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A toolbox for virtual pinball dot matrix displays.
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DMD not displaying correctly. #224

Closed FBeastwood closed 4 years ago

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

I have been trying to get this working for over a week now. Running a clean install of dmdext 1.71, VPX w/ latest vpinmame. SAMbuild 3.3r4946, etc... I am very familiar with the workings of all VPIN stuff. Any help with solving this issue would be greatly appreciated.

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xantari commented 4 years ago

What is the issue? It looks like you have two DMD's being displayed, but can't tell the orientation as it's not a full screenshot of the cabinet.

Happens on all tables?

Do you have a log?

What settings are in your dmddevice.ini? Please post a full copy.

xantari commented 4 years ago

Ohh, I think I see the issue (it wasn't explained in your description). Your talking about KE missing from PKE in the screenshot?

Which DMD is which? Top one is VPinMame I'm guessing? And bottom is DMDExt?

DId you try the latest unofficial build, there were some fixes for shading stuff in one of the many later builds from 1.71.

Definately install the latest version here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/freezy/dmd-extensions It fixes a lot of items since the 1.72 2018 release.

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

Yeah, lol. You are a good guesser. I left both up to show the problem I was having with it. I will try the latest one when I get home later. Thanks

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

okay, so newer version is worse, also makes the virtual dmd flicker like it's missing frames. Older versions make it display steady but still missing dots. Just to note: this only acts up on the Ghostbusters table, not JP's Slimer table. Works fine on other Stern tables. Unless their is an easy fix to this I am not going to worry about it that much.

freezy commented 4 years ago

@FBeastwood So this is using .vni/.pal coloring? Or just plain VPM?

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

Plain vpm

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coreduo0099 commented 4 years ago

I thought ghostbusters required special stern vpinmame from steam stern package and never worked properly with standard vpinmame? at least that is my setup...

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

I thought ghostbusters required special stern vpinmame from steam stern package and never worked properly with standard vpinmame? at least that is my setup...

Accuired it about a year and a half ago, did a little tweaking and works fine on my setup.

freezy commented 4 years ago

Weird... I'll try to reproduce, maybe @djrobx can you have a look as well if you have a minute?

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

Sure, I have some time.

djrobx commented 4 years ago

It looks like you're using a bad .PAL file without 16 colors.

Or, more likely based on screenshot - not using a pal at all with VPM colorization turned on. Turn VPM colorization off or get a .PAL file with 16 colors.

@freezy I suspect what's going on here is dmdext doesn't duplicate vpinmame's [quirky] behavior of deriving a 16 shade gradient in 16 color modes.

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

Okay, so this is what I figured out. The dmddevice.dll is the cause. It works perfect all the way to the version that was created on 6/21/18, after that it flickers of loses dots. But works fine on all other tables. I was just going to use the older one but I like the feature on the newest one where I can set the dmd to stay where I set it as per table.

djrobx commented 4 years ago

You could just put the old version in vpinspa folder... It shouldn't be flickering and losing dots, though. I'll have to double check this with the latest.

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

You could just put the old version in vpinspa folder... It shouldn't be flickering and losing dots, though. I'll have to double check this with the latest.

Ok, I'll try that. Let me know what you find. Thanks

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

So, putting the older one in the vpinSpa folder worked. Would really be nice to have that set position feature though. LOL

FBeastwood commented 4 years ago

Moved just dmddevice.dll (1.73Snapshot) into vpinSpa folder. All dots and images are there, but the flicker issue persist.