Find what's broken
before launching your table.

New Only real issues make the list

Repair sorts every scan result automatically. Only real issues become steps to fix — items that are already fine never show up.

• Even on a cab with hundreds of scan results, the checklist shows only what needs attention
• "OK" and "Info" results stay out of the checklist
• Warnings, notes and critical issues all show up — nothing real is hidden

New See exactly what Repair changed

Every repaired item keeps a record of exactly what changed — the action, and the before/after values — right in the Repaired history, in your language.

• Each repaired item shows its before and after, in your language
• Know exactly what a past repair did, at a glance
• Falls back to the plain filename if a specific action has no description yet

New Beginner / Expert mode

A new switch next to the language buttons controls how much technical detail you see on each result.

• Expert: full technical breakdown — impact, cause, explanation, verification
• Beginner: just the plain-language symptom and the fix
• Switch anytime — your choice is remembered next time you open the app

New Two new automatic fixes

Repair fixes an off-screen DMD window and an unregistered or mismatched COM component, both with your confirmation first.

• DMD window stuck off every monitor? One click puts it back on-screen, fully reversible
• VPinMAME, B2S or FlexDMD not registered? Repair launches the right tool for you
• Both go through the same backup-and-confirm safety net as every other fix

New More accurate COM checks

The COM Registration Health check no longer raises a false alarm on a normal .NET component, and scanning a whole drive no longer mistakes the app's own demo data for a real install.

• B2S Server and FlexDMD registered the standard .NET way are recognized correctly
• A whole-drive scan no longer reports the app's own bundled demo tables as part of your collection
• Both found and fixed thanks to tester reports — keep them coming

New Ignore what you don’t want to see again

Right-click any result to ignore it by code or by table. It stops counting against your score, but it never disappears — a small badge marks it as ignored by you.

• Persists across app updates — set it once, it stays
• Shows up in every export too — never silently hidden
• Ignored something 90+ days ago? A gentle reminder checks if it’s still relevant

New Snapshot your score, compare anytime

Take a snapshot before you start fixing things, then compare it to your current scan whenever you want — see exactly what got better, what appeared, what’s gone.

• One click to save a snapshot, one click to compare
• Shows your score before/after, plus what’s new and what’s fixed
• Never automatic — you decide when to compare, so it always means something

Fifteen fixes, working now

• Unblock a Windows-blocked file
• Restore a ROM from its archive
• Quarantine orphaned media files
• Kill a zombie PinUP Display process
• Reposition an off-screen DMD window
• Register a missing or mismatched COM component (VPinMAME, B2S, FlexDMD)
• Neutralize a hard-coded path from another PC in a table’s script *
• Turn AltSound and AltColor back on when the pack is installed but muted
• Turn the on-screen DMD back on when it has been switched off
• Break a ROM alias loop that crashes VPinMAME
• Set aside an empty save file that stops a table from starting
• Move POPMedia and PUPVideos to a second disk when yours is full

And 23 it walks you through

Some things cannot be fixed for you — a file that must come from its author, a Windows setting, a download that failed. For those, Repair takes you by the hand instead.

• Written for someone who is not a developer: one step per line, in order
• The exact folder name, the exact button name — nothing left to guess
• In French, English, Spanish and German — a procedure you follow with your hands in the file explorer is not read in a foreign language
• A copy button, so you can take the steps with you to the cab

How it protects you

• Backup taken before the first write, every time
• You see every change before it happens — nothing is silent
• One click to undo, even after closing the app
• If a fix fails, it tells you the actual reason
• Re-run the same scan after repairing and compare your score
• Refuses to act while VPX or Popper is running

Confirmed, works on every machine

• Windows power plan. Switch the cabinet to high performance while you play, then put your original plan back exactly as it was. Reversible, and saved before anything changes.
• Table process priority. Give Visual Pinball or Future Pinball a higher priority while it runs, and hand it back on exit. Never the "real time" priority, which can freeze Windows.
• Visual Pinball settings. Read your VPX options and surface the ones that actually affect smoothness, with the expected effect in plain words: low, medium, high. Your files are backed up before anything is written.

In development, depends on your hardware

• Temperature and load monitoring. Show processor and graphics card temperature and load while you play, read-only, changing nothing. Which sensors are available depends on your motherboard and your graphics card.
• Graphics settings dedicated to the table. Apply a 3D profile that belongs to Visual Pinball alone, without touching the settings of your other software. NVIDIA cards first, Intel support being explored. AMD cards are not covered: AMD does not publish the information required; that gets stated plainly here rather than promising a setting that would never apply on your machine.

Being explored, nothing is promised

• Automatic mode while you play. Let Play Optimizer apply your settings when a table starts and put everything back when it closes, with nothing to do. Running it on demand stays available either way.
• Custom profiles. Pick setting by setting what you turn on, instead of applying a whole profile.

ROM Validator

Reads every VPX table script.

• Missing ROMs
• VPMAlias resolution
• Invalid / corrupt zip

Bitness Doctor

Inventories every DLL's bitness.

• 32/64-bit inventory
• Hybrid installs
• Missing dmddevice64.dll

Install Auditor

Cross-checks tables and PinUP Popper.

• Missing backglasses
• Tables not registered in Popper
• PUP-Packs

Compatibility Linter

Spots version and physics mismatches.

• nFozzy / Roth signatures
• Minimum VPX version
• Risky VBScript patterns

Update Watcher

Compares against the community index.

• Outdated tables
• Checked vs Virtual Pinball Spreadsheet
• Links only — never downloads

Dependencies & Security

Checks required plugins and blocked files.

• Windows-blocked DLLs (Mark of the Web)
• B2S Server / FlexDMD missing
• Flags what stops plugins loading

Script Diff

Compares two versions of a table.

• Side-by-side view
• Highlights changes
• Spot regressions fast

Display, DMD & Audio

Checks the screens, the DMD and the sound path.

• Screen layout and resolutions Popper can't parse
• DMD COM port declared but absent, dmddevice.ini mismatches
• Default audio device that looks like a screen output
• ALT Color and ALT Sound present but switched off
• Non-standard screen scaling (DPI)

System & processes

Catches the machine-level things that quietly break a cab.

• Zombie PinUP Display process still holding a screen
• NVRAM folder present but not writable — scores never save
• System decimal separator that can affect physics on some tables
• Free disk space, junctions and phantom config files