freezy Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 So, most of the features and fixes should be in there. Thanks to all the people who helped testing. Notable changes are Serum color rotation support for all devices, and a new frame dumping destination. You can find the updated README here until it's merged. The whole changelog can be found here. For the download, please test with the latest builds, I'll update the links when I push new fixes: DmdDevice.dll DmdDevice64.dll There are still two bugs I'm trying to figure out: As reported by @MikeDASpike and @Westworld, dmdext seems to hang on ZeDMDs and PinDMD3s when exiting a game. I couldn't reproduce this, so any other reports would be appreciated to get an idea how common this is. Also, if you could test with VPM's setup.exe and let me know if it happens there as well, that'd be cool. Fixed Lucky1 had a weird rendering bug using setup64.exe when launching a game the first time. I can't get anything to start through setup64.exe currently, so I'm not capable of debugging this either. setup64.exe now works, but I don't get any artifacts, even on first run. Fixed If I've missed other bugs, please let me know, I had many people contacting me lately, so something might have slipped through. @lucky1 What's your timing on the plugin? When do plan a release of the new pin2color.dll so people can test the plugin as well? Cheers, -freezy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studlygoorite Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 Hi and thanks for your continued contributions. I just updated from v2.0 to v2.20 64bit and could not start AC/DC at all with no errors. Tried Congo and all was good but after backing out the game and DMD froze. I killed the Table file and the DMD remained. I then ran setup64.exe to run a test on a ROM to clear the DMD, this no longer worked and VPinMAME shut down with the DMD still showing on the PinDMD3. I replaced my files with 2.0 and all is good again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezy Posted June 28, 2023 Author Share Posted June 28, 2023 Yeah, there seems to be a bug when no .vni file is available. It should be fixed here: 32 bit 64 bit Feedback would be appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studlygoorite Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 4 hours ago, freezy said: Yeah, there seems to be a bug when no .vni file is available. It should be fixed here: 32 bit 64 bit Feedback would be appreciated Unfortunately there is no change using the above build. Thanks though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDASpike Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 testing a rom in Vpinmame setup , will hang Vpinmame setup as well, when closing the rom although during testing the ACDC rom launched fine with colors. Last frame on the DMD instead of blanking out DmdDevice.log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted June 29, 2023 Content Provider Share Posted June 29, 2023 On 6/28/2023 at 12:17 AM, freezy said: What's your timing on the plugin? When do plan a release of the new pin2color.dll so people can test the plugin as well? Until there are open issues with your build it makes no sense to me make a public release. From the plugin side the main issue remains that you manipulate the data coming from pinmame instead of just forwarding it like it is. What is the reason for this ? To make things easy I used the same API calls for the plugin as for the pinmame dmddevice API. Why make things unnecessarily complicated now ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezy Posted June 29, 2023 Author Share Posted June 29, 2023 10 minutes ago, lucky1 said: Until there are open issues with your build it makes no sense to me make a public release Which issues? The ones mentioned here are not related to the plugin. 10 minutes ago, lucky1 said: From the plugin side the main issue remains that you manipulate the data coming from pinmame instead of just forwarding it like it is. What is the reason for this ? What are you referring to? To the 60Hz input? If the way it's implemented is problematic, you need to explain the problem, so I can fix it. (The reason are performance gains.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted June 29, 2023 Content Provider Share Posted June 29, 2023 32 minutes ago, freezy said: Which issues? The ones mentioned here are not related to the plugin. True 30 minutes ago, freezy said: What are you referring to? O.K. I see now they should be the same, but why split the rawframes on the input and rejoin them in the plugin ? Makes no sense to me, but it is your project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezy Posted June 29, 2023 Author Share Posted June 29, 2023 @studlygoorite @MikeDASpike Could you grab the latest build that I've linked in the top post? I think I might have fixed it. @lucky1 Cool, so when can the community test the PAC plugin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studlygoorite Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 4 hours ago, freezy said: @studlygoorite @MikeDASpike Could you grab the latest build that I've linked in the top post? I think I might have fixed it. @lucky1 Cool, so when can the community test the PAC plugin? Thanks for the latest build, everything is working great!! Update, I do get a FlexDMD error because of the missing DmdDevice.dll (with the same version) I used the installer to install the 64bit, is there a .zip only for the 32bit so I can grab the dll or is it ok to run the .msi for the 32bit after running it for the 64bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezy Posted June 29, 2023 Author Share Posted June 29, 2023 Thanks for the feedback! Both installer and zip is fine (more details here), in a nutshell if you're not using dmdext.exe for a specific bitness, it doesn't matter. To be sure, install first 32-bit and then 64-bit if you're on 