[RESOLVED] 1.77 problem : VP9 crash when exit

[garath]

Hello,

First, I want to say that I have no problems with 1.76, it's working perfectly with VP9.2.1.

But when I upgrade with 1.77, crashs occured when I exit from VP9.

It's not on every table, juste a few one.

I suspect VP9 to be not fully compatible with these tables, but 1.76 was working very well them and succeed in closing VP9 properly even if there was an ".net" error.

Now with 1.77, when I quit VP9, I have a Windows popup saying : " Vpinball 9.2.1 has stopped to work, Do you want to close ?"

Error detail :

Application : VPinball.exe

Version Framework : v4.0.30319

Description : le processus a été arrêté en raison d'une exception non gérée.

Informations sur l'exception : code d'exception c0000005, adresse d'exception 5C6065A4

It seems that 1.77 don't succeed to handle vp9 error.

I just came back to 1.76 and the vp error has no more effect on pinballx.

[Draco1962]

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[manafauntia]

I'm also having the same problem. Here are the two files requested...

log.txt

20:57:38.0 3/24/2014: PinballX - Version 1.77

20:57:38.0 3/24/2014: Loading Settings

20:57:38.0 3/24/2014: Initialize Component

20:57:38.0 3/24/2014: Initialize Display

20:57:38.1 3/24/2014: Loading PlugIns

20:57:38.2 3/24/2014: Created DirectX BackGlass Window

20:57:38.2 3/24/2014: Created DirectX DMD Window

20:57:38.3 3/24/2014: Hiding Cursor

20:57:38.3 3/24/2014: Hiding Taskbar

20:57:38.3 3/24/2014: Load Game List

20:57:38.3 3/24/2014: Loading Database: Visual Pinball

20:57:38.4 3/24/2014: Finding and matching artwork and videos

20:57:38.5 3/24/2014: Loading Game Statistics and Scores

20:57:39.7 3/24/2014: Initialize Audio

20:57:39.8 3/24/2014: Set Keyboard Controls

20:57:39.8 3/24/2014: Initialize Joystick

20:57:39.8 3/24/2014: 1 Joystick Attached

20:57:39.8 3/24/2014: Started

20:57:49.8 3/24/2014: Launch System

20:57:49.8 3/24/2014: Waiting for threads

20:57:50.0 3/24/2014: Disposing display

20:57:51.8 3/24/2014: C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\VPinball.exe /play -"C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\Tables\Hurricane (Williams 1991).vpt"

20:57:51.8 3/24/2014: C:\PinballX\vpauto.exe

20:58:03.7 3/24/2014: Found PinMAME ROM: hurr_l2.nv

20:58:31.1 3/24/2014: Exit System Control Pressed

20:58:33.9 3/24/2014: Created DirectX BackGlass Window

20:58:33.9 3/24/2014: Created DirectX DMD Window

20:58:38.5 3/24/2014: Exiting

20:58:38.6 3/24/2014: Showing Taskbar

20:58:38.6 3/24/2014: Unhiding Mouse Cursor

20:58:38.6 3/24/2014: Disposing Plugins

20:58:38.6 3/24/2014: Saving Settings

PinballX.ini

[Display]

Monitor=0

Rotate=270

Windowed=False

WindowWidth=480

WindowHeight=720

WindowX=0

WindowY=65

PlayFieldBrightness=230

WheelTextColor=ffffffff

WheelTextOutlineColor=ff000000

InfoTextColor=ffffffff

InfoTextOutlineColor=ff000000

FilterTextColor=ffffffff

FilterTextOutlineColor=ff000000

MenuColor=ffffa500

[backGlass]

monitor=1

x=0

y=0

width=1360

height=768

[DMD]

Enabled=True

monitor=2

x=0

y=188

width=1373

height=380

[FileSystem]

EnableFileMatching=True

[interface]

DesktopModeEnabled=False

EnableAdditionalDetail=True

ShowSystem=True

ShowRatings=True

[Audio]

StreamVolume=90

SampleVolume=90

PlaySoundInVideos=True

[startup]

playsound=True

playvideo=False

StartWithWindows=No

[KeyCodes]

quit=27

left=37

right=39

select=13

rotate=82

pageleft=33

pageright=34

exitemulator=27

ingame=80

screenshot=83

screenshotbackglass=66

instructions=73

[JoyCodes]

quit=8

left=7

right=3

select=10

rotate=

pageleft=5

pageright=2

exitemulator=8

ingame=

instructions=

[Text]

