Full Tilt Rush Crashing
I'm not normally one to post in tech forums for aid until I've exhausted all the help already given in the forum, but my frustration over this issue has been mounting for days. The HUD for Rush crashing cost me $300 earlier tonight, and I've just about reached the limit of my patience.
The issue: While running the HUD for Rush (4tabling), once or twice an hour, my entire machine locks up, as in clicking on anything greys out its window (even the desktop). Everything will stay frozen solid for anywhere from 30 secs to 4 or 5 minutes. C-A-D is also unresponsive until everything thaws, and by then it isn't much use. I've left the task manager open while playing to see if any process goes nuts on resources causing the crash, but the crash freezes the output of the manager, so I don't get the numbers.
I've tried about a half dozen different releases and they all do this, and I've tried all the tricks I've found in the forum:
1. HMHud, holdemManager, and DBControlPanel are all running as admin and are excepted by the firewall
1a. I've tried it with the firewall on and off
1b. I've tried them in XP compatibility mode and and otherwise
2. I've shut down every process not critical to Windows or HEM. All that's running is:
csrss
dwm
explorer
taskeng
winlogon
and the HEM processes
3. I've tried all three screen scraping methods, there seemed to be some variability in how fast the crash happened, but that's likely due to the randomness of the crash.
4. I've turned Aero on and off
5. Turned OCR on and off.
6. I've disabled all antivirus/malware programs and system monitoring tools (and excepted the relevant exe's where appropriate even though they're turned off)
I'm running Vista Home 64bit with all OS updates and a ATI Radeon 3100 with updated drivers.
The HUD and HEM work like a dream on my ancient XP SP2 desktop, but I'm visiting family for the holidays, so the laptop is what I'm stuck with. I've got IronMan and Black Card to maintain, and I'd really, really like to use a HUD, but not if it's going to crash and make me time out on all tables at seemingly completely random times (Like I said... having the crash happen when a fish donk overshoves into me on the river when I have top quads and we're deep is a wall punchingly frustrating occurrence.)
Any and all help would be very much appreciated.
Edit: I've also:
7) Defragged and swept the registry and done just about ever system scan/sweep you could name. The machine work exceptionally well except for this issue.
I've also yet to see this happen on normal ring tables or tourneys, though admittedly my volume of those is far smaller than my volume on the rush tables.
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