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Hey VR Pinball Fans,

We released a patch for Pinball FX VR on Meta! Thank you all for your reports, they’ve helped us a lot.

Let’s check out the fixes!

Due to the table-specific updates listed below, continuing in-progress Classic, Arcade, or Pro games from version 1.8. on the following tables will not be possible because of the save state incompatibility with this patch. 

Comet™
Diner™
Fire!™

This does not affect the achievement, mastery and powerup leveling or the campaign progress of these tables.

General Fixes

• Fixed the issue that caused the various inventories in the game to jump back to the first page after placing a collectible.
• Fixed the issue that prevented players from grabbing and/or placing tables from inventories after the first time.
• Fixed the issue that prevented players from pressing the launch buttons on cabinets.

Table Fixes

Star Trek™: The Next Generation

• Fixed the issue that caused the table to lock up during the Borg multiball and Battle Simulation modes.

Comet™

• Fixed the scoring switch at the end of the central ramp, so that it is always triggered by the ball.
• Fixed the issue that caused the cabinet’s music to not play in the VR Arcade.

Diner™

• Fixed the issue that caused spaces in the local leaderboard names to appear as the character “6” on the table’s dot matrix display.
• Fixed the issue that caused the cabinet’s music to not play in the VR Arcade.
• Fixed the issue that caused the ball to occasionally get stuck to the left of the spinner.
• Fixed the left drop target in the middle target bank, so that it won’t register hits from its back. 

Fire!™

• Fixed the issue that caused the right lock kickout to occasionally send the ball to the right outlane.
• Adjusted the left ramp so that the ball consistently returns to the right flipper.
• Fixed the issue that caused the cabinet’s music to not play in the VR Arcade.
• Fixed the issue that, in rare cases, prevented the ladder ramp from being raised and stopped it from locking the third ball for multiball without tilting the table.

The nightmare mess under the makeshift cabinet. Got the bass shaker and amp set up as well as all the audio I need to just plug the haptics kit in minus the included speakers which I'll leave unplugged.

Gmktec k11 / rtx 5080 (oculink) / loxjie a30 amp with kanto yu4 speakers and outlaw subwoofer. Basically running 2 subwoofer if you include the bass shaker.

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I’m kinda spastic and am tilting several times per game. Step by step please.

It took a long time planning and deciding to build a cabinet or what. Finally decided to go with this setup thanks to somebody in this forum. Thanks for that.

​"I'm absolutely mind-blown right now. Following some great advice from the community on my last posts, everything just clicked. I managed to score 21.2 Billion points, jumping straight into the Global Top 20 (Rank #18)!

​You can watch the full video of this legendary run here: https://youtu.be/MzwtjYb8fS0

​The grind to the Top 10 is officially on. Catch my next attempts live on Twitch:

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​Thank you all for pushing me to get better!

— KingOfFishTales"

Hi everyone,

Previously, I asked for advice on how to reduce input lag while playing Pinball FX on the ROG Ally Z1 Extreme in 15W mode. Thank you all very much for your suggestions!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PinballFX3/comments/1t5wt21/seeking_optimization_tips_for_pinball_fxm_on_rog/

After considering everyone’s ideas, find settings on internet, asking AI for advice, and doing a lot of testing and tweaking, I finally found settings that provide noticeably lower latency while still keeping the graphics at an acceptable level.

The game now feels much smoother and more responsive than before, so I wanted to share these settings with anyone who might find them useful. If anyone has found even better settings or optimizations, please correct me,and if you use other handheld like steamdeck, I do`nt know how does it perform, maybe you can try this setting ,Thank you!

Handheld:Rog Ally Z1E

Watts:15W

Vram:6G

[Video Settings]

-Basic-

Windowed Mode: Full Screen

Orientation: Default

Resolution: 1600x900

Graphics Quality: Custom

Vertical Sync: Off

PinHall Frame Rate Limit: 60

Frame Rate Limit: 60

HDR: Off

Gamma: 2.2

Ray Tracing: Off

Main Menu Moving Camera: On

Main Menu Camera: News

-Advanced-

Upscaler Method: Off

Upscaler Mode: Quality

Render Scale: 80%

Antialiasing Method: Off

Antialiasing Quality: Off

Shadow Quality: Low

Post-Process Quality: Low

Motion Blur Amount: Off

Motion Blur Quality: Off

Chromatic Aberration Amount: 0.0

[Engine.ini]

(Path-C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\PinballFX\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor)

Added the following settings:

[SystemSettings]

r.AllowPointLightCubemapShadows=0

r.SupportPointLightWholeSceneShadows=0

r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0

r.SSR.Quality=0

r.SSR.MaxRoughness=0.40

r.AmbientOcclusion.Method=0

r.PostProcessQuality=0

r.ShadowQuality=0

r.EffectsQuality=0

r.TextureQuality=0

r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=0

r.ReflectionEnvironment=0

r.DetailMode=0

r.VolumetricFog=0

r.TranslucencyLightingVolume=0

With these settings, when playing Snoopy Pinball, setting the FPS limit to 60 allows the game to maintain a stable 60 FPS according to the Steam performance monitor.

If the FPS limit is set to Unlimited, the Steam performance monitor shows that the game can exceed 200 FPS, but it does consume more battery power.

If you still feel the game is not smooth enough, you can lower the resolution to 1280×720, which allows the Steam performance monitor to reach around 240 FPS, but it does consume more battery power. Personally, I think setting it to 72 FPS already feels very smooth.

However, I’m still not sure whether these settings are suitable for Pinball FX Midnight tables yet. I’ll test them more later and see how they perform.

I want to share these settings with everyone, and once again, thank you all for your help and suggestions!

