I have a feeling that the lag is caused by the database interaction. Looks like drivehud is doing joins, and full table scans. The more rows you get added the worse the problem is going to be. I have a feeling there might be some lock contention as well. Tailing the query log for postgres my cpu was spikes were directly related to the drive hud queries.

I dl the free trial with intentions of purchasing. I play on betonline. I can't get this thing to work.Im quite useless when it comes to techy stuff, can someone please please give me detailed instructions on how to use this thing? I play on both bovada and bol @ sametime but only need this product to work for betonline. TYTY

I think it just worked for me on BOL. If it doesn't, try telling BOL to save your hand histories.
I think when on a table click "History", "Options", Check "Save my hand histories".
If that doesn't work I can see what settings I have when I get home.

Thanks zeeawk. I will try this when I get a chance to log on.

No, that's not what's going on. I don't have any lags when I play, and I have a larger database than you do, and less system memory. We know what the issue is in your case and it's a combination of how bovada handles the data, and the fact it's forcing your screen to the forefront, which we have not seen before. No one our end is having this happen. We'll figure it out.

You don't need to do anything. Just load drivehud. Make sure the HUD button up top shows a STOP icon. You have to wait for one full hand to play before you'll see the HUD. There's literally nothing else you need to do.

Online manual is here if you need it:
http://drivehud.com/blog/manual/

How many hands do you have in your database?
At around 4k or so hands without Bovada running it takes a few seconds just to switch from the hud tab to the dashboard because it's querying all the data.

Any database is going to take time to load data, but it should be < 1 sec. Make sure you have your bottom grid set to last 100 hands, and not all hands. I have over 200k+ hands right now on this particular system. It does take a couple of seconds to load going from HUD to dashboard. We're not doing many joins or full table scans though. We are going to optimize this more though.

What version are you running?

DriveHud: 1.0.2.465
Postgress: 8.4

Ya, 8.4 is not good and has lots of performance issues. Drivehud defaults w/ installing 9.5, and not all data is stored in the DB. We have our own flat file + DB use. I'd recommend allowing it to install 9.5 and putting DH database there. I guess you canceled this process during install.

Like I said though, our entire focus is going to be on improving performance for people who have systems that cause any delay. We know why some people are seeing this and others are not, so it's just a matter of a few changes that should make a big difference.

Thanks. Now I can get it done. I just needed detailed instructions.

DriveHUD – update | v1.0.2.487
http://drivehud.com/poker-hud/DriveH...v1.0.2.487.exe

Change log:
- added player seat number to the player type icon tooltip
- fixed hud mis-position issues
- changed power button to support button
- added apps tab
- added WWSF stat to the popular section
- changed default hud to vertical
- omaha hand export
- make section between reports and hand grid expandable
- updated default stats colors for BOL HUD
- fixed stakes filter
- added limp stats
- improved logging
- fixed import problems after switching tables in mtt
- Fixed stats loader
- Fixed All-in equity hands column
- Database version check

Actually no I didn't cancel anything. It looks like it installed it just fine (I have 8.4 and 9.5 installed).
The postgres installer must have been smart enough to know that another postgres( or something else) was using that port and it changed the port of 9.5.

Then drivehud installed to 8.4 because that was the defaults it had.
8.4 was installed when I was trying HM2. My guess is this would happen to anyone that has a previous installation that used the same default credentials. They wouldn't even know it unless they went digging around.

I'm going export and import into the 9.5 and fix things up.

Would there be a way to backup the database, clear everything out and play some hands to see if things improve? And then re-import the hands that were dumped so I don't lose any hand history?

Thanks for the updates. It's nice to see feedback being incorporated into new builds of the software.

I had the very same problem as zeeawk. I had an older version of HM2 installed on my computer which had installed Postgres 8.4. When I installed DH it installed Postgres 9.5 and started the server but never connected to it. Thus I had both Postgres 8.4 and 9.5 servers running on my system and didn't know it.

as per Zeeawk's suggestion I installed the Postgres admin tool and noticed that DH was using 8.4 instead of 9.5. I backed up the 8.4 DH tables. then restored them on the 9.5 server. Afterwards I uninstalled Postgres 8.4 so there would not be any conflicts.

I re ran DH and verified that only 9.5 was running and everything worked.

I was hoping the upgrade from 8.4 to 9.5 would resolve my lag issues but sadly it did not. I now have about 9k hands in my DB and the lag is getting so bad that i've actually timed out on a couple hands where i've clicked either call or raise and the mouse clicks did not register until after the timer ran out. Even minimizing/maximizing the DH is taking 10+ seconds.

