Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

when i play for right around two hours its fine, but whenever i get to around two and a half hours the tables freeze up all of a sudden and wont respond. does this happen to anyone else? and why does it do this?

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

yes, you can three table for about 2.75 hours, then it is time to exit and restart your computer. The server needs a break form all the raising you are doing. I know it is hard to be as lucky as you and I both are!!

absolute is bs
 

fukin freezes on me all the time, annoys the hell out of me, but im still dumb enough to play there

Re: absolute is bs
 

who would not put up with it, Rakeback and Reloads......LOVE ABSOLUTE CRAPY SOFTWARE

Re: absolute is bs
 

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fukin freezes on me all the time, annoys the hell out of me, but im not dumb enough to play there anymore

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who would not put up with it

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I don't.


For those who don't know...there was a thread a few months ago (May I believe) that I started titled 'absolute is buying me a new computer'.


I had responded to so many of these 'absolute's software is not good' type threads on 2+2 that Absolute contacted me (taking mostly a guess as to what my absolute handle and e-mail address were..but they guessed correctly).

They wanted to find out why the software wasn't working very well on my computer. They had read my criticisms and wanted to work with me to get to the bottom of it. They paid me a small fee just to share my observations with them.
I was arranged to talk with their tech-guy on the phone (very professional and polite).. He had me open the software and then open a table..and then read the CPU readings and describe what was happening, etc.


A month or so later they still couldn't reproduce the problem in their tech-labs. So they offered to buy me a new computer if I would send them mine which I did of course.

I shipped them my Inspiron 5100 (I believe..it was 1400x1050 res) and was able to purchase an Inspiron 9100 (1900x1200) with about the amount of money I had paid for my old laptop over a year earlier.


The absolute software runs a LITTLE bit better on my brand new computer. But I could still notice a difference just by opening one table there (that is more noticeable than opening 6-8 tables of Party or Stars or UB).


So I can safely say they ARE working on it.
but I don't think they are fully figuring out what the problem is.

If they DO somehow straighten-out their software I would be happy to play there again.

Re: absolute is bs
 

Mine freezes like clockwork.

I'm still pissed that I took 20 minutes to write a detailed email about all the problems I was having, and never got a response?

The waiting lists and annoying popups will drive anyone crazy. Why if someone gets disconnected, do you have to click on a popup? Great idea boys [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] .

Absolute=Hell.

Re: absolute is bs
 

I told Absolute months ago what the problem likely was as I have run into resource hogs of my own. They are not predictable, but you can insert forced garbage collections into your code to free up resources that are no longer used. Don't ask me why it works this way, but it does. Having done a lot of Window's and .NET programming, my perception, if I was debugging my own process, is that their software fails to release resources after it is done with them and instead of re-using old ones, it makes new ones when it needs a simlar resource later. Eventually, the application eats up all your available memory. This causes it to page swap to any virtual drive you have set up which drasticly reduces the performance of the whole computer. If you want to see for yourself, open up your task manager, click on the processes tab and make sure you have the Mem Usage column visible. As you play at Absolute you will see the mem usage increase. When you no longer have enough pysical memory to run all the apps you start page swapping. The more you page swap, the slower you get. I have found, at least on my machine, that if you shut down Absolute you may either reboot or wait about 5 minutes for Windows to purge the resources used that were not properly released by Absolute's application.

$0.02
Vern

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

3 tabling I get 2-4 hours till reboot req'd

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

I find I get 3 to 4 hours before I have to log off absolute. What bothers me is that I have 3 absolute tables open on one monitor and 4 tables of another site open on my other monitor and the other tables are fine. It is totally a absolute problem.

That being said if they fix this, let us 4 table (or more) and get a few more players I would make them my main site.

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

I'm frozen after about 2.5 hours, it is like clockwork.

I close down every 1.5 hours and reboot now. (maybe overdoing it?)

Re: absolute is bs
 

Some of what you say is over my head....but it still sounds like it makes sense.


on my old and on my current brand new 9100 I get the CPU reading really cranking up just by OPENING one table.

Opening the Absolute client is not noticeable.
But opening one single table I'm getting around 70% of the CPU being used if I look at 'CPU Usage' bar-meter under 'performance' tab on Task Manager.
On my old computer my CPU usage would be more like 90% with one table opened...and then 99% with 2 tables.


It also gets worse if I stay there for any length of time of course.
But I find it interesting that CPU usage is so abnormally high just by opening a single table there.

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

the guy that did the graphics is also their programmer?

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

When I played there that would happen to me after a few hours... but in all honesty I was more annoyed by the way their software steals your focus every time it is your move. Ever try talking to someone on IM while 4-tabling there? It frustrated me to the point that no bonus could make up for the software-induced tilt so I stopped playing there. Oh that, and they have the shittiest 3-6 6-max selection ever.

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

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Ever try talking to someone on IM while 4-tabling there

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ummm....no.
mostly because they only allow you to play a maximum of 3 tables there.

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

The point does stand though. It retarded to be typing something and have half of it end up in the absolute chat box so you could fold your hand.

When someone disconects a window pops up telling you. Put it in the chat box.

There are tons of tiny things they do wrong along with the fact that their software eats up system resources.

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

Just signed up there and played a few nights short session so didnt see this.

Tonight 3 tabling after about 3 hours BAM it takes me down. I was just about to email the bastads too. I restarted real quick and when I logged back on and tried to sit at a table that one window would end up "Not Responding" as well.

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

never-ending bonuses or not...I seriously don't understand why anyone who has to re-boot after 2 hours would even bother playing there.
Too much of a pain if you ask me (thus the reason I don't play there obviously).

Now...if you're just dorking around there on 1 table AND don't have the saame kinds of resource-hog problems that other do then obviously I understand playing there if you like it.

but re-booting my computer every hour or 2?? no thank you.

Re: Does absolute freeze up after a couple hours for anyone else?
 

I have a pretty fast P4 with half a gig of RAM, I notice the slowness, and rarely play more than two tables for the fear that I will get bounced at some bad time and lose a big pot. I love the way Absolute does everything except the execution of their software. It's what Atari would have designed their poker room like in the 80's.

Semi related gripe... AUTO IMPORT HAND HISTORIES ON THE HD!!!!11