[RESOLVED] Intermittent Visual Pinball Freeze...

[spisi69]

Hey everyone. Anybody run into this issue? Sometimes, when I launch a table in Pinball X, it won't play. None of the buttons do anything, like it's frozen. I can then exit out, re-launch and everything works fine... No problems launching tables outside of Pinball X. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Yes, I have a few ideas

[scutters]

3 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Yes, I have a few ideas

Long day Mike? 

4 hours ago, spisi69 said:

Hey everyone. Anybody run into this issue? Sometimes, when I launch a table in Pinball X, it won't play. None of the buttons do anything, like it's frozen. I can then exit out, re-launch and everything works fine... No problems launching tables outside of Pinball X. Any ideas? Thanks.

It sounds like a focus issue. Please attach copies of your PinballX Log.txt & PinballX.ini files, confirm what tables have the issue (are they all Visual Pinball etc?), and also what settings you have in that application (e.g. if Visual Pinball is Force Exclusive Fullscreen set in video options, what version are you running etc).

[Draco1962]

Attach (no copy & paste) copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files and we'll be glad to discuss ideas.

[spisi69]

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[spisi69]

15:05:07.04  9/20/2023:  PinballX Core - Version 5.55 x64
15:05:07.07  9/20/2023:  Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (16GB)
15:05:07.08  9/20/2023:  Loading Settings
15:05:07.08  9/20/2023:  Initialize Component
15:05:07.12  9/20/2023:  Initialize Display
15:05:07.18  9/20/2023:  Testing Flash engine.
15:05:07.26  9/20/2023:  Loading PlugIns
15:05:07.62  9/20/2023:  Loaded Plugin:"DirectOutput PinballX Plugin" Version 1.4 By Swisslizard (modified by Mike da Spike)
15:05:09.31  9/20/2023:  PlugIn: "DirectOutput PinballX Plugin" Initialized OK
15:05:09.31  9/20/2023:  Using Plugin System Version: 1.4
15:05:09.52  9/20/2023:  Loaded Plugin:"Loading Image Changer" Version 2.3.1 By scutters
15:05:09.75  9/20/2023:  PlugIn: "Loading Image Changer" Initialized OK
15:05:09.75  9/20/2023:  Using Plugin System Version: 2
15:05:09.76  9/20/2023:  Loaded Plugin:"Media Player" Version 2.1.1 By scutters
15:05:09.91  9/20/2023:  PlugIn: "Media Player" Initialized OK
15:05:09.91  9/20/2023:  Using Plugin System Version: 2
15:05:10.13  9/20/2023:  Loaded Plugin:"QuickLaunch for PinballX" Version 1.0.4 By Adultery
15:05:10.14  9/20/2023:  PlugIn: "QuickLaunch for PinballX" Initialized OK
15:05:10.14  9/20/2023:  Using Plugin System Version: 1
15:05:12.14  9/20/2023:  Created DirectX BackGlass Window
15:05:12.20  9/20/2023:  Created DirectX DMD Window
15:05:12.20  9/20/2023:  Looking for startup images
15:05:12.69  9/20/2023:  Hiding Cursor
15:05:12.71  9/20/2023:  Hiding Taskbar
15:05:12.72  9/20/2023:  Getting GPU and CPU Information
15:05:12.73  9/20/2023:  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
15:05:12.73  9/20/2023:  4 cores, 8 threads
15:05:12.73  9/20/2023:  GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
15:05:12.73  9/20/2023:  Displays: 3
15:05:12.73  9/20/2023:  Load Game List
15:05:12.79  9/20/2023:  Loading Database: Pinball FX2
15:05:12.82  9/20/2023:  Loading Database: Pinball FX3
15:05:12.84  9/20/2023:  Loading Database: Future Pinball
15:05:12.84  9/20/2023:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball
15:05:12.87  9/20/2023:  Loading Database: Visual Pinball 10.7
15:05:12.89  9/20/2023:  Loading Custom Database: Spisi's Favs
15:05:12.89  9/20/2023:  Loading Custom Database: Work in Progress
15:05:12.90  9/20/2023:  Initial load gamelist took: 110ms
15:05:12.94  9/20/2023:  Finding and matching artwork and videos
15:05:13.60  9/20/2023:  Also Creating and Caching Wheels for Overlays
15:05:13.86  9/20/2023:  Took: 937ms
15:05:13.86  9/20/2023:  Loading Game Statistics and Scores
15:05:13.89  9/20/2023:  Main display running full screen windowed.
15:05:13.93  9/20/2023:  Loading Surfaces
15:05:14.09  9/20/2023:  Finished Loading Surfaces
15:05:14.10  9/20/2023:  Initialize Audio
15:05:14.17  9/20/2023:  Set Keyboard Controls
15:05:14.18  9/20/2023:  Initialize Joystick
15:05:14.23  9/20/2023:  2 Joysticks Attached
15:05:14.23  9/20/2023:  Setting default net connection limit to 25
15:05:14.23  9/20/2023:  Started
15:29:51.63  9/20/2023:  Exiting
15:29:51.81  9/20/2023:  Showing Taskbar
15:29:51.82  9/20/2023:  Unhiding Mouse Cursor
15:29:51.84  9/20/2023:  Disposing Plugins
15:29:51.86  9/20/2023:  Saving Settings
15:29:53.00  9/20/2023:  Bye

[Mike_da_Spike]

See :

 

no copy paste, just attach as file.

Also make a screenshot of your visual pinball video settings (or in case of 10.8attachrd the visualpinball.ini. attached)

 

5 hours ago, scutters said:

Long day Mike? 

You known me too well

[spisi69]

Here you go.

log.txt PinballX.ini

[Mike_da_Spike]

Thanks,

Unfortunately the log file doesn't contain a launch of a vpx tables, but think i see the issue.

Within pinballx , you set 'full screen exclusive' to true, but visual pinball is running in windowed mode.

Please try to set visual pinball to 'full exclusive fullscreen mode', close vpx and retry Pinballx.

Please let us know if that made any difference 

[spisi69]

OK, made the change and tested a bunch of tables without issue. The problem was intermittent, but so far so good. Thanks Scutters, Draco and yes even Mike! LOL!

[Mike_da_Spike]

Ha!