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Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
Alright, I made a similar thread about this 2 months ago HERE but didn't get any closer to solving the problem, and now Party has released 2 upgrades but the problem is as bad as ever!! I need help. I'm going out of my mind.
<font color="blue">Cliff's Notes: Since early March, the Party client crashes INCESSANTLY on me. Sometimes after just 5 minutes of playing, sometimes longer -- <u>i THINK it may have something to do with dual-core processors, so I'd be especially interested in hearing from people who use dual-cores</u>.</font> Symptoms Basically, with no warning at all, the party software will start the "Internet Delay...15 seconds...trying to reconnect" dialogue, but then it gets down to "Connection Lost", and never reconnects. Other times, the software will simply stop responding altogether. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like when that happens: In either case, as soon as I realize it has crashed, I Ctrl-alt-delete kill the Partygaming.exe process, and re-open the software as fast as I can, hoping that my hands are still live; i don't even want to think about how many thousands of dollars I've lost on no-DP NL tables b/c of this. **My own trouble-shooting attempts / ruling things out** 1) A simple system reboot isn't the answer; i've re-booted started to play on Party without starting ANY other programs and i still get this crash (btw, this computer is only 2 months old, and top-of-the-line...and the problem only started happening since early March...p.s. i also uninstalled and re-installed the party software a few days ago; doesn't make it any better. 2) I notice that these crashes are especially frequent when the Party lobby pops up; for example, u know how when you close a table, the lobby automatically pops up? Well, I've noticed that the crashes are very frequent whenever that happens, or whenever I maximize the lobby from the task bar menus at the bottom of my screen 3) I know it's not a prob w/ my internet connection b/c I'm not getting crashes like this on ANY other site. 4) Here's where things get especially weird: I get this very same error on TWO of my computers >> both of them are brand new top of the line and have dual-core AMD 3800 processors. But on my 2-yr old Dell 9300 (single-core), no problems whatsoever -- unfort one of the problem computers is my desktop computer w/ multi-monitors (aka my poker-playing computer) Given that the exact same problem happens on TWO of my computers, I find it very hard to believe that SOMEONE out there isn't having the same issues and can't believe it hasn't been mentioned on the forums. Someone out there -- plz come to my rescue. ***p.s. there was recently a thread in the software forum where Juk described a different problem he was having with the Party software...that it was lagging the more tables he opened up and would eventually crash...and it looks like he finally figured out a solution was to turn off font-smoothing. Just FYI, my problem seems to be more or less unrelated since turning off font smoothing seems not to have had any effect and the crashing problem i'm having seems to be just as bad when i've got 1 table open, as when I've got 6 tables open (HECK, it even happens when i'm just OBSERVING tables!!) |
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Re: Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
bump
(i will be bumping this thread until i get to the bottom of this; k thx) |
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Re: Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
F you and your damn country that still is allowed to play on Party. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Wish I could help Teddy. But I live in the land of the free and the home of the brave, so I can't click mouse and lose house anymore. I was one of the few people that would 8 to 10 table Party a year ago with PA Hud and PTracker and I never had problems. I guess I was lucky. -Brendan |
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Re: Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
I have had problems with the Party client on and off, where it would crash and stop responding completely just like it did to you. Restarting seems to fix it for a while, and it eventually starts crashing again at which point I restart yet again.
I hope you find a solution as I know several other people have had problems with party crashing. Gl. |
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Re: Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
imdonelosing plays 25/50?
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Re: Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
I run party on Dual Core,
For starters, here are my suggestions: A. Have 2 gigs of ram minimum. B. Use Postgresql for PT. C. Compact your PT databases NIGHTLY. D. Defrag your hard drive NIGHTLY. A simple batch script can be ran for C and D. This has helped my performance quite a bit. |
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Re: Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
[ QUOTE ]
imdonelosing plays 25/50? [/ QUOTE ] yeah - a TON. at first i thought he was really good (mostly b/c he plays so much and so many tables at once...but the more i've watched him play, i've seen him make some DN-esque preflop calls, and river calldowns that can't be profitable on any planet. [ QUOTE ] I run party on Dual Core, For starters, here are my suggestions: A. Have 2 gigs of ram minimum. B. Use Postgresql for PT. C. Compact your PT databases NIGHTLY. D. Defrag your hard drive NIGHTLY. A simple batch script can be ran for C and D. This has helped my performance quite a bit. [/ QUOTE ] Thanks for the suggestions. a) i have 2 gigs of RAM b) i use postGRES SQL for PT c & d) I compact my PT DBs every once in a while, but rarely defrag my HD. I wonder how much that has to do with the problem, though, because I never defrag'd my old HD either (nor do i defrag my 2-yr old laptop), and i never got problems like this. Let me ask you this...is there any reason c & d would be more problematic on a DUAL-CORE computer? (b/c as i mentioned, i only get this problem on my brand new dual-cores AMD 3800 chipsets, and not at all on my 2 yr old single core Dell 9300 laptop) |
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Re: Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
I'm having the problem with opening jackpot tables. Trying a reinstall now to see if that does anything.
On a related note, Absolute Poker and www.wikitravel.org are also not working. No idea if there is some larger problem with my internet, but I find it odd that I can open regular Party Poker tables but not Jackpot tables. Reinstalling did nothing. Still can't play on Jackpot tables. Also, the Party Cashier portion of the web site isn't functional for me. Edit: Dual core Athlon, 2 gig RAM. |
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Re: Party crashing - HELP! I\'m about to go postal!!!
[ QUOTE ]
I'm having the problem with opening jackpot tables. Trying a reinstall now to see if that does anything. On a related note, Absolute Poker and www.wikitravel.org are also not working. No idea if there is some larger problem with my internet, but I find it odd that I can open regular Party Poker tables but not Jackpot tables. Reinstalling did nothing. Still can't play on Jackpot tables. Also, the Party Cashier portion of the web site isn't functional for me. Edit: Dual core Athlon, 2 gig RAM. [/ QUOTE ] Okay this is pissing me off and I can't fix it. I see why TeddyFBI was so upset before. |
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