Party's high CPU usage is the fault of "PartyBets spam-bar": AHK fix!

[jukofyork]

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the symbol for the ahk-script doesnt appear in my taskbar,however, it is running nonethe less.i have to start partypoker,log on, and then start the ahk.script.
starting the script and then opening party doesnt work for me,but the other way round is ok.

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Yep, this script doesn't work like most AHK scripts: basically you just have to run it once to send a command to turn off the PartyBets bar and then you're done until the next time you run Party.

If you want to have a version that you run before starting Party then you can try this:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>; PartyBets scrolling-spam killer v2
; ==================================
; Simply run this app to kill the CPU hogging PartyBets scrolling-spam bar.
; - CPU usage on my machine goes from 5%-25% spikes right down to constant 0%-1%!
; - Must run this *BEFORE* starting Party.
; - If it fails sometimes try increasing the sleep timeout from 1000ms.

#SingleInstance force
DetectHiddenWindows On

WinWait, PartyAccount Login
WinWaitClose

; ### You might have to increase this value if it fails sometimes. ###
Sleep, 1000

; Kill PartyBets spam window (WM_COMMAND = 0x111, ID_EXIT=2126).
PostMessage, 0x111 , 2126, 0, Internet Explorer_Server3, PartyPoker.com:

WinWaitClose, Status
Reload</pre><hr />
If you find that sometimes it doesn't work then you'll need to change the line which says "Sleep, 1000" to use a larger value than 1000ms.

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[asteroid]

thx very much yuk,works like a charm!!

asteroid

[stevoL]

doesnt seem to be helping me at all, party still is spiking my cpu to 40%+

do I need to disable the BBJ at all? or the news&amp;events scrolling display somehow?

[2mb]

Thanks juk, working fine again here [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Tankjoo]

Juk, you rock [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Tankjoo]

It looks like me and Juk deserve some money added into our accounts for our debugging work. Right Party, I know you're reading this!

[jukofyork]

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It looks like me and Juk deserve some money added into our accounts for our debugging work. Right Party, I know you're reading this!

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Hehe, Party a truly "professional deniers" when it comes to client bugs.

Half of 2+2 can send them an e-mail stating that the buttons are disappearing for speed SNGs and you'll get a reply that says "you seem to be the only person experiencing this problem and we haven't had any other complaints...".

Party support is a total waste of time.

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[notreallymyname]

Disappearing buttons in general (and short buy in timeouts) are caused by a cumulative error in the client's idea of time, which it derives from your system clock. Found this out because my system clock was counting about 15 minutes every 10 for a while.

If anyone's got a trick to make party read e-mails that large class of bugs could be fixed.

[Caliban]

Holy crap. I was just playing on PP and suddenly some tables started to lag and every players were on sitting out, after that my party just lagged so bad even with the fix. So annoying.

[jukofyork]

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Holy crap. I was just playing on PP and suddenly some tables started to lag and every players were on sitting out, after that my party just lagged so bad even with the fix. So annoying.

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If others were sitting out then it sounds like it's the Party servers having trouble.

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]