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Blue Square Probs?
mobily:
Hey all,
I am looking forward to the first online tournie tonight and hooing to add to my 2 APAT points!
However, I am a regular Blue SQ player and seem to suffer terrible problems with my hands being folded due to constant lags and timeouts. I am a virgin media customer and not sure if it is them or bluesq at fault!?
Anyone else suffer this?
Jon MW:
A lot of people seem to have lags on Bluesquare - my initial impression/hunch/guess was that there is something in their software which takes up more processing power then other sites and that creates some sort of lag.
I"m not entirely up on the programming behind poker sites, but iPoker does seem to always go slower on my PC than any other poker site.
kinboshi:
I"d guess it"d be a memory problem.
I never have any problems with iPoker, and i use it regularly. My laptop has 2GB of RAM, which is obviously plenty. If you"re using something like PokerTracker, and have far less RAM, and running other applications at the same time then I"ve seen computers hang for a few moments. This is going to result in a disconnection or lag from the poker room.
As Jon said, maybe iPoker requires slightly more from your computer than other sites - but if your computer has enough RAM and you"re not running any memory intensive applications (graphics or video editing packages, etc.), then you should be OK.
Saying all that, watch me have problems with BlueSQ tonight...if I"m in the tournament long enough ;D.
Jon MW:
That makes sense (at least for my problems with it anyway) - I know that my desktop is severely underpowered in the RAM department.
Whenever I"m forced onto the ipoker network I do tend to try and shut everything else down to improve the performance. It does pretty much solve the problem (in that it ends up being slow, but not so slow that I end up folding or getting disconnected) but it is annoying having to go to that effort when other poker sites manage to avoid causing such problems.
kinboshi:
Get some RAM. It"s not expensive and the difference is VERY noticeable.
How much memory do you actually have (or have you forgotten)?
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