Literally been looking for one of these for a while. Obligatory wish you were closer post. lol

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Anyone remember off the top of their head how to turn on the ability to nudge in your vpcab? Using pinballX and cannot seem to find the setting.

I’m new to the virtual pin scene. Anyway, The cab I have has the front end pinballx. Which is where I play most of the tables. The setting must be in the virtual pinball app where all the tables reside. I believe that my vpcab table has the ability for analog nudging or you can assign it to a button. Just can’t seem to find where I enable this feature yet

I’m making progress. I have a Bluetooth keyboard that I’m using. Figured out how to enable nudging with button presses. Haven’t figured out analog yet. The plunger works but it’s spotty and inconsistent. Appreciate the help. Figuring it out slowly but surely.

Second this as my 10 year old nephew just worked his magic on my Virtual pin over the holidays...PC wasn't even able to boot by the time he finished. Then, once I did get it to boot, half the tables didn't play properly. Thank god I had a Clone of the HDD from Day 1

Agreed! They seem way delicate and finicky for my taste. I didn't build one from the ground up and I admit I was very ignorant of the inner workings. The last 10 or so days have been an education to say the least. One thing I just learned very recently is that different versions of Visual Pin do not like to live on the same HDD. LOL.

Also, I'm making a clone of my recently installed clone. No way I'm not having a backup

Good to know. I must have messed something up during setup. As 9.9 stopped working after I installed X. It would toss error messages at me left and right.

Anyone offer any advice on cloning the HDD in a Virtual Pin? It's a VPcabs model. My 10 year old nephew worked his magic on it Christmas night. Totally fubar after he was done with it. Didn't even want to boot. I suspect he figured out how to turn it on and off, and did so several times and probably corrupted it. Lucky for me I had a cloned WD HDD and replaced the SSD that was in it. I'd like to get the SSD drive back. My plan was to make a new clone now that I have it all setup again. I bought a Samsung SSD 1TB drive. I would like to clone the WD HDD to the Samsung SSD so I am booting with the faster SSD drive instead of the platter drive. I would install the Samsung Data Migration software and create the clone on the Samsung SSD. Does anyone see a problem with this? My system is older, so it's running Windows 7 if it matters.

Appreciate the links. I read about Acronis. Seems to get great reviews. I reached out via
Email to tech support. The dude mentioned that he uses a stand alone device to do 1 for 1 copies, they don’t use software in the actual pc. He didn’t have a lot to offer

I’m sure it will be fine. Just a little hesitant for some reason.

I was able to clone to a new SSD. Bought a Samsung 1TB and used the software from Samsungs Website. "Data Migration" tool, part of Samsung Magician suite. Anyway, super easy and only around 25 minutes to copy from start to finish. Boot up is super fast and everything works as it should. Man did I over think this. Lol

So my cmos battery died on my mb and messed up the video settings (amongst other things) with visual pinball. Currently I can play games, but some dmd video is missing, while on others the back glass art is gone. Game plays fine otherwise...I’m trying to understand what changed in the bios settings that could have messed up video settings? One thing I noticed is the monitor order had been switched. The back glass monitor became the primary etc...any thoughts from more experienced virtual pin owners? Not at a total loss, but it’s been a minute since I’ve really dug into these things.

Thanks for the advice. I will check the various things mentioned here and report back

Could anyone with good technical knowledge about virtual pins give me a little guidance…Just recently upgraded my cab. Added ram, new video card, updated to windows 10 and vpx and pinup popper. Lost my haptic feedback coils, shaker etc. What am I missing? Drivers? I’ve read a little about DOF..Is that where I need to concentrate? Everything worked prior to the upgrades. So I know the hardware is functional. Really not sure where to start?? It’s a VPCabs pin. So is it a proprietary controller card issue?

Thanks all for the suggestions. I did finally get in touch with VPcabs and Brad has been trying to help. I'm currently working through the Dof config setup process. I'll see where that leads....

Yeah, something went on there with a sale....just not sure what? Brad did respond and was helpful in getting me pointed in the proper direction. I was able to figure out how to get all the coils firing, as well as the shaker along with nudging/plunger functionality. Only burned up one coil when I left the room I didn’t realize it was still being powered. Ugh...wonderful burn smell in the game room btw. Live and learn. Lol.