HyperSpin randomly doesn't launch

[SuperPang]

I run Windows 10 and boot directly into HyperSpin 1.5.1 via Instant Sheller. HyperSpin usually boots fine. However, 10% of the time, my computer boots, displays the desktop, and never shows the frontend.

Whenever this problem happens, a HyperSpin process is running in Task Manager but I can't alt-tab into it. Also, HyperSpin doesn't write to log.txt.

Has anyone run into similar issues?

[tancrede987]

12 hours ago, SuperPang said:

Has anyone run into similar issues?

All the time. And also sometimes when exiting, the hyperspin process is still in running.

Same issues with HyperHQ and Hypertheme.

 

[SuperPang]

I just wrote an AutoHotkey script to work around this. It launches HyperSpin, waits 15 seconds so the program can launch, and then checks to see whether a log file was created. If there's no log, it closes HS and tries again.

; Delete existing log file
FileSetAttrib, -R, C:\HyperSpin\log.txt
FileDelete, C:\HyperSpin\log.txt

; Keep launching HyperSpin until a log file is created
Loop {
	Run, HyperSpin.exe, C:\HyperSpin\
	Process, Wait, HyperSpin.exe
	Sleep, 15000

	; If a log file wasn't created, HyperSpin didn't load properly
	if (!FileExist("C:\HyperSpin\log.txt")) {
		Process, Close, HyperSpin.exe
		Process, WaitClose, HyperSpin.exe
		continue
	}

	break
}

So far, so good!