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#1 faralos

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Posted 01 June 2009 - 10:15 PM

My computer absolutely refuses to play any pin with fading lights really well, but can I still build/redo pins with it? Knowing I can't play it at all with the fading lights on, just test them to see if they work. I'd have to send the pin table to someone else to test it for me (not that I have a table wip that uses fading lights, but in the nearish future possibly.)

and I've tried vp9, although I can't get any of the pinmame pins to work (pinmame defaults to the vp8 setup since it works for that too) and even with that star wars pin with the many multi-ball there is NO STUTTERING AT ALL, I haven't checked fading lights yet, but must go make dinner right now so can't check on it just yet.

in any case, if vp9 works better as mentioned above, I just may jump ship to it I'll be back later to amend this but for right now just answer that first paragraph, anyone? Thanks
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Posted 03 June 2009 - 02:16 AM

Yes, you can build a table with fading lights even if you can't play them.

As for VP9 not letting you play any VPM table because your system defaults to VP8 - Run VP9 first, then load in the table you want to play (File, Open from within VP9). It sounds to me like you are double clicking on a table file that that's why it's running it in VP8.