Visual Pinball issue

[8trek]

Have been having regular crashes happen when exiting visual pinball games. Someone please check out this log and let me know what you think. Thanks much.

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: Opening Configuration File

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: GameEx: Version 12.54: Starting Log

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: Operating System Name: Windows 7

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: Operating System Version: 6.1.7601

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: Aero running

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: Initializing Vista/Windows 7 volume control

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz, 6111MB

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: 2.39Ghz - 2 Cores or CPU's

21:18:47.2 10/27/2012: Running Randomize()

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Loading PlugIns

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Running Misc startup tasks

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Setting Menu types

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Getting Configuration Values

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Using Theme: .Default - Alpha Blue 2011 - Copy

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: .Default - Alpha Blue 2011 - Copy

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Launching HideOS.exe

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: CPWizard enabled

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: GameEx will check for media insertion (may affect performance)

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Hiding Taskbar

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Is Media Center running?

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

21:18:47.3 10/27/2012: Media Center Mode 0

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Custom Keyboard Input enabled: Getting custom codes

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Custom Game Device Input enabled: Getting custom codes

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Snap Delay set to: 2

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Get other settings

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Using DirectInput for keyboard input

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Start work for Form

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Getting Original Screen Size

21:18:47.4 10/27/2012: Opening Database Connection

21:18:47.5 10/27/2012: Initializing Component

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: MAME Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: daphne Path is: O:\ARCADE\DAPHNE

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: daphne EXE file is: daphne.exe

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Use daphne on. daphne.exe will launch games

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: MAME EXE file is: mame.exe

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: ROM Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\roms

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Catver.ini is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: controls.ini is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\controls.ini

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: History.dat is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\history.dat

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: command.dat is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\command.dat

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Loading Controls.ini map file

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Snap Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\snap

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Background Snap Path: Not Found

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: AVI Snap Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\avisnap

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Flyer Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\flyers

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Cabinet Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\cabinets

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Cabinet 3D Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\cabinets

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Title Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3 itles

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: PCB Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\pcb

21:18:47.6 10/27/2012: Artwork Preview Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\artwork

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Panel Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\cpanel

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Manual Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\manuals

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Icon Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\icons

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Marquee Path is: O:\ARCADE\MAME\0.133u3\marquees

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Applying Language/Text

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Text/Language: Custom

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Loading Custom Emulators

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Loading Emulator 1: [Pinball] Visual Pinball

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Loading Emulator Group 1: Pinball Games

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Could not load emulator group. Check emulators specified are valid.

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Loading Emulator Group 2:

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Could not load emulator group. Check emulators specified are valid.

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Using Version 3 Themes Animations

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Retrieving resolution setting

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: Using Title Font: Comic Sans MS

21:18:47.7 10/27/2012: GameEx will try to reduce CPU usage

21:18:47.8 10/27/2012: Initialising Direct3D

21:18:47.9 10/27/2012: Applying GameEx is Loading Image

21:18:48.0 10/27/2012: Setting Resolution to 1920x1200 32 bit color

21:18:48.0 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces

21:18:48.6 10/27/2012: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

21:18:48.6 10/27/2012: Creating Back Buffer

21:18:48.6 10/27/2012: Version 2 Theme being used. Loading.

21:18:48.6 10/27/2012: Loading Button Data

21:18:48.6 10/27/2012: Loading Font Data

21:18:48.6 10/27/2012: Loading Layout Data

21:18:48.6 10/27/2012: Loading Taskbar Data

21:18:48.6 10/27/2012: Loading graphic Surfaces

21:18:48.7 10/27/2012: Display is running at: 1920x1200 32bit color, 59hz

21:18:48.7 10/27/2012: Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

21:18:48.7 10/27/2012: Max texture size: 8192x8192

21:18:48.7 10/27/2012: Available texture memory: -827MB

21:18:48.7 10/27/2012: Initialising Bass Audio Library

21:18:48.7 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs

21:18:48.9 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces Volume

21:18:48.9 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces Arrows

21:18:49.0 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text

21:18:49.0 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces Toolbar

21:18:49.0 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls

21:18:49.0 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds

21:18:49.1 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo

21:18:49.1 10/27/2012: Creating Surface Unselected

21:18:49.1 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces Snaps

21:18:49.1 10/27/2012: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars

21:18:49.4 10/27/2012: Creating Fonts

21:18:49.4 10/27/2012: Creating Game Font

21:18:49.5 10/27/2012: Creating Game Font Faded

21:18:49.6 10/27/2012: Creating Title Font

21:18:49.6 10/27/2012: Restoring Title Font From Cache

21:18:49.9 10/27/2012: Creating Font Black

21:18:50.0 10/27/2012: Creating Font Black Small

21:18:50.1 10/27/2012: Fonts Created Succesfully

21:18:50.4 10/27/2012: Attempting to load game list

21:18:50.6 10/27/2012: MAME CMD options: -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo

