[GUIDE] How to add PC Games to your pincab using PinballX & MultiMonitorTool (V3 - UPDATED 6/20/26)

[tabascoman77]

(A HUGE thank you to @scutters for this. Scutters is the person behind this insanely easy configuration. After you configure this yourself and get it to work, go to scutters and thank them profusely.)

Do you have a pincab that isn't exclusive to pinball? Do you emulate console games with it, too? Ever wondered how to put PC games on there as well?

Now you can.

(QUICK NOTE: This is for a 2-screen virtual pinball cabinet setup and above. You can still use this guide if you have three or four screens but you just have to make sure that your backglass and playfield screens are monitors 1 and 2 for this to work. If you run PBX on a single screen, this isn't you're guide. I will do a guide for that later. Also, I know this is a lot and seems convoluted but it works.)

Ready? Then...

 

1) Since you're gonna want the games on your backglass monitor (most, if not all, PC games start on the main playfield monitor by default) you're gonna need the MultiMonitorTool. You can get it here. Place that where ever you'd like on your drive.

2) Install your PC games where ever you'd like -- but make sure they're under a single parent folder. (eg: C:\Program Files\PC Games\Game Folders Here

3) After you're done installing everything you want to install, open up your PBX Setup Wizard and enter the following config:

After doing this, MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE TABLE PATH, LAUNCH BEFORE PATH, AND LAUNCH AFTER PATH TO MATCH YOUR SYSTEM. For the rest of it, enter it as you see it above. When you're done, quit the Wizard.

(NOTE: In my setup, my Playfield is Monitor 1 and my Backglass is Monitor 2. All you need to do is make sure that your "SetPrimary" number matches your backglass monitor number in the "Launch Before Parameters" and the Playfield monitor number in the "Launch After Parameters". If you don't know which is which -- and there are some out there who don't -- go to your Display Settings on Windows and hit "Identity" to see which is which.)

4) Go into Game Manager and hit your pull-down menu...you should now have "PC Games" (or whatever you decided to name it) in there. Select it and this is where you're gonna add your games...BUT... DO NOT USE THE "GAME SELECT" BUTTON. Instead, enter the pathway to each EXE...here's mine:

After you're done, quit Game Manager.

Lastly, go into PBX and make sure it's all working. If you did everything correctly, the game should launch on your backglass and should exit completely when you hit "escape". Your monitors should be normal when you quit PBX back to the desktop as well.

That should do it. 

Enjoy, and happy gaming!

(I'd like to thank @Draco1962, @Mike_da_Spike, and @scutters for their help in getting this working and all their suggestions. Thanks, guys!)

 

 

[tabascoman77]

Issue fixed and guide updated.

[tabascoman77]

Guide updated to Version 3. This is a simple, easy fix anyone can implement. Thank you to @scutters for this. 

[scutters]

One small change suggestion would be to action 2, just to say 'but under a single parent folder' or something like that.

On 6/17/2026 at 7:14 PM, tabascoman77 said:

2) Install your PC games where ever you'd like. 

[tabascoman77]

1 hour ago, scutters said:

One small change suggestion would be to action 2, just to say 'but under a single parent folder' or something like that.

Done!