Where does VP get the DMD size/placement values?

[Gromit]

I am running a 3-screen cab on Win7. I’m using the latest VP 10.2.  My problem is the DMD size and placement. The DMD shows up as a small rectangle in the middle of the DMD screen (LCD screen).

I will use the VPX version of the Addams Family table as an example. I should note that I’m loading the table directly without a frontend.

I would like the DMD to show as 1680 x 420. I have this defined in the screenres.txt file in the tables directory. I also have it defined in the registry under HKCU/Software/Freeware/Visual PinMame/Default. It’s also in the TAF_17 registry entry. I deleted the TAF_17.cfg file in the vPinMame cfg directory.

I checked the script to make sure the Controller is set to 3 for B2S if needed. On some of the other VP9 tables, I’ve also embedded the correct DMD size in the script, and it STILL shows a small DMD.

I will add that until recently, I was able to get the DMD  to show at 1680 x 420. I did run SetDMD to enter the correct values and clicked ‘Update all ROMs’. The description says that this would update all ROMs with the values I entered. I was having the problem immediately before I did this, so I was hoping this would solve it. It didn’t…

When I run the table, it looks like a quarter size of the actual DMD area.

Where are the DMD dimensions stored and read from? Evidently, I don’t have them in the right place.

Any suggestions on how to fix this will be greatly appreciated!

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[randr]

I use a real dmd so not a issue but could you not size one by right clicking on dmd then show border resize it then refrence registry for actual size X, y locations then setdmd for all with that

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[Gromit]

Hi Randr,

I right-clicked on the DMD and chose ‘Show Window Border’. The border actually outlined the whole 1680 x 420 screen! However, the strange thing is, the orange DMD display only occupies about a quarter or so of the screen (centered). So VP is actually recognizing the full size, but is using just a portion of it for the display. I can re-size the DMD, but the actual DMD that is displayed stays proportionally small.

The DMD was working fine a few days ago, showing the full-size display, so something got messed up in my settings. Thanks for the tip, it has me looking at this from a new perspective. I’ll mess around a bit more to see if I can identify the problem.

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[BorgDog]

did you try hitting the ddraw checkbox in setdmd?  I don’t remember which way it goes but that can do that.

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[Gromit]

Hi BorgDog,

Thank You! That did the trick! I appreciate both of you helping me out.

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