Pinball flashes

Guest · Feb 21, 2006

No new driver updates , running w-xp.Pinball just flashes on-off wont
start.Any more sugestions.

Jimmy S. · Feb 22, 2006

Hi dantheman,

Lets run a diagnostic of your system to see if we can pinpoint the problem.

In order to Create a dxdiag.txt file: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
Afterwards click the "Save All Information..." button in the bottom row.

Open the file and copy/paste everything up to this section in your reply:
---------------------
Sound Capture Devices
---------------------

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dantheman Wrote:
=================
| No new driver updates , running w-xp.Pinball just flashes on-off wont
| start.Any more sugestions.

Guest · Apr 3, 2006

I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:

------------------
System Information
------------------
Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
Machine name: D4YYV321
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
System Model: Dimension 8250
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Memory: 510MB RAM
Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

------------
DxDiag Notes
------------
DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
were successful.
Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
Input Tab: No problems found.
Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
were successful.

--------------------
DirectX Debug Levels
--------------------
Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

---------------
Display Devices
---------------
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0172
SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
Revision ID: 0x00A3
Revision ID: 0x00A3
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.

-------------
Sound Devices
-------------
Description: Creative SB Live! Series
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: P16X.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0xF5F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Registry: OK
Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID:
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 81
Type: Emulated
Driver Name:
Driver Version:
Driver Attributes:
WHQL Logo'd:
Date and Size:
Other Files:
Driver Provider:
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Registry: OK
Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Jimmy S. · Apr 3, 2006

Hi Z34Lee,

Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
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_________________________________________________________

| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
|
| ------------------
| System Information
| ------------------
| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
| Machine name: D4YYV321
| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
| System Model: Dimension 8250
| BIOS: Default System BIOS
| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
| Memory: 510MB RAM
| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
|
| ------------
| DxDiag Notes
| ------------
| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
| were successful.
| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
| Input Tab: No problems found.
| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
| were successful.
|
| --------------------
| DirectX Debug Levels
| --------------------
| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
|
| ---------------
| Display Devices
| ---------------
| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
| VDD: n/a
| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
| Device ID: 0x0172
| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
| Revision ID: 0x00A3
| Revision ID: 0x00A3
| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
| Registry: OK
| DDraw Status: Enabled
| D3D Status: Enabled
| AGP Status: Enabled
| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|
| -------------
| Sound Devices
| -------------
| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
| Default Sound Playback: Yes
| Default Voice Playback: Yes
| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
| Manufacturer ID: 1
| Product ID: 100
| Type: WDM
| Driver Name: P16X.sys
| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
| Other Files:
| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
| HW Accel Level: Full
| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
| HW Memory: 0
| Voice Management: No
| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
| Registry: OK
| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
|
| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
| Default Sound Playback: No
| Default Voice Playback: No
| Hardware ID:
| Manufacturer ID: 1
| Product ID: 81
| Type: Emulated
| Driver Name:
| Driver Version:
| Driver Attributes:
| WHQL Logo'd:
| Date and Size:
| Other Files:
| Driver Provider:
| HW Accel Level: Full
| Cap Flags: 0x0
| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
| HW Memory: 0
| Voice Management: No
| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
| Registry: OK
| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
|
|

Guest · Apr 3, 2006

Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.

Jimmy S. · Apr 4, 2006

Hi Z34Lee,

Okay, lets go ahead and update those sound drivers as well
since they too date back to 2003. Keep us posted! :-)

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

Z34Lee Wrote:
=================
| Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Z34Lee,
||
|| Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
|| Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
|| http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html
||
|| --
|| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
|||
||| ------------------
||| System Information
||| ------------------
||| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
||| Machine name: D4YYV321
||| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
||| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
||| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
||| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
||| System Model: Dimension 8250
||| BIOS: Default System BIOS
||| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
||| Memory: 510MB RAM
||| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
||| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
||| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
||| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
||| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
|||
||| ------------
||| DxDiag Notes
||| ------------
||| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
||| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
||| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
||| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
||| were successful.
||| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
||| Input Tab: No problems found.
||| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
||| were successful.
|||
||| --------------------
||| DirectX Debug Levels
||| --------------------
||| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
||| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
||| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
||| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
||| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
||| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
||| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
|||
||| ---------------
||| Display Devices
||| ---------------
||| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
||| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
||| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
||| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
||| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
||| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
||| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
||| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
||| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
||| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
||| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
||| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
||| VDD: n/a
||| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
||| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
||| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
||| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
||| Device ID: 0x0172
||| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
||| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||| Registry: OK
||| DDraw Status: Enabled
||| D3D Status: Enabled
||| AGP Status: Enabled
||| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
||| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||
||| -------------
||| Sound Devices
||| -------------
||| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
||| Default Sound Playback: Yes
||| Default Voice Playback: Yes
||| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||| Product ID: 100
||| Type: WDM
||| Driver Name: P16X.sys
||| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
||| Other Files:
||| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
||| HW Accel Level: Full
||| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
||| HW Memory: 0
||| Voice Management: No
||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||| Registry: OK
||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||
||| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
||| Default Sound Playback: No
||| Default Voice Playback: No
||| Hardware ID:
||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||| Product ID: 81
||| Type: Emulated
||| Driver Name:
||| Driver Version:
||| Driver Attributes:
||| WHQL Logo'd:
||| Date and Size:
||| Other Files:
||| Driver Provider:
||| HW Accel Level: Full
||| Cap Flags: 0x0
||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
||| HW Memory: 0
||| Voice Management: No
||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||| Registry: OK
||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Guest · Apr 4, 2006

