j22
01-12-2012, 04:19 PM
Hey all,
I do have an ongoing email thread with support but I thought I'd toss this one out to the community as it is been quite tricky. After 1-2 hours of play my computer goes completely bonkers. CPU usage spikes and it is all I can do to unpost at my tables and finish my remaining hands. Once I get down to 3-4 tables still active (I 18 table) the problem goes away. Processes at the top of the list during the spikes are : Pokerstars.exe, HMImport, DWM.exe, Tableninja and a few others - they jockey around all taking between 8-20% of CPU usage which is maxed. The usual processes all seem to just require 100x as much CPU as they did. The onset of symptoms is not subtle. I will be playing just fine one minute and the next it will be unplayable. I have noticed this issue with HM2 but quit testing that for the time being.
My specs:
I5 3.3 ghz, 8 gb ram, radeon 6950, 240 gb SSD. No problems there I presume. The computer is a custom build so there could be some sort of obscure hardware glich but if there is I don't know it. There's only a few programs installed after win7: Tableninja, HEM1, HM2, (using HM1 now), Pokerstars, Steam and skype.
What I have done so far:
Everything? jk but here's the list:
- Any file that seems remotely important is run as admin.
- I do run Microsoft Security essentials and tableninja, HEM, HMimport, Postgres etc all on the exceptions list. This was causing problems initially (MSMPENG.exe was using 50% of the CPU and crashing me) but that problem is now solved.
- Windows is up to date. If it means anything - I had about 3 .NET framework updates and they took a LONG time to install - like 20 min each (could have been d/ling not sure). Bad SQL install maybe??
- Postgres 8.4 installed
- I have recently added the suggested exceptions to windows firewall (it was always turned off) because I read somewhere you should do it anyway - I have NOT tested it after this.
- disabled indexing on the ssd.
- Probably some other things I've scoured these forums for solutions (The top 10 list, etc)
Open to any and all suggestions.
Thanks,
-j
I do have an ongoing email thread with support but I thought I'd toss this one out to the community as it is been quite tricky. After 1-2 hours of play my computer goes completely bonkers. CPU usage spikes and it is all I can do to unpost at my tables and finish my remaining hands. Once I get down to 3-4 tables still active (I 18 table) the problem goes away. Processes at the top of the list during the spikes are : Pokerstars.exe, HMImport, DWM.exe, Tableninja and a few others - they jockey around all taking between 8-20% of CPU usage which is maxed. The usual processes all seem to just require 100x as much CPU as they did. The onset of symptoms is not subtle. I will be playing just fine one minute and the next it will be unplayable. I have noticed this issue with HM2 but quit testing that for the time being.
My specs:
I5 3.3 ghz, 8 gb ram, radeon 6950, 240 gb SSD. No problems there I presume. The computer is a custom build so there could be some sort of obscure hardware glich but if there is I don't know it. There's only a few programs installed after win7: Tableninja, HEM1, HM2, (using HM1 now), Pokerstars, Steam and skype.
What I have done so far:
Everything? jk but here's the list:
- Any file that seems remotely important is run as admin.
- I do run Microsoft Security essentials and tableninja, HEM, HMimport, Postgres etc all on the exceptions list. This was causing problems initially (MSMPENG.exe was using 50% of the CPU and crashing me) but that problem is now solved.
- Windows is up to date. If it means anything - I had about 3 .NET framework updates and they took a LONG time to install - like 20 min each (could have been d/ling not sure). Bad SQL install maybe??
- Postgres 8.4 installed
- I have recently added the suggested exceptions to windows firewall (it was always turned off) because I read somewhere you should do it anyway - I have NOT tested it after this.
- disabled indexing on the ssd.
- Probably some other things I've scoured these forums for solutions (The top 10 list, etc)
Open to any and all suggestions.
Thanks,
-j