Guardians of The Galaxy

2 hours ago, nateynatenate99 said:

Thank you so very much @armyusde for all your work on this. I applied this fix and was able to successfully play about 5 or so complete games. But I did get a pup crash again on my first ball of the next game. It happened after shooting the Star Lord scoop and hearing "The Hadron Enforcer" callout. I say this in case this sort of crowdsourced playtesting is useful. I was so happy to be able to play for so long and complete some games and I thought this may have truly fixed it. But it seems not quite there yet. But so much good progress, and I hope this helps, and thank you again for your efforts and for sharing your results!

Good info. I will see if I can recreate it as that callouts may have the same issues as the multiplier. I focused on the multipliers since that seems to be where all the crashes were coming from now that that is fixed, I can look at the Hadron enforcers and see if those fixes also apply there

3 hours ago, nateynatenate99 said:

Thank you so very much @armyusde for all your work on this. I applied this fix and was able to successfully play about 5 or so complete games. But I did get a pup crash again on my first ball of the next game. It happened after shooting the Star Lord scoop and hearing "The Hadron Enforcer" callout. I say this in case this sort of crowdsourced playtesting is useful. I was so happy to be able to play for so long and complete some games and I thought this may have truly fixed it. But it seems not quite there yet. But so much good progress, and I hope this helps, and thank you again for your efforts and for sharing your results!

Do you happen to remember the mode you were in and if the shot to the scoop completed the mode or if it stared a mode? I have usually seen the issue when animations are playing for another event and the multipliers are lit happens at the same time. It would make sense if that happened in your case and may be easily reproduced if so

2 hours ago, armyusde said:

Do you happen to remember the mode you were in and if the shot to the scoop completed the mode or if it stared a mode? I have usually seen the issue when animations are playing for another event and the multipliers are lit happens at the same time. It would make sense if that happened in your case and may be easily reproduced if so

I fear I don't remember any of those details, sadly. Really sorry!

I fixed a couple of bugs with the orb multiball that caused it not to work properly and added some guards on all the modes. I have been able to play complete games and beat both wizard modes without any issues. The pup is a little delayed but it didn't crash. I am using VLC 2.4.8 and vpx 10.8.0 beta 6f63503 64 bit when playing. I haven't seen a crash yet after many games but some others are still reporting crashes. It may be worth a shot to see if fixes some peoples issues though since mine has been fixed. 

gotg__Crash_Fix.txt

Thanks for your fixes.

Any Idea to fix my PupPack Score and  timer letter size.

Not sure how to do that. Did that happen when you used the updated script or has it always been that way?

It was the same in the original version, too.

Other than the files in the pup pack for the screen setup, I don’t know much about the pup pack displays. I use a cabinet with 4 screens and haven’t seen the issue with text

lucky you

On 8/22/2022 at 4:20 AM, BrandonLaw said:

Alrighty man found it after being lazy...

 

Uncomment line 17068.  Boom.

 

I need to elaborate on this...you must head into the pup pack and set the DMD to ForceBack after doing so as it's still off if you do not hence nothing to mirror.

What's on your line 17068 because mine is uncommented? I want to make sure I get it right. My RealDMD comes on for a bit, but then goes off right when the Chris Pratt scene comes on.

On 5/31/2026 at 2:16 PM, armyusde said:

I fixed a couple of bugs with the orb multiball that caused it not to work properly and added some guards on all the modes. I have been able to play complete games and beat both wizard modes without any issues. The pup is a little delayed but it didn't crash. I am using VLC 2.4.8 and vpx 10.8.0 beta 6f63503 64 bit when playing. I haven't seen a crash yet after many games but some others are still reporting crashes. It may be worth a shot to see if fixes some peoples issues though since mine has been fixed. 

gotg__Crash_Fix.txt 747.11 kB · 15 downloads

Hi Armyusde — first off, huge thanks for the 2.1.2 crash-fix script (the busy-flags / debounce / teardown-ordering work). It clearly changes behavior: the DMD timing shifted, I can feel FIX17's jackpot debounce, and the crash now takes far longer to appear. (r2z2's earlier pupfix2 performance/error pass on Discord helped too — but between the two, it's reduced, not gone.)