I really don't think my drivers are the issue. Every program on my computer
(and I've got a lot of em) works just fine, but Pinball never worked. I think
it's a Dell issue, or related to the NVIDIA. I'm not sure. Several other
people seem to have the same problem but there's no answers.

Jimmy S. · Apr 4, 2006

Hi Z34Lee,

Are there any 3D games are included in that program list?

Z34Lee Wrote:
=================
| I really don't think my drivers are the issue. Every program on my computer
| (and I've got a lot of em) works just fine, but Pinball never worked. I think
| it's a Dell issue, or related to the NVIDIA. I'm not sure. Several other
| people seem to have the same problem but there's no answers.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Z34Lee,
||
|| Okay, lets go ahead and update those sound drivers as well
|| since they too date back to 2003. Keep us posted! :-)

||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| Z34Lee Wrote:
|| =================
||| Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||
|||| Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
|||| Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
|||| http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
|||||
||||| ------------------
||||| System Information
||||| ------------------
||||| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
||||| Machine name: D4YYV321
||||| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
||||| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
||||| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
||||| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
||||| System Model: Dimension 8250
||||| BIOS: Default System BIOS
||||| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
||||| Memory: 510MB RAM
||||| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
||||| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
||||| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
||||| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
||||| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
|||||
||||| ------------
||||| DxDiag Notes
||||| ------------
||||| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
||||| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
||||| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
||||| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
||||| were successful.
||||| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
||||| Input Tab: No problems found.
||||| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
||||| were successful.
|||||
||||| --------------------
||||| DirectX Debug Levels
||||| --------------------
||||| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
||||| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
||||| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
||||| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
||||| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
||||| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
||||| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
|||||
||||| ---------------
||||| Display Devices
||||| ---------------
||||| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
||||| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
||||| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
||||| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
||||| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
||||| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
||||| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
||||| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
||||| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
||||| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
||||| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
||||| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
||||| VDD: n/a
||||| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
||||| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
||||| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
||||| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
||||| Device ID: 0x0172
||||| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
||||| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||| Registry: OK
||||| DDraw Status: Enabled
||||| D3D Status: Enabled
||||| AGP Status: Enabled
||||| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||
||||| -------------
||||| Sound Devices
||||| -------------
||||| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
||||| Default Sound Playback: Yes
||||| Default Voice Playback: Yes
||||| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||| Product ID: 100
||||| Type: WDM
||||| Driver Name: P16X.sys
||||| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
||||| Other Files:
||||| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
||||| HW Memory: 0
||||| Voice Management: No
||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||| Registry: OK
||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||
||||| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
||||| Default Sound Playback: No
||||| Default Voice Playback: No
||||| Hardware ID:
||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||| Product ID: 81
||||| Type: Emulated
||||| Driver Name:
||||| Driver Version:
||||| Driver Attributes:
||||| WHQL Logo'd:
||||| Date and Size:
||||| Other Files:
||||| Driver Provider:
||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||| Cap Flags: 0x0
||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
||||| HW Memory: 0
||||| Voice Management: No
||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||| Registry: OK
||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Guest · Apr 4, 2006

Yup.

Jimmy S. said:
Hi Z34Lee,

Are there any 3D games are included in that program list?

