Viusal Pinball not closing

[yves31]

Hi everyone,

I need your help again

I've installed Visual pinball with couple of machines.

Everything works fine in GameEx The problem I have is that the table doesn't get close.

When I get out of gamexe the table is still open.

Any idea on what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you,

Yves

[hansolo77]

Ok, here's how I have my setup, and it works perfectly now. I used to have similar issues, but not anymore.

#1 - Install Visual Pinball using this program:

#2 - Unzip your tables, and place the VPS, VBS, and VPT tiles in your /Tables Folder. Place ROMS (in their zip format) into the /Roms folder. CFG files go in the /CFG folder. NV files go in the /NVRAM folder. Samples and such should already be taken care of, but if you find more, put them where they make since; ie, music in music, samples in samples, HI in HI, etc.

#3 - Configure GameEx to use Visual Pinball as an emulator.

#4 - Configure the Emulator as this:

(replace C: with D: or other drive letter as needed)

(<blank> means the line is empty, don't type in <blank>)

ENABLED - YES

START PAGE NAME - Visual Pinball Tables

TITLE TEXT - Visual Pinball

LOGO - Pinball

ROM FILTER - *.VPT

ROMS IN FOLDERS - NO

ROM PATH - C:\Program Files\Pinball\Tables

SNAP PATH - C:\Program Files\Pinball\__SNAPS (create your own folder for this)

TITLE PATH - <blank> (create your own folder here too if you wish

BOX ART PATH - <blank> (create your own folder here too if you wish

CARTRIDGE PATH - <blank> (create your own folder here too if you wish

WORKING PATH - C:\Program Files\Pinball\Tables

MAP KEYS - YES

WAIT BEFORE SEND KEYS - <blank>

KEYS TO SEND - <blank>

REPLACE DASHES - NO

REPLACE UNDERSCORES - NO

CAPITALISE WORDS - NO

REMOVE TEXT IN BRACKETS - NO

SHOW DESKTOP - YES

DEBUG MODE - NO

MAP FILE - <blank>

ALSO LAUNCH - C:\Program Files\Saitek\Software\Profiles\Pinball.bat (see below)

COMMAND LINE - ..\VPinball.exe -play -"[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]" (cut and paste for best results)

OFFLINE LIST - <blank>

LAUNCH BEFORE - <blank>

LAUNCH AFTER - <blank>

ADVANCED CONFIG - Visual Pinball V2

EXCLUDED FILES - <blank>

CUSTOM BACKGROUND - <blank>

PLAY MUSIC - <blank>

TREAT AS 1 PC GAME - <blank>

DATABASE - <blank>

7-ZIP/GOODMERGE - NO

#5 - Start Playing!

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INFO ABOUT THE ALSO LAUNCH

I have a PC pad from Saitek. It's a nice controller, with 2 shoulder buttons. I use the shoulder buttons as my left and right flipper buttons. However, I need to program the controller to do that. That is what the bat file is for. It calls the programmer utility and maps the buttons as I had previously configured. Then it runs the VPAUTO program which detects Visual Pinball, presses the options automatically to start the table. When you press Escape, VPAUTO automatically chooses the "Exit to Editor" option, and quits the program, then terminates. Then my bat file launches the programmer again, and resets the pad to it's default assignment. Then GameEx reloads. This is what my bat file looks like:

prfact -v-f"C:\Program Files\Saitek\Software\PINBALL.dat" -A
"C:\Program Files\GameEx\vpauto.exe"
prfact -v-f"C:\Program Files\Saitek\Software\DEFAULT.dat" -A

It's a simple file that does amazing things. In most cases, however, you don't need it. In this case, you would just use the line:

ALSO LAUNCH - "C:\Program Files\GameEx\vpauto.exe" (quotes important)

END INFO ABOUT THE ALSO LAUNCH

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I hope this was helpful. Apparently, the VPAUTO script is what is your hangup. I know it used to work with earlier versions of VP, then stopped working. VP has been updated again, and you can try to go through the whole install, then patch the install with the timer hack, etc. But the auto installer I linked above does all this automatically for you. It installs the proper paths, all of the most used VBS scripts, and gets you set clean slate. Let us know if you have any more problems.

[oxbow]

I see that I'm not the only one ending up with 25 VPAUTO's in the traybar

[yves31]

Can't get better than this!

Everything works perfect now

Many thanks for this tuto!

[hansolo77]

I see that I'm not the only one ending up with 25 VPAUTO's in the traybar

Since this latest build/release, I've "seen" the vpauto's, but they disappear once you run your mouse over them. The desktop just isn't getting refreshed when you're running GameEx. Try it.

[yves31]

I'm glad it works for you. I was a bit weary of posting my setup because I know it works for me, but didn't know if it would work for others.

The hard part now is getting all your tables. I spent a week downloading torrents with "complete" table sets. Problem is, they're all zipped. When you unzip them, they include everything; all versions of the tables, screenshots, flyers, artwork, instructions, samples, fonts, music, EVERYTHING!! So I've been meticulously going through and sorting them all out. Up to week 2 now. I'm almost done. Now all we need is Tom to take my suggestion of a 2nd Rom Filter for extracted 7zips and then we'd be set.

[Mark70]

Since this latest build/release, I've "seen" the vpauto's, but they disappear once you run your mouse over them. The desktop just isn't getting refreshed when you're running GameEx. Try it.

[yves31]

I'm glad it works for you. I was a bit weary of posting my setup because I know it works for me, but didn't know if it would work for others.

The hard part now is getting all your tables. I spent a week downloading torrents with "complete" table sets. Problem is, they're all zipped. When you unzip them, they include everything; all versions of the tables, screenshots, flyers, artwork, instructions, samples, fonts, music, EVERYTHING!! So I've been meticulously going through and sorting them all out. Up to week 2 now. I'm almost done. Now all we need is Tom to take my suggestion of a 2nd Rom Filter for extracted 7zips and then we'd be set.

I also have Visual Pinball running. I also find the vpautos in the tray which disappear when you mouse over them. Does anyone else have the occasional table which closes and leaves you on the desktop? Gameex appears in the Task Manager, but doesn't come back up. I have to CTRL/ALT/DEL and kill it with the task manager then start it up again. Only some tables though.

Additionally, I'd love to see GameEx get to a point where you can run it with "showdesktop=no"

[jackhammerslam]

am i missing something i did everything you've put on the list and it just keeps returning to the menu screen after a few second of a black screen

whats the deal here

any ideas

i'm using visual pinball with pinmame

[Adultery]

Jack:

Make sure you have the Tables folder set as the emulator's working path in GameEx config.

[jackhammerslam]

Jack:

Make sure you have the Tables folder set as the emulator's working path in GameEx config.

i did everything on the lists above but all i get is a black screen for a few seconds then returns to the menu screen

where the hell am i going wrong guys

tell me where to fine the cfg file then i'll just copy and paste everything on the board

any tips are helpful as i am getting a little frustated

[Adultery]

JACK:

Copy and paste the emulator's ini here. The easiest way to do that is to open GameEx advanced config, select the Visual Pinball setup screen, click EXPORT and save it to your desktop.

Open it with your notepad / wordpad, copy all the text and post it here in the forum. We'll be better able to help you then.

Don't get frustrated, my friend. This one was probably second hardest for me (next to Chankast) and it took me almost 4 days of pulling out my hair to get it to even launch in GameEx. We'll get ya through this.

[xcalibur]

I am having the same issue. I set up all the paths like above, I launch a table and the screen goes black for a few seconds and then goes back into Gameex.

Does it matter where the tables are stored... under VPINMAME or Virtual Pinball?

Thanks for the Help