pinball fx3 wont launch

[widget2k13]

does this look right for the offline version of fx3 ?

when i try to launch it through popper it doesnt launch at all, but works fine standalone or through pinball x

@echo off

rem remove rem to setup your DMDEXT press “open examples for more info”
rem cd “C:\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME”

rem start /min “” “dmdext.exe” mirror –source=pinballfx3 -q -d auto –virtual-hide-grip –virtual-position=x y w -o PinUP\Alien_Isolation

START “” “C:\PinUPSystem\Launch\VPXSTARTER.exe” 5 5 60 “Pinball FX3”

START “” “C:\Program Files\Pinball FX3\pinball fx3.exe” -applaunch 226980 -table_Alien_Isolation

 

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[fakingdeath]

http://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=emulator_fx_non_steam

 

Try that page and see if it’s any help

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[fakingdeath]

When I had that problem it had something to do with cd’ING to that directory first

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[Cameron]

I know that in FX2 I had to put -table Alien_Isolation (removed the underline and replaced with space) maybe that would help on the standalone FX3?

If you just run the curlaunch.bat from command line, does it work?

 

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[widget2k13]

tried both commands and all i get when trying to launch now is this ?

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[NailBuster]

use the troublshoot section here:  http://www.nailbuster.com/wikipinup/doku.php?id=emulators

im guessing from your first post you only need to add this before launching the non-steam version:

cd “[DIREMU]”

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[widget2k13]

thats what i have used, as soon as i add cd “[DIREMU]” i get the above error message?

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[NailBuster]

DIREMU is the directory of the emulator you put on the first tab of emulator setup… you probably didn’t set that up.

again,  this is easy to debug.  if you follow the troubleshoot section from that link about you will see what windows is trying to do with curlaunch.bat

look at your curlaunch.bat after you try running and you will see the problem… you can post the curlaunch.bat contents here if you want…

 

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[widget2k13]

this is whats happening when i run the bat file

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[NailBuster]

ahhh… I’m 99% sure what your problem is….  the joys of copy and pasting from your browser.

the batch file should look like cd “c:\xxxx”    double quotes around it… you have all those ‘weird’ characters that are probably because you copy/pasted text from a website.

What I sometimes do when I copy from a website is to ‘paste’ it into notepad.exe  (not ms-word or anything)… simple notepad   that way all those extra characters are removed.  Then copy/paste from notepad.

 

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[widget2k13]

@echo off

rem remove rem to setup your DMDEXT press “open examples for more info”
rem cd “C:\Visual Pinball\VPinMAME”

rem start /min “” “dmdext.exe” mirror –source=pinball fx3 -q -d auto –virtual-hide-grip –virtual-position=x y w -o PinUP\[GAMENAME]

START “” “[STARTDIR]Launch\VPXSTARTER.exe” 5 5 60 “Pinball FX3”
cd “[DIREMU]“
START ”” “[DIREMU]\Pinball FX3.exe” -applaunch 442120 -table_[GAMENAME]

 

thats my batch file , when i run it i get them errors

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[outhere]

Did not see this part – Non Steam

 

 

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[DJRobX]

The problem is there are different kinds of quotes.     Fancy Unicode quotes, and normal quotes.  They look similar on the screen but you can see how different they show up in the console output.     Fancier editors replace basic quotes with fancier ones when you type them.   As David said, paste your code into Notepad which will ensure everything is regular.   Copy THAT text and paste it into Popper’s setup.

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[widget2k13]

i dont believe it, thats what it was , done as yous said in notepad, changed all the quotes and it launches no problem now :)

only problem is if its in full screen it crashes popper :(

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[TerryRed]

Yup…. me and DDH69 had this issue with our excel sheet for DOFLinx MX Led updates.  Hidden characters would be in each cell. So when we copy and pasted from a single cell (that contained combinations of many other cells), the hidden characters would actually still be there in DOF Config Tool…but still not show up!

 

It wasn’t until we pasted into notepad that we finally saw what was happening. VERY frustrating when DOF just ignores errors, and you think you have something else going wrong.

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[widget2k13]

any ideas why it crashes if in full screen ?

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[force10wind]

Thank you for catching this. I was wondering why it wasn’t working. It was the wrong quotes.

Works great now!

Thanks again.

Heinz

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