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How to install VPX (Visual Pinball X), part 1

I wanted to write a straightforward guide to installing Visual Pinball X, the most versatile pinball emulator. There's a lot of conflicting information out there about the best way to install it, and welp I guess I'll add to that!

These instructions are for installing VPX on a Windows desktop computer. I do not, at any point, assume that you have or aspire to have a pinball cabinet, which most of the directions out there do. For the basic instructions, I even suppose that you have just one monitor.

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Thanks for the tutorial, I managed to install it on my Steam Deck but it freezes loading the Hang Glider table 🥲 hope it gets better Linux/Wine support someday (sounds like there's a rewrite/alternate version in Unity currently in progress which might give me hope?)

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oh no. I wouldn't get your hopes up for a rewrite fixing things anytime soon. So much of virtual pinball is just hobbyists going along with the thing that already works, unless there's a big push to update something.

There's been a lot of tables lost in the change from VP9 to VPX, which I think was five years ago, because they're not backward compatible and someone would need to put in the effort to update the tables.

I would guess an alternate version, whenever it happens, would have engine differences that would require tables to specifically support it also, and would be another 5+ year effort.

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