Help! Launch Pinball Arcade in PinballX

[Turkee32]

Hello, I would like to know how to configure the Pinball Arcade in PinballX.

I can not do it!

Use the Pinball Arcade on Steam .....

I've seen youtube videos of people using it since PinballX, but I can not do it.

Help!

Thank you!

[nullPointer]

Hi Turkee32

Pinball Arcade is somewhat difficult to run through PinballX, but that difficulty is due to inconsistencies within Pinball Arcade rather than an issue with PinballX. I think these guys have come the closest to getting it to run somewhat predictably through PinballX, but even then you can see that the results are not quite perfect. Please refer to the linked thread for further details.

[rockyrocket]

Null is right it can be a little devil if you want to get it to navigate the menu`s` automatically.

I ended up just having a script that goes directly to the "my tables " menu and that works just fine.

If all you want to do is start TPA through PinballX and are perfectly happy to navigate the menu manually then its much simpler.

The main thing that you need to do is rotate the screen into portrait mode as TPA cannot do this itself yet .

To do this we install a small app called IROTATE that flips the screen for us.

You also need to run the Pinball arcade config app once whilst your screen is in portrait to set the correct screen resolution.

Then if you have Auto-Hot-Key installed you can use a script that will flip your screen then start TPA, wait for it to close and then flip back your screen.

This script can look something like this....

Run, "C:\Program Files (x86)\iRotate\iRotate.exe" /rotate=90Sleep, 200Run, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\PinballArcade\PinballArcade.exeProcess, wait, PinballArcade.exeprocess, WaitClose, PinballArcade.exeRun, "C:\Program Files (x86)\iRotate\iRotate.exe" /rotate=0ExitApp

You will need to already be logged into steam or be in offline mode and may need to change your paths to your steam install directory.

Hope this helps somewhat

EDIT, so thinking a bit more about this you may not need to use AHK at all if you just use the launch before option in PinballX to start IRotate first, and the launch after to run it again after TPA closes.