DMD position not saving

[Nufan]

Hello lovely people!

I made the mistake of overwriting my DMDdevice.ini when updating to 2.3.1

Of course, silly me did not do a backup.

I tought it was OK, all I have to do is move, resize and save every dmd on every table, not a big deal.

DMD appears on the top right of the PF, then I move them into position. That's where my problem is. Wether I save position globally or per romname, it always goes back to the original position once I reload the table... Seems like it is not saving at all.

This is quite a pain and I am losing it!

Hope I am giving enought details and that I am clear enough!

Thanks in advance for the help on solving this!

[Tikimaster]

Is your ini writeprotected or blocked?

[Nufan]

I unblocked the zip before extracting.

Write protected I guees not, if I look at the properties "Read only" is unchecked

[Tikimaster]

FlexDMDUI.exe says Everything green?

Edited February 25, 2025 by Tikimaster

[Nufan]

Yup, everything is just like yours, even the versions match.

Thanks for helping me out!

[Nufan]

So, I am still trying to fix this, and I found something odd.

Image 1 is the DMDdevice.log in the Vpinmame folder.

Image 2 is another DMDdevice.log, located this time in the vPinball - visualpinball folder. This one seems more up to date as the time matches with the last time I tried to do something with my DMD.

Does that help any of you?

Thanks again!

 

 

[Tikimaster]

I am out at this point. Everything should work. Is your folder writeprotected somehow, on c:\? You say, you made an update only. That means, it was working before. If you only copied the files and they are not blocked, it does not make sense for me. (at the moment) Check your install location with flexdmdui.exe - why does it try to save to this location? thats wrong.

Edited February 25, 2025 by Tikimaster

[Nufan]

I am not really good, how do I set the path to the vpinmame folder instead of "C:\Program Files (x86)\DMD Extensions\DmdDevice.ini".

That could solve the problem (maybe, hopefully).

It was working fine before, I am clueless too...

Flexdmdui.exe seems OK, see pic.

That is some weird issue...

Thanks!

[Tikimaster]

tried to reregister vpinmame? Setup.exe/Setup64.exe..

 

Edited February 25, 2025 by Tikimaster

[Nufan]

Will do. I think I found something though... Seems like Windows is putting all my folders in read only. I checked the files but not the folders. But when I try to remove this, it seems to work but if I look at the properties again, it's back... 

 

Edit : looks like the checked read only box on folders properties is actually meaningless according to several sources on the web... 

[Tikimaster]

Yes. That smells like Windows. Thats the reason for me to NEVER install Vpinball at the same partition as windows.

[Nufan]

I edited my previous post 

[Nufan]

Hi guys!

I am still working on my problem, and what I have done might help you figure out what is going on.

my friend sent me his folder where everything dmd related is stored.

Using FlexDMDui, I changed the path to his folder, then I got what you can see on image 3.

I replaced both DLL with the 2.3.1, then everything checked out on the flexDMDui.

Problem wasn't fixed, same issue, dmd location not saving.

Now, the DMD works for my friend, and I only used his files. That makes me think there must be something, somewhere, that is wrong or makes some kind of conflict...

Does that help?

Thanks in advance!