Mike_da_Spike

The parameters are for the steam version. Not sure for a non steam version how to do the params

Those should be my first question as well And this should be my next question after the previous 😂

Ok. Holiday season

Maybe it is working only with the original steam version and not with a standalone. The parameters are for the steam exe file. I think you use joyrider his launcher. I use it as well. I will check later (when i am at the cab) if it is working or not and will reply with my settings

@duv67 any response ?

Can you post your latest pinballx.ini ? I want to look at it and try some stuff

Isn't it mostly the 3rd or 4th wheel entry ? I noticed this for years, also in the tables. When I go for example to vpx and launch table "24", when i e it this table, it is return toanother table. Only happening whit tables/systems that start at begin. To be honest, I never bothered it. But maybe Tom knows why it never starts at the begin position

Yeah, i think it is a limitation of nvidia itself. It just records the main display. But you are free to set the resolution of the capture and fps (thought up to 60fps)

The main difference I see, is that in your 2nd video doflinx is loaded (also in your task manager). I see your leds next to pf and the animated backglass. In your 1st video, I dont see doflinx in taskmngr and no pf leds. The camera didnt show the backglass, so not sure if that was working Edit: I would to suggest to launch doflinx on start of your cabinet just once and leave it running in the background. I checked and you run it on every table launch now My assumption is that doflinx causes this issues during the first launch after every rebooot As I showed you in my video, doflinx is started during log on to windows. I changed the letters on the mx leds from dofflinx to pinball and you see the pf leds.

You probably have the default launch scripts enabled. Logfile and settings file are appreciated as well when creating an issue😁 Btw. Did you ever solved your issue that loading a table takes 2 mInutes?

Nice one! Good catch

Always good to post videos of issues. Bring it on !

There is a tool called Database manager, and this can add all the tables from FX3. But not per pack. All the tables are downloaded by steam and are on your harddrive. So, Not aware which tables you purchased or not. Database manager, can auto add them (like a new file) to your xml file with the correct name. this tool can be found in the download section

Yeah, it's odd that it is launching in a couple of seconds from command line. I think it launches that quick in PinballX as well, but PBX doesn't switch over (but thats my assumption) So I think it is launched quickly, but it is behind the PinballX loading screen (or something)

Info is right. It's about the table name "BALLY_BlackRose". This is correct in tbe log and we tested the single command line as well

In your case, if it helps to set the cpu affinity and put programs to another core, i should do it. Technicly pinafginity is not a magic tool that reduces the cpu, it only can put a process, to another (or multiple) cores. By default a program will run and windows will decide on which core ot should run. Thats in most cases fine. In my IT life I found that running a lot of scanning agent run on a server, could bring the cpu down. When adding 45 user to it, the server gets bumped to 100%cpu. When putting all the scan agents to (for example) core 1, it had cores left to respond to users request. This means for my end user the server was responding, but the core with all the security scan software was at 100% all day (if you have 8 core setver, it means just 12,5% cpu utilization). My security team wasn't happy, as their tooling wasn't working as it should. With this story, I hope you get my point. By moving programs to another core and releasing cpu resources, other programs must get into trouble. If it is working on an end user side for you, don't bother and use it.

Ok, so pinballx doesn't detect that pinball fx3 proces is running and takes a while @Tom Speirs any ideas ?

sorry add quotes around steam exe as well. Like this :

I see in your log it is indeed taking a long time before fx3 founds it's process I just tested myself black rose, and it is starting in the same time as another FX3 game 05:46:48.81 20-7-2023: C:\Pinball\Tools\PBX Tools\StartScripts\PinballX_FX3_start.cmd 05:46:48.89 20-7-2023: C:\Pinball\Tools\PBX Tools\Launchers\FX3Launcher\PinballFX3Launcher.exe "-table_BALLY_BlackRose" 05:47:00.41 20-7-2023: Found Pinball FX 3 Process 05:49:27.67 20-7-2023: Exit System Control Pressed It takes 12 second (including the selection of the amount of players and select arcade/normal game) Just curious : If you open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and run the following command : C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe -applaunch 442120 "-table_BALLY_BlackRose" will it take that amount of time as well to load the to the table, or is it much faster ? And your setup is fine. The only difference is, I set my timeout to 13 seconds (and yours is set to 20 seconds, but that should not be the issue)

There is also a lite version of PinballX. it's in your pinballX install directory and called PinballXLite.exe Maybe try this one and check if this is working better for you

Your logfile shows a load of FP with a batman_joker table. Not that you launch of fx3 black rose that takes a long time. Can you post a log when launch twice black rose and some other fx3 tables to compare? I didnt check my fx3 black rose yet (sorry)

Is your post translated ? Should this be PinballX , instead of flipperX . If so, I dont have an answer. There is a PinballX lite version as well. Maybe Tom can tell more about whays happening

Ah... man , I'm getting too old to understanding English. As Draco mentioned Log file is in your <pinballx install dir>\log\log.txt and the config file <pinballx install dir>\config\pinballx.ini

sorry, what files names you referring to ?

Its explained completly in the manual Not sure either, i will check my black rose. Otherwise post yout log file and your settings fille