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Originally Posted by eastern motors
What's the problem? I have played a lot of tables with no issue.
Get the RSA token ASAP if you're a grinder.
Slots frequently fail to load when I try to burn off my free spins, and closing the slot to select another doesn't work, because Stars will complain that you already have a free spin session open. This has not happened just once, but many times. You can wait ten or fifteen minutes for whatever they consider to be a "session" to expire, or you can close and restart the client.
On two separate occasions, I have checked the "auto rebuy" checkbox over and over and over again, only to have it never reload me. I've made sure my buyin options are set to buy in for table max any time I fall under it. Both times this happened, it happened across multiple tables.
I click the "Remember Me" button every single time I start the client. It never remembers me. Well, not never. Like the second or third session I played, it mysteriously remembered me. Never again.
When the client freezes (twice, now; once taking my entire system with it*), it wipes out all of my settings and options. I have to set dark mode again. I have to tell it not to focus tables when it's my turn. I have to tell it to save hand histories, and how long to save them for. I have to set my show/muck options all over. Not letting this happen is Development 101 stuff.
Dumb stuff like this:
4] is not a valid date on any calendar I am aware of. By itself, this is a petty issue, but it's part of a long list of half-assery.
There's a lot of poor interface design, too. Create a custom table layout then try to update it. You can't. It will complain that you already have a layout by that name, and force you to save it as a new layout. There's a bunch of dumb stuff like that. Not technically bugs, but quality-of-life issues.
* I can't actually prove the system-wide freeze was Stars' fault, but I use Windows for almost nothing. I've got Steam installed so I can play Disco Elysium and A Hat in Time, and I've got the Stars client and PokerTracker installed for poker. That's pretty much it. The only things open at the time were Stars and PokerTracker.
I am certain there are other things, but these are what popped into my head when you asked for examples.
Edit: Oh, yeah. I just remembered another one. This is another petty issue, but it speaks to a lack of care and/or testing. I created a custom table layout, saved it, then clicked "apply." You would think the windows would stay exactly where they were, but Stars smashed them together, removing the gaps I'd intentionally left between the tables.
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Originally Posted by KaiserChefs
No real issues here either. (I think we play in the same games, SpaceAce.)
Here are two minor issues I’ve run into: 1) I was on a waitlist for a really good game and when my seat was open, the PC client froze. 2) Sometimes the casino games don’t load and I have to restart the client. Mildly annoying because you obviously can’t reload while you’re playing at a table without losing your seat.
I wonder if your setup makes any difference. I’m running a newer laptop with an i7 10th gen and 8 GB of RAM for what it’s worth.
Maybe! I've been playing a lot since poker came back.
My desktop is a Ryzen 7 2700x with 32 gigs of RAM. I am running Stars under Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
My laptop is an i7... 9850, I think? It's got 48 gigs of RAM and is running Windows 10 Home or Pro or whatever it came with.