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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The loafer" data-source="post: 279239" data-attributes="member: 1434">Piece of advice: If you have windows 10 (maybe also Win7/8), ensure you unblock anything you download before trying to install it.  IE: right click on file, select properties, then unblock the file. Then it's safe to extract it.  Also, DON'T install VP into the program files folder it defaults in, you end up fighting too much for windows rights, so just install that in something like:Visual Pinball can go here:   C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\VPinmame can go here:   C:\Pinball\Visual Pinball\vpinmame\I don't know if this is the issue but the link I had supplied mentioned in passing about turning off direct draw, here's another thread about this:<a href="https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=26893" target="_blank">https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=26893</a>To test this, IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH adjusting registry, try setting direct draw off for a table you have already tested, so in the example you quoted, you had tried "Attack from Mars" using the rom version 1.13b (rom name: afm_113b).  Therefore for this table, go to the following registry key and adjust it: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Freeware\Visual PinMame\afm_113bOnce you double click on that rom folder, look for the ddraw option and double click on it and ensure the value is "0" (I am guessing it is a "1").  Once you've set it to zero, exit registry, then load up VPX and set the "Force exclusive fullscreen mode" back to "on", load up this same table and try again.  If it works, THAT is your problem.So let's assume it worked.  Does this mean you have to change it manually for every rom??  Nope, there is a tool that can facilitate this and you can download it here:<a href="http://thebigboss.org/arcade/setdmd.html" target="_blank">http://thebigboss.org/arcade/setdmd.html</a>This is a useful tool as it lets you set the DMD size for ALL VPM tables automatically, amongst other things.  At the same time, this tool can also set the DDRAW off for ALL the tables at the click of an option/button.  So download the tool, ensure you unblock the zip once you download the zip, then extract.  Once unblocked, run the tool (setdmd.exe), load mame defaults (bottom left), click on the DDraw box, then ensure you click it again so it's NOT selected, then click "install roms and update" (bottom right).  That should create a registry for every single rom and will ensure that tick is NOT in the ddraw box, which should ensure the registry has it set to "zero" (off).  Exclusive fullscreen should now work.Incidentally I just ran the all-in-one install for vp10.5 and all the scripts are in the scripts folder and none in the tables folder. You sure you haven't been installing it over an existing VP install?  Shouldn't matter anyway, just ensure there are none left in there now and the ones in the script folder are the latest ones.</blockquote>

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