As a side note my swap file is disabled because you only need a swap file if you are out of ram. If i'm running out of 16GB of ram then i'm doing something very wrong. Even with NO swap/page file I still get the broken rebuy bug and i'm pretty sure the user who thinks setting the swap file to a particular size will solve his rebuy problem is propagating an old wive's tale.

I really like the utility of the DH software, but at the rate things are going I'm guessing by the time i hit 10-12k hands in the DB everything will be so unresponsive that I won't even be able to use it anymore without constant risk of being timed out of hands.

Again to be clear if i play on 4 bovada tables without DH running i'm not experiencing any of the lag issues. By "lag" i mean where I click on a UI element and it does not register my mouse clicks for some number of seconds.

Not yet, or at least not an easy way. Going from 8.4 to 9.5 won't fix your lag issue though. We know why this is happening, and like I said it will be addressed next build. It's one of those things that you just don't know about until release because we've literally just did not see it with any of our testers or internally, and we had several 2+2 testers using it.

Any ways, this will be addressed next build.

Yes, sorry I didn't get to respond in time to explain that isn't going to help. It will help long term, but not with your particular issue. Thanks for your logs we know why there's this issue, and like I was just saying, it will be addressed and fixed next build. For some strange reason your setup keeps bringing DH to the foreground. I haven't seen this, and no one had seen it before, but I guess the developers know why it's happened.

I'll let you know when the build is up that addresses this.

I give up. I can't deal with the severe lag. I turned off DH in the middle of a session without leaving any tables and as soon as DH was off all the lag went away. I tried sending you one final log file in game. I'm unsure if it went through. I did receive 5 email confirmations that you got it.

Good Luck!

You received 5 e-mail that we got it?

Yeah, I know what your issue is like I said. The problem is we had never seen it and can't reproduce it, but the developers know from the log the paging issue that's happening. So like I said, it will be fixed next build. It's actually not a big change that needs to happen to fix it.

I play on there regularly with drivehud and never see it myself, so it's something specific that apparently the development team understands.

Thanks for sending the log and the info. I appreciate it.

We fixed your pagging lag issue. The main issue is no matter how many beta testers we have, there's just no way on first release to see and know all of the potential setups. It was an easy fix honestly, so I'll have an update build w/ this fix in it likely later today since a couple of people said they were effected by it. We tested yesterday and are testing today. It should be completely gone w/ this next update.

That's great news. Can't wait to test.

I'd like to suggest that you move the stop/play button off of the hud tab and next to settings button. I think this makes more sense from in terms of UI design and would allow you to stop/start the hud without switching tabs.

Also I feel like the import option should really be in the settings menu. It's not something you need to do often and if you do it would make sense you would find it there.

I still can't figure out how to load/apply a filter I have saved. When I click load and select it from the file system nothing appears to happen. Am I missing a step?

Also I was wondering if you know how far off adding support for ACR is ?

Yeah, stress testing it went from 10sec delay w/ 4 tables on 60k hands for hero, to 300ms. So it's safe to say that if you had this issue, it should be gone. I think it took them all of an hour to fix. The developers tried to explain why some people would have it and others wouldn't, and it was a little over my head. But it appears fixed.

You shouldn't have to switch tabs to stop/start the HUD. Just click the play/stop button. But if you just leave it on play (stop showing) all the time you really shouldn't ever need to do anything with it.

We're going to be putting up some videos on filter and HUD creation this week. We've been holding off on he HUD creation because we have a really amazing new HUD designer setup that is going in. So we didn't want to re-do it, but I'm not just saying this, but the design area is pretty sick / amazing.

Send me your filter maybe (send to support or PM). Once you save it and name it, when you load it, it will just show up in in the middle of the screen (so you'll see that section and it will have the filter with the X at the top). Maybe try one of the saved ones from the download section and see if it will load for you:

http://drivehud.com/blog/forums/foru...ayer-profiles/

ACR support is 3rd on the list right now. We have another site going in likely this week (finishing testing), then another one, then ACR. It shouldn't be too long, but I don't have a specific ETA.

I'm glad to hear you were able to find/fix the lag issue. I'm eager to try it out. I'm running 1.0.2.487 but the updater doesn't show any newer builds available. Is the new build out yet?

No, I'm putting it up now. It won't be up as an auto update until tomorrow. You can download and install it from here though:

DriveHUD – update | v1.0.2.491
http://drivehud.com/poker-hud/DriveH...v1.0.2.491.exe

Change log:
- Lag paging issue fix
- Data optimization

On non-expired trials, I reset them all to 25 days. Just to give everyone extra time to try.