Resolved : Can't figure out how to solve this

[Thalamus]

Two days ago I was playing a game and I had a power outage in the area. When the power came back, pinballx would not launch anymore.

It just hangs there with the startup-logo, unresponsive. Task manager -> PinballX and Backglass server, both unresponsive.

All tested games work outside PinballX, Game-manager also. Even PinballX Lite, but, well that doesn't show a backglass or PinDMD3 :-(

Anyone seen something like this before ? Tried un-installing/re-installing codecs, re-installed PinballX over itself ( same version ).

Have after this happened installed the visual pinball all in one for 10.2 and updated to latest SAM.

No change.

Log has only 9 lines.

09:30:31.6  31.12.2016:  PinballX - Version 2.28
09:30:31.6  31.12.2016:  Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 64-bit (7,9638671875GB)
09:30:31.6  31.12.2016:  Loading Settings
09:30:31.6  31.12.2016:  Initialize Component
09:30:31.6  31.12.2016:  Initialize Display
09:30:32.7  31.12.2016:  Loading PlugIns
09:30:32.8  31.12.2016:  Created DirectX BackGlass Window
09:30:32.9  31.12.2016:  Hiding Cursor
09:30:32.9  31.12.2016:  Hiding Taskbar

I had a backup of a working setup, that I copied to another folder. Same problem.

Is there maybe a debug version that I could get my hands on ?

[Carny_Priest]

Try a system restore.

[Thalamus]

Thank you for your suggestion.

Restored successfully to the 20.12. No change.

[Thalamus]

Holy crap - I seem to have fixed it.

Looking at the old log from the backup folder I noticed that the next thing it did before was to open the dmd.

I found a pindmd.dll in pinballx folder - renamed it to pindmd.dll.off and now the backglass came up. So, copied the pindmd.dll from visual pinball over to pinballx and I'm a happy man again.

How this whole thing actually started. Is a mystery to me.