MG Casinos overworking my HD

[chayton]

Every time I play at a Microgaming casino, my hard drive really works overtime. I'm thinking that it's caused by all the updates and new games being slapped here and there. Seems like the ones I've played at longest are the ones that work my computer the hardest.

Do you think it would help to uninstall all of my MG casinos and whatever MG folders there are, do a defrag and reinstall them? Anyone have input? thanks!

[rockycatt]

I had a problem before once at a poker site and shot them a email and wow
do they know the P C's inside and out [there business ] any way they were very helpful and responsive they sent me instructions to do a reg edit

and it was explained so a third grader could do it so why not shoot them a email at support and good luck

[De Beuker]

Every time I play at a Microgaming casino, my hard drive really works overtime. I'm thinking that it's caused by all the updates and new games being slapped here and there. Seems like the ones I've played at longest are the ones that work my computer the hardest.

Do you think it would help to uninstall all of my MG casinos and whatever MG folders there are, do a defrag and reinstall them? Anyone have input? thanks!

That would be of no use, as the casino data would fragmentate again during re-installation.
Best is to put the casino data on a separate drive, not on C.
If you don't have a second drive, just try a defrag on C.
Hope it helps.

[paulyt]

I've noticed this a couple of times lately but it seems to happening more with Rival. The longer I play the slower the reels spin.

[same_old]

Ket me guess, certain games etc make your fans run faster and it sounds like your PC is about to take off?

Different games require diffretn amount so ram, graphics and CPU to run, depending on how many others applications you have opened will cause things to run funny.

you can do a defrag on the system but depending on how much is already on that HD it may be no use anyway.

Go buy a external HD and install casino's on there OR partition your drives which will take a while and save them to one of them.

Or you can just buy another internal HD and set it up that way.

[manofsteel]

As with @same_old, I'm assuming that you are actually talking about the overall computer activity and more specifically the noisiest components (fans.)

Here are your likely problems.

RAM: Running out of capacity of your memory sticks will cause the HD to run much harder because your HD has to act as your RAM to handle overflow. This will also cause your computer to run slower because the hard drive is slower at acting as RAM.

Solution: Get more RAM. Also, don't run a ton of unnecessary programs in the background while gaming.

Graphics card processor and memory: Cheap computers handle the graphics requirements on the motherboard and the computers main processor and may not have dedicated RAM for graphics. That means the main processor and RAM have to do a lot of extra work. Higher performance computers have a card with a graphics processor and RAM dedicated to graphics.

Solution: Get a graphics card for your computer.

Money: You don't have the extra cash to buy the above mentioned components and / or another computer.

Solution: Win more money from gambling, or quit losing so much.

[same_old]

As with @same_old, I'm assuming that you are actually talking about the overall computer activity and more specifically the noisiest components (fans.)

Here are your likely problems.

RAM: Running out of capacity of your memory sticks will cause the HD to run much harder because your HD has to act as your RAM to handle overflow. This will also cause your computer to run slower because the hard drive is slower at acting as RAM.

Solution: Get more RAM. Also, don't run a ton of unnecessary programs in the background while gaming.

Graphics card processor and memory: Cheap computers handle the graphics requirements on the motherboard and the computers main processor and may not have dedicated RAM for graphics. That means the main processor and RAM have to do a lot of extra work. Higher performance computers have a card with a graphics processor and RAM dedicated to graphics.

Solution: Get a graphics card for your computer.

Money: You don't have the extra cash to buy the above mentioned components and / or another computer.

Solution: Win more money from gambling, or quit losing so much.

Good points, may want to add if all of her drivers are upto date.

Make sure your graphics driver are up to date.

Manofsteel knows what he is saying though

[chayton]

Money: You don't have the extra cash to buy the above mentioned components and / or another computer.

Solution: Win more money from gambling, or quit losing so much.

lol....that's the solution for a LOT of my problems!

ok cool thanks people. FYI I've got a Radeon x300 SE with 128.MB and only 1GB of RAM. 1TB internal and 1TB external HD but chances are it's the card or the RAM, right?

I'll check the driver on my graphics card tomorrow too.

[AussieDave]

I'll also add...I'm amazed at how many people are still trying to run stuff on out dated equipment. PC's that are way overdue for retirement.

I run a couple of free casino game sites. Peeps contact me with playing issues. The number of them still running Win98 on PII & III is scary.


Cheers

Dave

[chayton]

Also my computer's only a few years old (which is almost antique in the computer world I know ) But it's got a Dual-core Pentium D 830 processor @ 3.0GHz - the internal HD is new and I've got over 700GB of free space on it. But I did a disk image from my old drive so nothing got reinstalled from scratch.