PinEvent not working when table launched from frontend?

[Johnny T]

Hi all,

I know that these forums aren’t really for frontend support but my problem has more chance of getting resolved here than in the frontend forum.

I’m using Launchbox as a frontend. I have Future Pinball working great – including DOF – except for PinEvent tables. Unfortunately, Jaws is a PinEvent table and it’s my favourite table.

If I just launch FPPlayer and run Jaws then everything works – DOF / PuP Packs etc. It’s perfect.

If I launch Jaws from my frontend then the PuP Packs work perfectly but DOF doesn’t kick in. It’s like it doesn’t see the table.

My frontend is running FPPlayer with the following command line parameters:

/open "romname" /play /exit

I wondered if there was an extra parameter or something I needed to use?

Or maybe someone has some other possible reason why it wouldn’t work?

Many thanks for any help you can give me. I’ve been back and forward with “run as admin” / “don’t run as admin” and tried it without DOFLinx running but to no avail.

 

 

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[TerryRed]

DOF is completely initiated from the table’s startup (not the front-end). The only reasons it wouldn’t work from a front-end is:

• the front-end, or another program (DOFLinx) has a DOF session still open preventing the PinEvent dof session from being used (correctly)
• the front-end is changing security / admin access somehow and that is what is preventing DOF from being accessed through a PinEvent table (when launched from the front-end)

 

Nothing different or special needed for PinEvent tables as far as the FP launch command is concerned (compared to any other FP table).

You need to figure out what your front-end is doing to restrict access to DOF for FP PinEvent tables. Perhaps it’s set to run as admin…. or maybe it needs to be set to run as admin. Try both.

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Johnny T

[Johnny T]

TerryRed wrote:

DOF is completely initiated from the table’s startup (not the front-end). The only reasons it wouldn’t work from a front-end is:

• the front-end, or another program (DOFLinx) has a DOF session still open preventing the PinEvent dof session from being used
• the front-end is changing security / admin access somehow and that is what is preventing DOF from being accessed through a PinEvent table (when launched from the front-end)

Nothing different or special needed for PinEvent tables as far as the FP launch command is concerned (compared to any other FP table).

You need to figure out what your front-end is doing to restrict access to DOF for FP PinEvent tables. Perhaps it’s set to run as admin…. or maybe it needs to be set to run as admin. Try both.

Thanks Terry for clearing that up.

I’m quite sure the following isn’t the case as I’ve rebooted and then tried to directly run Jaws without running any other tables first – “the front-end, or another program (DOFLinx) has a DOF session still open preventing the PinEvent dof session from being used”

That leaves us with this —> the front-end is changing security / admin access somehow and that is what is preventing DOF from being accessed through a PinEvent table (when launched from the front-end)

At the moment the frontend is set to run as admin. I did try to turn that off but then I got an “access is denied” Windows Exception error when I tried to run a Future Pinball table. I’m not sure what that is as I don’t have FPLoader.exe or Future Pinball.exe set to run as administrator?

However, I will continue to investigate and hopefully get lucky.

Thanks for your excellent help as always.

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