Mamewah and Vpinmame crash

[gust0208]

Hello everyone,

I read through the other posts concerning these two, but the problem that I am experiencing wasn't covered completely by the threads, so I am starting a new one.

I am running the latest Mamewah and configured with the Mamewah config utility.  I have intstalled Visual pinball and Pinmame per the instructions on the CPViewer website and am using their ini file and wrapper exe file.  I can successfully run and load the table with rom going through the GUI with no problems.  My problem is when launching a table from Mamewah (a table with associated rom file), it will launch a "spashscreen" process showing a "Visual Pinball" screen and then lock up while trying to load the table.  If I wait a few minutes, it may bring up the small LCD window for the display, but will never make it to displaying the table.  I can ctrl-alt-delete and see that Mamewah and Splashscreen are not responding at this time.  I have no problems when launching the "Top Speed" table included with visual pinball.

I am running Win XP on a 1.9 Ghz Athlon XP with 256 Mb memory.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Tom

[whatisk]

I too was experiencing similar problems when using PinballWrapper. I would get the splash screen and occasionally the led display.
The only tables that appeared to load okay were those that didn't use vpinmame (ie: no rom files were loaded).

After much trial and error, I ended up using vp-launch from http://www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus/# The main difference between vp-launch2 and vp-launch4 is that vp-launch4 displays a splash screen while loading the tables whereas vp-launch2 displays a black screen (my apologies to the author here as there is undoubtedly a lot more difference behind the scenes than just this).

I now appear to have everything working fine.
I am currently using Visual Pinball 6.1 (if using WinXP SP2 make sure you have the fixed exe), VPMame 1.51 and vp-launch4. Also make sure you have the latest scripts in your tables directory.

My config file looks something like this (this isn't my exact ini file, but should be pretty close from memory)

### vpinball.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title