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Backglass is a black box.
I got back into pinball, on and off, these past 3 years. I've been playing everything from time to time - some free options, one of your competitors, and PBFX2. I just recent discovered and DL'ed PBFX3. I wrote away for and received my cabinet mode code. I figured out how to move and resize the dot-matrix display(DMD?), and it's on my second monitor, looking good. I turned on the backglass option, and moved/resized a big black box until it was centered and perfectly sized on my 2nd monitor. The DMD displays perfectly on it, but the game does NOT seem to be finding the backglass image. It just shows a black box.
I'm not getting fancy like you guys yet, with the slick pinball front-ends, command-lines, and certainly not a cool cabinet (Yet! Oh, I dearly want one!). I'm just trying to get cabinet mode running from PBFX3, after launching from Steam. I have two 1920x1080 monitors, one of which is turned into portrait mode for the game. I left the other, off the the right in landscape mode as my would-be backglass. After poking around, it seems like the backglass images are already included in PBFX3 now, but perhaps the program is not finding it, or some gfx card weirdness is preventing it from showing as anything but a black rectangle
Tech info that may help:
I'm running Win10, i5-2500k processor, 12GB RAM and a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 4GB Mini ITX OC EDITION, if that helps.
I DID NOT INSTALL STEAM on my C: drive. I installed it and my most commonly-played games on my SSD, (G:\Steam), and when I hit the size limit, I had to put some games on a regular HDD (H:\Steam2). PBFX3, being my most recent DL, went to the H:\Steam2 dir.
I'm kinda running into a wall here. I even went to to the C: drive and dropped the relevant backglass image (I'm testing Excalibur) where folks say it should go, and did the same for the G:\Steam dir as well, even though the backglass pics are all installed properly in the H:\Steam2 dir. Still just a black box.
Also, and of somewhat less importance - I notice the DMD still shows on my game-table monitor, as well as my backglass monitor. Is that supposed to happen, and if not, what am I missing? I might not mind moving that completely off my game-table and onto the backglass.
I got sick three years back, and have had a series of operations. I can't have long game sessions the way I used to, but I rediscovered my love of pinball, and have been able to have a lot of fun, 15-30 minutes at a time. It's been a small joy during hard times, and I'd like to get PBFX3 up and running well before my next surgery. I have a couple months, so I should be able to do it, but I could use a suggestion or two here.
Thanks so much in advance.
I got back into pinball, on and off, these past 3 years. I've been playing everything from time to time - some free options, one of your competitors, and PBFX2. I just recent discovered and DL'ed PBFX3. I wrote away for and received my cabinet mode code. I figured out how to move and resize the dot-matrix display(DMD?), and it's on my second monitor, looking good. I turned on the backglass option, and moved/resized a big black box until it was centered and perfectly sized on my 2nd monitor. The DMD displays perfectly on it, but the game does NOT seem to be finding the backglass image. It just shows a black box.
I'm not getting fancy like you guys yet, with the slick pinball front-ends, command-lines, and certainly not a cool cabinet (Yet! Oh, I dearly want one!). I'm just trying to get cabinet mode running from PBFX3, after launching from Steam. I have two 1920x1080 monitors, one of which is turned into portrait mode for the game. I left the other, off the the right in landscape mode as my would-be backglass. After poking around, it seems like the backglass images are already included in PBFX3 now, but perhaps the program is not finding it, or some gfx card weirdness is preventing it from showing as anything but a black rectangle
Tech info that may help:
I'm running Win10, i5-2500k processor, 12GB RAM and a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 4GB Mini ITX OC EDITION, if that helps.
I DID NOT INSTALL STEAM on my C: drive. I installed it and my most commonly-played games on my SSD, (G:\Steam), and when I hit the size limit, I had to put some games on a regular HDD (H:\Steam2). PBFX3, being my most recent DL, went to the H:\Steam2 dir.
I'm kinda running into a wall here. I even went to to the C: drive and dropped the relevant backglass image (I'm testing Excalibur) where folks say it should go, and did the same for the G:\Steam dir as well, even though the backglass pics are all installed properly in the H:\Steam2 dir. Still just a black box.
Also, and of somewhat less importance - I notice the DMD still shows on my game-table monitor, as well as my backglass monitor. Is that supposed to happen, and if not, what am I missing? I might not mind moving that completely off my game-table and onto the backglass.
I got sick three years back, and have had a series of operations. I can't have long game sessions the way I used to, but I rediscovered my love of pinball, and have been able to have a lot of fun, 15-30 minutes at a time. It's been a small joy during hard times, and I'd like to get PBFX3 up and running well before my next surgery. I have a couple months, so I should be able to do it, but I could use a suggestion or two here.
Thanks so much in advance.
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