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[Genesis38]

Outhere. Using your suggestion, the DMD does show up in color on top of the playfield. Now comes the question of how to get it to stay on my 3rd monitor as the windows DMD......

Thanks so far for your help. Appreciate it.

[Outhere]

Adjust these settings until you get the correct location and size

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; x-axis of the window position
left = 0

; y-axis of the window position
top = 0

; width of the dmd in monitor pixels
width = 1200

; height of the dmd in monitor pixels
height = 300

[Genesis38]

I assume reading the registries position and plugging in those numbers into the ini file won't work, correct? 

[Outhere]

I assume reading the registries position and plugging in those numbers into the ini file won't work, correct? 

It would be good starting point

[Genesis38]

This is what I need help with the most I think. Registry shows x 5200 and y 495, but when I enter these into the ini file the DMD dissaperars. Why can't the damn thing just be moved with the mouse to the proper screen, resize it and stay??

Also, I'm running 4k on my playfield and noticed the scaling is set to 225% and not 100%. Would this also be contributing to the problem?

Edited by Genesis38, 13 February 2019 - 10:37 PM.

[gtxjoe]

That damned thing that you are complaining about is a free open source tool that someone spent a lot of time and effort on and made freely available to the community.

Show a little appreciation

Edited by gtxjoe, 13 February 2019 - 11:09 PM.

[Genesis38]

Sorry Gtxjoe, I didn't mean it like that. Meant it more as in I really like it and I'm sad I can't get it to work properly.

[gtxjoe]

I would try starting with 0,0 offsets and the try 100, 200 so you see the direction the DMD moves.

After you understand that, try multiples of your monitor resolutions like 1920 and 1080 to get it to the correct screen and the tweak values to get it to the right location on that screen

[Genesis38]

Thank you gtxjoe. I'll try that, and please accept my apologies again. I ma very thankful for the community and all of you members who are willing to help at a notices moment and being patient.

[Genesis38]

So I tried your advice and no matter what numbers I try on the ini file, the DMD does not change position or size. This is really bizarre....

[Outhere]

You need to close and restart the VP every time you make changes

[Genesis38]

I did and I can swear it didn't do anything but I'll try again.

[Outhere]

I'm assuming every time you make a change in the InI file you... click file and save or close save

[Genesis38]

Yes sir, save and close.

I'll give it a try again. Will report back after dinner. Maybe I can think better on a full stomach lol.

[Genesis38]

So I gave it another try and no matter what numbers I put into the ini file, the DMD won't move at all and sits on top left corner of playfield. Again, I can resize it and place it where I want with the mouse, but it will revert back when I relaunch the table. This is driving me 🤪 gotta be something simple....

[Juwellez]

K out of curiosity what table are you trying to set this up on?  Just want to make sure you are not using an UltraDMD.  Also what are your settings you are using for your scale if you have a 4k TV then should be running 3840 x 2160 pixels or 4096 x 2160 pixels, shouldn't be oversized as you mentioned... not sure why you are running 225% for?? I had to actually go into my TV settings to change the game/movie/computer/ect... selection to set it to game to get proper views for 4k.

 

Noticed that you have show dmd/display window selected in previous post.  That dmd is the vpinmame dmd so unselect it to show the freezy dmd.  Make sure your monitors are aligned correctly side by side in your monitor setup. This is important if you can't get the numbers to align with your settings for positioning.

 

hope this helps

[Genesis38]

The reason why it's set to 225% is because at 100%, I can barely read anything on the playfield when moving files around etc. As for the Show DMD and monitor positioning etc, that has not been an issue and the 4k resolution is set to 3840 x 2160 @ 60HZ, but thank you for that suggestion.

On my test PC, I have Freezy's ini file set to read the DMD XY values off the registry and it works just fine. On my Vpin cab setup, it just doesn't do anything....

[Genesis38]

Here's a video link to explain it better.

https://youtu.be/vzi0_XsgEjM

[Genesis38]

I've been comparing some registry keys between test pc and cabinet setup and found the test pc showpindmd (1) and show windmd (0) in the default and all Roms keys, however the vpin cab setup, does not have the option for showpindmd, only showwimdmd (1). Would this have something to do with the issue?

[Outhere]

Good fine

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From what I can tell it should be in their question is why is it not

try this

When you run the VPinMame setup.exe do you right click the file and run as administrator