Remaining issue on my cabinet: it still drops the backglass — typically around 30M points during heavy multiball with lots of rapid action. The ball stays fully playable but all scoring/DMD disappears, so it's the legacy VLC display's rendering dying, not VPX.

What the logs show:
• PinUPDisplayError.log records the crash as: Invalid pointer operation.
• PuP EventViewer confirms the pack renders on the legacy PinUPDisplay.exe v1 (VLC-based, v1.5 protocol), not X2 — and the v1 process only exits cleanly on manual quit, so it's an internal VLC exception killing the rendering while the process survives (matches the symptom).

Config: 4-screen cabinet, NVIDIA RTX 4070, PinUP Popper 2.0 beta, VPX 10.8.0.

Since two separate script fixes both reduced but didn't kill it, I suspect part of the root cause sits below the script in the old bundled VLC. Totally understand if it's not fully fixable from the script side — but if you have another idea, or the table authors consider a new version, I'd love to help test and can share full logs. Thanks again!

On 7/8/2026 at 1:28 PM, Alldesign said:

 

Hi Armyusde — first off, huge thanks for the 2.1.2 crash-fix script (the busy-flags / debounce / teardown-ordering work). It clearly changes behavior: the DMD timing shifted, I can feel FIX17's jackpot debounce, and the crash now takes far longer to appear. (r2z2's earlier pupfix2 performance/error pass on Discord helped too — but between the two, it's reduced, not gone.)

Remaining issue on my cabinet: it still drops the backglass — typically around 30M points during heavy multiball with lots of rapid action. The ball stays fully playable but all scoring/DMD disappears, so it's the legacy VLC display's rendering dying, not VPX.

What the logs show:
• PinUPDisplayError.log records the crash as: Invalid pointer operation.
• PuP EventViewer confirms the pack renders on the legacy PinUPDisplay.exe v1 (VLC-based, v1.5 protocol), not X2 — and the v1 process only exits cleanly on manual quit, so it's an internal VLC exception killing the rendering while the process survives (matches the symptom).

Config: 4-screen cabinet, NVIDIA RTX 4070, PinUP Popper 2.0 beta, VPX 10.8.0.

Since two separate script fixes both reduced but didn't kill it, I suspect part of the root cause sits below the script in the old bundled VLC. Totally understand if it's not fully fixable from the script side — but if you have another idea, or the table authors consider a new version, I'd love to help test and can share full logs. Thanks again!

I agree with you that it is something with vlc. Claude keeps saying that and I have a newer version of the script that allows the game to go for about an hour before crashing. When I play multiple games, that is when the crash happens but a long ~1 hr long game has been doable. With all the testing I even made #3 on Scorbit. Only took 6 years! If you want that version, This is the current version I am running that allows a longer play through. It does show a black DMD every now and then but all the modes are playable. I made it through a complete game and then a few mode past cherry bomb so it does allow a long session without crashing. I would say after each game, exit and start a new one to get the best result.

GOTG crash reducer.txt

I'd rather have tips on how to keep one game going for an hour 😄

On 7/11/2026 at 8:56 PM, armyusde said:

I agree with you that it is something with vlc. Claude keeps saying that and I have a newer version of the script that allows the game to go for about an hour before crashing. When I play multiple games, that is when the crash happens but a long ~1 hr long game has been doable. With all the testing I even made #3 on Scorbit. Only took 6 years! If you want that version, This is the current version I am running that allows a longer play through. It does show a black DMD every now and then but all the modes are playable. I made it through a complete game and then a few mode past cherry bomb so it does allow a long session without crashing. I would say after each game, exit and start a new one to get the best result.

 

GOTG crash reducer.txt 751.63 kB · 10 downloads

Wow! I made a 159 Mio. highscore and played quit long using your crash reducer fix. But then I crushed 300 Mio. and also the game again. So strange...! For sure it is a crash reducer, but not a complete fix... Next time I try disabling scorbit, who knows... But thanks for following up my last comment and trying to help! 

Glad it helps a bit. I wouldn’t disable Scorbit as that will be the only way to see your score when it crashes. I know the issue seems to go away by disabling the nova corp light where only 4 can be triggered but that breaks the scoring to where you can’t get double score shots. I hope the original developer actually updates it at some point. I think this is one of the best recreations available