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12-22-2016
, 09:33 AM
12-22-2016
, 09:43 AM
12-22-2016
, 09:45 AM
12-22-2016
, 10:32 AM
Quote:
there is something wrong in your current software.
my system disk suddenly reported it is full, but it should not be. i tried to find out whats happening. i tried to clean up disk, but in few minutes it was already full again. so clearly something was writing veryfast onto my system partition right there. pokerstars software was running, but i wasnt playing. despite that task manager reported around 40% cpu consumed by PS which is unusual. then i found out that pokerstars installation folder is about 30GB. bingo! your software is trying to log something like mad:
so i tried to remember what i did in the morning. i started all my challenges, i played few frenzy freerolls and i tried to play one spin of The Deal. but after clicking on jackpot counter few times or on icon on right panel nothing happened. this might be the case. log is too big to open in notepad and it is also too big to send it to support. if you tell me how can i open and read it i could tell you whats happening there.
what should i do now? could i just delete that log file and restart client?
my system disk suddenly reported it is full, but it should not be. i tried to find out whats happening. i tried to clean up disk, but in few minutes it was already full again. so clearly something was writing veryfast onto my system partition right there. pokerstars software was running, but i wasnt playing. despite that task manager reported around 40% cpu consumed by PS which is unusual. then i found out that pokerstars installation folder is about 30GB. bingo! your software is trying to log something like mad:
so i tried to remember what i did in the morning. i started all my challenges, i played few frenzy freerolls and i tried to play one spin of The Deal. but after clicking on jackpot counter few times or on icon on right panel nothing happened. this might be the case. log is too big to open in notepad and it is also too big to send it to support. if you tell me how can i open and read it i could tell you whats happening there.
what should i do now? could i just delete that log file and restart client?
The current versions of the client have a build number of 15658 or higher (go to Help > About PokerStars and look for the 5-digit build number to check your client version).
You might try updating your client (close the client, then in the folder for the PokerStars software, run 'PokerStarsUpdate.exe'.
Alternatively, you could try configuring Windows Firewall so it does not block Google Analytics.
12-22-2016
, 12:00 PM
12-22-2016
, 12:38 PM
12-22-2016
, 01:57 PM
Quote:
Am i the only one who is noticing a change in cards color? Also like the shape in the face of K, Q and J? F****** hate the stupid changes you make!! Why dont you stay the things at way they are actually working? First, the stupid PS7, many other things and now this with the fold button and the faces... wtf???
After a little digging and discussions with some of the developers who implement graphics in the client, we found that there was an effort to address a graphics bug related to transparency issues for a dimmed hand, and that subtle changes were made to the cards, but they weren't supposed to alter their appearance.
This is probably more information than you want, but the issue is that the default deck was originally made up of a bunch of little scraps of suit and rank images back in the dawn of time (i.e. more than 15 years ago). All of these scraps were on a solid white background and when laid together on the white card base nobody would notice that the cards were made from little scraps.
When we added FT to our system, we needed to group the seat pod, the avatar and the cards together for the first time (because of differences in the PS and FT table presentations). Then when the whole group was dimmed for being out of the hand (and therefore the cards were partially transparent), people started noticing all the little scraps.
To correct this issue, the suit/rank/face for each card needs to be on a transparent background rather than a white background. So, they had to be redone, and while the suit and card rank are easily replicated, trying to match the quality of 15-year-old images which are blurry (e.g. the faces of the kings & queens) is a bit more troublesome.
While we didn't get an exact match, the cards don't look "broken" now (with scraps visible), they just look a little different - and we understand that some people are unhappy with that so we'll try tweaking further when we get a chance in an upcoming build cycle (but I don't know yet when that may happen).
Quote:
So i want to change the default new stupid ugly deck, for the OLD AND NICE DECK, but i F cant, i replace all the necessary files and it makes me update the client, so when i go to modify the ~/Library/Preferences/com.pokerstars.user.ini file to make the [Debug]RunUpdateCheck=0 to equal (=0), it is just not there.