64-bit Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDASpike Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 5 hours ago, freezy said: @studlygoorite @MikeDASpike Could you grab the latest build that I've linked in the top post? I think I might have fixed it. It is working much better, but ... (yeah the Dutch people always have a 'but' ) Launching VPX editor and load a table, shows nicely the DMD (also color). Closing it, returns without any issue to the editor again. launching the table again, shows the dmd, but closing the table give me the (same?) freeze as before (showing the last frame and VPX totally hangs). Tested it multiple times and happens every time with the 2nd launch I can reproduce this also with vpinmame setup.exe @studlygoorite can you retest this part as well ? Within PinballFX I can launch multiple tables and closing. Looks good (quick test) I also uses a flexDMD plugin for PinballX (shows mp4 videos per table with flexDMD dmd's. nad FlexDMD uses the DMDdevice.dll). Plugin works normally perfect, but is now very slow (switching tables takes 1 to multiple seconds). Also launching a game from the frond end and returning to it, will not display the video's anymore. This is properly not your issue, but always works like a charm with dmddevice64.dll So, getting close @freezy Good job already ! DmdDevice.log DmdDevice_PBX.log DmdDevice_vpinmame.log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marccy1138 Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 Just a clarification. The plugin for freezy files to support PAC files is not out yet, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezy Posted June 29, 2023 Author Share Posted June 29, 2023 @MikeDASpike Can you retest with the latest one? I think this time it's fine. @marccy1138 Yes. Whenever @lucky1 feels releasing the DLL, so the community can test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marccy1138 Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 got it, thnks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studlygoorite Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 3 hours ago, MikeDASpike said: It is working much better, but ... (yeah the Dutch people always have a 'but' ) Launching VPX editor and load a table, shows nicely the DMD (also color). Closing it, returns without any issue to the editor again. launching the table again, shows the dmd, but closing the table give me the (same?) freeze as before (showing the last frame and VPX totally hangs). Tested it multiple times and happens every time with the 2nd launch I can reproduce this also with vpinmame setup.exe @studlygoorite can you retest this part as well ? Within PinballFX I can launch multiple tables and closing. Looks good (quick test) I also uses a flexDMD plugin for PinballX (shows mp4 videos per table with flexDMD dmd's. nad FlexDMD uses the DMDdevice.dll). Plugin works normally perfect, but is now very slow (switching tables takes 1 to multiple seconds). Also launching a game from the frond end and returning to it, will not display the video's anymore. This is properly not your issue, but always works like a charm with dmddevice64.dll So, getting close @freezy Good job already ! DmdDevice.log 6.66 kB · 1 download DmdDevice_PBX.log 2.31 kB · 0 downloads DmdDevice_vpinmame.log 6.66 kB · 0 downloads I am not seeing this issueI I start the .exe pick a table and play it, back out (when I back out the .exe closes) Start the .exe again and choose the same table back out and all is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider TerryRed Posted June 30, 2023 Content Provider Share Posted June 30, 2023 @freezy Tested the newest 2.1.2.7 link on the first post with Future Pinball. 64 bit dmdext.exe runs fine with 64 bit Windows. 32 bit dmdext.exe gives me the same crashing issue I reported to you before (when run on 64 bit Windows). Again, I don't see anyone NOT running 64 bit Windows today who would be running this anyway. Working great so far. One thing I do notice, is that with the Styles Window, when I load a saved Style from DMDDevice.ini (bottom left)... everything loads fine, but the "tint colour" doesn't change to what I previously saved with that Style. Is this how's it meant to work (Tint is ignored when loaded that way)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDASpike Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 11 hours ago, freezy said: @MikeDASpike Can you retest with the latest one? I think this time it's fine. Yes, working like a charm ! FLEXDMD table are working, but the gui won't work, but thats properly something for the FLEXDMD dev. Not sure if you still have contact with Tom Speirs, but if I use DMDdevice64.dll with PinballX (instead of his dmd dll), PinballX is crashing. Not sure if he needs to change code for this ? Anyway, good job and now waiting for @lucky1 to get his pin2color.dll available as a plugin btw. I real love the Gotlieb 20 characters fix that now fits on my DM. Not sure who fix this, but good job ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezy Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 3 hours ago, TerryRed said: 32 bit dmdext.exe gives me the same crashing issue I reported to you before That's this one? Unhandled Exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. at SharpGL.OpenGL.glTexImage2D(UInt32 target, Int32 level, UInt32 internalformat, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 border, UInt32 format, UInt32 type, IntPtr pixels) at SharpGL.OpenGL.TexImage2D(UInt32 target, Int32 level, UInt32 internalformat, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 border, UInt32 format, UInt32 type, IntPtr pixels) at LibDmd.Output.Virtual.Dmd.VirtualDmdControl.ogl_OpenGLDraw(Object sender, OpenGLRoutedEventArgs args) Remember if this happens with <2.2.0 as well? 3 hours ago, TerryRed said: "tint colour" doesn't change to what I previously saved with that Style. I see your "tint amount" is zero. Maybe that's the problem? 