Pinball FX2 Crashes When Selected From Main Menu

[Gate5353]

I apologize in advance if this has already been discussed - I've searched everywhere (I think?) including asking AI for reasons as to why this is happening but am not finding anything.

 

I have successfully configured Pinup Popper (via the Baller Installer setup) and have every emulator working just fine except for Pinball FX2.  I'm only wishing to set up this emulator for the few tables that are not available in any other versions (mainly Ms. Splosion Man) but nothing I've seem to try works.  No matter what configuration setup I try, when I launch Pinup Popper then choose Pinball FX2 it immediately crashed with tons of Pinup Menu errors forcing me to log off Windows and log back in to give 'er another try.  Every other emulator (including Pinball FX and Pinball FX3) work flawlessly.  

 

If I launch Pinball FX2 outside of Pinup Popper everything works just fine.  What could I be doing wrong?

[Gate5353]

Additional information:

 

Operating System:  Windows 11 (current; up-to-date)

 

Specific error: 

  Title:  Pinup Menu Player

  Error:  Access violation at address 12B80000 in module 'PinUpMenu.exe'.  Execution of address 12B80000.

 

How to re-produce:  I originally thought it was related to Pinball FX2 but no longer believe this is the case.  If I simply launch the Pinup Popper frontend and allow it to go to Attract Mode it ends up spamming this same error.  As I am a Systems Engineer and know my way around with Windows, I'm likely just going to make a backup of all POPMedia and tables then rebuild from scratch as this will only take a few hours.  Before I do this, however, I will wait to hear back from anyone regarding any potential solutions or things to try.  Thanks in advance!

[Gate5353]

I'm not quite certain what caused the above error to occur but decided to make a backup and start from scratch using Windows 10.  Before starting, I reviewed all setup guides/videos and discovered that I somehow missed the fact that one is to not install a newer version of VLC as the Pinup Popper Baller Installer comes pre-packaged with a specific version known to "just work".  As someone who works in IT and has installed Windows a few thousand times, VLC became part of my must-haves on fresh builds (along with 7-Zip, Visual Studio Code, VCC-DotNet-SDKs AIO installer, etc...).

 

Location:  C:\vPinball\PinUPSystem\VLC\vlc.exe (v2.2.8.0)

 

Since scrapping the previous build, I was unable to go back and see whether or not this was the source of the errors I was encountering.  Hope this helps anyone in the future - BURY YOURSELF IN HOW EVERYTHING WORKS as it'll save yourself a great deal of stress in the future when you know intimately how each piece functions.