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ppilot:
Okay, I know this has been covered extensively, and I know some people have reported similar sounding problems.  But I've never seen the answer posted.

If I try to launch a pinball game using vp-launch4, I get the FBI splash screen, and the only way I can get off of it is to reboot.  I've tried launching through mamewah.  I've tried going to the command line and typing 'vp-launch4 {tablename}'  I've got the executable and the vplcfgs folder in the tables subdirectory of my pinball install.  The 'default.ini' file is in the vplcfgs folder.  If I launch vp-launch4 from inside windows, I get the configuration screen with the values from the default.ini filled in.  The 'Test Launch a  Game' window has the names of my tables in it, but if I test launch I get the same result; splash screen I can't get away from.

It checks the exit key every 100 ms, so I've tried holding down the escape key to exit, nothing, I'm still stuck.  I've tried running the PinMame setup program, uninstalling visual PinMame, then re-installing.  I'm running Windows XP rev. 2.  I've got version 0.6.6028 of Visual Pinball.  The directory structure to VP-launch4 is C:\PinballPack\Visual Pinball\Tables.

I've tried this on three different computers.  I assume I'm either doing something very stupid, or vp-launch4 needs something that isn't on my computer in order to run.

That's about all I can think to tell anyone.  Also, assuming I can ever get this thing running, is there any way to remap the exit key?  I don't have a dedicated exit key on my cab.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me, this is very frustrating.
ppilot:
Oh, and after I try to run, the vplog.txt file says

C:\pinballpack\Visual Pinball\Tables\TopSpeed.vpt with path
ppilot:
bump, Howard, don't you have some idea?
Howard_Casto:
I was looking into my archives and I've actually never seen this particular problem.  That's why I haven't responded yet. 

There are a couple of things to keep in mind here:

First off the version of visual pinball isn't important, but the version of visual pinmame is. You need to use the latest version as older versions had different class names and thus the wrapper can't control them. 

Also some video card manufacturers come with "window managment software"  that needs to be disabled.  Nvidia cards are notorious for this. 

Something you need to test is to make sure that visual pinball is "explorer ready".  Double-click on any vpt table from within explorer and make sure it loads properly.  If it doesn't then that's your problem right there.  It is solved by re-installing visual pinball and leaving the install program on your system while launching your first table from within explorer. 

Lastly it shouldn't be locking up.  Try alt-tab on the splash screen to see if it's a focus issue.  If so then it's just one of those odd-ball tables that sets it's own focus.  If it IS locking up then it's almost guaranteed that your problem is the problem above. 

The exit key can be remapped by passing "-keyx scancode" where, scancode is replaced with the vb scancode for your dedicated button.  It's not in the dialog because almost no one uses it.  ;)
ppilot:
Thank you very much for the reply.

First off the version of visual pinball isn't important, but the version of visual pinmame is. You need to use the latest version as older versions had different class names and thus the wrapper can't control them. 

I'm using version 1.52

Also some video card manufacturers come with "window managment software"  that needs to be disabled.  Nvidia cards are notorious for this. 


What would need to be disabled?  I don't have an nvidia card.


Something you need to test is to make sure that visual pinball is "explorer ready".  Double-click on any vpt table from within explorer and make sure it loads properly.  If it doesn't then that's your problem right there.  It is solved by re-installing visual pinball and leaving the install program on your system while launching your first table from within explorer. 


Which application should the .vpt files be associated with?

Again, thank you very much for your help.
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