Pinballx fails to start

[graf]

Hello,

Dont know what is going on but when I start Pinballx it says "Welcome" then it crashes.

i am running win 7 64bit.

I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560. I was running the latest nvidia drive for this but all of a sudden I was getting the following error " \??\C:\Users\XXX\AppData\LOcal\NVIDA\NvBackend\ApplicationOntology/NvOAWrapperCache.exe - cannot start due to incompatibility with 64-Bit versions of Windows.'"   So I uninstalled and went to a earlier version and this fix that issue.gone.

I run a 2nd monitor 21 inch via DVI .

3rd monitor USB running DisplayLink USB Graphics Software for Windows 8.0 M1.

When I run future pinball (BAM)  and FutureDMD it works the pinball games are running.

But as soon as I try Pinballx. It crashes.

I have reinstalled PinballX  and the same issue occurs again.

 

Here is the Log  file

11:38:08.7  14/08/2016:  PinballX - Version 2.22
11:38:08.8  14/08/2016:  Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1 64-bit (7.9GB)
11:38:08.8  14/08/2016:  Loading Settings
11:38:08.8  14/08/2016:  Initialize Component
11:38:08.8  14/08/2016:  Initialize Display
11:38:10.0  14/08/2016:  Loading PlugIns
11:38:10.0  14/08/2016:  Loaded Plugin:"Speak Game Names" Version 1 By Tom Speirs
11:38:10.1  14/08/2016:  PlugIn: "Speak Game Names" Initialized OK
11:38:10.1  14/08/2016:  Using Plugin System Version: 1
11:38:10.2  14/08/2016:  Created DirectX BackGlass Window
11:38:10.3  14/08/2016:  Created DirectX DMD Window
11:38:10.3  14/08/2016:  Hiding Cursor
11:38:10.3  14/08/2016:  Hiding Taskbar
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  CPU:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Displays: 3
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Load Game List
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Loading Database: Future Pinball
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Error. Exiting
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Argument 'Length' must be greater or equal to zero.
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:     at Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Mid(String str, Int32 Start, Int32 Length)
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:     at PinballX.Main.a(String A_0, String A_1, String A_2, Boolean A_3, String A_4, String A_5)
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:     at PinballX.Main.b(String A_0, String A_1, String A_2)
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:     at PinballX.Main.b(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3)
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:     at PinballX.Main..ctor()
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Disposing Plugins
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Showing Taskbar
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Unhiding Mouse Cursor
11:38:10.4  14/08/2016:  Bye

 

Any help please !!

 

[graf]

i have reinstall futuredmd 1.8.1 and the same issue . PinballX crashes.

i am going to try an d install .net framework 4.6

Edited August 14, 2016 by graf
updated info

[graf]

Ok i found a spare hard disk and install win 10 on it. I get the same issue when i try to start pinballx.

The system was working fine a cou0ke of weeks ago.

Maybe i should go back to win 7 32bit or xp. Anybody else having the same issue???

[graf]

Btw i have the following morherboard asus p8h61-mle/usb3.

I did another test on the new Windows pc. Where i unplugged the usb x2 cables for the usb monitor. Then triee to start pinballx. But it crashed again. I even checked the windows event log but i cant see any errors. Is there another place where i can get more of a detail logs which can ooint me to why is it crashing. One other thing is the win10 is rhe july 2016 version . I am thinking of going to try another old iso for win8 . 

 

Its just strange that i can get future pinball running the tabels on the three monitor set up but pinballx dies.

Also i just run future pinball tabels.

 

I hope soneone can point me in the righr direction

[Draco1962]

Going back to XP wouldn't be a step in the right direction. I do not run Future Pinball so I can't test this on my Win 10 cab (with Anniversary update), but I can say that it is stable and hasn't crashed with VP, Pinball Arcade, or Pinball FX2. You need to make sure that you update your GPU driver from the nVidia site as the Anniversary update installs its own. 

[gtxjoe]

Based on the log file, I would guess the issue is your future pinball.xml database file.   I would look there first

[Carny_Priest]

Yes, a faulty database xml can crash the program. Have you added any entries lately? A file name or game name with a special character that is not recognized by xml is usually the culprit. Could be an ampersand? You can view and edit an xml file with Notepad.

[graf]

Ok i think u guys r right. Cause when i built the new pc i used the original pinballx folder

[graf]

Thanks Guys. it was a stupid mistake in the xml file. I should of looked at that first but it has been such a long time

 

Thanks once again