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There is a good video for setting up Aimtrak's in mame with stable ID's. I used this video when i setup my guns a while back.

I know this is an old post but It would be helpful to sort or create a playlist (or audit) of games by emulator. Is this possible? I run multiple versions of mame with the associated rom set in launchbox/bigbox. This is due to some games having issues with newer versions of mame.

I have been using Kensington Expert mouses for many years. I do not have the optical one but i use the older ball bearing type of this same mouse.

Couple things you can try: 1. I have found some bigbox themes (refried) caused issues with emulator frame drops so going back to the default theme fixed that. 2. I also have had issues with windows power plans when not running in high performance mode can causes issues with emulators and slowdowns. The CPU was being throttled by windows causing frame drops.

I too am running the same resolutions. My primary monitor is running 1920x1080 (1) and my marquee monitor is running 2560x1080 (2). The reason I run in this orientation is due to the exact problem you were having with some emulators. Windows is really not good at managing multiple open windows on multi monitors the way we need them for dedicated marquee monitors in Bigbox. When my primary monitor is on the right hand side, changes to refresh rate or resolution would not affect the marquee monitor. When my primary monitor was on the left side, changes in resolution, refresh rate, or sometimes switching to exclusive fullscreen mode could effect the marquee monitor by minimizing it or chopping off the window. I am running explorer.exe on my bigbox setup so i don't know if this would have an effect. video card drivers and how you have them setup i am guessing can also play a part. for my setup I am running a fairly recent version of the radeon drivers with my RX-580

I had this problem long ago and the only thing that fixed the issue was positioning my primary screen in windows to the right of my marquee screen. For some this solution works and for others it does not. if the resolution of your marquee is drastically different from you main monitor then this may not help. You can give it a shot it should look like this in windows display properties

I have seen this same problem using LEDBLINKY and Bigbox version 12.6. As a workaround I had to disable recently played games in bigbox to stop it from happening. People using my arcade machine would easily gravitate to clicking on recently played games and the wrong controls would light.

Just out of curiosity do you have "force fullscreen exclusive mode" checked in VPX graphic settings? If so, try turning off directdraw for each of the table roms. This fixed the DMD not showing on top im my case. You can change this option in the registry for each rom at HKEY_CURRENT_USER - Software - Freeware - VisualPinMame - "ROMNAME" Find the ddraw option for each rom and set it from 1 to 0. Then try running the table a couple times and see if that fixes the problem. I am running exclusive fullscreen mode with directdraw off for all my pinmame roms and launchbox/bigbox startup screens turned off. In my case I get the best table performance in fullscreen exclusive mode and all my tables work properly.

check out this old post. Look about 3/4 down the page where hifihedgehog suggest changing the DPI scaling and refresh rate. This might help getting your marquee screen to display images with the primary monitor moved to the right side in the windows display properties.

can you post a screen shot of the windows display properties? would be good to know what resolution your running on each monitor.

If you don't change the monitor number I don't believe anything will change in bigbox. try clicking on the monitor in the windows display properties and just drag it to the right of the marquee screen. Make sure sure the alignment stays the same. I believe they just added a new feature in launchbox 12.7 for custom cut marquee screens if that is what you have. If it does not work then just drag it back. I my case i am using an ultrawide monitor for my marquee monitor so positioning of the marquee monitor has never been an issue.

how do you have your monitors setup in windows? If you have your primary monitor positioned to the left of the secondary monitor under display properties try moving it to the right. I had this same problem with my marquee screen and this ended up fixing it for me.

Back in october of last year i updated to windows 10 20H2 and recently started noticing some visual pinball (VPX) tables suffering performance problems that never had performance problem in the past. Anyways after a few days of updating all my drivers and making sure no third party applications were causing this performance issue, i stumbled upon an article about a windows security update that was causing gaming performance issues. https://www.windowslatest.com/2021/07/22/windows-10-update-fails-to-patch-performance-issues-but-another-fix-is-coming/ Anyways after making sure game mode in windows 10 was turned off i adjusted my windows 10 powerplan and changed the mininum processor state from 5% to 100%. After making this change the stuttering in VPX was gone. You can also just set your power plan to high performance which will do the same thing. PC specs: I7 9700K 32 GB ram AMD RX580 I really don't want to run my PC on high performance mode all the time but will if needed. Maybe upgrading to the newer 21H2 will help. Has anyone else had this problem especially with the same version of windows or newer?

The refresh rate that i am running on my panel is not an option in bigbox. My desktop is running at 90Hz so that freesync stays within the range my monitor needs.

I also have a VRR display running freesync. Some animations and Scrolling text in any theme is choppy. Same problem here