Party makes my computer sooooo slow!

[GLmaestro]

Hi

I recently bought a new computer, with the following setup:

Intel P4 650 3,4 ghz
1 gig DDR2 RAM
Radeon X1300 video card

I run WinXP btw.

Now to the problem: When I play poker I mostly play 10 tables on my two monitors. I have several programs running simoultaneously:

Poker Tracker (Auto importing every 3 minutes, edit: I use Access database)
Poker Ace Hud
Autoresizer
Adde's NL Autoreload AHK script
Allsnap
Skype

Sometimes everything runs smoothly to start with, but after a while the tables open up slower and my mouse cursor responds more slowly than usual.
Other times this happens right at the moment when I start playing.

My CPU usage is between 55-80% when this happens, this can't be normal? I've read some posts that say this problem disappears when shutting down and reopening the PP client, but for me this does not work, I still have the slowness of my mouse etc.

Please guys help me, this is extremely annoying. Give me som advice of what to do (buy more RAM or whatever).

Thanks

[GLmaestro]

Also I should add, I do NOT resize tables

[Don West]

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I have a similar setup and just upgraded to 2G RAM like 15 minutes ago. I'll let you know if it helps.

[Adde]

Happens to me too, occasionally. Not that often nowadays though.

Do you use Access or Postgres (SQL) in PT? Sometimes Postgres processes (there are a couple of them) seem to go wild on my computer. Even after I have closed PT they keep on processing for a long while.

Adde

[GLmaestro]

Oh forgot to mention, I use Access. Do you think I should switch to Postgre?

[GLmaestro]

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Autoresizer


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I have a similar setup and just upgraded to 2G RAM like 15 minutes ago. I'll let you know if it helps.

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That would be great, thanks!

[Adde]

Ok, this might be totally irrelevant, but anyway...

My Logitech MX1000 mouse sometimes gets very slow (just the mouse, but it feels like the computer gets slow too). If I reconnect (reset button on bottom of mouse), it gets fast again.

It almost feels like Party is gradually slowing down the mouse movements. Compare with WSEX, where (at least mine) the mouse pointer turns veeeeeery slow when it enters the client window.

Adde

[ottsville]

I've noticed that when PT auto imports, it hogs a lot of processor. Don't know what that means though or what to do about it....

[oliverm]

It may help setting your import to every minute in pokertracker. The effect would be that you would have shorter (1/3 of the hands being imported), but more frequent (every minute) processor load. This may just help distribute the overall processor load.

[ottsville]

Thanks for the advice, but that is what my setting is, and I'm only two tabling. It hasn't happened today though...?