Window layout issues

I use VMDX sporadically, yet consistently so over the last decade (or more??). I have dozens of projects scattered around my system, and whenenver starting a new project I often open old projects to give me a quick start. But I don’t have a fixed monitor situation, I’m traveling and use different types of setups, sometimes it’s just my laptop screen other times I have 3 monitors. Because of this I always come across issues when opening a project that was built on a different monitor setup, for example I may see PART of the windows somewhere offscreen, so I have to opt+drag the window-group and move it into full view. Other times however the windows just aren’t visible at all. No matter what I do, I just can’t seem to recover the project.

I usually use VDMX in the spur of a creative moment, as opposed to being a primary tool for a large project where I’d invest time into building a project. It’s more of a tool that I use alongside Premiere, Ableton, Loopback, to quickly run some audio/visuals through its sound reaction and midi controlled fx.

But the issues I have when re-opening old projects as templates is an issue that often I end up giving up on using vdmx as I don’t have time to poke around with this layout troubleshooting, so I just quit the program entirely.

So my question to you guys: are there any tricks I can do to avoid this? I’ve created clean, empty templates for myself, only to run into the same issue whenever my monitor setup changes. Maybe there’s some setup tricks I’m missing?

Secondly, does VDMX6 address this by chance? It would be quite an incentive for me to upgrade if that’s the case, as this is quite a fundamental UX issue that’s stopping me from using the tool more consistently.

P.S. I also get this issue, the workaround being that I need to turn wifi off and restart VDMX. I know the solution is just to… upgrade. But it does kinda add up to the same hiccups that are shutting me out from using the software.

Congrats on VDMX6 by the way!!

I had not heard about the black screen issue until now. Looks like that is from 2019, and there have been many updates to VDMX5 and VDMX6 since that was first mentioned. So first step would be to upgrade your VDMX5 to the latest version if your OS supports it.

As for the windows, it’s usually and issue of going from a larger desktop to a smaller desktop. If you open up any of the VDMX templates you’ll notice that they were made on a smaller screen and everything fits fine. If you made older projects on a 4K screen and now you are opening them up on a 1080p screen, there’s a lot of missing resolution for VDMX to figure out where to arrange things.

For me the simple solution has been to go into my display settings and adjust the screen resolution. See if that helps.

VDMX6 saves the layout similar to VDMX5, so when you open it on the same machine it is identical every time. I haven’t seen any issues with missing plugin windows, but you can always click on the locate window button to bring it to the front or flash it.