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[Varao]

Sorry I am a noob here but I have been trying to run all this for hours now. I have gone through all the tutorials and have gotten everything I need placed everything where its supposed to go and I get this error:

Unable to load Vpinmame ActiveX component cant create object

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

[dmaxey]

I'm going to preface this by saying that it won't help you much. I have had users experience this exact same error message when using programs I have written at work. Since we all have the same hardware, and since 99% of the users did NOT get this error, the problem HAD to be on the users machine (not the program). It may have been a corrupt DLL, but WHICH DLL is the question.... and was it from Windows or Office or Excel? We could have spent a long time trying to narrow it down, but fortunately we just re-image the drive and everything is wonderful again.

In your situation I would expect that it's either something funny with your install or something funny with your operating system. If the first is true you can easily wipe out your VP and PinMAME and install them again. If the second is true, well, we all hate having to re-install.

Best of luck!

[bjjb]

It's a long shot, but have you tried reloading ActiveX? You should be able to find it on Microsoft's web site.

Which Operating System are you running?

[Steely]

1) Make sure your vp-editor security preferences are set to allow ActiveX controls.
2) "Detect and error on hanging script" should not be checked.

3) Re check your paths for pinmame - run the setup.exe in the pinmame folder.

4) Make sure the .vbs files are in the "Tables" folder.

5) Make sure you have vbscript runtime files at least version 5.6 (If you have XP or vista you don't have to worry).
These files could be corrupted, but that would be rare. Reinstalling would fix the bad files.

6) If vista, set VPinball.exe to "run as admin".


99.9% of the time it's operator error or a wrong setting. Re-check everything first before you start reinstalling stuff.

Edited by Steely, 14 March 2009 - 07:47 AM.

[PinBoston]

Hi Enthousiast,

1) Make sure your vp-editor security preferences are set to allow ActiveX controls.

Ehh... where do I get that option ?

2) "Detect and error on hanging script" should not be checked.

It is not.

3) Re check your paths for pinmame - run the setup.exe in the pinmame folder.

Done. no change.

4) Make sure the .vbs files are in the "Tables" folder.

I did transfert them. No changes.

5) Make sure you have vbscript runtime files at least version 5.6 (If you have XP or vista you don't have to worry).
These files could be corrupted, but that would be rare. Reinstalling would fix the bad files.

I'm running on XP

6) If vista, set VPinball.exe to "run as admin".

Doesn't apply.

I tried to run the roms from VPINBALL.EXE and load them manually. After loading, I press PLAY (the red triangle). It loads some more, and then I get a screen with the game infos. Then, it says at the bottom of that same screen that there are "CRC and/or lenght error! VPinMAME may or may not successfully be able to use the ROM set. If sound roms are missing, sound will be disabled".

I choose "Don't care results, continue anyways".

Then, the next screen is an error message "Machine terminated before initialized, check the rom path or rom file".

Then, I click OK and get into the main screen of the table, with no life, no lights, nothing, just my plunger who works and tilt effects on the screen, but no balls!

(pinball games without balls is simply not fun!!)

So, what can you guys analyze from all this ?

Thank's for your guidance!

[Steely]

Check your roms folder, did you unzip your roms by chance?
They should be left zipped.

Have you tried different vpm tables? with the same results?
Do tables without roms work?

It sounds like pinmame did not load. What happens if you press f3. (you should see the pinmame splash screen again).

Check the Roms, some roms will give you that error because they are missing the sound portion.
Maybe you have a bad rom, try replacing it.

Now I guessing...
You can try deleting the config file (cfg) and/or nvram file for that table.

You are new to this... I take it you pressed 3,4 or 5 to add credits first then 1 to start playing?

[PinBoston]

Hello again,

>Check your roms folder, did you unzip your roms by chance?
>They should be left zipped.

I unzipped them in my TABLES folder. Ok, now I just put the original zip in the ROM folder as well.

>Have you tried different vpm tables? with the same results?

Yes... When I download the roms, only the VPT file is in. No sound files. Why is that ? I thought every table comes with its set of files for sound, graphic, and the game itself...

>Do tables without roms work?

Which table without rom ? Do you mean the TOP SPEED table which comes with the main emulator ? If so, yes it works.

>It sounds like pinmame did not load. What happens if you press f3. (you should see the pinmame splash screen again).

Well, yes, I get the splash screen.

>Check the Roms, some roms will give you that error because they are missing the sound portion.
>Maybe you have a bad rom, try replacing it.

It's like all of them which I downloaded (about 10) don't have sound. The only only one I found with the sound pack was The Simpsons, which I unzipped in my MUSIC folder.

>Now I guessing... You can try deleting the config file (cfg) and/or nvram file for that table.

For which table ? All of them ?

>You are new to this... I take it you pressed 3,4 or 5 to add credits first then 1 to start playing?

I pressed a lot of things, you are right, but first and foremost, 1 and then S. F2 gave me the list of keys and functions.

Yesterday, I got the error message :

VPINMAME ver 01550000 required
SEGA.VBS ver 3.26 or higher required

I just downloaded everything yesterday morning (before emailing on this forum) so I guessed I had the correct and most recent versions... Am I right ?

As always,
Thank you very much!

Jean

[Steely]

Hi Jean, Sorry I saw your post this morning but had to run off to work.
I'm surprised no one else helped you in the mean time?

It's seems your confused somewhat with the rom and table files.
It is confusing when your'e new to it.

You should check out the Install and help docs under the "getting started" menu item, (upper left).

