[RESOLVED] No sound when I return the frontend

[echodun]

Long time user with no issues.  All of a sudden, when I go into a table and exit, eventually I lose complete sound in PinballX.  When I go back into a table the sound is there fine.  PinballX also starts out okay with sound.  Sometimes I'll lose sound even when merely browsing through the tables after going into a table initially.  I've never had an issue like this before.  I've tried reinstalling PinballX, disabling AIO Equalizer and Pinvol, but to no avail.

 

Also, after losing sound, I can go into a new table and sound is fine.  When I return to PinballX there's no sound.

Further update, exited out of PinballX, went back in, heard initial sound when switching tables, then  no sound.

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[Mike_da_Spike]

I don't have a clue.
Was this issue introduced during an upgrade of PinballX version ?
If so, it can help Tom to identify the cause.

Maybe try to revert a couple of version back and try to reproduce the issue. 
Not sure if you set your windows to autoupdate , but could be that an update causes this issue (but thats a long shot)

Logfile looks fine. 

What you can try ( but just for testing).
Rename the bass.dll from your pinballX directory to bass.DLL_org .
Go to https://www.un4seen.com/ and download the Win32 version :

Within the zipfile copy the bass.dll from the X64 directory, to your pinballX directory

start PinballX and check

Not a solution, but  just try to help you

[echodun]

8 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

I don't have a clue.
Was this issue introduced during an upgrade of PinballX version ?
If so, it can help Tom to identify the cause.

Maybe try to revert a couple of version back and try to reproduce the issue. 
Not sure if you set your windows to autoupdate , but could be that an update causes this issue (but thats a long shot)

Logfile looks fine. 

What you can try ( but just for testing).
Rename the bass.dll from your pinballX directory to bass.DLL_org .
Go to https://www.un4seen.com/ and download the Win32 version :

Within the zipfile copy the bass.dll from the X64 directory, to your pinballX directory

start PinballX and check

Not a solution, but  just try to help you

There was a Windows update that precipitated this issue, but, as a result and before I pinpointed it to the Windows update, I also updated and reinstalled PinballX, EqualizerAPO and PinVol.  So yeah, there's that.   I appreciate the suggestion.  Perhaps I'll try to revert to the version of Windows prior to the update. 

[Mike_da_Spike]

I'm running latest windows 11 and dont have issues, but could be because of your setup as well.

[echodun]

Even more weirdness that makes me wonder if it's a PinballX issue after all?  Loading a table and while playing, there was a definitive pause and next thing I know, the flipper channel goes out.  When I returned to PinballX the change table sound no longer works.  I did replace the bass.dll file like you suggested, but this now sounds more like a windows issue with the USB sound card no?

[Draco1962]

If all was well before you updated Windows, then very possible there is a driver compatibility issue introduced and not a PinballX issue. 

If you have niche devices or software, such as Pinscape or Pinvol, then a question would be have you checked the sites for any issues reported post update and any patches from their devs?

[echodun]

Fingers crossed, but so far either the bass.dll trick or reverting Windows update has fixed the issue.    I did check the third party sites for updates, but nothing yet.

[echodun]

As an update, it happened again, but unusually particular to the Tales of the Arabian Nights table.  While playing, it would pause for a beat and then I'd completely lose the sound of the flippers only.  Thinking at this point it must be a driver issue.  I completely uninstalled Vpinmame, PpinballX and my Startech USB sound device software.  I then reinstalled pinballx and vpinmame and copied over my original files from before.  I elected not to install any specific software for the Startech device relying on the setup provided from Windows alone (which does support a 7.1 setup anyway).  I'm hoping it was the installation of the Startech software that maybe caused it not to work because TOAN is now working fine. 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Ah. The startech 7.1 externall usb audio device. I had that device as well, and causes issues as well. It solved when I swapped my main board with on board Realtek soundcard 7.1