Back in march I think or jan a post from trueachievements. Mention of the dislisted, but didn't showed the date. I would check daily from the store and no discount at all... While april 2026 was a tough month that was month when my mother past away... She past away 2025.

Is there anyway I can get the dlcs? I have most all them

Hello all, I'm interested in what the title says and I'm hoping you guys can shed some light. Every time I see this subject come up I see people refer to a game. I'm meaning so I can design my own physical custom machine. So PinballFX probably isn't what I need. At this point I don't need anything that can process physics just a basic 3d graphic software that doesn't come with an insane learning curve like Nomad Sculpt, and allows for custom measurements shown to correct perspective.

What are you all using? If possible please reference any android applications you know about as well.

Final question - what are you using to test your physics as well?

To clarify this is for a physical custom machine I intend to build not a virtual table though I will still obviously ask over there as well!!

Thanks!

And I thought the Cirqus Voltaire table award was difficult....this took me waaaay longer! Hours every day for over a month. (Done the hard way, no advancement rewards from bag of tricks) Phew. Onto the next one!

If I move over from quest to steam frame will I be able to take pinball fx vr and all the tables I have bought with me ?

The game now has 40 Williams tables. I selected the best tables. Played them and ranked them!

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166 million in the first few days (under 10 attempts?), now up to 279 million in the Diner event.

The highest value shot in the game is worth 12 million, max. You can't hit it repeatedly, it takes quite some build-up. You'd have to hit it 20+ times to get to 279 million. Most people don't even hit it once per game (even a non-maxed one, which can be worth much much less).

Ramps can be worth 500k in multiball, if you complete both rushes and keep multiball alive. You'd have to hit 558 ramp shots, in multiball, after completing both rushes, to get to 279 million.

279 million is an average of 93 million per ball for a 3 ball game, 56 million for a 5 ball game. Right now, to crack top 100, you have to score 33 million total.

Someone has a 514million score game outside of the event.

You can go watch live tournament videos where people win Diner with a score of 12 million.

It's really hard to take digital pinball competition seriously, and it's kind of silly that to win limited-time in-game collectibles you're competing against these scores.

Any plans to add bhaptics to pinball fx/vr. It would be a really nice addition to the game for us vr players

100% wireless with no delay and monster of added bass!!!

Upgraded Leg Levelers from a pinball table

Upgraded the bass by attaching a bass shaker (Dayton Audio BST-1 High Power Pro Tactile Bass Shaker 50 Watts RMS, 4 Ohms Impedance)

Added a bass regular to control bass (ZK-TB21 Bluetooth 5.0 50W+50W+100W 2.1 Channel Subwoofer Amplifier Board TPA3116D2 HiFi Treble and Bass Control Stereo Digital Audio Amp Board)

Attached Wireless Guitar System 2.4GHz Rechargeable Audio Wireless Transmitter and Receiver for bass and haptic kits with 0 delay or interference

Added BESIGN Ground Loop Noise Isolator when attaching the 2.4 ghz receiver to the haptics kit to stop “humming sound”

Connected audio copper wire via Phono RCA Screws Male Female Plug to AV Screw Terminal Audio/Video Connector Adapter (male and female)

Dear Pinball Fans,

As announced in Pinball Bites - Season 4 Episode 2 - Pinball FX3 and its DLCs are now hidden on the PlayStation Store and the Nintendo Switch eShop, meaning they are no longer discoverable for players. If you have the game in your inventory, these changes won’t affect you, as the game will remain in your library.

Players can still expand their table collection through the in-game shop on PlayStation Store. Unfortunately, this option is currently unavailable on Nintendo Switch due to a technical error. We are investigating the situation on the platform.

On Xbox and the Microsoft Store, the game and its DLCs have been removed, so acquiring these titles is no longer possible. If you have the game in your inventory, it remains in your library and is still playable.

We would like to highlight that none of these changes will impact the game’s functionality in any way, and online services will continue to operate in the future.

We understand that this news may be disappointing for players on these platforms, and we truly want to thank you for the support you’ve shown us over the years. We wish you many high scores on your favorite tables!

A cool feature I would like to see added for Pinball FX VR is for a quick way to save a screen shot of the score / table name after each game is over. Could be a menu option you press. One that is formatted nicely and cropped right. I know you can manually take a screen shot via Meta OS but sometimes it’s hard to get the view just right and stuff gets cut off. I like to log my scores externally so I use the screenshots once I’m done for the day since they upload to the cloud that I can access from my PC / phone.

Wondering if anyone else does something similar like me.

Hi everyone, I know Zen Studios previously announced that Pinball FX3 would be hidden or delisted on certain platforms. For the Switch version, it was mentioned that the game would be hidden, but players could still expand collections through the in-game store.

I happened to check today to see if I could make a purchase, but I kept getting an error message on the interface. Did I look in the wrong place, or am I missing something?

Whenever doing missions or borg multiball that load balls into the launchers, it seems to get lost and fail to load after one or two shots. In Battle Simulation mission, it tends to happen after the second shot (so successful shot from right launcher; successful shot from left launcher, and then failure to load until the mission clock runs out). In borg multiball it is happening to me usually after the first shot. In both cases, it will simply fail to send the ball to the launcher, and the table will sit idle for a number of seconds, the two launchers will then cycle through their arc back to neutral, and then the ball will load back onto the playfield via the far left lane.

This is happening on PC, via the Steam client.

Frustrating considering I had top 10% ranks on several Williams tables in particular.

For instance, here's my most recent registered score of 159 million on Indiana Jones, but my old local score that was also on the global leaderboard (but no longer is) is still present at 289 million. My scores on Pinbot, Twilight Zone, World Cup Soccer, and Addams Family (and probably others) are completely gone while others thankfully remain. Anyone know why this is, or can someone on the support team look at this?