Pins crashing on startup

[Itchigo]

I've been seeing a problem lately. Previously working pins are no longer working. Some come right back to the wheel, others are non responsive. Some only work in a specific category (Em), but won't work on the main list. This log is one that crashes straight back to the wheel after startup.

22:50:17.8 10/22/2013: PinballX - Version 1.67
22:50:17.8 10/22/2013: Loading Settings
22:50:17.8 10/22/2013: Initialize Component
22:50:17.9 10/22/2013: Initialize Display
22:50:17.9 10/22/2013: Loading PlugIns
22:50:17.9 10/22/2013: Loaded Plugin:"Speak Game Names" Version 1 By Tom Speirs
22:50:18.2 10/22/2013: PlugIn: "Speak Game Names" Initialized OK
22:50:18.2 10/22/2013: Using Plugin System Version: 1
22:50:18.4 10/22/2013: Created DirectX BackGlass Window
22:50:18.5 10/22/2013: Hiding Cursor
22:50:18.5 10/22/2013: Hiding Taskbar
22:50:18.5 10/22/2013: Load Game List
22:50:18.5 10/22/2013: Loading Database: Visual Pinball
22:50:18.5 10/22/2013: Loading Custom Database: DMD
22:50:18.5 10/22/2013: Loading Custom Database: Electro Mechanical
22:50:18.5 10/22/2013: Loading Custom Database: Solid State
22:50:18.5 10/22/2013: Finding and matching artwork and videos
22:50:18.7 10/22/2013: Loading Game Statistics and Scores
22:50:20.1 10/22/2013: Initialize Audio
22:50:20.1 10/22/2013: Set Keyboard Controls
22:50:20.1 10/22/2013: Initialize Joystick
22:50:20.1 10/22/2013: 1 Joystick Attached
22:50:20.1 10/22/2013: Started
22:50:23.2 10/22/2013: Launch System
22:50:23.2 10/22/2013: Disposing display
22:50:24.6 10/22/2013: Waiting for threads
22:50:25.5 10/22/2013: Created DirectX BackGlass Window
22:50:31.3 10/22/2013: Exiting
22:50:31.5 10/22/2013: Showing Taskbar
22:50:31.5 10/22/2013: Unhiding Mouse Cursor
22:50:31.5 10/22/2013: Disposing Plugins
22:50:31.5 10/22/2013: Saving Settings

PinballX.ini

[Itchigo]

Ok, the ones coming back to the wheel are naming issues, I found the typos. I have a couple that freeze during opening in Pinball X.

Monster Bash (Unclewilly):
VP progress bar stops almost all the way through. Press escape and it returns to the wheel.

Judge Dredd: Literally works every other time. Open it up, it may play, the next time you open it up- same as Monster Bash, progress bar. Next time it'll play.

Post Time: This was a working game, I don't know when it stopped working. Run it and the progress bar stops. The difference here is I have to use cntrl/alt/del/end task to exit- escape doesn't work. This is NOT a naming issue. I helped build this table, so I know it decently well.

High Speed: Slow to open up, then keys wont work (addcredit/start/etc).

All 4 of these play with no issues in the vp editor without Pinball X.

Any ideas are appreciated.

[Tom Speirs]

Has anything else been changed on your system?

[Tom Speirs]

Also, can you give me an idea on how long tables take to load when the issue occurs. Are they particular slow loading tables?

Also please try the exe here:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/13599-vp-exits-to-desktop/page-4

[Itchigo]

Not that I'm aware of. I did have a recent reformat as this cab uses a non-dedicated pc. However they were working prior to this, positively, and I thought I had played them since the reformat, but can't remember specifically. Out of 329, these are the only 4 not starting. It's almost like a script error, but it works in vp with no error, so that makes me discount script errors.

With my new "system", anything pinball is V: (just as before), and C: is windows only- no other files. W: (work area) is my desktop, documents, and the like. All programs are installed on their own partition too. This way if I have a crash, I can just reclone C: and I'm back at full strength in no time. With a prior copy of the registry, all my programs should work out of the box. This also allows windows to work superfast as they're not all bogged down with extra stuff to go through.

[Itchigo]

Just tried the .exe, same result.

vpauto.exe is set to "run as admin" but I never had to do that before, I just figured I'd try it if nothing else. I want to say the loading time is about 10 seconds. Doesn't look like it here, but that's about how it feels.

13:38:28.7 10/24/2013: PinballX - Version 1.67
13:38:28.7 10/24/2013: Loading Settings
13:38:28.7 10/24/2013: Initialize Component
13:38:28.8 10/24/2013: Initialize Display
13:38:28.8 10/24/2013: Loading PlugIns
13:38:29.0 10/24/2013: Created DirectX BackGlass Window
13:38:29.0 10/24/2013: Hiding Cursor
13:38:29.0 10/24/2013: Hiding Taskbar
13:38:29.1 10/24/2013: Load Game List
13:38:29.1 10/24/2013: Loading Database: Visual Pinball
13:38:29.1 10/24/2013: Loading Custom Database: DMD
13:38:29.1 10/24/2013: Loading Custom Database: Electro Mechanical
13:38:29.1 10/24/2013: Loading Custom Database: Solid State
13:38:29.1 10/24/2013: Finding and matching artwork and videos
13:38:29.3 10/24/2013: Loading Game Statistics and Scores
13:38:30.6 10/24/2013: Initialize Audio
13:38:30.6 10/24/2013: Set Keyboard Controls
13:38:30.6 10/24/2013: Initialize Joystick
13:38:30.7 10/24/2013: 1 Joystick Attached
13:38:30.7 10/24/2013: Started
13:38:34.9 10/24/2013: Launch System
13:38:34.9 10/24/2013: Waiting for threads
13:38:34.9 10/24/2013: Disposing display
13:38:36.3 10/24/2013: V:\Visual Pinball\Tables\VPinball914.exe /play -"V:\New B2S Tables done\PostTime.vpt"
13:38:36.3 10/24/2013: V:\PinballX\vpauto.exe
13:40:18.3 10/24/2013: Created DirectX BackGlass Window
13:40:22.6 10/24/2013: Exiting
13:40:22.9 10/24/2013: Showing Taskbar
13:40:22.9 10/24/2013: Unhiding Mouse Cursor
13:40:22.9 10/24/2013: Disposing Plugins
13:40:22.9 10/24/2013: Saving Settings

1st pic is running Pinball X

2nd is through the editor.

[Tom Speirs]

Is V: a network drive?

[Itchigo]

To be honest, I'm not sure what the definition of a network drive is. It's a partition I made with Partition Wizard. This is not a business computer if that helps any, but it does go online. But the browser isn't on V:.