Slow Microgaming

[vinylweatherman]

This Flash problem is an old one, and is more Microsoft than Microgaming. Early last year, Microsoft neutered ActiveX in Internet Explorer in one of the "fixes", and in order to reinstall Flash the way Adobe would prefer it is necessary to unfix the Microsoft fix. It is also possible to install Flash by downloading it and installing it from the desktop, which also has the advantage of not attempting to foist the Yahoo toolbar on you. In addition, these is a routine to completely uninstall Flash. This procedure worked last year in correcting the attitude of MG casinos that would insist the "wrong" Flash was installed.
The problem of casinos spontaneously unloading at various stages is also an old one, and happens more on my XP machine than on this old 98 one, however this old 98 machine can no longer get a clean install of this month's lobby.
The problem of the casino turning up in the "wrong" directory is the fault of the new installer, which does not give the same result when using the custom install with the "browse to choose location" option. The old one would append a folder to the browsed to location, the new one does not, and you will end up with the casino files in the master custom folder instead.
I have also noticed that the internal file structure has changed yet again to one that is even more complicated, possibly an effort by MG to put an end to my monthly "science tutorial"
It is indeed unfortunate (for MG), that there is now a Vista Version of Dependency Walker, as well as an XP version. Perhaps it has been upgraded throughout to give even deeper insight into exception states.
Since many of you seem to have success in copying game files from one place to another, I am wondering if some of the game files are interchangeable, such that one could allow one MG casino to fully install, then copy some files to all the others such that their install becomes merely the checking process. This would be good for dial-up users.
Using the casino CD is not very helpful, as it is out of date before the casino even sends them out, and as soon as an MG is installed from CD it needs to update a load of new games, and possibly a new lobby.
I hope, come Monday morning, MG check on us and our thread, and say to themselves "sh1t - most casinos have not even released to games yet" - which is the case with many that have opted to launch this coming Wednesday, having only launched last week on one of the brands.
Grand Prive have updated Grand Bay, but the others will update on the 4th, similarly Casino Action have updated Challenge, but no the others. Palace Group updated Spin Palace and Ruby Fortune, but not Mummys Gold or Jackpots in a Flash.

[lojo]

I think it's a crying shame that it's left to players to troubleshoot MG's poorly configured and buggy software. And it's getting worse!

If they had the full cash flow of US players and the consequences of losing them to software issues they might be doing it differently. I mean somebody's got to be counting beans out there.

Maybe the 'new games every month' thing is a snowball that started rolling before uigea and they had become so 'corporate' that they don't know how to stop it "VICTORY at any cost!!!"

Lets hope it all works out for the best. I'm sure there is an elegant solution for them. (hint hint mg, spearmaster posted it yesterday)

Personally, I would have never become an online gamer if it weren't for the microgaming experience. Win or lose, I love the games.

[Mousey]

I had this with Grand Bay, triple launch, but then just unloaded itself never to be seen again.
I have noticed that sometimes the new games do not show up on the list, but if you go to the usual lists they are there, and will eventually download. Further launches should update the new games list.

Fired Up CGB in Play Mode 3 different times yesterday afternoon. No Hitman to be seen anywhere, nothing in New Games list, nothing new in the usual lists. Software ran smoothly with no obvious downloading in the background. Only thing different after the triple launch, crash, and subsequent download jerks in the very next session -- I now have the little "Language: EN" in the upper right of the games lobby. Oh. Good. Now I know which language version I'm using. ??

Just fired up CGB. News games in the new games list -- fully downloaded. What??

So they downloaded that first time it after the triple launch, but are just now showing up in the list. Weird. Whatever.

[vinylweatherman]

Fired Up CGB in Play Mode 3 different times yesterday afternoon. No Hitman to be seen anywhere, nothing in New Games list, nothing new in the usual lists. Software ran smoothly with no obvious downloading in the background. Only thing different after the triple launch, crash, and subsequent download jerks in the very next session -- I now have the little "Language: EN" in the upper right of the games lobby. Oh. Good. Now I know which language version I'm using. ??

Just fired up CGB. News games in the new games list -- fully downloaded. What??

So they downloaded that first time it after the triple launch, but are just now showing up in the list. Weird. Whatever.

I just fired up Grand Privvy and got well and truly roasted
Thought I would fire up the rest of them for good measure

[Mousey]

Casino Grand Bay:

Size: 971 MB (1,018,470,846 bytes)

Size on disk: 0.98 GB (1,056,538,624 bytes)

Contains: 17,726 files; 1,528 folders

Woohooo!! We're nuzzling the 1 Gig mark!!

[Mike031]

Size: 971 MB (1,018,470,846 bytes)

Size on disk: 0.98 GB (1,056,538,624 bytes)

Ruby Fortune needs this space:

Size: 1,02GB

Size on disk: 1,06GB

So i have over 1 GB only for 1 MG Casino.

By the way i had installed about 15 MG Casinos, but now i deinstalled all unused Casinos, because it can't be, that the casinos needs more space, as the whole WindowsXP *lol*

[chele]

I cant get any of the games to download on allslots. I've cleaned up my computer of old crap and got rid of all the casinos, i've even defraged. I really dont have much on my comp in ways of taking up that much space.. i dont know why the games wont download. I wrote to their tech support and that wasnt much help. I gave them all the specs on my computer and they mentioned something about my TC/IP settings but I've never had a problem before downloading any casino, even tho i'm on dial up, it was slow thats something I'm used to but not like this. I really want to play that stupid hitman game!!! haha I will give it a 5th try tonite for a couple of hours.

[vinylweatherman]

It's because all the old games are downloading this month, rather than just being checked as normal. The new releases are added to the end of the list, so it will look like nothing is happening for hours on end. if you are on dial-up, 2 hours will not be enough - 2 DAYS maybe