Z34Lee Wrote:
=================
| I really don't think my drivers are the issue. Every program on my computer
| (and I've got a lot of em) works just fine, but Pinball never worked. I think
| it's a Dell issue, or related to the NVIDIA. I'm not sure. Several other
| people seem to have the same problem but there's no answers.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Z34Lee,
||
|| Okay, lets go ahead and update those sound drivers as well
|| since they too date back to 2003. Keep us posted!
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| Z34Lee Wrote:
|| =================
||| Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||
|||| Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
|||| Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
|||| http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
|||||
||||| ------------------
||||| System Information
||||| ------------------
||||| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
||||| Machine name: D4YYV321
||||| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
||||| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
||||| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
||||| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
||||| System Model: Dimension 8250
||||| BIOS: Default System BIOS
||||| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
||||| Memory: 510MB RAM
||||| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
||||| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
||||| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
||||| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
||||| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
|||||
||||| ------------
||||| DxDiag Notes
||||| ------------
||||| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
||||| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
||||| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
||||| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
||||| were successful.
||||| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
||||| Input Tab: No problems found.
||||| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
||||| were successful.
|||||
||||| --------------------
||||| DirectX Debug Levels
||||| --------------------
||||| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
||||| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
||||| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
||||| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
||||| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
||||| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
||||| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
|||||
||||| ---------------
||||| Display Devices
||||| ---------------
||||| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
||||| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
||||| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
||||| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
||||| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
||||| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
||||| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
||||| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
||||| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
||||| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
||||| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
||||| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
||||| VDD: n/a
||||| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
||||| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
||||| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
||||| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
||||| Device ID: 0x0172
||||| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
||||| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||| Registry: OK
||||| DDraw Status: Enabled
||||| D3D Status: Enabled
||||| AGP Status: Enabled
||||| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||
||||| -------------
||||| Sound Devices
||||| -------------
||||| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
||||| Default Sound Playback: Yes
||||| Default Voice Playback: Yes
||||| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||| Product ID: 100
||||| Type: WDM
||||| Driver Name: P16X.sys
||||| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
||||| Other Files:
||||| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
||||| HW Memory: 0
||||| Voice Management: No
||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||| Registry: OK
||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||
||||| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
||||| Default Sound Playback: No
||||| Default Voice Playback: No
||||| Hardware ID:
||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||| Product ID: 81
||||| Type: Emulated
||||| Driver Name:
||||| Driver Version:
||||| Driver Attributes:
||||| WHQL Logo'd:
||||| Date and Size:
||||| Other Files:
||||| Driver Provider:
||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||| Cap Flags: 0x0
||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
||||| HW Memory: 0
||||| Voice Management: No
||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||| Registry: OK
||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Guest · Apr 4, 2006

FIXED IT!!! Found a site on the internet to download the game. Realized that
the folder C:/Program Files/Windows NT/Pinball was missing a majority of the
files. Don't ask me, that's how it came. Anyway, I put the new files in that
folder and it works. Glad I didn't spend all day screwing with my drivers.

Jimmy S. · Apr 4, 2006

Hi Z34Lee,

When you said that you had the "exact same problem"
as the original poster, he had already replace the files
and reinstalled Pinball from scratch. Sorry about that!

No matter, either way, I'm glad it's working again. :-)

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

Z34Lee Wrote:
=================
| FIXED IT!!! Found a site on the internet to download the game. Realized that
| the folder C:/Program Files/Windows NT/Pinball was missing a majority of the
| files. Don't ask me, that's how it came. Anyway, I put the new files in that
| folder and it works. Glad I didn't spend all day screwing with my drivers.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Z34Lee,
||
|| Are there any 3D games are included in that program list?
||
|| Z34Lee Wrote:
|| =================
||| I really don't think my drivers are the issue. Every program on my computer
||| (and I've got a lot of em) works just fine, but Pinball never worked. I think
||| it's a Dell issue, or related to the NVIDIA. I'm not sure. Several other
||| people seem to have the same problem but there's no answers.
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||
|||| Okay, lets go ahead and update those sound drivers as well
|||| since they too date back to 2003. Keep us posted! :-)

||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
|||| Z34Lee Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||||
|||||| Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
|||||| Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
|||||| http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
||||||| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
|||||||
||||||| ------------------
||||||| System Information
||||||| ------------------
||||||| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
||||||| Machine name: D4YYV321
||||||| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
||||||| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
||||||| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
||||||| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
||||||| System Model: Dimension 8250
||||||| BIOS: Default System BIOS
||||||| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
||||||| Memory: 510MB RAM
||||||| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
||||||| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
||||||| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
||||||| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
||||||| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
|||||||
||||||| ------------
||||||| DxDiag Notes
||||||| ------------
||||||| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
||||||| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
||||||| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
||||||| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
||||||| were successful.
||||||| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||||| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||||| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
||||||| Input Tab: No problems found.
||||||| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
||||||| were successful.
|||||||
||||||| --------------------
||||||| DirectX Debug Levels
||||||| --------------------
||||||| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
||||||| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
||||||| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
||||||| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
||||||| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
||||||| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
||||||| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
|||||||
||||||| ---------------
||||||| Display Devices
||||||| ---------------
||||||| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
||||||| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
||||||| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
||||||| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
||||||| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
||||||| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
||||||| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
||||||| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
||||||| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
||||||| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
||||||| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
||||||| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||||| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||||| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
||||||| VDD: n/a
||||||| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
||||||| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
||||||| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
||||||| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
||||||| Device ID: 0x0172
||||||| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||||| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
||||||| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||||| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||||| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||||| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||||| Registry: OK
||||||| DDraw Status: Enabled
||||||| D3D Status: Enabled
||||||| AGP Status: Enabled
||||||| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||
||||||| -------------
||||||| Sound Devices
||||||| -------------
||||||| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
||||||| Default Sound Playback: Yes
||||||| Default Voice Playback: Yes
||||||| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||||| Product ID: 100
||||||| Type: WDM
||||||| Driver Name: P16X.sys
||||||| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||||| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
||||||| Other Files:
||||||| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||||| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
||||||| HW Memory: 0
||||||| Voice Management: No
||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||||| Registry: OK
||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||
||||||| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
||||||| Default Sound Playback: No
||||||| Default Voice Playback: No
||||||| Hardware ID:
||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||||| Product ID: 81
||||||| Type: Emulated
||||||| Driver Name:
||||||| Driver Version:
||||||| Driver Attributes:
||||||| WHQL Logo'd:
||||||| Date and Size:
||||||| Other Files:
||||||| Driver Provider:
||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||||| Cap Flags: 0x0
||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
||||||| HW Memory: 0
||||||| Voice Management: No
||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||||| Registry: OK
||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Guest · Apr 4, 2006