1 hour ago, MikeDASpike said: PinballX is crashing. Do you have a DmdDevice.log with the crash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDASpike Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 26 minutes ago, freezy said: Do you have a DmdDevice.log with the crash? It doesn't even create a dmddevice.log. Let me try today to grab more info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westworld Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 hanging with ZeDMD also happens when just using Setup.exe: [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.708 INFO | Starting VPinMAME API 2.2.0-BETA2 (x86) through Setup.exe. [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.708 INFO | Assembly located at C:\Games\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\DmdDevice.dll [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.708 INFO | Running in C:\Games\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.708 INFO | [dll] Open(0) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.708 INFO | [dll] PM_GameSettings(0, tomy_500, 0) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.708 INFO | Disabling game colorization [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.708 INFO | Setting game name: tomy_500 [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.708 INFO | Setting color: #FFFF5820 [9] 2023/06/30 14:38:00.720 INFO | Starting ZeDMD frame thread. [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.283 INFO | ZeDMD device found on port COM5 with a resolution of 128x32 LEDs [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.283 INFO | Added ZeDMD renderer. [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.283 WARN | [pinup] Attempt to find PuP_Trigger function but dmddevicePUP.dll is outdated. [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.283 INFO | [pinup] Starting tomy_500... [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.283 INFO | Added PinUP renderer. [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.283 INFO | Transformation options: Resize=Stretch, HFlip=False, VFlip=False [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.283 INFO | Applying default color to render graphs (#FFFF5820). [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | Setting up 2-bit Passthrough Graph for 2 destination(s) [ ZeDMD, PinUP Writer ] [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | -> Connecting DmdDevice 2-bit Source to ZeDMD (Gray2 => Gray2) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | -> Connecting DmdDevice 2-bit Source to PinUP Writer (Gray2 => Gray2) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | Setting up 4-bit Passthrough Graph for 2 destination(s) [ ZeDMD, PinUP Writer ] [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | -> Connecting DmdDevice 4-bit Source to ZeDMD (Gray4 => Gray4) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | -> Connecting DmdDevice 4-bit Source to PinUP Writer (Gray4 => Gray4) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | Setting up RGB24 Passthrough Graph for 2 destination(s) [ ZeDMD, PinUP Writer ] [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | -> Connecting DmdDevice RGB24 Source to ZeDMD (Rgb24 => Rgb24) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | -> Connecting DmdDevice RGB24 Source to PinUP Writer (Rgb24 => Gray4) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:01.299 INFO | Setting up Alphanumeric Passthrough Graph for 2 destination(s) [ ZeDMD, PinUP Writer ] [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:08.756 INFO | [dll] Close(0) [1] 2023/06/30 14:38:08.756 INFO | Closing up. here the application setup changes window title "application does not respond" and the music repeats each tone, bang, bang, bang Removing the USB cable from ZeDMD and quit works Tested using 2.2.0 beta 2, on 32+64 bit Windows 11 (computer replaced this spring, system and VPX installed from scratch) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezy Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 @Westworld Can you test with the builds linked in the top post, please? This should have been fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider TerryRed Posted June 30, 2023 Content Provider Share Posted June 30, 2023 8 hours ago, freezy said: That's this one? Unhandled Exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. at SharpGL.OpenGL.glTexImage2D(UInt32 target, Int32 level, UInt32 internalformat, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 border, UInt32 format, UInt32 type, IntPtr pixels) at SharpGL.OpenGL.TexImage2D(UInt32 target, Int32 level, UInt32 internalformat, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 border, UInt32 format, UInt32 type, IntPtr pixels) at LibDmd.Output.Virtual.Dmd.VirtualDmdControl.ogl_OpenGLDraw(Object sender, OpenGLRoutedEventArgs args) Remember if this happens with <2.2.0 as well? I see your "tint amount" is zero. Maybe that's the problem? Yes, I tested that on the older builds with 32 bit on 64 bit OS to be sure, and they did the same. It doesn't matter if tint amount is 0 or 1, etc... the tint colour doesn't seem to change when you try to Load a preset. (I noticed this on 2.2.0 beta 1 as well). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westworld Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 > Can you test with the builds linked in the top post, please? This should have been fixed. those named: Installer\Builds\dmdext-2.1.2.7-x86-Release.zip I wondered because 2.1.2.7 or do I need to use the .msi ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezy Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 @TerryRed Okay, I'll have a look. @Westworld From the top post: On 6/28/2023 at 12:17 AM, freezy said: Forgive the file naming, they are named wrongly, but the files should be the correct ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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