Problem when lauching Arcade Pinball

[barthdvs]

Hi,

i have a problem on my fresh install of PinballX. 

First, i' m a french IT engineer, so, sory for my bad englsh

You can find a video on attachement

1. When i launch pinball arcade from pinball X, i have a very long time before seeing the pinball arcade screen.
2. Even f I don't touch any key or mouse, i can ear sound like if there is navigation or key pressed, and there is menu navigation in pinball arcade

Here it is my param for pinball arcade :

[PinballArcade]
WorkingPath=E:\Games\The Pinball Arcade
Executable=PinballArcadeLoader.exe
Parameters=.\PinballArcade11.exe [TABLEFILE] HIDETEXT FixCam=5
Process=PinballArcadeLoader.exe
WaitForSelect=50
Enabled=True
WaitFor=5

 

Everithing is working if I launch this directly

.\PinballArcadeLoader.exe .\PinballArcade11.exe PartyZone HIDETEXT FixCamera=5

I also try with :

.\PinballArcadeLoader.exe .\PinballArcadeCabinet.exe PartyZone HIDETEXT FixCamera=5log.txt PinballX.ini

[Mike_da_Spike]

Your English is much better as my French, so don't apologize for it.

I'm  Dutch , so  most people understand my Denglish as well.

I didn't use TPA for a long time, and I used freecammod as table launcher.

But think you need to set the process to monitor to the exe of tpa itself and not to your loader

Process=PinballArcadeCabinet.exe

(Or in your case pinballarcade11.exe)

Can you give it a try ?

To be honest, i would not put time/money and effort to get tpa to run, as VPX has all the tables as well (except 1) and the graphics, physics, ssf sounds, dof and backglass are way better than TPA.

But just my opinion

Edited September 18, 2022 by Mike_da_Spike

[Mike_da_Spike]

I spend some time today with TPA, but it is working like a charm.

See below video.

This is my setup within PinballX :
(note, that I installed steam in my C:\Pinball folder. I have a full backup on c:\pinball, so want to have all for pinball in that directory)

I use a start and exit script as well :

Start Script :

@Echo off
C:\Pinball\Tools\DisplayTools\DC2\dc2.exe -configure=C:\Pinball\Tools\DisplayTools\DC2\profiles\4kDisplay_Arcooda.xml
start /min C:\Pinball\Tools\DMDext\dmdext.exe mirror --source=pinballarcade --no-virtual -d pindmdv3 --quit-when-done
pushd C:\Pinball\Tools\Joystick.Gremlin.R13.3
start C:\Pinball\Tools\Joystick.Gremlin.R13.3\joystick_gremlin.exe --profile C:\Pinball\Tools\Joystick.Gremlin.R13.3\Profiles\GremlinProfile.xml --enable --start-minimized

• Dc2.exe is to set my screen correct
• DMDext.exe is to use freezy's magic to grab the DMD from memory and display it on my real DMD 
• Joystick_gremlin.exe I use remap my Pinscape controller to Vjoy as vjoy is most of the time the 1st joystick controller in a game and then my buttons won't work

Exit Script :

@echo off
C:\Pinball\Tools\DisplayTools\DC2\dc2.exe -configure=C:\Pinball\Tools\DisplayTools\DC2\Profiles\4kdisplay_landscape_60p.xml
taskkill /im dmdext.exe /f
taskkill /im joystick_gremlin.exe /f
taskkill /im cmd.exe /f

• DC2.exe to set the screen correct again
• And Task kill to kill all apps that should be closed 

And heres a video of my cab : 

 

[barthdvs]

Thanks for you time,

i try a lot of things, but zithout success, did you use TPAFreeCamMode ?

[Mike_da_Spike]

25 minutes ago, barthdvs said:

i try a lot of things, but zithout success, did you use TPAFreeCamMode ?

No, i used inballarcadeloader. See my settings screen.

Try to set it up, like I did, but with your paths

 

Edit : I see it has multiple command line options as well, i  use @joyrider3774his fx3 launcher, to parse the correct parameters and post it here as well (when I have time/energy)

Btw Although my system is very fast, TPA doesn't play smooth.