jaharr01 Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Okay here is my problem. I had pinballX setup with the prior version of pinballx and it was working fine exiting properly with FP and VP. I set up DOF and upgraded to the latest version and then I started having problems. the db2s back glass wasn't closing but the pinball x menu would come up the table in vp was minimizing , but when I would start another table the back glass wouldnt ecit and it would start another VP instance o top of that one, which screws everything up. I have got to fix this it is driving me craxy. My set up is an A8 with windows 8.1, 8gb ram with an ssd. It is a 3 screen setup. I have FP and VP running in pinballx.I have a nanotech plunger board as my encoder.SetupWizard.xmllog (1).txtVisual Pinball.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Please try the attached:PBX.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 i'll give it a shot Tom, thanks for all your hard work.Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 18, 2014 Author Share Posted September 18, 2014 Hey Tom It appears to be a failure of pinballx not exiting VP.Whatever it is causing this,whether the pinmame support or whatever it doesn't shut down VP, when u load another game the prior backglass comes up. I put an led clear file in the scripts and run it on exit. Also I used the hold exit button down feature and that didn't work.I hate to leave 1.87 because of the online integration that saves time finding artwork, but the frontend is unusable in this state. Could you give me a link to 1.85 so I can revert or do I have to uninstall and reinstall. I know its not a problem that is just mine from reading the earlier posts. It may have something to do with DOF and pinballx because thats when the problem started. I ran the file you gave me it made no difference.Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Providing old versions halts progress but I need to know if 1.85 has the issue. It is attached.Please let me know.Cheers.PinballX.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 Hey Tom, do you care to give me a link to the full install of 1.85. That flash exe program didn't change it back,or i'm not doing something right, I need to uninstall and reinstall the full version. I'm going to systematically uninstall and reinstall the software till I find out what it was. I will reinstall 1.87 first and make sure it just didn't need a reinstall. then I will uninstall and reinstall VP, Finally if that doesn't work then I will uninstall and install 1.85. Thanks for your prompt response. I hope I get it fixed.Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Hi,There should be no need to do a reinstall. Everything PinballX does pretty much is in that exe. There are no other dependencies that have changed.So it didn't fix it right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 no. and I have thought about this from every angle. The root problem is that VP is not shutting down with 1 keystroke. VP is designed to return to the menu i.e. return to editor,resume game, and debug.before pinballx bypassed this with one key stroke from pinballx. That is the issue. There is a commonality with other pinballx users since the last release, although that could be coincidental. Regarding my setup something caused pinballx to not exit to properly via the exit command . Whether it is pinballx or vp , I am unsure. I think the only route is to start unistalling and reinstalling each part one at a time, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Well the other issue with VP not shutting down properly in the latest release should now be fixed if you look in the 1.87 LedWiz topic. However the issue was not present in 1.85 so I don't think your issue is directly related to a PinballX bug in at least the last two releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 Well I'll put a Fresh install of of vp and 1.87 and maybe that will fix it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 I know from experience if software gets tweaked enough it will eventually screw up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Ill have 1.88 out shortly with that other fix so you might want to hold off a few hours. I just need confirmation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 I will Tom. Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 fixed with 1.88 thanks so much Tom, I'd buy u a beer if I could.Since I can't I'll drink one in your honor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parabolic Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Tom, Ive been having this problem as well. Just found the update to 1.88 and installed it. Still gives me a virtual pinball has encountered a problem error upon game exit. I DO notice this is when exiting with a usb controller instead of the esc key on the keyboard. With the ESC key I can exit all day with no issues. but EVERY TIME I use my exit button (wired to buton 9 on my controller) it fails.Is there any way to change the script to function the same way when hitting the exit button?ThanksPara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sliderpoint Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Tom, Ive been having this problem as well. Just found the update to 1.88 and installed it. Still gives me a virtual pinball has encountered a problem error upon game exit. I DO notice this is when exiting with a usb controller instead of the esc key on the keyboard. With the ESC key I can exit all day with no issues. but EVERY TIME I use my exit button (wired to buton 9 on my controller) it fails.Is there any way to change the script to function the same way when hitting the exit button?ThanksParaIs your controller also mapped to keyboard commands? ie: through joy2key or something like that? If that is the case, I recommend removing the joystick input setups from the pinballx settings. -Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 straight up it fixed mine.yes i'm running joy2key but since its not broken i'm not messing with it.But if it acts up again i'll try to remove game key from pinballx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B2K24 Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I occasionally have this issue running VP990 without any Front End even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaharr01 Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 vp has too many variables, one little break in the chain and it acts weird.Although I have not had much problems with it lately, but I only have about 40 tables in VP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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