21:18:50.6 10/27/2012: Cannot Load Play List. Check Path and filename

21:18:50.6 10/27/2012: Creating DirectSound Device

21:18:50.6 10/27/2012: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

21:18:50.6 10/27/2012: Loading Sound Files

21:18:50.6 10/27/2012: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

21:18:50.7 10/27/2012: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support

21:18:50.8 10/27/2012: Unable to create a joystick device

21:18:50.8 10/27/2012: Initialising DirectInput for Keyboard support

21:18:50.9 10/27/2012: Loading Start Page

21:18:50.9 10/27/2012: Initializing MCE Remote

21:18:51.0 10/27/2012: Playing intro sound file

21:18:51.0 10/27/2012: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

21:18:51.0 10/27/2012: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

21:18:51.4 10/27/2012: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Custom Background: pinball background.png

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Snap Path: C:\Visual Pinball\VPinMame\snap

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Not Found Image: C:\VISUAL PINBALL\Controls\Pinball Control.png

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Warning: Emulator_1: Not Found Image Does not exist

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Custom Art Path 1: C:\VISUAL PINBALL\Controls

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Custom Art Path 2: C:\VISUAL PINBALL\Cabinets

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Custom Art Path 3: C:\VISUAL PINBALL\Flyers

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Control Panel Path: C:\Visual Pinball\Controls

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Database: [Pinball] Visual Pinball

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Title Snap Path: C:\VISUAL PINBALL\Boxes

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Cart Art Path: C:\Visual Pinball\Cartridges

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Music Path: C:\Visual Pinball\Music

21:18:55.3 10/27/2012: Validating: Emulator_1: Manual Path: C:\Visual Pinball\Rules

21:18:55.8 10/27/2012: Restoring Emulator from Cache

21:18:55.8 10/27/2012: No Database Data

21:19:05.0 10/27/2012: Creating instance of global keyboard hook

21:19:05.1 10/27/2012: Running: cmd.exe /c C: VPinball912.exe -play -"C:\Visual Pinball\Tables\ScaredStiff_FS_B2S\Scared Stiff (FULL SCREEN).vpt"

21:19:05.2 10/27/2012: Shutting down display

21:19:43.8 10/27/2012: Exiting Game

21:19:43.8 10/27/2012: Closing Process

21:19:47.3 10/27/2012: Closing Game Process

21:19:47.4 10/27/2012: Writing Stats

21:19:47.8 10/27/2012: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured

21:19:47.8 10/27/2012: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

21:19:47.9 10/27/2012: at ag.t(Boolean A_0)

21:19:47.9 10/27/2012: at ag.ad()

21:19:47.9 10/27/2012: Trying reinitialising the display after sleeping for 4 seconds

21:19:47.9 10/27/2012: Exception count will be dropped to 15

21:20:02.4 10/27/2012: Running: cmd.exe /c C: VPinball912.exe -play -"C:\Visual Pinball\Tables\Scared_Stiff_VP91x_1.4.4\Scared Stiff.vpt"

21:20:02.5 10/27/2012: Shutting down display

21:20:29.2 10/27/2012: Exiting Game

21:20:29.2 10/27/2012: Closing Process

21:20:32.7 10/27/2012: Closing Game Process

21:20:32.7 10/27/2012: Writing Stats

21:20:32.7 10/27/2012: Plugin: Game Exit

21:20:32.7 10/27/2012: Plugin: Process Commands

21:20:32.7 10/27/2012: Refreshing Keyboard

21:20:33.3 10/27/2012: Initialising Audio

21:20:33.4 10/27/2012: Relaunching HideOS

21:20:34.0 10/27/2012: Restoring Window

21:20:34.0 10/27/2012: Reinitializing Graphics System

21:20:36.6 10/27/2012: Reloading Game Info Page

21:20:36.7 10/27/2012: Returning to GameEx

21:20:57.9 10/27/2012: Running: cmd.exe /c C: VPinball912.exe -play -"C:\Visual Pinball\Tables\ScaredStiff_FS_B2S\Scared Stiff (FULL SCREEN).vpt"

