No portrait mode on FX3?

[LadGaga]

Way to make the game toitally pointless when my FX2 just boots up seamlessly in portrait.

On this one the game boots up. But it's just a black screen with the sound of the game behind it.

*edit* [Thank You] for the windowed suggestion.
I knew as soon as I read it that would be the solution. Did a face palm that it never occurred to me tbh lol.

[Lord Squeak]

are you using the cabinet mode to rotate the screen?
if so, you might have to tweak the screens coordinates to display the table in the right place.

in the control panel / display / screen resolution ... you should be able to see how the different monitors are setup relative to each other.

The primary monitor , top left corner is where 0,0 is located.
So if you want the game displayed on the secondary monitor, located to the right of it, you need to start from 1920.
If the second monitor is located to the left of the primary, you have to enter negative numbers. -1080
(numbers taken from an example of the monitors being 1920x1080)

I hope that makes sense

[LadGaga]

It does.

But no, I'm simply switching the resolution of my monitor from 'landscape' to 'portrait' by right clicking on the desktop, and altering the screen resolution option.

It's a 1 monitor setup. I have other comps running rather than multi-screens because I have the room for it.

Nice light 28" monitor on this main comp. The practicalities of switching from landscape to portrait consist of swapping the resolution in that menu, then picking the monitor up and sitting it on it's side.

[LadGaga]

It doesn't even come up with an option to select cabinet mode on either FX2 OR FX3 if I boot them up with the screen in portrait. Though it does if I have the screen in landscape on FX2 at least. Lemme check FX3 now.

[LadGaga]

Nope. Dpoesn't ever offer me an option of cabinet mode on FX3 at start up.

As said, it does on FX2. I tried doing it on FX2 and it asked for a code. Where from who can say? The pinball wizard maybe?

Not that there's any need for cabinet mode on FX2 because it works fine in portrait anyway. And looks FANTASTIC! Which is what prompted me to try FX3 in it tbh.

[Lord Squeak]

https://blog.zenstudios.com/?page_id=5981
request a cab code ^there

It's not a bad idea, just incase you want to move the dmd around and stuff with more than one monitor ;) and.. that might "fix" your problem. (although its more like side stepping it)

I'm guessing it tries to display a 1920x1080p resolution on a 1080x1920 screen, that's why its dark.
Try to go windowed mode first , to see if that works. (something that fits on both orientations.) , and then when it looks right , try to change to fullscreen.

[LadGaga]

Yeah as said in my edited OP, thank you very much for that windowed suggestion. It offered me portrait resolutions as soon as I flipped the screen in windowed ^^

Now I can buy the DLC's I'm missing and play them the way they were meant to be played.

[alecazam]

Pinball FX3 has a bug as of 3/20/2022 where the game starts up in Portrait mode with the screen all black if running fullscreen. I happen to also run Pinball Arcade too in Portrait on an AtGames Legends Pinball with 90 degree rotation. The solution is to win-tab out of FX3, but then back into FX3. This seems to refresh the display where it shows content and then can proceed to play from there.