I had to same problems with tables crashing but it is not the launch method for me it was the video setting in the emulator. Turning off "Use Texture Compression", setting filtering to Bilinear 24 and unchecking Processor Affinity helped me. STTNG and Iron Man were giving me fits loading crashes or loading with no table art till I changed these settings. I've attached my settings image just incase there was other settings that I changed and forgot. These work best for me.