Oh man I think I've fixed it at last! Here is what I did:

0. BACK UP YOUR NOTES FILE(S)!
1. Open RegEdit and delete the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PartyGaming" key completely.
2. Uninstall Party using the uninstaller.
3. Go to the program files folder (or wherever else it's installed) and delete any remnants that are hanging on.
4. Download and reinstall the client.
5. Open some SNG lobbies and see if the CPU use spikes.

I'd tried reinstalling before and that didn't seem to do anything - there must have been some setting or file hanging on causing the problem (for me at least).

Still need to try playing, but I suspect it'll now be as smooth as Zygna/WPT is.

Juk

Two out of the four players are "anonymous"--they apparently are dealt cards and can play but I can't even see who they are or their stack size. When they bet or raise I cannot see who is doing it if it is one of the invisible players. I also cannot join most tables at which there are open seats. I get the "all seats at this table are taken message" when there are clearly seats open and not currently reserved. Does anybody have experience with these issues?

I've tried that with no result, still get the same cpu usage spike and the client freezes and/or crash
I've sent an email with the crash dump to party support. Hopefully it will give them the info they need to fix it!

doesn't freeze for me doing that though i haven't had any freezes for over a month

Party to seemed to have got rid of 300s and the rematch function in husngs for some unknown reason

There must be multiple freeze bugs.

I just played a decent session and mine seems 100% fixed now. Before that fix I was getting 2-3 seconds freezes all the time and had to be very careful to make sure an action registered on a table before moving my mouse and it was nearly impossible to play... It was only today I thought I'd try and finally figure out why Zynga/WPT clients were running OK.

Juk

player RiviAYALA_ here? please pm me...

Quick update on the SNG players I reported last month here (they all stopped playing right after Party changed the SNG buy-in structure!).

Juk

would be cool. if u would delete your pokersoftware and merge with microgaming

wpt and partypoker to microgaming network would be awesome.

Hi Party Rep,

When party will do something about the massive sitting out that is currently happening on 6m midstakes games (i play 3-6/5-10) not sure about whats going on at smaller stakes.

The problem got i would say 3-4x worst then before. Around 5-6 scumbag sitting out/creating new table and never player unless a massive fish sits down. Even some honnest reg start tables are stuck sitting out #5 or #6 to make the table close and not miss too many table.

This situation is also killing a lot of game that could be created, some regs are starting game 2-3-4 handed before seeing the game getting fill by reg sitting out and obviously they will stop playing when this happen. This is cutting directly into the rake, and we all now party LOVES raking our ass!

Its been years we hear the same crap, report those player blaaaablaaaablaaa

Please input a system like Stars for the lobby, and start giving warning/banning those ****ers that create this major problem!

There's always people waiting for heads up at high stakes. If you don't want to play a particular person you have to open another table at the same time

Currently 1800 players online. Boy did they drive this site into the ground

And how did they manage that again... Oh wait!

They would be ways to get people to come back again, but they do not seem interested in drawing back regs... Having no promotion whatsoever at this time of year, is simply ludicrous and says a lot about their game plan.

I got crash near 10 time on Friday. My friend also got crash a few time and can not log-in now. His English is not good. Don't know how to write a English email about this, and just give up.

Party needs hire some good programmers for the software. The money saving for not hire good programmers will cause them much more money. They don't know how many players left or avoid playing in Party due to the software.

Party Rep:

It seems WPT clients had less issues than Party clients. Why not we all use WPT clients for now?

"Currently 1800 players online. Boy did they drive this site into the ground"
......

I am not surprise they have only 1800 players. I am very surprise they still have 1800 players.

wow it amazes me that party are still having crashing / freezing issues after all this time. What is it about them that they can't provide any stability. Their software isn't all that intensive as it is a very basic and clean design. Why is it that a site as advanced in graphics as PKR never seem to have as many problems as Party Poker. Having said that, i've never had any problems with PKR. I wonder if party poker being known for cost cutting are not investing in good quality hardware which would explain why all their problems have followed from their old software to the new software plus the addition of spaghetti style programming just to make things even worse.

Well I made the suggestion several days ago that they should give us possibility to be able to use old pp software and how unfair it is to force us to beta test the new one that clearly is clearly in an early beta stage.
They are losing market share at a tremendous speed (already went down to 5th spot with 888/ipoker having a healthy 25%+ lead over them).
Yet they don't care about their customers at all.
I can't understand why they won't make it a priority to fix the new software and in the meantime allow us to use the old one that while still buggy was still playable.
At least give us a choice.

Yeah, and on 888 you can only 6-table max so the gap is likely to be significantly more than pokerscout is showing.

Juk

Never had any problem with those crash you guys are talking about

Playing on wpt.

Because WPT Poker still uses the old software so while there are still some bugs there at least it doesn't randomly crash/freezes which you can't say about the current "new" bwin/party software they have forced us to beta test for a couple of months already....

Switch to WPT? seems like the best option

Hope they never update it

The problem then is you end up with points spread over the different skins, which supposedly start to expire (@5% per month) after 12 weeks of not playing.

Juk

Struture for the 10k big addon 5$ "major" needs improving (probably the others too)

obviously it's really deep early on, if you double buy in that's 6k starting, with the big add-on the implication is clearly that the tournament plays deep, that's the gimmick. lots of chips=lots of play.

but it turns into a massive crapshoot. 12 bb average not long after bubble (when a lot of people bust in short time and stacks should have just gone up)

i was 120/162 with 160 pay and a 4bb stack.

it turns into a turbo, maybe even a badly structure one at that and that is clearly disingenuous with regards to the way the tournament is portrayed.

It's still quite a good tournament, but a few small changes (introduction of a couple of blind levels) or maybe making it 12/15 minute levels after x levels would make it a great tournament

obviously it has to be 10 minute levels for a large part of the tournament as it plays so deep for quite a while

+1

They are no fun to play like this.