[RESOLVED] Problem closing tables in windows 8.1, help :(

[aldub516]

Hey all and thank you for the help as always. Im pretty knowledgable in mame..pinball is a new animal for me. I did a LOT of digging, searching and research and im still at a standstill. My goal is this: Select a table with pinball x, then be able to exit right back to my table selection without going to the visual pinball editor. Ive read tons of workarounds and simple fixes. First, to be clear, is pinballx MADE to automatically skip over the editor? Ive followed all instructions regardling setting keys for quit, and exit emulator, as well as setting all programs to run as administrator. Here is where i think my problem is. Whenever i set pinballx to run as admin, it freezes after i select a table. It will start fine and i can scroll through my games, but once selected it freezes at the loading screen. I can hit escape and get back to my tables, but i cant play anything. This ONLY happens when running pinballx as admin. Thus far, i feel this is the reason that my keys are not working and bringing me straight back to pinballx table selection.. so

first, Does pinballx infact make it possible to go from pinballx table selection, to gameplay, and right back to pinballx table selection?

second, what can resolve my issue with running as admin, as that seemed to fix most peoples problems..

Pinballx. ini included

this seems like a very common problem. i hope i can clear this up

PinballX.ini

[Draco1962]

How about your log.txt file from when the issue occurs? Thanks!

[aldub516]

sorry! didnt realize i didnt.. I started pinballx as administrator, picked a table and got stuck at the loading screen.. was able to exit out and exit pinballx.

log included

log.txt

[aldub516]

again i see its asked a million times. And i found a bunch of threads pertaining to it, but everything skates around my own solution. Just dont want to seem lazy

ive also upgraded to v1.97 but still the same thing when running admin.

[Draco1962]

The log file you provided shows version 1.95 installed. Can you run it again under 1.97?

09:22:57.3  3/1/2015:  PinballX - Version 1.9509:22:57.4  3/1/2015:  64-bit (3.8GB)09:22:57.4  3/1/2015:  Loading Settings09:22:57.4  3/1/2015:  Initialize Component09:22:57.4  3/1/2015:  Initialize Display09:22:58.4  3/1/2015:  Loading PlugIns09:22:58.4  3/1/2015:  Loaded Plugin:"LEDBlinky" Version 6.2.0 By Arzoo09:22:58.5  3/1/2015:  PlugIn: "LEDBlinky" Initialized OK09:22:58.5  3/1/2015:  Using Plugin System Version: 109:22:58.7  3/1/2015:  Hiding Cursor09:22:58.7  3/1/2015:  Hiding Taskbar09:22:58.8  3/1/2015:  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz09:22:58.8  3/1/2015:  GPU 1: Intel(R) HD Graphics 460009:22:58.8  3/1/2015:  Displays: 109:22:58.8  3/1/2015:  Load Game List09:22:58.8  3/1/2015:  Loading Database: Future Pinball09:22:58.8  3/1/2015:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball09:22:58.8  3/1/2015:  Finding and matching artwork and videos09:22:58.8  3/1/2015:  Loading Game Statistics and Scores09:22:59.5  3/1/2015:  Loading Surfaces09:22:59.6  3/1/2015:  Finished Loading Surfaces09:22:59.6  3/1/2015:  Initialize Audio09:22:59.7  3/1/2015:  Set Keyboard Controls09:22:59.7  3/1/2015:  Initialize Joystick09:22:59.7  3/1/2015:  1 Joystick Attached09:22:59.7  3/1/2015:  Started09:23:02.2  3/1/2015:  Launch System09:23:02.2  3/1/2015:  Waiting for threads09:23:02.2  3/1/2015:  Disposing display09:23:03.1  3/1/2015:  C:\Pinball Master Folder\Visual Pinball\VPinball991.exe /play -"C:\Pinball Master FOLDER\Visual Pinball\9 Tables\south park ozpin v1.0 .vpt"09:23:40.1  3/1/2015:  Exiting09:23:40.2  3/1/2015:  Showing Taskbar09:23:40.2  3/1/2015:  Unhiding Mouse Cursor09:23:40.2  3/1/2015:  Disposing Plugins09:23:40.2  3/1/2015:  Saving Settings09:23:40.2  3/1/2015:  Waiting for Online Thread09:23:40.4  3/1/2015:  Bye

[aldub516]

here ya go new log and ini

log.txt

PinballX.ini

[aldub516]

I tried everything on my office pc and it works fine. I am able to start gameex as admin, run games, and quit straight to menu with one key! But when im on my arcade pc, it gets hung up after loading a table. I now have learned that it DOES load future pinball with no problem.. Its visual pinball that wont load when pinballx runs as admin. Visualpinball runs fine outside of gameex when run as admin? So what can be happening between gameex launching visual pinball and the loading screen freezing? I have all apps set to run as admin. Even toyed around with setting compatibility to windows xp sp 3 (im on windows 8.1) nothing works.

my specific problem is visual pinball doesnt get past the pinballx loading screen, when pinballx is run as admin. This is a huge hang up as i cant cleanly navigate to and from games now

[tthurman]

Seemingly there are those that have this issue, and those that do not. Sure makes things frustrating when trying to troubleshoot things for sure. virtuoso posted a solution for his problem, and while not the same issue, it could be worth looking into as a possibility.

[Draco1962]

I tried everything on my office pc and it works fine. I am able to start gameex as admin, run games, and quit straight to menu with one key! But when im on my arcade pc, it gets hung up after loading a table. I now have learned that it DOES load future pinball with no problem.. Its visual pinball that wont load when pinballx runs as admin. Visualpinball runs fine outside of gameex when run as admin? So what can be happening between gameex launching visual pinball and the loading screen freezing? I have all apps set to run as admin. Even toyed around with setting compatibility to windows xp sp 3 (im on windows 8.1) nothing works.

my specific problem is visual pinball doesnt get past the pinballx loading screen, when pinballx is run as admin. This is a huge hang up as i cant cleanly navigate to and from games now

You did mean PinballX, right? I am not sure what to tell you. There is something about the install on the second PC that isn't right. Maybe running VP normally without run as administrator enabled as noted in the other thread?

[horseyhorsey]

You shouldn't need to run PinballX as admin. I am on 8.1 & have 3 copies of pInballX on 2 different drives and fine here.

[Draco1962]

You shouldn't need to run PinballX as admin. I am on 8.1 & have 3 copies of pInballX on 2 different drives and fine here.

You are an admin level user when accessing all instances you have installed? Or do you have separate installs for different users?

[horseyhorsey]

as well as setting all programs to run as administrator.

Just pointing out I believe this is unecessary.

[aldub516]

As of right now i can say this has been fixed. Running pinballx as admin is a must for me, on both pcs. While my office PC worked perfect with run as admin, my arcade PC would freeze! I found I had to set my arcade pcs pinball x to run in windows 8 compatibility and then run as admin. Regardless of the compatibility problem, running pinballx as admin was a must for both my pcs to properly exit out of a pinball table and back to pinballx without seeing the editor.

[Draco1962]

Thanks for sharing your resolution. Will mark this as resolved!