Line1=Free Play

Line2=Press Start

[FuturePinball]

Enabled=False

WorkingPath=h:\-PINBALL-\-FUTURE PINBALL-

TablePath=h:\-PINBALL-\-FUTURE PINBALL-\Tables

Executable=Future Pinball.exe

Parameters=/open "[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]" /play /exit /arcaderender

LaunchBeforeEnabled=false

LaunchBeforeWorkingPath=

LaunchBeforeExecutable=notepad.exe

LaunchBeforeHideWindow=False

LaunchBeforeWaitForExit=True

LaunchAfterEnabled=False

LaunchAfterWorkingPath=

LaunchAfterExecutable=notepad.exe

LaunchAfterHideWindow=False

LaunchAfterWaitForExit=True

MouseClickFocus=True

[VisualPinball]

Enabled=True

WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball

TablePath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\Tables

Executable=VPinball.exe

Parameters=/play -"[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]"

LaunchBeforeEnabled=false

LaunchBeforeWorkingPath=

LaunchBeforeExecutable=notepad.exe

LaunchBeforeHideWindow=False

LaunchBeforeWaitForExit=True

LaunchAfterEnabled=False

LaunchAfterWorkingPath=

LaunchAfterExecutable=notepad.exe

LaunchAfterHideWindow=False

LaunchAfterWaitForExit=True

NVRAMPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\VPinMame\nvram

[ExitScreen]

Enabled=True

EnableExit=True

EnableShutdown=True

[startupProgram]

Enabled=false

WorkingPath=

Executable=notepad.exe

Paramaters=

HideWindow=true

WaitForExit=false

[ExitProgram]

Enabled=false

WorkingPath=

Executable=notepad.exe

Paramaters=

HideWindow=False

WaitForExit=

[AttractMode]

Enabled=True

Timer=1

ShowFor=15

[system_1]

Name=Pinball FX2

Enabled=False

WorkingPath=C:\Steam

TablePath=C:\Steam\Tables

Executable=PinballFX.exe

Parameters=

[system_2]

Name=MAME

Enabled=False

WorkingPath=C:\- EMULATORS -\- MAME -

TablePath=C:\

Executable=mamep64.exe

Parameters=[TABLEFILE]

[AutoExit]

Enabled=False

Minutes=10

[Login]

Enabled=False

[internal]

lastselected=Hurricane (Williams 1991)Hurricane (Williams 1991)VisualPinball

filter_year=

filter_company=

filter_custom=

filtername=Tables

[setupWizard]

EmuPath1=C:\Emulators

AssetPath1=C:\Assets

RomPath1=C:\Roms

DefaultPathPrompt=True

DownloadDatabasePrompt=True

DownloadEmulatorPrompt=True

WizardMode=3

CustomArray=

SearchArray=Audio Settings

SavePosition=False

SectionIndex=0

SearchText=video

EmulatorIndex=0

EmulatorGroupIndex=0

DaphneIndex=0

HTMLAppsIndex=0

ExternalAppsIndex=0

RadioStationsIndex=0

NewsFeedsIndex=0

MappedDrivesIndex=0

SystemIndex=0

ShowPanel=True

FontSize=1

WindowState=0

WindowSize=650,478

WindowLocation=-953,173

[Plugin_1]

Enabled=False

Name=PlugInSpeech.dll

[Plugin_2]

Enabled=False

Name=QuickLaunch (PinballX Edition).dll

[Plugin_3]

Enabled=False

Name=Xpadder Plugin.dll

[Tom Speirs]

Please try the attached replacement exe. It won't fix the VP crash which I have seen myself previously but it should kill the crash windows properly.

Let me know.

PinballX.zip

[garath]

Thank you for answering so quickly but I still have the crash window which prevent PinballX from restarting until I click "OK to close" it.

