Hi !

I have just bought a new pc (2x2.6 intel, geforce 9400, 2gb ram - shouldnt have any performance issues ...) but when i try to play 10 to 15 tables HM+tableninja (tried on stars and ftp) i have serious lags, tables and lobby freezes, impossible to play. My previous pc was waaay weaker, but i didnt had almost any problems with performance of stars or ftp. I have winXP.

I tried formatting my PC, and increasing the process prority in taskmngr, but it didnt help. My internet connection seemes ok, im using a cable, no modem, no wifi, no router. I am using kaspersky antivirus, firewall is set to training mode.

p.s. now i have 2 monitors and 2 processor, dont think this could be the problem... Also when everything is lagging cpu usage is 0-2%, client process uses 100-300k memory (always was so)

also the problem exists only when i am playing , not when observing. Play money tables are not affected. Network status an pokerstars shows all connections as bad(0%) even when i am playing and not disconnecting.


If someone actually resolves this problem i am willing to transfer 25$.

Please help me.

Could imagine winXP to cause these troubles since it neither properly supports multicore cpu nor 64bit architecture (even winXP64 is very buggy) nor directX10+ afaik. Not sure about compatibility between newest hardware and winXP. Get vista or win7 ftw (essential to take full advantage of your new hardware performance btw).

Ill try this, but i dont think that this is the problem, because on my older pc on winXP everything worked ok. Or i am wrong?

Try disabling things one at a time until you find the culprit. Or disable everything and add them in one at a time. Try disabling Frames in TableNinja first. then try disabling it completely. Next try turning off the HMHUD, etc.

I heard of same problem on Pokerstrategy site, tableninja was causing the problem and setting Pokerstars.exe process priority to high was the solution.

I guess your old pc was a 32bit system with a singlecore cpu and agp graphics? So to say, winxp was well catered to the entire system architecture which now no longer is the case.

Definitely, winXP is a bottleneck in your actual system and may cause several troubles.

i have just started a session without HM and it looks like everything was ok. When i started HM after some time freezing started, so the problem seemes to be in HM. I guess that using windows 7 and some HM and postgres performance tweakt should do the job.

I have same setting and it's also slow although I play less than 8 tables, but not freezing. I believe both ninja and HEM are slow. Espeically ninja should not be resource hogging given the task it's done.

Anyway, I maintain my DB from time to time. Open postgreadmin, select your database, right click and choose "maintainence", select "Full" and let it go.

HM's HUD and TableNinja's frames are the most likely causes. Disabling the TN Frames and tuning up HM and the HUD could help.

If you use multi-panel HUD, switch to a single panel and turn off any transparency in the HUD backgrounds or stats.

Regarding database maintenance:

I suggest you vacuum once a week and defrag once a month.

You should regularly purge mined hands in your database, after purge vacuum / full analyze the database via pgadmin.
http://faq.holdemmanager.com/questio...+from+Database
http://faq.holdemmanager.com/questions/197/Purge+Hands

Then you can full/vacuum/analyze - http://faq.holdemmanager.com/questio...tabase+#manual

Before you defragment you should stop the PostgreSQL service:

Start > Programs > PostgreSQL 8.x > Stop Server

Use your favorite defrag tool. I recommend Smart Defrag.

After defrag I recommend you reboot your PC. If you need to access the DB before rebooting you can start the PostgreSQL service.

Start > Programs > PostgreSQL 8.x > Start Server

tinkered with performance settings, also used a guide to increase HM & opstgre performance, now everytihng seemes ok.