It was the same problem. Maybe he'll read this and realize that there's only
2 files in the Pinball folder also. Thanks for the effort though!

Jimmy S. · Apr 4, 2006

Hi Z34Lee,

You're welcome - and thanks for posting the results! :-)

Z34Lee Wrote:
=================
| It was the same problem. Maybe he'll read this and realize that there's only
| 2 files in the Pinball folder also. Thanks for the effort though!
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Z34Lee,
||
|| When you said that you had the "exact same problem"
|| as the original poster, he had already replace the files
|| and reinstalled Pinball from scratch. Sorry about that!
||
|| No matter, either way, I'm glad it's working again. :-)

||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| Z34Lee Wrote:
|| =================
||| FIXED IT!!! Found a site on the internet to download the game. Realized that
||| the folder C:/Program Files/Windows NT/Pinball was missing a majority of the
||| files. Don't ask me, that's how it came. Anyway, I put the new files in that
||| folder and it works. Glad I didn't spend all day screwing with my drivers.
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||
|||| Are there any 3D games are included in that program list?
||||
|||| Z34Lee Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I really don't think my drivers are the issue. Every program on my computer
||||| (and I've got a lot of em) works just fine, but Pinball never worked. I think
||||| it's a Dell issue, or related to the NVIDIA. I'm not sure. Several other
||||| people seem to have the same problem but there's no answers.
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||||
|||||| Okay, lets go ahead and update those sound drivers as well
|||||| since they too date back to 2003. Keep us posted! :-)

||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
||||||
|||||| Z34Lee Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.
|||||||
||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||||||
|||||||| Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
|||||||| Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
|||||||| http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html
||||||||
|||||||| --
|||||||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||||
|||||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||||
||||||||| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
|||||||||
||||||||| ------------------
||||||||| System Information
||||||||| ------------------
||||||||| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
||||||||| Machine name: D4YYV321
||||||||| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
||||||||| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
||||||||| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
||||||||| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
||||||||| System Model: Dimension 8250
||||||||| BIOS: Default System BIOS
||||||||| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
||||||||| Memory: 510MB RAM
||||||||| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
||||||||| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
||||||||| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
||||||||| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
||||||||| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
|||||||||
||||||||| ------------
||||||||| DxDiag Notes
||||||||| ------------
||||||||| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
||||||||| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
||||||||| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
||||||||| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
||||||||| were successful.
||||||||| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||||||| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||||||| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
||||||||| Input Tab: No problems found.
||||||||| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
||||||||| were successful.
|||||||||
||||||||| --------------------
||||||||| DirectX Debug Levels
||||||||| --------------------
||||||||| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
||||||||| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
||||||||| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
||||||||| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
||||||||| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
||||||||| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
||||||||| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
|||||||||
||||||||| ---------------
||||||||| Display Devices
||||||||| ---------------
||||||||| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
||||||||| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
||||||||| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
||||||||| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
||||||||| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
||||||||| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
||||||||| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
||||||||| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
||||||||| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
||||||||| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
||||||||| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
||||||||| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
||||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||||||| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
||||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||||||| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
||||||||| VDD: n/a
||||||||| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
||||||||| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
||||||||| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
||||||||| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
||||||||| Device ID: 0x0172
||||||||| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
||||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||||||| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
||||||||| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||||||| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||||||| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||||||| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||||||| Registry: OK
||||||||| DDraw Status: Enabled
||||||||| D3D Status: Enabled
||||||||| AGP Status: Enabled
||||||||| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||||
||||||||| -------------
||||||||| Sound Devices
||||||||| -------------
||||||||| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
||||||||| Default Sound Playback: Yes
||||||||| Default Voice Playback: Yes
||||||||| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
||||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||||||| Product ID: 100
||||||||| Type: WDM
||||||||| Driver Name: P16X.sys
||||||||| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
||||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||||||| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
||||||||| Other Files:
||||||||| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
||||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||||||| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
||||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
||||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
||||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
||||||||| HW Memory: 0
||||||||| Voice Management: No
||||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
||||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||||||| Registry: OK
||||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||||
||||||||| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
||||||||| Default Sound Playback: No
||||||||| Default Voice Playback: No
||||||||| Hardware ID:
||||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||||||| Product ID: 81
||||||||| Type: Emulated
||||||||| Driver Name:
||||||||| Driver Version:
||||||||| Driver Attributes:
||||||||| WHQL Logo'd:
||||||||| Date and Size:
||||||||| Other Files:
||||||||| Driver Provider:
||||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||||||| Cap Flags: 0x0
||||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
||||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
||||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
||||||||| HW Memory: 0
||||||||| Voice Management: No
||||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
||||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||||||| Registry: OK
||||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Guest · May 1, 2006

Hi, Z34Lee,

I'm having the same problem you are...what was the address of the site you
downloaded the game from?

