What are Party/skins doing after you close them?

[Benjamin]

So, you close Party or skins, and that stupid splash screen comes up and won't go away for several minutes. During that time it's hogging CPU like crazy: 97% lots of times.

Anyone know if it's doing anything useful? Or is it a bug?

B.

[Guy McSucker]

Hmmm, that's odd, it used to do that for me but hasn't been doing so recently.

My guess: bug.

Guy.

[CLC]

I have four of the Party skin accounts. The splash hangs for all of them. More than 75% of the time for Party and Empire, about 50% of the time for the other two. I ususally have to use Task Manager to terminate the splash screen. If I don't terminate the screen it just maxes out my CPU indefinetly. I have tried reinstalling, buit it does not seem to help. Hopefully, I am not hurting anything by doing this.

[goodguy_1]

exactly GRRRRR
this is such an annoying problem.I have all Party/skin accounts.Every single one of them will not close properly.I too have to use the task manager to manually close each exe file.I thought this problem may have been related to very large notes.txt files...because at one time maybe 12-18 months ago large notes.txt files made logging in very ponderous...Party fixed that problem.I thought Party had fixed or at least improved on this problem after the last upgrade...bbut no it's still a major problem.
To try and counter this problem I deleted multiple notes.txt files in all my skins..I had probably 15-20 mb's in each skin on 4-7 txt files....it didnt work

I have noticed that immediatley after re-booting you can succesfully close one or two rooms w/o too much hang..but after very liitle time it justs reverts back to same problem..
This is not a problem w/ hardware resources since I have a new Dell XPS G3 w/ 2GB RAM,3.6MHZ processor and a monster harddrive.

There is a issue w/Internet Explorer that occurs frequently where urls hang..supposed related to Norton NIS 2005/NAV..I dont know if this is related.Do you or anyone else w/ this problem have Norton on your machine?
Annoyances.org - hungapp in iexplorer.exe
this problem drives me fugging crazy.I am constantly switching among among 3-5 Party rooms while I play.Closing out a room as you say hogs up your cpu The exe will just hang/stay open using usually 45-55% of your CPU...it creates bedlam...causing timeouts on any other program you use until you manually close it..

I know the hungapp thing is probably not related but maybe this is a Norton Firewall/NIS 2004/05 issue..duunuh

[MicroBob]

interesting. i have none of the problems being described here.

I close the skin and for 10 seconds maybe get a little box that says 'come back and play again soon' or whatever the hell it says.

certainly doesn't hog any CPU and doesn't take very long before it vanishes.

[goodguy_1]

do you have any Norton software on your pc ie Norton Internet Security 2004/5 or just a Norton firewall?

my guess is this firewall related..

I had the same problem on a different workstation that ran Windows2KPro..this os is WindowsXP Pro...both pc's have NIS2004/2005...hhmm..gotta be it

[MicroBob]

i have norton sec now but no firewall. so you could be correct. maybe the firewall is stalling things out for you guys somehow.

[Graham]

I run NIS plus a bunch other security stuff I hardly know how to use. No problems...just the small screeen for a few secs.

[goodguy_1]

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The splash hangs for all of them

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it's not just the splash panel that hangs the executable files arent closing properly...grrr

[Hung]

I don't have this problem either. I have norton 2004 and MCAfee desktop firewall.
Everything closes right away. I also have pretty big txt files.
My computer is 1.5 years old. But still very fast. Does the popup uses RAM or CPU?
Do you have enough RAM or CPU to deal with all the processes so it can close?