drumguy777

Awesome! I can fix those two, star trek TNG and tales of arabian by adjusting the xml and adding the full file name with extension into the name there. Thank you guys for your detective work! And even though I edited the xml, I assume this could be done in the games manager as well, but ill let you confirm that for future users.

Did the change as you said...unfortunately its still not playing the table. Attached the log. I first ran attack from mars, then arabian nights, then star trek. Then closed pinballX. Still doesn't seem to even try the command line execution. Since this is a rare problem, I will probably just keep adding other tables and playing around with it myself -- id hate to keep taking up more of your time supporting for this, considering you are already offering it for free. When/if I get the solution I will certainly come back to report it. It could be due to an issue in adding those two tables to the tables list. When I first was adding tables, I didnt know the exact process, ie do I let the auto-discovery let it do it, and then click "import" for the vpx file, etc. So I may have corrupted something in the DB or something. Worse case I will reinstall it all clean, now that I know more how to do the table adding. log.txt

Mike, I didnt know which file would be the one you wanted so I just zipped the Databases directory and attached here. I think its only like 40 kb. Thanks again for your help, even if you come up blank. Databases.zip

Mike, tried that and no go. Also, arabian nights does not have a colon either and thats the other table with the issue. And yes, I also notice it doesn't even appear to start in the log -- I don't know why, but I assure you I did. And I checked multiple times after replicating the issue and every time, it shows the same thing. A few lines seem to be the same as when a table starts normally....it just doesn't ever send the command to the EXE to actually start the table. Ever seen this behavior before? And to mention again, the tables both work fine if started outside of pinballX. They even work in the game manager using "launch."

Mike, thanks much for your reply. Attached the log...I ran attack from mars, and it was successful as always. I then tried playing ST:TNG (star trek) table and it did not open. Also attached the ini file. I have a three monitor setup. Playfield, a LCD DMD screen and then a backglass screen. I use DMDext for a clearer-looking DMD image. Other than that, I dont really know much about the pinballx settings -- so you might see something wacky that I maybe should change(?) log.txt PinballX.ini

Hi guys! First, thanks so much to the devs. Your contribution is so appreciated! I'm having a nagging issue: two of my 6 tables, tales arabian nights and star trek:the next generation, will not start through pinballx. In other words, I can start the table just by opening it with the normal visual pinball x method but when I start it via pinballx, the table loading screen comes up but after a few seconds it goes right back to the table select menu. I thought it might be a weird filename for the vpx, so i changed that to a simple one. No luck. I checked the command line launch myself in a command prompt and it worked fine, ie VPinballx.exe -play "path\file.vpx" etc log.txt attached...but doesnt seem to show me much. Maybe I am checking the wrong log file, though. I searched for this but I can't seem to find this situation from anyone else. Again, maybe I am just missing it. But I appreciate ALL help. Thanks! log.txt