3DICE - Anyone have numerous crashes?

[jimb123]

I just uninstalled 3dice for the last time. Sadly, I can't use this (for now). Service is oustanding. Very customer-oriented. The games, while high variant, are interesting and unique and i love the Video Poker graphics.. I'm a sucker for bright neon lights and hands that float in the air... COOL!

However, 1 out of 3 sessions crashes. Of those crashes, I can occassionally get the Bug Report to work. The restore button never works. I don't get any response from Support with any ideas/solutions (ever).

About 1 in 5 sessions causes an entire PC lock. Meaning, the Operating System hangs, no keys work, and you have to power off the PC and reboot.

Is it just my PC? Nope. I have tried 2 others including showing my mother on Mother's day on her brand new PC running XP with 4GB RAM and a high end dual core processor. Her session froze in the first 5mins and she wasn't interested after that.

I tried to ping Anna just now via Private Msg but when I click Private Msg.. I got a server connection error at 3dice.

So I restart and go back into chat and then I tried to PM Anna and this time I get this msg:

"Access violation at address 00486BB4 in module '3DiceChat.exe'. Read of address 00000004.

Ironically, I was just telling the open Chat forum that I thought their memory allocation/call routines need work. My guess is the 3dice app is trying to write/read from in use addresses or even calling restricted addresses within the stack that is supposed to be for internal OS use. Of course, I'm no expert and I havent programmed in years.

But something isnt quite right.

Plus, play the Underwater game Coral something. When you hit the bonus round.... just sit there.. dont press anything. More times than not, by not pressing click, it will time out and crash and you will have to restart 3dice again.

Now, not everyone is failing, but when i ask in the chat room (since I'm new to 3dice) there's always several people joking about how it crashes "alot"

Soo my advice. If you want to try something different from Rival, RTG, MG and you want outstanding customer friendly service... u cant beat 3dice.

But if you're unlucky enough to have something in your environment that the 3dice sw doesn't like. You will crash alot.

I'll wait for the next release before signing back up.

In 3 to 4yrs online.. having tried dozens of casinos and made thousands of deposits... 3dice is the only one I've ever had crash more than once... and the ONLY one that has ever frozen my PC.

Too bad.. i was enjoying the casino. Anna, Ellen and Enzo do a great job there. But they need a more thorough Regression testing process and a lab with multiple Bios, OS/platform, video/audio hw, apps, security sw and other mixes to test with.

Wouldnt it be easier if we all just mailed our deposits to a casino and then they mailed us back the results? lol

"Dear Customer.. thanks for the $100 deposit. You won $5"

or

"Dear Customer.. thanks for the $50 deposit. You had a great session and won $500. Nice going!"

Its simple and requires only a stamp. You don't even need a PC.

Who's with me? I'm looking for a partner/affiliate to start this asap.

[Pinababy69]

Hey JimB, just so you can read other's experiences....there is another thread dealing with this issue here:

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...ce-update.html

You are not alone.

And yes, the Clam game..same thing as you. If you're not quick and click on the bonus round when you get the bubbles, your system will freeze and go haywire. Same with Penta Pay, and probably the other Classic Slots as well. If you don't click on the Wheel when you get it, within a short time....freeze again. I've sent a ton of bug reports, but never heard anything back.

I make sure now when I'm playing either of those games, that I don't leave the puter, lol.

[Balky]

I have the same problem, but only on my regular PC. Tried to play on the notebook and it worked without a crash.

Cheers Balky

[Jasminebed]

I have similar problems, but my computer does not hang. Usually, the restart 3Dice button will work, don't even bother with the continue one.

Squirrels no longer crash me if I time out the bonus round .

Also, make sure the Wizard is hidden when a tournament ends or you crash for sure.

Keep sending the bug reports, they do seem to fix things at times. The release of the Autoplay Wizard seemed to create problems where none existed before, and this was quite recent.

If I am in real mode, I send the bug report with REAL MODE in the reference line. Don't know if it matters, but I do that.

I do find that it always picks up where I left off reliably though. I'll continue to restart or ctrl-alt-del until they fix things.

[lost2much]

Same here. It will crash at some point in every session.

[cheetahwind]

lol yeah I experience a few issues myself... not on the level you have, but it seems to be alright for me.
as for the deposit and results atmosphere. It'd be great idea, but I highly doubt it'd fly too far honestly. Most people gamble for the actual entertainment value of watching the slots spin, cards fly out of the shoe, or whatever you do for entertainment. So I highly doubt one would make much bank on that theory.

[jimb123]

lol yeah I experience a few issues myself... not on the level you have, but it seems to be alright for me.
as for the deposit and results atmosphere. It'd be great idea, but I highly doubt it'd fly too far honestly. Most people gamble for the actual entertainment value of watching the slots spin, cards fly out of the shoe, or whatever you do for entertainment. So I highly doubt one would make much bank on that theory.

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I was kidding lol. We already have a system like the one I described... it's called TAXES. You send it what you earn and they give you back what they want

[rockycatt]

i think they take up more space than other casino's that could be the problem
go to add delete and look at the space it takes must be tech reason's i need explained to me ,

[Pinababy69]

i think they take up more space than other casino's that could be the problem
go to add delete and look at the space it takes must be tech reason's i need explained to me ,

It doesn't have anything to do with space, or with "resources" being used while the casino is in play. 3Dice takes up 200 MB on my hard drive, 32Red takes up 167MB, Nedplay 225MB, and so on. Prior to MG having the centralized files, each MG casino took up well over a Gig of hard drive space...now those files are stored in one location and accessed from the different MG casinos on your puter.

I can fire up an MG casino and it will push my puter into the red in terms of CPU/RAM usage, whereas 3Dice is nowhere near that...maybe 50% usage, with a few spikes here and there. MG never crashes, 3Dice crashes all the time.

There is conflict somewhere, and as Skiny stated in another thread, it is much worse since the last update. Perhaps as Jazzy mentioned, something to do with the Slot Wizard/Autoplay function. No idea....all I know is that it doesn't work very well at all.

[RobWin]

I think you guys need to update or up-grade your video cards. I play on 3Dice every single day and multi times per day and never have any of these issues that you guys are describing here...
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