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[ChopleyIOM]

Yeah I noticed that too.

They sent me an email last week, a sort of 'we haven't seen you for a while so here's a nice bonus match up offer', I was umming and aahhing about it but then saw the 40xB WR and that made my mind up for me.

35xB was tough but it was doable, given that Netent's slots generally roll at 96-97%, but 40xB WR is too harsh for my tastes.

 

[vinylweatherman]

Yeah Girls With Guns craps out after a while on my media centre PC, (almost turns into a slideshow), but that has a proper discrete graphics card in it with 1GB of RAM (albeit a low-end passively cooled Radeon 6450).

Thing is, that PC is capable of running World of Warcraft at medium detail settings for hours on end at a decent framerate, so I refuse to believe that an online slot is stressing it to breaking point.

In fact, last time I had Girls With Guns on there, I fired up the Catalyst Control Center and it reported that the GPU was hardly being utilised at all, and its temperature was low - so not sure what the deal is on that one.

I might get MSI Afterburner installed on it, and see what it thinks is going on.

And to bring this back to Redbet D), the point here I think is that a lot of people just aren't that arsed about MG and Netent at the moment, so Redbet could do with getting some other providers on their books. Hopefully the new Rabcat slot is the first of many!

I remember when MG (and latterly Netent) released a new slot and I couldn't wait to play it, I stopped that with MG ages ago, and I lost interest with Netent around the Disco Spins/Thief releases.

That's the problem. The CPU is rendering all the graphics, so most machines will be underpowered and cause problems with the experience. MGS even specify a certain level of GPU, yet it seems irrelevant.

My new PC has a damn good GPU, the kind of thing found in a high end gaming rig, yet MGS games are almost as bad as before. The GPU is hardly used, but the CPU gets a hammering, topping out at 100% once I reach 6 or 7 simultaneous tabs running in the Slotsmeister (yes, that's how those ridiculous scores happen).

The large 11Gig download is not really a problem for most modern PC's, but what IS a problem is the fact that the user has no choice about where to put it. With an SSD, you don't really want to clutter it up with "data". This would be better off being stored on a traditional drive, which in SSD based systems would usually be the D: drive. The only positive side is that MGS casino games load much faster on my new SSD based system than on the old one, however the bugs are still there, and it has nothing to do with my PC. Now, the gaming and update servers, along with the lobby page server, are what holds back the speed of loading. Because of this, there is not much point having the cache on the SSD for faster loading.

I am also concerned about the effect constant and unnecessary updating has on the SSD, an activity that wears them out and is not how the manufacturer suggests they are used. SSDs should be used for booting into the OS, and frequently used programs that are always going to be loaded at boot time or during a session. Such programs get updated, but not needlessly several times a month, only when there really is a new version of a component.

What puts me off browser based games is their reliance on a high bandwidth steady connection, a luxury at peak times here in the UK.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

The MG Viper client is increasingly looking (and performing) like something that's dropped through a timewarp, MG need to rebuild the lumpen piece of crap from the ground up IMO.

Part of the reason I tend to stick to older MG slots when I do play the software is that they all run nicely

 

[SlotMonster]

Just a quick question: are you guys going to add Sheriff Gaming slots? I noticed you already have one (The Amsterdam Masterplan) and was wondering if there are more of them to be added.

Thanks!

 

[Redbet-Andy]

Just a quick question: are you guys going to add Sheriff Gaming slots? I noticed you already have one (The Amsterdam Masterplan) and was wondering if there are more of them to be added.

Thanks!

Hi
Yes we'll add the ones we like the look of, or the ones you players like, as they are added into Quickfire (Mircogaming's platform).
All the best
Andy

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Just a quick question: are you guys going to add Sheriff Gaming slots? I noticed you already have one (The Amsterdam Masterplan) and was wondering if there are more of them to be added.

Thanks!

I had a really tawdry experience on that slot at Unibet, it's one of those bizarre slots that seems to be capable of consistently taking your money without ever paying anything substantial back - whilst still appearing to stick loosely to RTP.

The base game pays are truly bizarre (the top paying 5OAK pays 400x, the one below that pays 10x (!?!?!)), the extra cash bonus game (triggered with the three characters) can take forever to come in and then pay like 15x stake, the wheel of wealth bonus game is the most transparently weighted abomination I've ever seen (yes I know it doesn't say it's a fair wheel but if 3Dice can manage it with their single line slots I don't see why Sheriff can't here), and the free spins round appears to have potential but I never saw it realised.

Bankroll death by a thousand cuts this slot is, will never play again.

I wish Redbet would get the WMS slots on their books, they're pretty much all I've played in anger since last December now (with the occasional visit to 3Dice for their unique slots and 32Red for MG, and then a blast here and there on the other stuff at Unibet). Even if I do fancy a little Netent dabble I've usually got a balance in Unibet anyway so can play the Netent slots there, plus of course there's the whole Euro conversion shenanigans at Redbet which costs me money on both deposits and withdrawals.

I'd like to play more at Redbet, not least because Andy is such a great rep, but (1) Game selection and (2) Forced to play in Euros keep me away for now.

I see more games are coming online in Casino Blue now, but it's still a pretty limited selection compared to Unibet.