[GUIDE] Pinball Wicked Cabinet Support Settings

[Mike_da_Spike]

I've just become aware that Pinball Wicked has officially launched, and I'm pleased to note that it includes cabinet support, eliminating the need for AHK.

The next information was sourced directly from the Steam platform.
 

Cabinet / Multi-Display / Launch Options FAQ

Screen Rotation and Multi Display Support

The rotation is available via the normal windows display settings - display orientation.
Or via command line (see ingame help - command line options). In the steam client game menu - General - Launch options - advanced, e.g.
-rotate90

The portrait game main display can get irritated when the Backglass window or DMD window overlap the game main display, and the game main display shouldn't be the same as Backglass or DMD display. In short every screen/window needs its own physical display.

The Screen Mode "Fullscreen" is only supported with DirectX 12 when in portrait orientation. Windowed Fullscreen always works fine.

The (rotated) game main display must be the windows main display.
 

Cabinet Command Line / Launch Options

Open your Steam Library

1. Right click the game's title and select Properties.
2. On the General tab you'll find Launch Options section.
3. Enter the launch options you wish to apply (be sure to separate each code with a space).
4. Close the game's Properties window and launch the game.

If you are using an external launcher please start the game via the steam.exe like this:
"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -applaunch 595960 -rotate 90 -players 2
 

Screen Rotation

Rotate the main display by 90° / to portrait:

-rotate 90

Rotate display with index 1 by 270° / to portrait (flipped):

-rotate1 270

Rotate display with index 0 by 90° / to portrait:

-rotate0 270

Zero based index, does not necessarily match the windows display settings order.
 

Players

Players 1-4, e.g.:

-Players 3

 

Style - Pure Action

Pure (Popups):

-PureAction 0

Action (Characters):

-PureAction 1

 

Clear Window Settings

This option will disable all but the main window:

-nowindows

 

If your rig doesn't meet the current minimum system requirements

If the default settings are too demanding you can activate the Performance+ overall quality with the command line:

-OverallQuality=1

Overall Quality Levels

1. Performance+ - for IGPU
2. Performance
3. Medium - better IGPU and budget GPU
4. High
5. Wicked - mid range GPU
6. Ultra Wicked

 

Launch Options

The default option (topmost) will start the game with DirectX 12 and fallback to 11 if it is not supported.
The default option does not change any previously saved setting.
The other launch options provide overrides to start the game in a specific setting, which is useful if the game won't start otherwise or only with extremely low fps.
 

DirectX 11 / 12

The game launches now with DirectX 12 per default. The command line option

-dx11

allows to explicitly start with DirectX 11

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It now also have a cabinet setup in game, which can move the DMD finally to another screen :

And his has a Backglass as well :


Within PinballX, you can use @joyrider3774 his 'FX 3' launcher
You must make sure you have path and startparams set to Steam :

[SETTINGS]
PATH=C:\Program Files\steam\steam.exe
STARTPARAMS=-applaunch 595960

And the buttons like this :
 

[BUTTON_ONE]
TEXT=1 Player (Pure)
ENABLED=1
PARAM=-Players 1 -PureAction 0

[BUTTON_TWO]
TEXT=2 Players (Pure)
ENABLED=1
PARAM=-Players 2 -PureAction 0

[BUTTON_THREE]
TEXT=3 Players (Pure)
ENABLED=1
PARAM=-Players 3 -PureAction 0

[BUTTON_FOUR]
TEXT=4 Players (Pure)
ENABLED=1
PARAM=-Players 4 -PureAction 0

[BUTTON_FIVE]
TEXT=1 Player (Action)
ENABLED=1
PARAM=-Players 1 -PureAction 1

[BUTTON_SIX]
TEXT=2 Players (Action)
ENABLED=1
PARAM=-Players 2 -PureAction 1

[BUTTON_SEVEN]
TEXT=3 Players (Action)
ENABLED=1
PARAM=-Players 3 -PureAction 1

[BUTTON_EIGHT]
TEXT=4 Players (Action)
ENABLED=1
PARAM=-Players 4 -PureAction 1

And within PinballX you can settup to this launcher, like this :


Please note that I renamed the launcher .exe file and placed it in a different path, using the 64-bit version. I’m not sure if the 32-bit version requires a separate process to monitor.

You can also have a direct launch (without the launcher) from Pinball X:
So for example if you always want to launch a 2 player action game :



For those with a realDMD, the best approach is to set the Pinball Wicked DMD off-screen and use Freezy’s DMDext to mirror the content via a startup batch file.
Be sure to set the position as X-start, Y-start, X-size, and Y-size.
In my case, I moved the DMD to a non-playfield area (a working desktop, not part of the cabinet).

With all of this, Pinball Wicked will launch with the correct user and game type settings.
Once in the menu, just press start to begin the game.

I hope it all makes sense.

dmdext.exe mirror --source=screen --position=5 3 459 118 --no-virtual -d pindmdv3