viriiguy Posted June 6, 2014 Author Posted June 6, 2014 Well, I wanted to format my Cabinet, now that it's design has matured, so I can clean it up.. Clear out the old software and such. And it just so happened that I am in training for Windows Server 2012 R2 at work... After learning of some of the advancements made in this OS, I thought... What the heck, let's check it out on the Cabinet and see what happens. WOW! 2 hours after I formatted my hard drive, I had a fully functional Cabinet again. And I have to say it is REALLY quick. From power button to Menu interface, to select a table, is 14-16 seconds. It will boot to just the desktop in 11 seconds. I still have a little tweaking to do, right now it is the base GUI install for Server.. And I have to get a new Wireless card. But if you happen to have a copy laying around... It makes a mean little OS For a gaming rig or pinball machine.
jeepguy81 Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 Dont have 12 laying around do have 08. Might have to give that a try just for giggles. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk - Vertical-Cocktail Cab Theme Project
viriiguy Posted June 7, 2014 Author Posted June 7, 2014 08 should work just fine. Make sure you disable any Server Services... Unless you want it to actually be a server in the back ground. They chew up a lot of overhead.
viriiguy Posted May 30, 2016 Author Posted May 30, 2016 Well, it has been a couple of years since my last update. With the release of VP10 and all it's glorious features, my twin Nvidia GT 460's were no longer cutting the mustard. So I yanked them out and replaced them with a single Asus STRIX 980 6GB card. Much much nicer! Multiball no longer causes frame rates to drop. As a matter of fact, I have not seen them drop below 118 fps yet.
viriiguy Posted October 23, 2016 Author Posted October 23, 2016 Thank you! Well, After almost 4 years of near daily use, My Zeb's connectivity board has gone out with a puff of smoke. Hopefully Zeb can still rebuild this version for me. I have emailed him. It looks like when it burned up, it also took out my Replay knocker. Not sure what else went with it. I will have to test everything. However, on the plus side, this will finally force me to do the rewire I have been meaning to do ever since I got the cabinet working. I always meant to replace my "Test Harness" as it was ugly and messy. But it worked, so I never got around to redoing it to meet my almost anal standards. The sad thing is, just the day before I finally got every single VPX table loaded and updated. Ah well. Them's the breaks.
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