21:20:58.0 10/27/2012: Shutting down display

21:21:20.0 10/27/2012: Exiting Game

21:21:20.0 10/27/2012: Closing Process

21:21:23.5 10/27/2012: Closing Game Process

21:21:23.5 10/27/2012: Writing Stats

21:21:24.5 10/27/2012: --**--

21:21:24.5 10/27/2012: 21 Consecutive Exceptions Occured: Exiting

21:21:24.5 10/27/2012: Closing database connection

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: First Exception:

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: Invalid hook handle

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: at at.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2)

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: at ag.a(Boolean A_0)

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: at ag.l()

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: at ag.m(Boolean A_0)

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: at ag.ad()

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: Last Exception:

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: at ag.t(Boolean A_0)

21:21:24.6 10/27/2012: at ag.ad()

21:21:25.2 10/27/2012: Exiting GameEx!

21:21:25.2 10/27/2012: Disposing all videos

21:21:25.2 10/27/2012: Deleting temporary Karaoke videos

21:21:25.2 10/27/2012: Disposing Image List

21:21:25.2 10/27/2012: Disposing Fonts

21:21:25.2 10/27/2012: Disposing Surfaces

21:21:25.2 10/27/2012: Saving Settings

21:21:25.2 10/27/2012: Shutting down Bass

21:21:25.3 10/27/2012: Closing HideOS.exe

[Tom Speirs]

Hi, I cant see where the error is occurring in code unless you are running the latest version of GameEx. Sorry.

[RageOn]

Hey 8trek

I had a look at my config and one thing I noticed different about it to yours is yours is missing the "vpauto.exe". I ran a visual piball table and checked my log and mine looked like this

Running: cmd.exe /c C: VPinball912.exe -play -"C:\roms\Visual Pinball\Tables\Scared Stiff.vpt"

06:22:37.1 28/10/2012: Shutting down display

06:22:37.4 28/10/2012: Also Launching: "C:\GameEx\vpauto.exe"

Notice the "vpauto.exe", I think this is your problem. The vpauto path should be added to your emulator settings in the advanced setup wizard. It's added via the various settings page right after you setup visual pinball.

Mind you, I'm running the latest version of GameEx, not sure if that will make a difference but maybe you should upgrade first and go from there.

[Draco1962]

Agreed regarding the upgrade. GameEx has had some significant changes since 12.54 (Version 12.85 is most current). Please upgrade as Tom recommends and let us know if you still have the same issue.

[8trek]

Just loaded the latest and greatest and unfortunately the nag screen showed up so won't be able to test this to see if my problem goes away by upgrading. I bought the year subscription about 18 months ago or thereabouts I think.

[Tom Speirs]

Just loaded the latest and greatest and unfortunately the nag screen showed up so won't be able to test this to see if my problem goes away by upgrading. I bought the year subscription about 18 months ago or thereabouts I think.

Sorry, didn't realize that was the reason. Pretty much still applies though. I tell you what though Ill stick my neck out here and say if its not fixed in the latest I will fix it for you or refund.

[Draco1962]

I'd say that is a steal! I'd go lifetime just for the support you receive alone, not to mention not having to worry about not having the latest-greatest version installed.

[8trek]

When starting vpinball games i get a blank screen. Any ideas? works fine outside of gameex, just happens when launching within gameex.

[Draco1962]

8trek - at the risk of sounding like a parent or a broken record, when reporting a possible GameEx bug or error, please ensure you submit a copy of your log.txt and gameex.ini file so we may quickly assist you. You may also need to submit your config file for the emulator. Please refer to this link for additional information if you need to know how and where to acquire the emulator config.

[Draco1962]

@8trek - please be mindful that you had two related threads started for Visual Pinball when you should have continued troubleshooting within the original thread. One was prior to upgrading your GameEx as suggested, following which you opened the second thread noting your upgrade and continued issues. I have merged the two accordingly. This helps you and the GameEx members assisting you to avoid much confusion, instead of trying to address the same issue across multiple threads.