PinUp Display and Player Issue

[aaronbrown99]

Hi, new to virtual pinball and just completed cabinet.  The good news is that everything works perfectly when launching games natively in VPX, zero stutter.  However, when launching games in PinUp Popper, I have run into two issues:
-  After game launch, I see resolution drop/stutter/dropped frames for about 5 seconds every 60 seconds or so.  Upon investigation, I see that PinUpDisplay background process is revving up ludicrously high (much higher than VPX while running a game) for a few seconds, then goes completely idle, then revs up again over and over.  If I kill this process, all issues go way and the games runs perfectly.  However, of course once I exit the game, PinUPDisplay is not running so  there is no media on the displays.  All you see is in the wheel menu and windows in the background until you launch another game.  

-  When I run Stranger Things Stranger Edition or Tron Legacy (or presumably any game with a Pup Pack) , VPX launches PinUPPlayer.exe on top of the PinUpPlayer.exe that PinUpPopper launched at startup.  These two appear to fight each other and the game performance degrades significantly.  If I kill the PinUpPlayer that VPX launched the videos stop playing but if I kill the PinUPplayer.exe that PinUpPopper launched then all is good, videos play and no issues.  

For context, everything was installed with latest baller installer. I am running windows 11 on PC that should be way more than adequate to handle anything.   I have read all the documentation and haven't found anything about this.  I have some thoughts on complicated band-aid solutions like playing with affinities and VPX launch script and such but seems like there is some setup problem that could be fixed.

 

Any ideas?