Thanks in advance,
Joe

Jimmy S. · May 2, 2006

Hi Irishboy,

To reinstall Pinball you just need your Windows CD and to follow these steps:

1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf

2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7

3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.

4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
instructions posted in the next paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.

To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
(or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call / Contact
MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

Irishboy Wrote:
=================
| Hi, Z34Lee,
|
| I'm having the same problem you are...what was the address of the site you
| downloaded the game from?
|
| Thanks in advance,
| Joe
|
| "Z34Lee" wrote:
|
|| FIXED IT!!! Found a site on the internet to download the game. Realized that
|| the folder C:/Program Files/Windows NT/Pinball was missing a majority of the
|| files. Don't ask me, that's how it came. Anyway, I put the new files in that
|| folder and it works. Glad I didn't spend all day screwing with my drivers.
||
|| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||
||| Hi Z34Lee,
|||
||| Are there any 3D games are included in that program list?
|||
||| Z34Lee Wrote:
||| =================
|||| I really don't think my drivers are the issue. Every program on my computer
|||| (and I've got a lot of em) works just fine, but Pinball never worked. I think
|||| it's a Dell issue, or related to the NVIDIA. I'm not sure. Several other
|||| people seem to have the same problem but there's no answers.
||||
|||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||||
||||| Hi Z34Lee,
|||||
||||| Okay, lets go ahead and update those sound drivers as well
||||| since they too date back to 2003. Keep us posted! :-)

|||||
||||| --
||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||
||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||||| _________________________________________________________
|||||
|||||
||||| Z34Lee Wrote:
||||| =================
|||||| Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.
||||||
|||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||||||
||||||| Hi Z34Lee,
|||||||
||||||| Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
||||||| Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
||||||| http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html
|||||||
||||||| --
||||||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||||
||||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||||||| _________________________________________________________
|||||||
|||||||| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
||||||||
|||||||| ------------------
|||||||| System Information
|||||||| ------------------
|||||||| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
|||||||| Machine name: D4YYV321
|||||||| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
|||||||| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
|||||||| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
|||||||| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
|||||||| System Model: Dimension 8250
|||||||| BIOS: Default System BIOS
|||||||| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
|||||||| Memory: 510MB RAM
|||||||| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
|||||||| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
|||||||| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
|||||||| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
|||||||| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
||||||||
|||||||| ------------
|||||||| DxDiag Notes
|||||||| ------------
|||||||| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
|||||||| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
|||||||| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
|||||||| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
|||||||| were successful.
|||||||| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
|||||||| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
|||||||| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
|||||||| Input Tab: No problems found.
|||||||| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
|||||||| were successful.
||||||||
|||||||| --------------------
|||||||| DirectX Debug Levels
|||||||| --------------------
|||||||| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
|||||||| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
|||||||| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
|||||||| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
|||||||| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
|||||||| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
|||||||| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
||||||||
|||||||| ---------------
|||||||| Display Devices
|||||||| ---------------
|||||||| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
|||||||| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
|||||||| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
|||||||| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
|||||||| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
|||||||| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
|||||||| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
|||||||| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
|||||||| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
|||||||| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
|||||||| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
|||||||| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
|||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
|||||||| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
|||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
|||||||| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
|||||||| VDD: n/a
|||||||| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
|||||||| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
|||||||| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
|||||||| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
|||||||| Device ID: 0x0172
|||||||| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
|||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
|||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
|||||||| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
|||||||| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
|||||||| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
|||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
|||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
|||||||| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
|||||||| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
|||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
|||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
|||||||| Registry: OK
|||||||| DDraw Status: Enabled
|||||||| D3D Status: Enabled
|||||||| AGP Status: Enabled
|||||||| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||
|||||||| -------------
|||||||| Sound Devices
|||||||| -------------
|||||||| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
|||||||| Default Sound Playback: Yes
|||||||| Default Voice Playback: Yes
|||||||| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
|||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
|||||||| Product ID: 100
|||||||| Type: WDM
|||||||| Driver Name: P16X.sys
|||||||| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
|||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
|||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
|||||||| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
|||||||| Other Files:
|||||||| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
|||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
|||||||| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
|||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
|||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
|||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
|||||||| HW Memory: 0
|||||||| Voice Management: No
|||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
|||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
|||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
|||||||| Registry: OK
|||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||
|||||||| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
|||||||| Default Sound Playback: No
|||||||| Default Voice Playback: No
|||||||| Hardware ID:
|||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
|||||||| Product ID: 81
|||||||| Type: Emulated
|||||||| Driver Name:
|||||||| Driver Version:
|||||||| Driver Attributes:
|||||||| WHQL Logo'd:
|||||||| Date and Size:
|||||||| Other Files:
|||||||| Driver Provider:
|||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
|||||||| Cap Flags: 0x0
|||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
|||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
|||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
|||||||| HW Memory: 0
|||||||| Voice Management: No
|||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
|||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
|||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
|||||||| Registry: OK
|||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Guest · May 2, 2006