What can i do?
What can i do?
or here:
http://i.imgur.com/1rFJxqU.png
... and then to find the location to replace the .png on the Mac:
Best of luck with that.
- Go to finder
- click applications on the left menu
- then right-click Pokerstars and “show package contents”
- then open the “contents” folder
- then “resources”
- then “gx”
- then “chips&deck”
- then “deck”
- then “default”
- paste the .png image in the “default” folder
- restart the PokerStars client
.
12-22-2016
, 04:07 PM
Quote:
Okay, so this took a while to figure out because nobody on the product team asked for or directed any explicit change to the card graphics - which is why Support responded that nothing had changed. As far as anyone who was asked knew, the cards should have been unchanged.
After a little digging and discussions with some of the developers who implement graphics in the client, we found that there was an effort to address a graphics bug related to transparency issues for a dimmed hand, and that subtle changes were made to the cards, but they weren't supposed to alter their appearance.
This is probably more information than you want, but the issue is that the default deck was originally made up of a bunch of little scraps of suit and rank images back in the dawn of time (i.e. more than 15 years ago). All of these scraps were on a solid white background and when laid together on the white card base nobody would notice that the cards were made from little scraps.
When we added FT to our system, we needed to group the seat pod, the avatar and the cards together for the first time (because of differences in the PS and FT table presentations). Then when the whole group was dimmed for being out of the hand (and therefore the cards were partially transparent), people started noticing all the little scraps.
To correct this issue, the suit/rank/face for each card needs to be on a transparent background rather than a white background. So, they had to be redone, and while the suit and card rank are easily replicated, trying to match the quality of 15-year-old images which are blurry (e.g. the faces of the kings & queens) is a bit more troublesome.
While we didn't get an exact match, the cards don't look "broken" now (with scraps visible), they just look a little different - and we understand that some people are unhappy with that so we'll try tweaking further when we get a chance in an upcoming build cycle (but I don't know yet when that may happen).
Good guess, but no.
I'm not sure if this will work as I don't have a Mac, but you might be able to use the old deck in place of the new one. Hopefully you can download the deck.png from here:
or here:
http://i.imgur.com/1rFJxqU.png
... and then to find the location to replace the .png on the Mac:
.
After a little digging and discussions with some of the developers who implement graphics in the client, we found that there was an effort to address a graphics bug related to transparency issues for a dimmed hand, and that subtle changes were made to the cards, but they weren't supposed to alter their appearance.
This is probably more information than you want, but the issue is that the default deck was originally made up of a bunch of little scraps of suit and rank images back in the dawn of time (i.e. more than 15 years ago). All of these scraps were on a solid white background and when laid together on the white card base nobody would notice that the cards were made from little scraps.
When we added FT to our system, we needed to group the seat pod, the avatar and the cards together for the first time (because of differences in the PS and FT table presentations). Then when the whole group was dimmed for being out of the hand (and therefore the cards were partially transparent), people started noticing all the little scraps.
To correct this issue, the suit/rank/face for each card needs to be on a transparent background rather than a white background. So, they had to be redone, and while the suit and card rank are easily replicated, trying to match the quality of 15-year-old images which are blurry (e.g. the faces of the kings & queens) is a bit more troublesome.
While we didn't get an exact match, the cards don't look "broken" now (with scraps visible), they just look a little different - and we understand that some people are unhappy with that so we'll try tweaking further when we get a chance in an upcoming build cycle (but I don't know yet when that may happen).
Good guess, but no.
I'm not sure if this will work as I don't have a Mac, but you might be able to use the old deck in place of the new one. Hopefully you can download the deck.png from here:
or here:
http://i.imgur.com/1rFJxqU.png
... and then to find the location to replace the .png on the Mac:
Best of luck with that.
- Go to finder
- click applications on the left menu
- then right-click Pokerstars and “show package contents”
- then open the “contents” folder
- then “resources”
- then “gx”
- then “chips&deck”
- then “deck”
- then “default”
- paste the .png image in the “default” folder
- restart the PokerStars client
.
