Microgaming
Most of the problems are down to Microgaming, rather than the individual casinos. It is the casino that first tries out a "new MG feature" that gets the blame when all goes wrong simply because "other" MG casinos without the upgrade work fine.
The "crashing" version first surfaced at All Slots, in this case they introduced a new look lobby, with the added feature of "temperature" for the games. Later Royal Vegas introduced multi-player tournaments, and this was an even worse problem. Despite 4 attempts, I could not get a clean install on the old PC, and I have now had to remove the casino as the repeating update loop makes the tournaments unplayable. It took THREE attempts to get a successful install on my new XP machine, and I am now back in the fray for these tournaments (watch out tennis_balls
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This month, I updated Spin Palace on both the old and new PC. On this old PC, it will launch, but will jerk and judder a little even though the update is fully complete. On exit, it crashes in the same "interesting" manner as All Slots and Royal Vegas. I suspect that MG are rolling out whatever feature caused this in the beta tests last month at the two sites. What is really annoying is that I was communicating with All Slots over this issue, when, as before, they simply stopped replying, having passed the buck further up the chain to the "tech team", who have never ever got back to me at ANY casino I have raised these issues with. I spent hours testing last month (see thread), yet my findings have been shelved as unimportant, and MG seem determined to press ahead with a full roll out that will likely see all MG casinos no longer working under Windows 98. I noted that Spin Palace has the new game "cash & curry" available in the download, and it states "not compatable with Windows 95 and Windows 98" - at least the truth is slowly coming out, but it seems that the whole damn casino is no longer properly compatible, not just that one game.
Since I have been ignored, I will add a series of screenshots of why this problem is NOT TRIVIAL. I will have to use my camera, since the corruption is so bad as to prevent any part of Windows operating after the casino exits, so the normal method of taking a screenshot is just not an option. I will add this to my original thread about my tests, problems, and findings, to keep this one close to the topic at hand, the resemblence to a water fowl's rear end of recent MG casino gaming sessions.