For someone new here's a quick run down... make sure your are using vp8.1 and use the 8.x tables (.vpt files) . and the always use latest Pinmame version which is currently 2.1.
Yes some tables do not use roms.
Rom files are used with pinmame ( a seperate program which is run by a table if it uses a rom.) Tables with roms are the solid state tables which used a rom in the original/real table. Older EM tables did not use roms.
Vpm tables also use/need the vpinmame script files (.vbs) which are (were) normally stored in the tables folder.

There were some problems with the downloads just recently, so you could be missing somethings, like the sega.vbs file etc... script files.

also Sound "samples" go in the samples folder. These are sounds the roms do not create, like the plunger, flippers etc... They are also left zipped.

The cfg and nvram files are created by the running table, storing misc. table data. Sometimes deleting these files will correct certain problems.

Often for a new, first run vpm table, you must adjust the rom sounds volume with the 8 and 9 keys.

Take you time and do some reading of the help docs.
That should get you going. Good luck

Edited by Steely, 25 March 2009 - 11:32 PM.

[saskia]

hello,i have the same problem as above,noticing it doesnt let me play bally tables flash gordon ,elektra, x& os,vector,tried downloading files to fix problem,but no joy :/ .can anyone help a pinball mad bitch please !! xx thank you xx

[BobAlbright]

There's a Bally Vbs that is needed for Bally tables. You can find it in the download section. Maybe that's it

[ankman]

Hello from 15 years into the future (newest here is from 2009). ;-)

My environment might be odd though not running Windows natively. I run VisualPinball in WINE in Linux, and it works fine, besides some lags.

To figure out its lags I installed Windows 10 (yes year 2009 reader, we have this in 2024, even Windows 11 ;-) in a VM, running in the same Linux host. Windows in the VM itself works fine as far as I can tell.

 

But while rendering the table I also get Unable to load VpinMame ActiveX component can't create object. Any table I tried. Bally, Williams.

No idea why. Can only speculate the ActiveX here is too new?

Also note, VPinMAME itself works. And that I installed VP from VPX72setup and did not change any of its default settings. As I did in Wine months ago, where it works.
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Am stuck here. Google showed me this discussion. The other matches seem not to apply.

[wiesshund]

Unable to load VpinMame ActiveX component can't create object. 

 

1) Make sure that NONE of VPX parts are installed in ANY folder created by windows
If they are, reinstall to like c:\vpx

 

2) run setup.exe from vpinmame folder
click to uninstall, say no to erasing the configs.
when finished, click to Install vpinmame

 

Now test VPX
Running vpinmame directly doesnt use any activeX components since it is running directly, VPX calls it via DLL, so it must be registered

[ankman]

 

Unable to load VpinMame ActiveX component can't create object. 

 

1) Make sure that NONE of VPX parts are installed in ANY folder created by windows
If they are, reinstall to like c:\vpx

 

2) run setup.exe from vpinmame folder
click to uninstall, say no to erasing the configs.
when finished, click to Install vpinmame

 

Now test VPX
Running vpinmame directly doesnt use any activeX components since it is running directly, VPX calls it via DLL, so it must be registered

 

I scanned the whole hard disk for "VPX". Other than for tables there are no matches.

But setup.exe fails. It says I must make sure to have a valid vpinmame.dll and not being able to register things.

That led me to https://www.vpforums...showtopic=19640 which gave me the clue needed: Install VPMAME as admin. I did, now it works.

Thank you for your input!

Edited by ankman, 24 February 2024 - 08:05 PM.

[Tomcat Leader]

My current issue is VP9. VP8 and VPX work to perfection. It's when I try to run VP9, which worked perfectly previously, that I get the "Can't load VPinMAME ActiveX component can't create object" error message. When I click OK, then I get the "VPinMAME  ver 01500000 required.", then I click OK again and then I get "Can't start Gamenautilus Object required" click OK again, then I get a script error "Line: 387 Object required: Controller". Security Options are correct, VPinMAME is configured correctly, roms are valid. No idea why this happened.

Edited by Tomcat Leader, 08 September 2025 - 06:37 PM.

[leo0ko]

hola, se que el post es bastante antiguo, pero publicare ya que a alguien le puede servir.

 

tengo windows 7 home basic de 64 bits

core 2 duo con 2 de ram

visual pinball 995, vpinmame ultima version a junio del 2025

 

tuve el problema de el active x que no se iniciaba.

 

me di cuenta de que aparecia un aviso que se requeria vpinmame, y en base a lo anterior me di cuenta de que el instalador de vpinmame no estaba registrando en "el registro de windows".

 

estaba usando el setup64 y tuve este fallo, con el mismo setup desinstale vpinmame y volvi a instalar pero con el setup normal (el que creo es para 32 bits)

 

despues de esto asunto arreglado, puedo jugar a todas las tablas que tengo instaladas en mi maquina arcade


USEN EL TRADUCTOR DE GOOGLE PARA LEER, LAMENTABLEMENTE NO SE SUFICIENTE INGLES PARA ESCRIBIRLES EN ESE IDIOMA.

 

 

muchos saludos desde Santiago, Chile

[digitalarts]

@Tomcat Leader
...better late than never...
This Error belongs to the b2sserver. I had the Same Problem with my VP9 Tables.
B2sserver versions > 2.1.3 have a new way of COM Usage, which is incompatible with VP9.
At least this is my finding.
Use b2sserver 2.1.3, until Vbousquet maybe find a solution