I will check if it works.
12-22-2016
, 04:59 PM
Quote:
Okay, so this took a while to figure out because nobody on the product team asked for or directed any explicit change to the card graphics - which is why Support responded that nothing had changed. As far as anyone who was asked knew, the cards should have been unchanged.
After a little digging and discussions with some of the developers who implement graphics in the client, we found that there was an effort to address a graphics bug related to transparency issues for a dimmed hand, and that subtle changes were made to the cards, but they weren't supposed to alter their appearance.
This is probably more information than you want, but the issue is that the default deck was originally made up of a bunch of little scraps of suit and rank images back in the dawn of time (i.e. more than 15 years ago). All of these scraps were on a solid white background and when laid together on the white card base nobody would notice that the cards were made from little scraps.
When we added FT to our system, we needed to group the seat pod, the avatar and the cards together for the first time (because of differences in the PS and FT table presentations). Then when the whole group was dimmed for being out of the hand (and therefore the cards were partially transparent), people started noticing all the little scraps.
To correct this issue, the suit/rank/face for each card needs to be on a transparent background rather than a white background. So, they had to be redone, and while the suit and card rank are easily replicated, trying to match the quality of 15-year-old images which are blurry (e.g. the faces of the kings & queens) is a bit more troublesome.
While we didn't get an exact match, the cards don't look "broken" now (with scraps visible), they just look a little different - and we understand that some people are unhappy with that so we'll try tweaking further when we get a chance in an upcoming build cycle (but I don't know yet when that may happen).
Good guess, but no.
I'm not sure if this will work as I don't have a Mac, but you might be able to use the old deck in place of the new one. Hopefully you can download the deck.png from here:
or here:
http://i.imgur.com/1rFJxqU.png
... and then to find the location to replace the .png on the Mac:
.
After a little digging and discussions with some of the developers who implement graphics in the client, we found that there was an effort to address a graphics bug related to transparency issues for a dimmed hand, and that subtle changes were made to the cards, but they weren't supposed to alter their appearance.
This is probably more information than you want, but the issue is that the default deck was originally made up of a bunch of little scraps of suit and rank images back in the dawn of time (i.e. more than 15 years ago). All of these scraps were on a solid white background and when laid together on the white card base nobody would notice that the cards were made from little scraps.
When we added FT to our system, we needed to group the seat pod, the avatar and the cards together for the first time (because of differences in the PS and FT table presentations). Then when the whole group was dimmed for being out of the hand (and therefore the cards were partially transparent), people started noticing all the little scraps.
To correct this issue, the suit/rank/face for each card needs to be on a transparent background rather than a white background. So, they had to be redone, and while the suit and card rank are easily replicated, trying to match the quality of 15-year-old images which are blurry (e.g. the faces of the kings & queens) is a bit more troublesome.
While we didn't get an exact match, the cards don't look "broken" now (with scraps visible), they just look a little different - and we understand that some people are unhappy with that so we'll try tweaking further when we get a chance in an upcoming build cycle (but I don't know yet when that may happen).
Good guess, but no.
I'm not sure if this will work as I don't have a Mac, but you might be able to use the old deck in place of the new one. Hopefully you can download the deck.png from here:
or here:
http://i.imgur.com/1rFJxqU.png
... and then to find the location to replace the .png on the Mac:
Best of luck with that.
- Go to finder
- click applications on the left menu
- then right-click Pokerstars and “show package contents”
- then open the “contents” folder
- then “resources”
- then “gx”
- then “chips&deck”
- then “deck”
- then “default”
- paste the .png image in the “default” folder
- restart the PokerStars client
.
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12-22-2016
, 06:53 PM
12-22-2016
, 08:17 PM
On Windows if you edit any graphics you need to bypass the update process (start from Pokerstars.exe) to stop them being auto-replaced, guessing it's the same for Mac.
12-22-2016
, 08:47 PM
12-22-2016
, 09:06 PM