Does Absolute play nice with others?
 

I like the bonuses at Absolute, and don't hate the games and software as much as everyone else seems to, but three at a time is boring. Does anyone run Absolute along with a Party skin? How well do they work together? I mostly play Party SNGs, so I would hate for Absolute to freeze everything up at an inopportune time.

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I typically run 2 party & 2-3 absolute tables without any problems. However, i had to stop running pokertracker at the same time, as that definitely caused issues. My poker computer is a 4 year old overclocked 733Mhz, so that might have been part of the problem.

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Is it so hard to simply try this out for yourself? Incase the answer is "yes", i've had no problems.

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Thought I would look for opinions before I bought a 2nd monitor.

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Your video card for your second monitor may use some resources when you have 2 monitors running, I made a post a long time ago and got this answer and I do notice an Absolute lockup whe I try to 8 table while running more than 1 table of Absolute, so my solution, just bought another computer last night and well see when it gets here, but increased ram should help

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I like the bonuses at Absolute, and don't hate the games and software as much as everyone else seems to, but three at a time is boring. Does anyone run Absolute along with a Party skin? How well do they work together? I mostly play Party SNGs, so I would hate for Absolute to freeze everything up at an inopportune time.

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I three table and sometimes am running three sites at a time.

I have found tha Absolute and Poker Stars do not play nice together. I end up having to do three clicks sometimes to bring the appropriate window to the foreground. Same with Absolute and Paradise.

IT seems to work well with Eurobet (party skin). Still sometimes it takes a couple clicks. Same with UB, works well but sometimes takes a couple clicks.

All this does not bother me, because I only three table. However someone playing 6-12 screen might find it more annoying.

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Absolute does not appear to be the resource hog it once was but I have not tried all these combinations since they upgraded. In the past it has worked fine with UB and Party. I have had problems with Paradise, Stars, Bodog and Poo Mountain.

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I can't stand Absolute personally. The play is soo slow and the software is clunky.

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Absolute seems to work fine w/Party and skins, but I always have a problem running Absolute + PokerRoom (4 PR tables, 1 or 2 Absolute) or Absolute + Bodog (2 Absolute, some other tables, 1 Bodog).