PinballX process in task manager

[shadow_shd]

Hi,

Forgive me if the question has already been treated and/or answered.

I have noticed that when you exit PinballX, a PinballX process is still alive in Windows task manager.

If you run again PinballX, a second PinballX process is alive too, if you exit and relaunch PBX a third process appears and so on.

Is it a normal way of running ?

Thanks

[Draco1962]

Not sure I can say that is how it should work.  I do not see that happening in my setup. Can you attach a copy of your log.txt file when this occurs?

[shadow_shd]

I will ASAP Draco

Thanks.

[shadow_shd]

Here's a PinballX log :

08:40:23.6  01/03/2017:  PinballX - Version 2.31
08:40:23.7  01/03/2017:  Windows 10 Professionnel 64 bits (15,83203125GB)
08:40:23.7  01/03/2017:  Loading Settings
08:40:23.7  01/03/2017:  Initialize Component
08:40:23.7  01/03/2017:  Initialize Display
08:40:24.8  01/03/2017:  Loading PlugIns
08:40:24.8  01/03/2017:  Loaded Plugin:"DirectOutput PinballX Plugin" Version 1 By Swisslizard
08:40:25.8  01/03/2017:  PlugIn: "DirectOutput PinballX Plugin" Initialized OK
08:40:25.8  01/03/2017:  Using Plugin System Version: 1
08:40:25.9  01/03/2017:  Created DirectX BackGlass Window
08:40:26.0  01/03/2017:  Hiding Cursor
08:40:26.0  01/03/2017:  Hiding Taskbar
08:40:26.2  01/03/2017:  Real DMD Intialized
08:40:26.2  01/03/2017:  CPU:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
08:40:26.2  01/03/2017:  GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
08:40:26.3  01/03/2017:  GPU 2: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
08:40:26.3  01/03/2017:  Displays: 2
08:40:26.3  01/03/2017:  Load Game List
08:40:26.3  01/03/2017:  Loading Database: Pinball FX2
08:40:26.3  01/03/2017:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball
08:40:26.3  01/03/2017:  Loading Database: P-ROC
08:40:26.3  01/03/2017:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball PhysMod5
08:40:26.3  01/03/2017:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball 9
08:40:26.4  01/03/2017:  Finding and matching artwork and videos
08:40:27.2  01/03/2017:  Loading Game Statistics and Scores
08:40:27.3  01/03/2017:  Loading Surfaces
08:40:27.4  01/03/2017:  Finished Loading Surfaces
08:40:27.4  01/03/2017:  Initialize Audio
08:40:27.5  01/03/2017:  Set Keyboard Controls
08:40:27.5  01/03/2017:  Initialize Joystick
08:40:27.5  01/03/2017:  1 Joystick Attached
08:40:27.5  01/03/2017:  Started
08:40:32.3  01/03/2017:  Exiting
08:40:32.4  01/03/2017:  Showing Taskbar
08:40:32.4  01/03/2017:  Unhiding Mouse Cursor
08:40:32.4  01/03/2017:  Disposing Plugins
08:40:32.4  01/03/2017:  Saving Settings
08:40:32.4  01/03/2017:  Bye

And a task manager screenshot after having launched PinballX 2 times :

I've just done some testing before submitting this reply, and I've found that the culprit is DOF PinballX Plugin : if I disable it, PinballX process exists as expected.

Swisslizard if you read this, what do you think ?

Thanks and have a nice day

Edit : as a workaround I added a tskill PinballX command on exit in PinballX settings.