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Anyone here run pop cap games? hi all. im running across a problem with some of my popcap games where when i load them they sort of go out of focus and i have to completely escape out of big box when that happens. But before i escape i have to click back on the big box screen because the screen is froze BC its out of focus. then once i've escaped its running and minimized to the taskbar at the bottom of the desktop. is there any way to fix this? i dont wanna have to delete my games bc they are doing this ya know? thanks in advance Popcap games running in background, Bigbox out of focus - Troubleshooting - LaunchBox Community Forums.mp4

I followed your instructions and star trek loads perfectly!!!!! thank you all so much for your input!!!

appreciate your help

That command did'nt work for me. i pasted it in the custom line parameters. was i wrong?

yes full screen and everything

i put on minimum and default. both games still load like this 2020.mp4

i just batch changed all to work with FP loader. All act correctly except for jurassic park ultimate and my favorite, Star Trek ultimate

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this is my spiderman config. it has custom line parameters but the game and several others T2, metal slug, etc work perfectly

where would i remedy this? it does say the extension in the launching area

i unchecked custom line paremeters line

i use to different FP. some for slamtilts and some for regulars

ok i unchecked that and now star trek loads just like the jurassic park video. what do i need to change?

@Headrush69here u go the video below is how jurassic park acts. similar but it doesnt show a problem error bandicam 2021-01-12 19-19-15-368.mp4

OK!!! for the first time im playing star trek full screen!!!!. loading it outside of LB it plays fine. but running it through LB or BB gives me the error you see in the video. then i load it up outside and it plays fine. i just didnt show the footage of the game playing BC my recorder does'nt record windows display well. Im almost there!!! could you instruct me how to fix this? My jurassic park acts just like this as well, it just does not come up with the error "problem loading that file" Future Pinball STU.mp4

BAM? Im Sorry ive heard that before but dont know what it is. I see the link you sent. going to try this now. so just install this and it should run like the other FP cabinets?

hello all. Im trying to play the star trek ultimate pro on future pinball but it always crashes about a 1/3 of the loading line with no crash error. i downloaded it directly from the website and ran FP as administrator. Can anyone help me with this? bandicam.mp4

this is better than taskkill?

ok that worked perfectly!!! but only by double clicking the .bat. Crap! when i run the app through the media center program the screen blinks and my taskbar dissapears. and all i see is my desktop with no taskbar. but it forces me to ctrl alt delete and sign out.... but if i minimize the window of the media center program and manually dbl click on the .bat your script works to the letter!! what do u think i could do here to remedy this?

Like this? timeout 3 taskkill /F /IM "program.exe" /T timeout 2 start /wait "" "D:\Launchbox\bigbox.exe" timeout 2 start /w "" "D:/LaunchBox/Core/BigBox.exe" timeout 2 start "" "D:/program\program.exe"

thank you for helping me get this far sir. angry birds is actually bigbox and peggle is another program that i did'nt talk about because i did'nt want to disrespect the forum in any way. but it works exactly the same and is the same concept and reacts the same.

ok so for example big box has other processes that opens up with it so if i wanted to i could SETLOCAL EnableExtensions set EXE=bigbox.exe Timeout 2 Taskkill /F /IM "popcapgame1.exe" Timeout 2 Start "" D:Launchbox/Bigbox.exe :test FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %EXE%"') DO IF %%x == %EXE% goto FOUND echo Not running Timeout 3 Start "" "D:\Roms\Popcap\Peggle Deluxe\peggle.exe" exit :FOUND echo Running goto test so if i wanted it to return to big box what other processes does big box have for example that i would have to wait for? i see 4 extra processes start but they aren't singled out so how would i know? see how it started peggle 2 seconds after big box began to begin loading? i want it to wait till big box has opened and once fully done and ive exited, then start peggle again bandicam 2021-01-09 19-45-00-276.mp4

this script doesnt make it wait either. it works the same though. damn, i thought this would be a simple task SETLOCAL EnableExtensions set EXE=angrybirds.exe Timeout 2 Taskkill /F /IM "peggle.exe" Timeout 2 Start "" D:Games/Rovio/angrybirds.exe :test FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %EXE%"') DO IF %%x == %EXE% goto FOUND echo Not running Timeout 3 Start "" "D:/Games/Peggle/Peggle.exe" exit :FOUND echo Running goto test

timeout 2 taskkill /F /IM "peggle.exe" /T timeout 2 start /w "" "D:Games/Rovio/angrybirds.exe" timeout 2 start "" "D:/Games/Peggle/Peggle.exe" @JoeViking245 It seemed it worked to the letter but it did not wait until angry birds is exited before it started up peggle again. it just waited 2 seconds and then started peggle along side it so now they are both running simultaneously

Remark: batch file clicked timeout 2 Taskkill /F /IM "peggle.exe" /T timeout 2 start /w "" "D:Games/Rovio/angrybirds.exe" timeout 2 start "" "D:/Games/Peggle/Peggle.exe" @JoeViking245 would the taskkill command above be accurate to kill a program? i used the rest of your format