Hi, Jimmy,

Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I don't have the Windows XP
disc...this is an OEM copy...all I have is the recovery disc...no option to
cherry pick from the XP software. Any other suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks again,
Joe

Jimmy S. · May 2, 2006

Hi Irishboy,

If you have a i386 directory on your C: drive, you can point the
installer towards that directory using the "browse" button.

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

Irishboy Wrote:
=================
| Hi, Jimmy,
|
| Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I don't have the Windows XP
| disc...this is an OEM copy...all I have is the recovery disc...no option to
| cherry pick from the XP software. Any other suggestions would be greatly
| appreciated.
|
| Thanks again,
| Joe
|
| "Irishboy" wrote:
|
|| Hi, Z34Lee,
||
|| I'm having the same problem you are...what was the address of the site you
|| downloaded the game from?
||
|| Thanks in advance,
|| Joe
||
|| "Z34Lee" wrote:
||
||| FIXED IT!!! Found a site on the internet to download the game. Realized that
||| the folder C:/Program Files/Windows NT/Pinball was missing a majority of the
||| files. Don't ask me, that's how it came. Anyway, I put the new files in that
||| folder and it works. Glad I didn't spend all day screwing with my drivers.
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||
|||| Are there any 3D games are included in that program list?
||||
|||| Z34Lee Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| I really don't think my drivers are the issue. Every program on my computer
||||| (and I've got a lot of em) works just fine, but Pinball never worked. I think
||||| it's a Dell issue, or related to the NVIDIA. I'm not sure. Several other
||||| people seem to have the same problem but there's no answers.
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||||
|||||| Okay, lets go ahead and update those sound drivers as well
|||||| since they too date back to 2003. Keep us posted! :-)

||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
||||||
|||||| Z34Lee Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.
|||||||
||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hi Z34Lee,
||||||||
|||||||| Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
|||||||| Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
|||||||| http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html
||||||||
|||||||| --
|||||||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||||
|||||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||||
||||||||| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
|||||||||
||||||||| ------------------
||||||||| System Information
||||||||| ------------------
||||||||| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
||||||||| Machine name: D4YYV321
||||||||| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
||||||||| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
||||||||| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
||||||||| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
||||||||| System Model: Dimension 8250
||||||||| BIOS: Default System BIOS
||||||||| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
||||||||| Memory: 510MB RAM
||||||||| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
||||||||| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
||||||||| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
||||||||| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
||||||||| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
|||||||||
||||||||| ------------
||||||||| DxDiag Notes
||||||||| ------------
||||||||| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
||||||||| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
||||||||| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
||||||||| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
||||||||| were successful.
||||||||| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||||||| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
||||||||| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
||||||||| Input Tab: No problems found.
||||||||| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
||||||||| were successful.
|||||||||
||||||||| --------------------
||||||||| DirectX Debug Levels
||||||||| --------------------
||||||||| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
||||||||| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
||||||||| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
||||||||| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
||||||||| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
||||||||| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
||||||||| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
|||||||||
||||||||| ---------------
||||||||| Display Devices
||||||||| ---------------
||||||||| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
||||||||| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
||||||||| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
||||||||| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
||||||||| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
||||||||| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
||||||||| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
||||||||| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
||||||||| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
||||||||| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
||||||||| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
||||||||| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
||||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||||||| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
||||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||||||| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
||||||||| VDD: n/a
||||||||| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
||||||||| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
||||||||| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
||||||||| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
||||||||| Device ID: 0x0172
||||||||| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
||||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
||||||||| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
||||||||| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||||||| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||||||| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
||||||||| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
||||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
||||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
||||||||| Registry: OK
||||||||| DDraw Status: Enabled
||||||||| D3D Status: Enabled
||||||||| AGP Status: Enabled
||||||||| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||||
||||||||| -------------
||||||||| Sound Devices
||||||||| -------------
||||||||| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
||||||||| Default Sound Playback: Yes
||||||||| Default Voice Playback: Yes
||||||||| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
||||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||||||| Product ID: 100
||||||||| Type: WDM
||||||||| Driver Name: P16X.sys
||||||||| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
||||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
||||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
||||||||| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
||||||||| Other Files:
||||||||| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
||||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||||||| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
||||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
||||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
||||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
||||||||| HW Memory: 0
||||||||| Voice Management: No
||||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
||||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||||||| Registry: OK
||||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||||
||||||||| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
||||||||| Default Sound Playback: No
||||||||| Default Voice Playback: No
||||||||| Hardware ID:
||||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
||||||||| Product ID: 81
||||||||| Type: Emulated
||||||||| Driver Name:
||||||||| Driver Version:
||||||||| Driver Attributes:
||||||||| WHQL Logo'd:
||||||||| Date and Size:
||||||||| Other Files:
||||||||| Driver Provider:
||||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
||||||||| Cap Flags: 0x0
||||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
||||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
||||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
||||||||| HW Memory: 0
||||||||| Voice Management: No
||||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
||||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
||||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
||||||||| Registry: OK
||||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

