Anyone good with Facebook games? (Zynga)
I have a machine with Windows Vista, dual core AMD 2.1 ghz proccessor (no laughing), 2gb of RAM, factory on board video card, and a heap of a lot of junk. It runs facebook games OK, but has a problem with freezing a bit. My wife is happy enough with it but complains a bit about the lockups and lag, especially when in larger games such as Frontierville or Cityville.
Being the technically inclined person I am, I look over the system, decide to disable all the junk (and delete the most annoying of such completely), I made a trip to Best Buy, bought 1gb extra in RAM (being that a 32 bit system only supports 3.3gb). I noted the games at full capacity were eating up 1.92gb of RAM total, OS and all with everything else disabled. Still, I had a weak processor, but there is no way to really change that out - so I bought a new 400 watt power supply and a new video card with 512 built in. Upon examination, it runs World of Warcraft at medium settings and silky smooth. This bypassed the processor for a lot of functions.
Happy with my upgrades, I let my wife get back on to play her games.
No improvement. At all.
I decided to uninstall Firefox and Chrome, reload latest versions, checked latest versions of all hardware, update what needed it, disable all startup items *period* via MSConfig, and even created a new User Profile in Vista just to make sure it wasn't something corrupt somewhere in there I hadn't thought of.
Lockie, lockie.. laggy.. almost unplayable. No improvement.
So I cleared the cache again for the thousands time.. and now, every time she switches from Frontierville to Cityville or vice versa, massive lockup occurs resulting in a forced crash of Firefox or Chrome (whichever browser we try it on).
Any suggestions?
I am a Bestbuy employee who volunteers on these boards on my own time. I am not paid for posting here, and you should understand that my opinions are exactly that - opinions. I do not represent Bestbuy in any way.
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Its not your computer. Its the FB app thats slow. Wifes Zooworld does the same (along with her farmville and whatever else she plays on there). Doesnt matter which browser she uses (FF or IE8) or if I try it on linux, same thing, slow and laggy.
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