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[NEWS] PinballX 7.20

Fixes and performance improvements with video playback. Forces rendering video for no more than 60fps for media foundation and 30fps for sample grabber. This significantly improves…

[NEWS] PinballX 7.16

Adds new feature to allow alternate Visual Pinball executable within PinballX itself.

[NEWS] PinballX 7.14

I am not able to test much but this release fixes the desktop showing for a brief moment when launching visual pinball.

[NEWS] PinballX 7.02

I spent about 40 hours trying to implement another video playback solution without lots of work because NVidia recently broke VMR 9 support. I thought I found another solution via ChatGPT…

[NEWS] PinballX 6.97

No fancy animations or paging but secondary list menu now supports unlimited items and scrolls.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.95

- Updated documentation thanks to Mike_Da_Spike. - Promo, tutorial and gameplay videos support streaming via .url shortcut files. - Fixes some executables running under .net 6 instead of…

[NEWS] PinballX 6.94

Supports streaming Promo, Gameplay and Tutorial videos via internet shortcut files (.url).

[NEWS] PinballX 6.90

Significantly reduced the size of the executable. This should result in faster startup time and performance.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.89

In my opinion and by my standards an application like PinballX should be able to stay up and running for months. Even when running as 32 bit. After a month of soak testing on my cab I tied…

[NEWS] PinballX 6.67

Just a little update. PinballX lite was not working. PinballX Lite removes quite a bit of code including support for multiple displays.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.66

More performance updates. I attach a little video of start-up speed on my laptop. (Ignore the framerate it is captured in software). 2025-04-29 23-08-23.mp4

[NEWS] Performance?

I am constantly trying to optimize PinballX and GameEx but i am quite surprised how fast PinballX starts up on my laptop. its a fast modern laptrop but does any other front end beat this?

[NEWS] PinballX 6.59

To allow old Windows versions whilst supporting the latest .net runtime - Windows 10 and 11 will now run PinballX under .net 8. The .net 8 Windows desktop runtime will be installed as part…

[NEWS] PinballX 6.55

Full screen exclusive mode is fixed and back. (Full screen windowed = false)

[NEWS] PinballX 6.51

Adds the ability to choose the hardware encoder or software encoding for video recording.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.42

- Volume keyboard controls now work within front end. - Video and screen grab recordings now work even when displays are not set to hidden. - Uses DirectX screen grab for backglass and…

[NEWS] PinballX 6.37

- Significantly faster launch and exit from tables. - Fixed running on Windows XP (yes it still works). - Removed duplicate file installs and old files from installer resulting in much…

[NEWS] PinballX 6.30

- Improved detection for non working system vmr 9 and fall back to sample grabber. - Improved interaction with Visual Pinball frozen windows. - Improved launch and exit table timings.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.21

- Visual Pinball 10.8 support. - Full screen exclusive mode has been permanently disabled. - Fixes PinballX hanging with Visual Pinball in some cases.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.20

Native zeDMD support all working good in PinballX. Thank you @Mike_da_Spike for his testing and everyone else who helps me out around here!

[NEWS] PinballX 6.10

Fixes and speeds up INI file reading, updates PINemHi by DNA Disturber, and updates the .NET 6 x64 desktop runtime.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.07

Fixes video playback and other issues when running at high display frequencies.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.06

Moves to the main GameEx video playback and bass audio code for future cross-platform versions, improves multi-display video performance, and updates the .NET 6 desktop runtime.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.03

Updates to the latest .NET 6 desktop runtime and includes fixes for the latest PinMAME and window detection.

[NEWS] PinballX 6.02

Fixes gameplay, tutorial, and promo video orientation, and updates pinemhi.ini for better PinMAME ROM detection.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.97

Adds the requested option to hide the mouse cursor and updates to the latest .NET 6 desktop runtime.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.90

Combines the .NET 6 and .NET 4 installers into one download to simplify releases and reduce confusion.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.89

Fixes a Setup Wizard input error, updates VC runtimes, and updates the .NET 6 runtime.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.84

Removes .NET Framework 2 dependencies, improves playfield video aspect-ratio detection, and notes new HD vertical MAME videos.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.83

Includes minor updates to XDMD and real DMD video playback, fixes filter group lists, and adds AND support for filter list groups.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.81

Adds NOT support for filter lists, updates the .NET 6 desktop runtime, and includes the latest PinballX documentation.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.80

Improves GameEx Online setup support with remote path browsing and includes site performance optimization work for gameex.com and pinballx.com.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.55

Automates version checking from the forum download version, supports all screenres.txt fields and comments, adds basic backglass image overlay support, and fixes real DMD shutdown.

[NEWS] PinballX 5.52

Improves landscape setups and desktop mode, adds a straight wheel list type alongside the curved wheel, and automatically selects the best default wheel shape for landscape or portrait…