Guest · May 2, 2006

Hi, Jimmy,

Thanks again for the support. Although I don't have a copy of the XP disc
(just the recovery disc which doesn't allow me to reload XP separately), I
did try what you suggested without the disc...I removed the "hide"
instruction and reinstalled (unchecked and rechecked Pinball)...same result,
just a flash.

I'm stumped...not a difficult task!

Thanks again for your suggestions!
Joe

Guest · May 2, 2006

Just to let everyone know, I tried Thomas Kuck's suggestion of uninstalling
3D Pinball, rebooting and reinstalling it...fixed the problem and everything
is working great! Sometimes the answers are the easiest...

Thanks, Thomas and Jimmy
Joe

Jimmy S. · May 3, 2006

Hi Irishboy,

Great! Glad you're up and running 3D Pinball again! :-)

Cheers,
Jimmy.

Irishboy Wrote:
=================
| Just to let everyone know, I tried Thomas Kuck's suggestion of uninstalling
| 3D Pinball, rebooting and reinstalling it...fixed the problem and everything
| is working great! Sometimes the answers are the easiest...
|
| Thanks, Thomas and Jimmy
| Joe
|
| "Irishboy" wrote:
|
|| Hi, Jimmy,
||
|| Thanks again for the support. Although I don't have a copy of the XP disc
|| (just the recovery disc which doesn't allow me to reload XP separately), I
|| did try what you suggested without the disc...I removed the "hide"
|| instruction and reinstalled (unchecked and rechecked Pinball)...same result,
|| just a flash.
||
|| I'm stumped...not a difficult task!
||
|| Thanks again for your suggestions!
|| Joe
||
|| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||
||| Hi Irishboy,
|||
||| If you have a i386 directory on your C: drive, you can point the
||| installer towards that directory using the "browse" button.
|||
||| --
||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||
||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||| _________________________________________________________
|||
||| Irishboy Wrote:
||| =================
|||| Hi, Jimmy,
||||
|||| Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I don't have the Windows XP
|||| disc...this is an OEM copy...all I have is the recovery disc...no option to
|||| cherry pick from the XP software. Any other suggestions would be greatly
|||| appreciated.
||||
|||| Thanks again,
|||| Joe
||||
|||| "Irishboy" wrote:
||||
||||| Hi, Z34Lee,
|||||
||||| I'm having the same problem you are...what was the address of the site you
||||| downloaded the game from?
|||||
||||| Thanks in advance,
||||| Joe
|||||
||||| "Z34Lee" wrote:
|||||
|||||| FIXED IT!!! Found a site on the internet to download the game. Realized that
|||||| the folder C:/Program Files/Windows NT/Pinball was missing a majority of the
|||||| files. Don't ask me, that's how it came. Anyway, I put the new files in that
|||||| folder and it works. Glad I didn't spend all day screwing with my drivers.
||||||
|||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||||||
||||||| Hi Z34Lee,
|||||||
||||||| Are there any 3D games are included in that program list?
|||||||
||||||| Z34Lee Wrote:
||||||| =================
|||||||| I really don't think my drivers are the issue. Every program on my computer
|||||||| (and I've got a lot of em) works just fine, but Pinball never worked. I think
|||||||| it's a Dell issue, or related to the NVIDIA. I'm not sure. Several other
|||||||| people seem to have the same problem but there's no answers.
||||||||
|||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||||||||
||||||||| Hi Z34Lee,
|||||||||
||||||||| Okay, lets go ahead and update those sound drivers as well
||||||||| since they too date back to 2003. Keep us posted! :-)

