Popper lag/freeze after Exiting table

[benben45]

Hi everyone,

On my pincab, when exiting a vpx or fx3 table and going back to the popper menu, i always have 2-3 seconds of system “freezing”: any buton or any keystroke can work during this time. Popper looks blocked… After this small period, Popper is ok and buttons allow me to navigate in the menu! But this is very annoying, system is not fluid as it should be and the gaming experience is frustrating me!

With my previous computer (i5 3600), i was thinking the cpu was not powerfull enough, but i have now upgraded it to i5 10400f with gtx 1660 super, so this should work perfectly and it is not the case!

I was also thinking that my presentation videos were too “heavy” (4k, 60Hz), but after reinstalling pinup popper freshly (i don’t have any video at the moment) it is still laggy…

Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is it normal?

How can i solve it? Any script to change?

Thanks a lot,

Ben.

 

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[NailBuster]

not normal.

do some troubleshooting to find.   disable DOF and see if its your dof hardware causing the freeze.  disable your realdmd too and see what is causing the freeze.

also,  you may have a custom option set that is causing the freeze, or you enabled  ‘safe return’ on emulator.

 

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[benben45]

Hi Nailbuster,

 

thanks for that reply!

I have tested all the options and it looks that it was my realdmd that caused problem. When it is not active, it is really more fluid!

But now, as my realdmd is working very well on vpx and fx3, i would like to use it on popper…

What can i do? is there anything i can change or modify?

Best,

(and thanks for the troublreshooting tip!)

Ben

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[NailBuster]

make sure your dmddevice.ini only has enabled on the correct realdmd…don’t do any scanning etc.

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[benben45]

You mean the dmddevice.ini that is stored in vpinmame folder, that’s it?

I have this inside (i don’t know what i can change?!):

[global]
; how to downscale SEGA 192×64 pixel games to smaller displays: fit, fill or stretch
resize = stretch
; 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 = false
; virtual dmd stays on top of all other windows
stayontop = false
; ignore the aspect ratio of the rendered dots when resizing
ignorear = false
; use VPM’s registry values when positioning the virtual dmd
useregistry = 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 = 0
; height of the dmd in monitor pixels
height = 0
; scale the dot size (set to 0.8 for same size as pre-1.6.0)
dotsize = 1.0

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

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

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

[pin2dmd]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a PIN2DMD
enabled = true
; how long to wait in milliseconds after sending a palette
delay = 25

[pixelcade]
; if false, doesn’t bother looking for a Pixelcade
enabled = false
; COM port, e.g. COM3
port =
; color matrix to use, either “rgb” or “rbg”
matrix = rgb

[networkstream]
; if enabled, stream to your DMD connected to another computer
enabled = false
url = ws://127.0.0.1/dmd

[browserstream]
; if enabled, stream to your browser in your LAN
enabled = false
port = 9090

[vpdbstream]
; if enabled, stream DMD to https://test.vpdb.io/live
enabled = false
endpoint = https://api-test.vpdb.io/

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

[pinup]
; if enabled, send frames to PinUP.
enabled = true

[alphanumeric]
enabled = false
style = default

style.default.skewangle = 12
style.default.backgroundcolor = ff000000
style.default.foreground.enabled = true
style.default.foreground.color = fffbe6cb
style.default.foreground.blur.enabled = true
style.default.foreground.blur.x = 2
style.default.foreground.blur.y = 2
style.default.foreground.dilate.enabled = false

style.default.innerglow.enabled = true
style.default.innerglow.color = a0dd6a03
style.default.innerglow.blur.enabled = true
style.default.innerglow.blur.x = 15
style.default.innerglow.blur.y = 13
style.default.innerglow.dilate.enabled = true
style.default.innerglow.dilate.x = 15
style.default.innerglow.dilate.y = 10

style.default.outerglow.enabled = true
style.default.outerglow.color = 40b65829
style.default.outerglow.blur.enabled = true
style.default.outerglow.blur.x = 50
style.default.outerglow.blur.y = 50
style.default.outerglow.dilate.enabled = true
style.default.outerglow.dilate.x = 90
style.default.outerglow.dilate.y = 40

style.default.background.enabled = true
style.default.background.color = 20ffffff
style.default.background.blur.enabled = true
style.default.background.blur.x = 7
style.default.background.blur.y = 7
style.default.background.dilate.enabled = false

 

 

 

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[benben45]

Hi @Nailbuster,

Do you have any idea about my configuration problem?

I have freshly reinstalled frezzy 1.80 et popper, but there is still this lag when going back to pinup menu…

 

Any idea?

 

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by benben45.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by benben45.

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[benben45]

Hi @Nailbuster,

I have tested Popper doctor to see what’s wrong.

When I press Start DMD, mirror appears instantanously on my screen but it takes arround 7-10 sec to appear on my pin2dmd. It looks that it is the same problem in Popper…

Do you know what that means?

I have checked that I have only one DMDext.exe on my computer, and that dmddevice.ini is well set in VPinMame folder.

I have read somewhere that it could be .NET framework to repair?

Thanks,

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