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Hey Draco in response to you, we only have been working with fx3 itself. And all the new ideas we’ve tried haven’t worked still besides that random non steam input idea we had for some reason lol. And yeah I posted on fx3 Reddit but didn’t really get any feedback. And yeah after joy to key and Xpadder, we tried x360ce and once again like joy to key and Xpadder, the controls worked perfectly within the app, but once we load into fx3 it immediately doesn’t work control wise and I can see xpadder for example inputs working when I press buttons. Just won’t work controlling the game. And in response to mike, and yeah I assumed it was an error with the controller detection but when we run input tests and such, when we press a button it works each time. Just doesn’t work inside fx3 for some odd reason. I appreciate the feedback guys once again!

Yes, that is accurate. The Steam version of FX3 was completely uninstalled, and we didn't have Steam installed at the time. We only downloaded Steam recently as part of a troubleshooting step, where we added our FX3 as a non-Steam game to potentially enable the controls. This workaround only worked temporarily. Everything else runs off the new hard drive for PinballX. We have tried launching our FX3 outside of PinballX, but the controls still do not work, only the keyboard functions. Thank you for your assistance!

Hi there, Thanks for your reply! Let me clarify the situation: Our Original Setup, Initially, we were running Pinball FX3 and other pinball games on our Legends Pinball machine through Steam, and everything worked perfectly. After watching various videos about PinballX, virtual pinball, visual pinball, fx3… and other systems, we saw people accessing hundreds of games integrated directly into their systems. We decided to purchase and set up a similar system. While we had to fix a few things initially, everything eventually worked perfectly. (Issue with FX3 Controls): The only persistent issue we faced was with the controls for the new FX3 setup (not through Steam). Despite trying various solutions for months, we couldn't get the controls to work. We tried using various tools to get the controls to work, including Xpadder, JoyToKey, and x360ce. While all of these tools were working and detected our controls, they still didn't solve the issue with FX3 specifically. As a last-ditch effort, we added FX3 as a non-Steam game and, experimenting with different settings, we disabled Steam Input for this non-Steam version. To our surprise and relief, this made the controls work after months of trying other solutions. This was not our initial approach but rather a workaround we discovered. Even with this workaround, the controls stopped working again. Here’s a summary of our recent steps: - We disabled Steam Input for the non-Steam FX3 game, which worked initially. - After turning off the system and turning it back on, the controls still worked and we played all of our hundreds of games for a couple hours. Then we turned it off and about 5 hours later we went to play again and the controls stopped working. - We also noticed that the 'Control Layout' option disappeared from the non-Steam FX3 game, but the 'Disable Steam Input' option was still available in the properties. We have Ensured Xpadder is set to run at startup. But just to see if anything would change we turned off ‘run at startup’ and we manually tried to start it just to see if it would work that time. But it didn’t so we’ll just switch it back to ‘run at start up.’ We Checked for focus issues by using Alt + Tab to ensure FX3 has focus. Verified permissions for all relevant files and folders. We Re-added FX3 as a non-Steam game and disabled Steam Input again. We Looked into updating PinballX and transferring configuration files, though this introduced new errors. We would appreciate anymore troubleshooting ideas and would appreciate any specific steps or suggestions you might have. We’re going to try in the coming days (due to a baseball tournament) to try using Joyrider’s FX3 launcher as a possible alternative. Also any insights on why disabling Steam Input for a non-Steam game temporarily fixed our issue would also be helpful. Here is also a link to a similar Pinball X system we have, except we bought it set up for us already for the most part. (https://youtu.be/1Qdkf3Ei9mc?si=vONgta3cqlDNLnMx) Thank you again for your time and assistance!

Thank you for the responses. I have went ahead and downloaded the new pinballx version. I noticed the new one has 2 virtual pinball games to choose from. So would I need to try and copy all the files to this new one somehow?

Hello everyone, So after about 5 months of trying to get FX3 to work with our controls, we finally managed to get it working. We added FX3 as a non-Steam game in Steam, right-clicked on it, and went to the controller layout to disable Steam Input. This made the controls work perfectly. We tested it by turning off and turning back on the system, Xpadder prompt up asking to run and I selected ‘run’ and went into steam and disabled steam input again and it continued to work for hours. However, after turning off the system and trying to play again a (3rd time) about 5 hours later, the controls stopped working. The only difference I noticed this time was the prompt once again asking if I wanted to run Xpadder at startup. I chose 'Run' and this time selected 'Don't ask again'. Additionally, the option to go to the 'Control Layout' by right-clicking on the non-Steam FX3 game is no longer available, but the controller settings in properties still show the 'Disable Steam Input' option. Does anyone have any insights or suggestions on what might be causing the controls to stop working this time lol? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you for everyone’s time!

Sorry I believe these are the updated files from right after launching an fx3 game through pinball x. Thank you again for the help and time! PinballX.ini log.txt

Thank you for your response. To clarify, we are not using Steam at all for FX3. Instead, we are using Xpadder, X360, and JoyToKey to configure the controls for our Legends Pinball machine. The controls are mapped correctly in these applications, and when we press buttons in these apps, everything works perfectly. All other systems and games launched through PinballX have their controls functioning correctly, except for FX3. When we attempt to launch FX3 through PinballX, the game launches, but the controls from our Legends Pinball machine do not work. As suggested, I have attached the pinballx.ini and log.txt files, recreated immediately after attempting to launch an FX3 table through PinballX. Any insights or recommendations you may have based on these files would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much :)! PinballX.ini log.txt

Hi there thanks for the reply! Sadly we aren’t using steam as the fx3 game is running through the front end of pinball x. Steam is blocked off. But downloading steam and downloading fx3 from steam does allow for the legend pinball controls to work. But since our fx3 isn’t from steam this feature does not work anymore sadly. Thank you for the reply though once again!

Hi there, not sure if this is the right place to ask the question but I'm running pinball x as the front end to run fx3, visual pinball, future pinball and such. I believe every setting is setup correctly and my legends pinball controls runs perfectly through the front end and in each game besides fx3 games. When we load into fx3 the controllers don't work. We've tried x360, xpladder, joytokey, and these apps detect the controller and such but when it loads into fx3 it still doesn't work. We cannot use steam either because of the front end. I'm not sure what we are missing if you can help? Every video we watched everyone is loading and playing effortlessly lol... Thank you!!