Iron Maiden name crashes PinballX

[bushav]

Today I downloaded the fabulous VPW team's Iron Maiden (Stern 2018) table.  I rediscovered a bug that I believe exists within my PinballX.  A few years back I installed "Iron Maiden Virtual Time" which is based on the Laser War table I believe.  At that time PinballX would crash when selecting Iron Maiden from the wheel.  I had to rename the table "Virtual Time Iron Maiden" to fix the issue.  With the VPW Iron Maiden table I once again experienced crashing until I renamed the table "Legacy of the Beast".  For some reason anytime the table is named "Iron Maiden........" PinballX will crash upon selecting the table in the wheel.  This could very well be limited to my installation but I just can't figure out the issue and must create a work around to have it in the wheel.  Anyone else experienceing this?  Using 5.55 and log doesn't show any error messages.  As a side note I have noticed similar issues anytime the name has a special character such as "&".  When a special character is used you can view the visual pinball database file and see the scrambled name.  With Iron Maiden the datablase XML file looks intact and accurate.  Not a related issue as the special character usage.

 

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[SETTINGS].log log.txt

[Draco1962]

Attach your pinballx.ini please. Thanks.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Can you reproduce the issue where you ha e the name  "iron maiden Legacy of the beast" and pinballx crashes and post the log file.

I will test it tomorrow as well (only played it in VR yet, not in cabinet mode)

[bushav]

Here is the ini file.  Mike_da_Spik, the log file is no different with "iron maiden legacy of the beast" vs "legacy of the beast".  The last log entry shows "loading "whatever table name is clicked on"".  The crash occurs without a log entry showing the error.  The only error I had yesterday logged was the flash ocx error.  I deleted and reloaded flash and eliminated that error.  I have had that error for quite a while.  Finally took the time to mess with the permissions so I could delete it (what a pain).

The table just shows the pinballx media ie table video and b2s video and says "loading" with my loading overlay video.  After about 60 seconds all monitors go black and the computer is locked up.  Task Manager with a power down is the only way to recover.  I have an Iron Man table in the wheel.  I have wondered if having the two names so similar is causing an issue.  But I see some people have several different versions of the same table in their wheel so it must have to do with the specific letters that "Iron Maiden" entails.  As stated this came up last year with Iron Maiden Virtual Time also.  Any ideas appreciated.  Otherwise I will just stick with not using "Iron Maiden" as the name of any table.

 

Lane

PinballX.ini

[Mike_da_Spike]

I added this morning the table to my cab and it is working like a charm. 
launching the game (name "Iron Maiden Legacy Of The Beast (Limited Edition) (Stern 2018)") work fine.
exiting, launching another game is working fine as well.
returning from exiting game and launch IM is working as well
See attached video (the black flashes during loading is from the video capturing, I don't see it on the cabinet)
 

 

I also attached my log file.
The only difference is , that I run VPX in "Force exclusive fullscreen mode" and set PBX to use the "Full screen exclusive hack"

 

If that won't work at all, try to check your system resources, by starting task manager, set it to summery view and always on top.
launch PBX and check what your resources are when the game is loading (or after loading when it is hanging):

But indeed strange that it has to do with your naming convention.
When launching the table as "Iron Maiden Legacy Of The Beast " and your system is locking, do you have any application event in your eventviewer ( https://docs.rackspace.com/support/how-to/use-event-viewer-to-troubleshoot-system-freezes/ )?

How about table "Iron Maiden (Stern 1982)" . is this table giving you the same issue ?

sorry, no solution, but need to get to the root cause of this, so Tom can fix this

 

 

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[scutters]

@bushav

Can you try with File Matching disabled in PinballX (under General Settings). Just wondering if that could be a factor somehow after having issues with the IM virtual time table previously (e.g. corrupt historic file or entry and being incorrectly name matched to the new Legacy of the Beast table ).

If that doesn't work can your attach your pinballx\databases\statistics.ini file as well (maybe there's an issue with that file for an IM table)

[bushav]

Hey guys. I’m on a family vacation. I’ll be back on 13th to try a few of your suggestions.  I flipped over to this forum while on vacation because I saw the same issue reported on a Facebook group. Thanks for looking into it. 
 

Lane