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[vdubjim]

After reading alot on here and not getting much in the way of answers i wanted, i decided to just jump in.

 

some black friday deals:

 

Pc- HP Compaq Elite 8000 Desktop PC Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.00GHz) 8GB RAM 1TB HDD Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit

 

Gphx Card - ASUS GTX750TI-OC-2GD5 GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card

 

Field- VIZIO E370-A0 37" Class 720p LED HDTV

 

Back (basketballs sold out) AOC e2752She Glossy Black 27" 2ms Dual HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight Slim Monitor 300 cd/m2 20,000,000:1 (dynamic)

 

DMD- old 17" dell.

 

Donor cab, 1970 Jive Time. woods not super nice, but legs, glass, bar etc all there for $100. Hopefully can part the machine for much more. Of course pics not mine. my cab is about that shape though. Lots of stuff inside look burnt.

finally today after 3 hours of reading and adjusting got visual pinball/pinmame working somewhat. ive downloaded t2 and adams family, got them playable but dmd kinda goes wherever it wants and no back glass.

 

Edited by vdubjim, 21 December 2014 - 11:08 PM.

[vdubjim]

Got all 3 monitors finally working. Alittle bit of windows settings ALOT of fooling with scripts and hours upon hours searching forums, here and elsewhere

wish their were more useful stickies here and there.

[Nemo]

Yeah, getting it set up can be a pain, but it all is reasonably straightforward once you've got

your displays setup correctly in windows & vp. If you got a few tables installed and playable it's

just repetitive from there for every new table.

 

But, hey, you're playing Pinball on your own machine 

[vdubjim]

Good point. But some more pointers in obvious places would have saved 5 hours of reading, and I still have a 40% fail problem.

[freneticamnesic]

Just ask, so many people here to help you out

[pilotniq]

Good point. But some more pointers in obvious places would have saved 5 hours of reading, and I still have a 40% fail problem.

 

Please write about the stuff you got stuck so you can help the rest of us following in your footsteps!

 

Merry christmas!

[vdubjim]

Its in my other post, I figure when I get it straight I'll post problem with fixes here

[jorro666]

the shifting dmd can be solved by downloading the visual pinmame cabinet version file overwrite the normal pinmame than it sticks werever you want good luck!

[vdubjim]

I have that

[BzZziLLa]

What are your plans for restoring the cabinet itself?

 

I recently began my project with a cabinet that was less than pristine.  Perhaps my thread can help point you in the right direction when you’re doing touchups on the cab:

http://www.vpforums....showtopic=29930

 

And you’re absolutely right. There should be more sticky threads with links to resources and tutorials. I spend countless hours looking for info.

[BzZziLLa]

Have you been tweaking your monitor resolutions? I've been swapping out monitors and trying to find their resolution "sweet spots" along the way. Every time I change the resolution, the dmd moves. That could be your problem.

[vdubjim]

I'm honestly not going to fix the cabinet. I like the ratty look.

I've not done much over the holidays, just played some tables.

B2s plays fine, db2s crashes on exit. 9.15. 9.91 won't even load without crashing, guess I can't be too mad, I'm now remembering why I hate windows lol.

Even tried pinballx 915 crashes on exit too.

Yay.

[jorro666]

have you posted your problem in a post maybe not all gurus read this one goodluck

keep trying realy worth it once all works
and have you got futurepinball running?

Edited by jorro666, 03 January 2015 - 03:55 PM.

[Turn2]

I don't know about yours but My system would not run the cabinet version of  VpinMame together with Visual Pin 9.9.1 reguardless what I did. I'm running 9.9.0 and everything worked fine.  since then I have started using a modded version of VPinMame obtained elsewhere and I haven't used 9.9.1 yet with that.  

 

I suspect maybe a lot of folks here are using the other VPinMame and it is working with 9.9.1 so no one is complaining about compatibility issues,,,, but that is just a guess as I have not went back to 9.9.1 yet after changing to a different cabinet version of VPinMame.   Cant say more as I don't want to break any forum rules maybe  someone higher up can elaborate as I'm not sure what is ok to say yet about other sites.

Edited by Turn2, 03 January 2015 - 08:05 PM.

[vdubjim]

Been a while, work, home,life new kid got in the way.

Bought a 24, didn't feel like doing wood work. Rigged up mounts. Might improve later. Maybe not lol
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[vdubjim]

been playing it off and on, just putting up with the crash on exit etc...

 

SO thought id try pinmame 2.7 and see what it might do.

 

nothing. lol.

 

now i have ball stutter and bunch of other issues. fml