HyperSpin Crashing

[tron38]

This is the same problem as mentioned in this older thread: 

Some people like to leave their cabinets running forever. HyperSpin's attract mode is cool to watch. I've had 7 cabinets running for weeks trying to solve this problem. I have a Scheduled task at 3am to reboot and sometimes the White Screen lockup with the exclamation in a circle still happens. I have all MP4 videos. I deleted every FLV I could find on the hard drive.

I considered HyperRefresh, but I think that may close while someone is playing it, right? My Scheduled Task at 3am does the same thing.

What I did do that seems to have mitigated the problem, is I have a PowerShell script that runs as a Scheduled Task hourly that looks at Log.txt for changes. If there are changes, it is in use or was recently. If it hasn't changed in 4 hours, I will close and reopen HyperSpin. I'm sending an ALT+F4. If you send a Taskkill it does weird things to Explorer.exe, like the Taskbar goes missing. Change the 240 if you want it shorter or longer. The script:

$Logfile = 'C:\HyperSpin\log.txt'
$LogTime = (Get-Item $logfile).LastWriteTime
$CurrentTime = (Get-Date)

$diff = $CurrentTime - $LogTime
$diff.TotalMinutes

If (($diff.TotalMinutes) -gt 240) {
    $wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell;
    $wshell.AppActivate('HyperSpin')
    Sleep 1
    $wshell.SendKeys('%{F4}')
    Sleep 10
    C:\HyperSpin\HyperSpin.exe
    (get-date -Format "MM/dd/yyyy.HH:mm:ss") | Out-File -Append LastHSclose.txt
}

 

[dark13]

The white screeen with exclamation point means Flash run out of memory, Flash has some serious memory leaking problems and can't use all the ram of the system (can't remember if it is limited to 2gb or the classic 32bit 3.8gb). Basically even if the Flash garbage collector runs properly some stuff still hangs in memory. You can trigger the problem using huge .swf or .swf that are not huge but have lots of frames (it is better to stay in the 160-180 frame max range for a fullscreen .swf).

[tron38]

Ahh, I'll check the SWF files. I know I have some. I thought I read it was mainly a FLV problem. Thanks.