Sometimes, it works ok:

Then other times I get the Loading Text on the Backscreen instead of on the Playfield as it should be:

Here’s a shot of the playfield after the resolution goes screwy.  This is in the Game Selector, and showing a static playfield image that’s gotten smaller:

And yet another playfield shot, still in the Game Selector:

This little gem pops up when I select a FX2 game from within PinballX Game Selector:

Here’s a shot after I back out to desktop, my screen resolution for my main display has changed

Along with new settings for ScreenRes.txt:

Suggestions on how to proceed please?  Building this machine for a friend, and it’s my third cabinet but  this one is making me old(er).

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[Thalamus]

I believe there is a setting in PBX that you need to disable in order to make it stop doing shit like that. If I where you though, just starting up it might be a better alternative to go with PBY to be honest. https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=40679&page=1

If it sees PBX installed, it can re-use what you’ve already have setup.

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[randr]

You sure screen identity is correct and matches screenres.txt? I made my screenres.txt read only when it was a bug in pbx and still is read only today.

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[outhere]

2 and 3 Screen set-up and more

https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=33272&page=7#entry346276

The LCD screen I use And specs
I didn’t know how well the LCD screen would display the imaging But it turns out it displays a lot nicer than I thought it would….
http://www.beyondinfinite.com/lcd/Library/Toshiba/LTA149B780F.pdf
https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/VGA-LCD-controller-board-RT2270-14-9inch-1280-390-LTA149B780F-LCD-screen/32266352370.html?albslr=201483972&src=google

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[JLPicard]

Thanks for the prompt replies!  I have those settings as displayed outhere, and I’ve read that posting of yours like 40 times heh!

I just came back in from my shop and I’ve successfully (so far anyway) got PinballY up and running and it seems to be acting just fine.  Other than a few images that I need to take care of, a quick check tells me my game static images are are populated and it launches 9.95 just fine.  I even came up with a method to rotate the FX2 games.  PinballX had a box I could check to rotate, don’t find that in PinballY, but I found a small program named display.exe.  With some parameters set for it, I can toggle my play-field screen rotation before and after any FX2 game is launched.

I think PinballY is the frontend from here on out for me.  My friends are lining up for cabinets so there’s a few more in my future.

 

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