[manafauntia]

No, that didn't make it go away. In fact, the close window box stayed up longer than it did before. Log file attached:

16:33:05.0 3/25/2014: PinballX - Version 1.77

16:33:05.0 3/25/2014: Loading Settings

16:33:05.0 3/25/2014: Initialize Component

16:33:05.1 3/25/2014: Initialize Display

16:33:05.1 3/25/2014: Loading PlugIns

16:33:05.2 3/25/2014: Created DirectX BackGlass Window

16:33:05.3 3/25/2014: Created DirectX DMD Window

16:33:05.4 3/25/2014: Hiding Cursor

16:33:05.4 3/25/2014: Hiding Taskbar

16:33:05.4 3/25/2014: Load Game List

16:33:05.4 3/25/2014: Loading Database: Visual Pinball

16:33:05.4 3/25/2014: Finding and matching artwork and videos

16:33:05.5 3/25/2014: Loading Game Statistics and Scores

16:33:06.7 3/25/2014: Initialize Audio

16:33:06.8 3/25/2014: Set Keyboard Controls

16:33:06.8 3/25/2014: Initialize Joystick

16:33:06.8 3/25/2014: 1 Joystick Attached

16:33:06.8 3/25/2014: Started

16:33:19.8 3/25/2014: Launch System

16:33:19.8 3/25/2014: Waiting for threads

16:33:20.1 3/25/2014: Disposing display

16:33:22.2 3/25/2014: C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\VPinball.exe /play -"C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Pinball\Tables\Creature from the Black Lagoon (Bally 1992).vpt"

16:33:22.3 3/25/2014: C:\PinballX\vpauto.exe

16:33:32.5 3/25/2014: Found PinMAME ROM: cftbl_l4.nv

16:33:51.0 3/25/2014: Exit System Control Pressed

16:33:58.8 3/25/2014: Created DirectX BackGlass Window

16:33:58.9 3/25/2014: Created DirectX DMD Window

16:34:12.9 3/25/2014: Exiting

16:34:13.0 3/25/2014: Showing Taskbar

16:34:13.1 3/25/2014: Unhiding Mouse Cursor

16:34:13.1 3/25/2014: Disposing Plugins

16:34:13.1 3/25/2014: Saving Settings

[garath]

Absolutely exact ! after closing manually the crash window box, pinballx need now more time to reload ...

[Tom Speirs]

Did you trying running PinballX as admin?

[manafauntia]

Yes. I always change the settings of any executable to "Run as administrator". Stuff like this happens otherwise.

[Tom Speirs]

So basically the error does not clear and it does not return to PinballX?

[manafauntia]

Mine does return to PinballX. I open a table and then when I close the table I get a screen that says "Visual Pinball has stopped working" and gives the option to check online for a solution or close the program. This window goes away after about 3 seconds and then returns to PinballX.

[garath]

For me : I open a table and then when I close the table I get a screen that says "Visual Pinball has stopped working" and gives the option to check online for a solution or close the program. This window doesnt go away until I click manually. Then after about 3 seconds it returns to PinballX.

The error doesn't clear but when manually cleared it returns to pinballx

[Tom Speirs]

What versions of windows are you both running?

Just to be clear though the best we are going to get is to clear the error and have everything still running properly.

[manafauntia]

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, but I fixed the problem!

I noticed that for a split second just before the error popped up that the Visual Pinball exit screen was popping up. I had read somewhere that you need to disable that function for it to work properly with front-end software. I went into the keys preferences in visual pinball and checked the box to disable the esc key and removed my button assignment from the exit key. So if I ran a table directly from visual pinball I would have no way to exit. When I run any game through PinballX the error is gone and the tables exit smoothly.

[garath]

I'm running Windows 7 professionel 64bits.

I tried to to check the box to disable the esc key and removed my button assignment from the exit key but it doesn't change anyhing.

Still a crash wich does not clear.

[garath]

An update : I solved my problem with a new Vpinball.exe. I am now testing : "VP9_DX9_test13.exe"

At the moment this version is working very nice, with no crash like with 9.2.1.

So as a consequence, PinballX 1.77 is working fine too ...

[randr]

I think a lot of peoples issues are due to running "test" versions of VP. I too am running latest(always do) and 1.77 started glitch but has been fine for me lately. So happy about the nvram saving!

[gtxjoe]

It would still be nice to have PinballX monitor for these VP crashes and close out the popup dialog, so Pinballx menu resumes control. I have attached the vp dx9test13 screenshot. For a VP9.2.1 crash the windows dialog title is "Visual Pinball 9.2.1"

Thanks

log.txt

PinballX.ini

[garath]

That's right, 1.76 was dealing with crash perfectly, it's a regression that 1.77 do not (even if I know that bugs are not obvious at all ...)

[Tom Speirs]

Resolved in 1.78