Was datamining through the night. This morning everything still working fine. PHG just using 2-3% of CPU.

Then I opened a couple more tables and sat down to play. Only things open are PP, PHG, PAHud, & PT. I reopen Task Manager and all of a sudden PHG is using about 50% of CPU. PP is still down at 1-2%. Memory usage has not changed. I have 1GB and everything together is using about .4 GB with the peak having been aat .47

PP is running at a normal speed. PT seems to be importing at a normal speed. Just PHG missing all kinds of hands at that point. Also I was only doing ring games. Stricly 10/20 10 Player tables.

Rebooting resolves everything.

This is not a huge deal (especially considering the price I paid for PHG ) but it would be interesting to know what causes it to mess up.

I will add some extra logging to the next version, but the only thing I could think that would cause this to happen is that ReadProcessMemory() is failing and being retried many times in many blocks (this would cause this kind of strange behaviour).

Can I ask how many other people are getting this, and did it just start happening after the last update?

Juk

Wow, this rocks, thanks a lot!

One question:

I want to change the file format to .txt, but where can I type in the "FreePHG -e txt" command?

Edit the supplied run.bat batch file to look like this:

@echo off
freephg.exe -e txt

Then use the batch file to run FPHG rather than the exe itself.

Juk

Thanks again.

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!

This thread is getting way out of control.

OK a week ago everything was fine with FPHG and PT. Just revisited Party today (after a PT update) and something has changed.

I use the lightning bolt and FPHG is running as it should. PT is importing hands while I wait for a table. At the end of the session I have no hands played. When I run the Party autoimport from PT the missing hands appear. So it looks like PT is only grabbing observed hands.

Have I missed something in the setup??

Yes, quite a few people seem to be having problems now after the latest Poker Tracker update. I think from what other people have explained, then the problem lies in the fact that FPHG is also saving hands which you are involved in yourself. I will try to make an option to ignore the hand histories which you are involved in yourself for the next version.

Until then I think the easiest solution is to do this:

(1) Copy FreePHG.exe and run.bat into the hand history folder which is located under the Party Poker folder (it is where your own hand histories get stored).

(2) Edit run.bat to look like this:

@echo off
FreePHG.exe -e txt

(3) Run run.bat, and you should now start to get the observed HHs saved as .txt files.

(4) Setup PT to import as usual from the hand history folder.

Juk

Juk - thanks for the prompt response. I'll give it a go.

The new version of FPHG may be downloaded from here.

New options added in v0.06:

(1) Added an option to only write observed hands (ie: it will ignore hands you are involved in and not write them). To use this option, then edit run.bat to look like this:

@echo off
FreePHG.exe -o

(2) Have added an option to make FPHG re-add the old 6max tags. To use this option, then edit run.bat to look like this:

@echo off
FreePHG.exe -6max

(3) Have added an option to help me debug the problems some people seem to be getting. This will likely create some pretty huge log-files, so I will have to work out how to get these sent to me at a later date. Please only use debug mode if I ask you to, as it is slower than normal mode and there is no advantage to using it.

NOTE: Please remember that if you edit run.bat to add some options, then you must run FPHG by running run.bat and not by running FreePHG.exe.

Juk

If you are one of the people who are getting the high CPU usage problems then please read this:

(1) Wait until the problem starts to happen - from what people have said, the only way to get it to stop is to restart your PC, so I am hoping the problem will continue even after restarting FPHG with these new options.

(2) Edit run.bat to look like this:

@echo off
FreePHG.exe -debug -prof >> fphg.log

Please keep any other options you were using in run.bat also.

(3) Run run.bat using those new settings and wait for the problem to occur again.

(4) After seeing the problem occur again while logging is active, please save a copy of fphg.log, zip it to reduce its size and send it to me: jukofyork@yahoo.com

I can't promise I will get to the bottom of this, but this should help me. Also, please don't just run in debug mode all the time, as it will make FPHG slower, and the log files will be huge (too big for me to find the problem...).

Juk

niice, thx for the software

I haven't had a problem since I swithced to v0.06 I didn't even reboot after the upgrade so my system has been running PP & PT non stop for well over 36 hours. FPHG has been running all this time too except for when I upgraded. PAHud runs whenever I am playing, otherwise I shut it down.

I think I was using the first version of 0.04 prior to upgrading.

My run.bat now looks like this:

@echo off
FreePHG.exe -p -2 -o

Excellent... ou tof curiosity - how does it know when I am involved in a hand?


AB

I am normally using v0.03 and I only play in party NL, is the v0.03 have any problem for me? do I need to change to 0.06?

Many thanks

Update: 18 more hours without a reboot so whatever the problem was with .04, .06 has resolved it. I guess I don't have any of the dreaded PP memory leak either as I must have opened and closed about a bazillion tables by now.

I am not sure what could have caused this before, as I have only really done very superficial changed to the code since v0.04 and haven't really touched any time critical sections of the code (maybe it was just Windows strangeness and something got paged to disk?).

Anyway, glad it is working again, but if it ever does do that again and you can get it to repeat, then plz run using the "-prof -debug >> fphg.log" options and save me a copy of the log...

Juk

Every time you are in a hand, then the hand history contains a line which starts with "Dealt to ", so I simply ignore any HH which contains this line and allow all others to pass through.

Juk

I think I optimized the code a second time (to speed it up) in v0.04 (maybe an extra 50% faster), so it might be worth getting the newer version just because of this.

Juk

I never bothered to upgrade to v0.05 just because the notes made no reference to any changes that might affect my setup. Nothing in your notes to .06 seemed significant either. Perhaps it had something to do with adding the "-o" option. That's really the only thing I changed after the upgrade.

Hmmmm, yes you might be onto something their. Somebody noticed FPHG was sometimes picking up on the HH stubs which Party writes when you are not sitting ("You must be dealt into the hand..."), but I'm not sure how this could cause such strange stuff to happen (I will try to look into what it's doing with these stub HHs).

Juk

Hey guys how do i import the .hhf files from the the folder of the PHG? do i just import the .hhf files?

thx for help in advance

Yes, FPHG just saves the .hhf files to the folder where you ran it from.

You can then just use the "lightning bolt" option in PT to import the .hhf (I think this is the easiest method...).

Juk

I think an easier way is to let auto import do it. I forget who posted it, but I read it in this thread. Basically just create a new .txt file, rename it to pokernow.exe (or multipoker/empire/intertops, whatever) and put it in the folder where you have FreePHG. Then change the auto import program file location. Works like it used to in the old days.

Can you rewrite FPHG for Crypto?

WARNING - DUMB QUESTION

I am a technical moron.

I have seen many posts regarding modifying FPHG and/or PT settings to split observed mined hands from those played in to avoid duplication. Last night I played for about 2 hours with FPHG open. FPHG is in an intertops folder as I play on party. After importing that played session as well as all the mined hands it does not seem like there is any duplication of the hands as I would expect. I thought FPHG would write a hhf that would duplicate the PP hhf on the tables I was playing at and cause problems with my PT stats. Thanks for reading this far. Is ignorance bliss or am I missing something that is going to screw with my stats?