|||||||||
||||||||| --
||||||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
||||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||||||
||||||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||||||||| _________________________________________________________
|||||||||
|||||||||
||||||||| Z34Lee Wrote:
||||||||| =================
|||||||||| Ok, just updated it...the results are in - still the exact same problem.
||||||||||
|||||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||||||||||
||||||||||| Hi Z34Lee,
|||||||||||
||||||||||| Your nVidia driver is outdated.. it's from 2003.
||||||||||| Please go ahead and and update that using my instructions at:
||||||||||| http://mcse.mvps.org/Video.html
|||||||||||
||||||||||| --
||||||||||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
||||||||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||||||||
||||||||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||||||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||||||||||| _________________________________________________________
|||||||||||
|||||||||||| I'm having the exact same problem. Here's my DXDIAG results:
||||||||||||
|||||||||||| ------------------
|||||||||||| System Information
|||||||||||| ------------------
|||||||||||| Time of this report: 4/3/2006, 14:00:01
|||||||||||| Machine name: D4YYV321
|||||||||||| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack
|||||||||||| 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
|||||||||||| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
|||||||||||| System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
|||||||||||| System Model: Dimension 8250
|||||||||||| BIOS: Default System BIOS
|||||||||||| Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
|||||||||||| Memory: 510MB RAM
|||||||||||| Page File: 430MB used, 817MB available
|||||||||||| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
|||||||||||| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
|||||||||||| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
|||||||||||| DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
||||||||||||
|||||||||||| ------------
|||||||||||| DxDiag Notes
|||||||||||| ------------
|||||||||||| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
|||||||||||| Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests
|||||||||||| were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D
|||||||||||| 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests
|||||||||||| were successful.
|||||||||||| Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
|||||||||||| Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
|||||||||||| Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
|||||||||||| Input Tab: No problems found.
|||||||||||| Network Tab: No problems found. DirectPlay test results: All tests
|||||||||||| were successful.
||||||||||||
|||||||||||| --------------------
|||||||||||| DirectX Debug Levels
|||||||||||| --------------------
|||||||||||| Direct3D: 0/4 (n/a)
|||||||||||| DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
|||||||||||| DirectInput: 0/5 (n/a)
|||||||||||| DirectMusic: 0/5 (n/a)
|||||||||||| DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
|||||||||||| DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
|||||||||||| DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
||||||||||||
|||||||||||| ---------------
|||||||||||| Display Devices
|||||||||||| ---------------
|||||||||||| Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
|||||||||||| Manufacturer: NVIDIA
|||||||||||| Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
|||||||||||| DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
|||||||||||| Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_015A10DE&REV_A3
|||||||||||| Display Memory: 64.0 MB
|||||||||||| Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
|||||||||||| Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
|||||||||||| Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
|||||||||||| Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
|||||||||||| Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5216 (English)
|||||||||||| DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
|||||||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
|||||||||||| Driver Date/Size: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 4246528 bytes
|||||||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
|||||||||||| WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
|||||||||||| VDD: n/a
|||||||||||| Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
|||||||||||| Mini VDD Date: 10/6/2003 15:16:00, 1550043 bytes
|||||||||||| Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-0E67-502102C2CB35}
|||||||||||| Vendor ID: 0x10DE
|||||||||||| Device ID: 0x0172
|||||||||||| SubSys ID: 0x015A10DE
|||||||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
|||||||||||| Revision ID: 0x00A3
|||||||||||| Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
|||||||||||| Deinterlace Caps: {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
|||||||||||| Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
|||||||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
|||||||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
|||||||||||| {335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}:
|||||||||||| Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0)
|||||||||||| Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY
|||||||||||| DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
|||||||||||| Registry: OK
|||||||||||| DDraw Status: Enabled
|||||||||||| D3D Status: Enabled
|||||||||||| AGP Status: Enabled
|||||||||||| DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||||||| D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||||||| D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
|||||||||||| D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||||||
|||||||||||| -------------
|||||||||||| Sound Devices
|||||||||||| -------------
|||||||||||| Description: Creative SB Live! Series
|||||||||||| Default Sound Playback: Yes
|||||||||||| Default Voice Playback: Yes
|||||||||||| Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
|||||||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
|||||||||||| Product ID: 100
|||||||||||| Type: WDM
|||||||||||| Driver Name: P16X.sys
|||||||||||| Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0203 (English)
|||||||||||| Driver Attributes: Final Retail
|||||||||||| WHQL Logo'd: Yes
|||||||||||| Date and Size: 9/22/2003 12:43:06, 1330048 bytes
|||||||||||| Other Files:
|||||||||||| Driver Provider: Creative Technology Ltd.
|||||||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
|||||||||||| Cap Flags: 0xF5F
|||||||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
|||||||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
|||||||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
|||||||||||| HW Memory: 0
|||||||||||| Voice Management: No
|||||||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
|||||||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
|||||||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
|||||||||||| Registry: OK
|||||||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
||||||||||||
|||||||||||| Description: Modem #1 Line Playback (emulated)
|||||||||||| Default Sound Playback: No
|||||||||||| Default Voice Playback: No
|||||||||||| Hardware ID:
|||||||||||| Manufacturer ID: 1
|||||||||||| Product ID: 81
|||||||||||| Type: Emulated
|||||||||||| Driver Name:
|||||||||||| Driver Version:
|||||||||||| Driver Attributes:
|||||||||||| WHQL Logo'd:
|||||||||||| Date and Size:
|||||||||||| Other Files:
|||||||||||| Driver Provider:
|||||||||||| HW Accel Level: Full
|||||||||||| Cap Flags: 0x0
|||||||||||| Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
|||||||||||| Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
|||||||||||| Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
|||||||||||| HW Memory: 0
|||||||||||| Voice Management: No
|||||||||||| EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
|||||||||||| I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
|||||||||||| Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
|||||||||||| Registry: OK
|||||||||||| Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

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