[RESOLVED] Upgrade to Win 10 and now VP 9.x Won't Exit

[jackblotto]

Not sure what's goin on here, I double-checked PBX and everything is working great for the other emulators (FP, PFX3), but with VP 9.x it won't exit when I hit the ESC button as before. Within VP configs I have ESC disabled so it won't bring up the VP diaglog box when you try to quit a game. I did notice if I hold down the ESC key for a few seconds, VP exists.  Interesting though since I do not have setting under PBX that allows holding the ESC key to Exit Emulator.

One thing I did was turn off UAC on Win 10 as the cabinet setup I bought has all the VP 9.x stuff in /Programs which causing Win to ask if it's OK for VP to make changes every time it's launched.

 

Help ....

 

[Draco1962]

Please attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files to yoyr thread (no copy & paste) when requesting assistance.

It is very possible from what you are describing may still be a protection issue and, if your VP 9.x app and tables are installed under Program Files you may need to reinstall to tla root folder, which is recommended.

[jackblotto]

Files attached.

The emulators seem to fine fine. For VP 9 I have to quit the tables using "Q" on a keyboard, go to VP Editor and shut VP down there.  Then PBX comes back up and works fine. The sound when playing a VP 9 table also has a bit of static that I don't recall before but that's a separate issue.

As for the VP installation directory, that's an ongoing issue I know. I bought this cabinet from somebody else and am trying to update and fix some things as I go. I tried to reinstall VP 9 into another folder (c:\\vPinball for instance), but there are things that are installed and configured that integrate with VP 9 on my cabinet that I can't seem to redo and get right.  Trying to simply keep the VP 9 setup running as I'm not adding tables to it.  Trying to install VPX and get it up and running now too.

The other issue I'm dealing with right now is it seems like almost every time I restart Windows 10, my display setup changes and which affects PBX, but not other software configs oddly.  Again, another problem to deal with, but you may see some oddities in the PinballX.ini as it pertains to the displays.

log.txt PinballX.ini

[scutters]

2 hours ago, jackblotto said:

I double-checked PBX and everything is working great for the other emulators (FP, PFX3), but with VP 9.x it won't exit when I hit the ESC button as before

Your ini file shows quit and exit emulator mapped to keycode 70 (f key), not keycode 27 (ESC key) so i'm a bit confused. Are you using keyboard or buttons?

Log also shows 'PinballX - Version 4.13 x64' which is quite old now and you should update.

[Draco1962]

+1 on downloading and installing the latest version of PinballX as it can become difficult to troubleshoot some errors that may be remedied in subsequent versions.

[jackblotto]

Oddly enough, my old ini always had 70 on them, tried 27 this morning and no change.  I just updated to the latest version o PBX 10 minutes ago, I hadn't done that previously as 4.13 was the one that worked best with my setup and Windows 7. 

So, it looks like I needed to set RUN_AS_ADMINISTRATOR on PinballX, even with the new version, but VP is exiting properly now from PBX.

I also modified the sound settings in VP 9 and got the sound static to go away. I think this all has to do with the Windows 10 Upgrade.

Thanks, D

[Draco1962]

So all reported issues resolved?

[jackblotto]

Looks like it.  I also ran into issues getting the display set properly and downloaded the nice toold for setting screen_res.txt.  That worked great once I figured out how it worked with my setup. Then it kept getting screwed up whenever I would launch VP via PinballX, found on this forum to turn off the auto b2s setting and that is now solved too.

I'm crossing my fingers that after a couple of reboots the display don't move, Windows 10 is solid and things play well.  THEN, its time to figure out getting VPX on my setup without touching the VP 9 "stuff".  I want them totally separate.

Need to take a break now.

Thanks for the help and the push to move forward too. It's one of the main reasons I'm sticking with PinballX vs some of the other frontends out there.

 

[scutters]

2 hours ago, jackblotto said:

So, it looks like I needed to set RUN_AS_ADMINISTRATOR on PinballX, even with the new version, but VP is exiting properly now from PBX

That probably is linked to Program Files install location and UAC

[jackblotto]

I need to go and check on that.  I turned UAC off, but wondering if by running PBX as admin, maybe I don't need to.  My background is UNIX, not Windows so there are things that elude me with Windows.

[Draco1962]

If at all possible I believe that it is recommended to not Run as administrator, but probably something that can be addressed later if you decide to move VP9.x to a root location.