MGS autodownload

[LinkinFart]

Lets vote on this and see whether MGS will act when they see the numbers, maybe they dont have someone reading threads.

This is about "autodownload", lets called it a feature, that downloads every single game to your HDD, even the ones you will or never used.

Question is:
"Should MGS disable autodownload feature"

Yes/No

[De Beuker]

Definately YES for me.
Yesterday again, new games released, only 4 games but ofcourse it started to download the ENTIRE catalogue again, which took hours.
Hours with stuttering reels, lobby not or very slow responding, and about 20-25GB of harddrivespace taken for no use.

Best thing to do now is just open the software, login and minimize and leave it alone for an hour or so until its finished.

[LinkinFart]

Few typos, lol, I made myself laugh.

"lets called it a feature" should say "lets call it a feature"
"even the ones you will or never used." should say "even the ones you never used"
sorry

Yesterday again, new games released, only 4 games but ofcourse it started to download the ENTIRE catalogue again, which took hours.

First time downloading itself is not that much of a problem, client actually handles background dowloading pretty well. Only hickups I experience during first time download is when either my AV is scanning downloaded files, just a short 1-2 second lag and not on every game, most likely slots with bigger file sizes. I think that background downloading has lower priority than playing and it is not causing serious lag issues because of that.

Real problem is when client starts updating slots and I think that this is because updating has higher priority than play.

If its not priority issue than it must be that clients verifying process has the highest priority and is causing lag because it starts verifying many games in shorter time and is source of lag in both downloading and updating.

Now, if verifying is the cause I`m getting tempted to break this rule because they are changing small size files rather than main game files which should be bigger in size.
"9. RESTRICTION AND CONDITIONS OF USE

9.1 ...You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any Software, including any proprietary communications protocol used by such Software."

[doomed4ever]

I have never had an issue with MG software but this latest update is terrible. Bloated software that hangs continually updates and re-loading the list is endless. Im on a super fast Labtop and now it just crawls along. And the way the software is now re-downloading every friggin game is bad it could be funny.

[leonardo99]

Absolutly YES for me.

[Pinababy69]

100 million percent yes for me. I got a new computer last Friday, and as such, had to do a fresh install of 32Red. Lost track of how many hours it took, and how many Gigs of hard drive space.

But between MG and Microsoft, I was ready to kill someone. Did I mention I hate Microsoft?

[Pinababy69]

"9. RESTRICTION AND CONDITIONS OF USE

9.1 ...You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any Software, including any proprietary communications protocol used by such Software."

Ha ha....like I'd have the first clue where to even attempt to do ANY of that.

[vinylweatherman]

They should make it something that ONLY takes place when the client is idle. The problem is that the update jumps in so damn quick that it even stops the LAUNCH process of the client, since it is updating even before you can get past the login. The process is so intensive that EVERYTHING slows to a crawl, you can't even go and do something else like browse the internet without everything proceeding at a snail's pace whilst the casino is updating.

Perhaps they need a "check for updates" feature such as the ones used for Java and Flash, and update EVERYTHING in one sweep, rather than each casino client taking it's own 1 -2 hours.

This is a MASSIVE update this time, they are rolling out "full HD" - which interestingly is a "patch" for a problem noted ages ago about "blurry text and graphics", which at the time MGS insisted was "our fault", not theirs, and suggested that we should change our graphics settings, etc. What a bunch of liars - it was just another case of "company spin" designed to make an issue "go away" by blaming the innocent. Those who DID buy new PC's, upgrades, changed settings, etc found little or no improvement - now we have PROOF with this update that all along this was a design issue at MGS's end, one only now being corrected globally. I noticed a few "pilot" corrections before, one being Thunderstruck - changed layout and new HD graphics.

This update, the most obvious change is in the text in the lobby, no longer blurred, the game list has clear text, and game names are no longer truncated as some were in the past (notably LOTR had the latter "Fellowship of the ring" truncated by the edge of the frame).

It LOOKS better, but it's come at quite a price.

[colly]

A definite yes from me- although the benefit is MG's now take up so much space I've culled and uninstalled all but the 3 I regulalry play.

I remember fondly the old days where you could elect to downloaf a lite version of the casino or the lot.

I only play 3 of the VP's and maybe 5 of the slots so having the lot is a waste of disk space.

Oh and my pet peeves those popup promotion screens at startup and chat coming on line in the middle of a game with offers

Cheers

[felicie]

I guess this doesn't pertain to USA since MGS downloads fast enough for me for obvious reasons.