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#21 JLPicard001

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Posted 17 March 2022 - 02:56 PM

Rob's posting above worked for me.  I had to keep changing the position #5 in screenres.txt as windows/VP10 kept changing the order of my displays.

 

With this version you can change the 5th line in ScreenRes.txt to be "@startingX" instead of the display number.    So if you have a 1920x1080 playfield, the backglass display starts at 1920. @1920 instead of "1".   Or if you have a 4k playfield, use "@3840".     Note that the number must match the left coordinate of the display you want the backglass to appear on exactly.    Because it's looking by the display's position and not the ID#, it will always stay put. 

 

 

After reading the posting above by DJRobX, I changed the text in position #5 of my screenres.txt to @3840 (I have a 4k playfield) and now I don't get my displays randomly switching.  If you have a 1080 playfield, your position #5 text will be @1920.


Edited by JLPicard001, 17 March 2022 - 03:05 PM.


#22 coffeeisgood

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Posted 29 March 2022 - 02:37 PM

I didn't have good luck with most approaches as my TV comes on but doesn't really "signal" at the same time all the time (neither does LCD driver on laptop screen using as DMD). I found Nailbuster app to query what display is at x,y position of 1,1 along with the @3840 trick above. https://www.nailbust...isplay_issues[]=display. Still doesn't work all the time so not sure if Nailbuster app works properly. I wrote a batch script that returns all the display numbers and resolutions, next will set the registry entry for VPX based on one with "largest" display (works if you have just 1 4K or higher rez display).


Edited by coffeeisgood, 30 March 2022 - 08:50 PM.


#23 ExYuVucko

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Posted 20 August 2024 - 12:43 PM

hello, I have a problem with b2s, it activates for a few seconds and then disappears, I tried everything but nothing helped, is there something bothering me in Windows 10. I installed the latest b2s x64 version, since then the problems started, can you help me, here's a video of how it looks https: //www.youtube.com/shorts/TvKSpLKdgI4