PinballX changing B2S resolution

[[email protected]]

Hey there,

I've got a 3 screen setup and I'd had Pinball X setup and working great with Visual Pinball 10.6.   I recently moved, so I broke the system down, moved it, then plugged everything back in.   

Visual Pinball works fine by itself.   When I launch PinballX and try to start a table, this happens:

1) VP will not launch.  It just hangs

2) the screen resolution for my backglass monitor in B2S gets changed to a lower resolution. 

3) On next startup, Pinball X will launch in a very small window (not fullscreen).  Relaunching it will sometimes fix this.

4) I've had Pinball X come up a couple of times with "0 Tables".  Shutdown and relaunch PinballX corrects the issue.

Of all the problems, why in the heck is the B2S screen resolution getting changed?  Has this ever been reported before? 

PBX.7z

[scutters]

Sorry to say, but your pinballx.ini (config) looks shot to me... e.g. one problem - no launch parameters for visual pinball (the /play -"[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]" bit is missing). 

Do you have a backup?

Also, is C:\ a hard disk (maybe damaged in transit)?

[[email protected]]

I just ran chkdsk /R on the drives, let me check the result.

[[email protected]]

Both SSD drives checked out OK.  No errors, no bad sectors.   So why is PinballX eating its config files?   For the record, I fixed that issue you pointed out with the /play -"[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]" last night, but apparently it didn't save? 
Wonder if the Windows defender exclusions got taken out by an update or something...   hmm...

[Mike_da_Spike]

Did you check eveventlog for any issue ?

Do you run any backup or other tool that backup your harddrive/ssd?

[[email protected]]

No, no backups on this box.     Nothing in the event logs.    Its very odd. 

[scutters]

8 hours ago, [email protected] said:

Both SSD drives checked out OK.  No errors, no bad sectors.   So why is PinballX eating its config files?   For the record, I fixed that issue you pointed out with the /play -"[TABLEPATH]\[TABLEFILE]" last night, but apparently it didn't save? 
Wonder if the Windows defender exclusions got taken out by an update or something...   hmm...

Strange. Try going through settings again in settings.exe, make a change or too and exit. Re-open settings.exe and confirm if the changes were saved to help narrow that down (not sure if you saved and then ran pinballx before).