slow moving gamesnets

[cool]

has anybody noticed the excruciatingly slow moving gamesnets recently.If you win it takes ages to get back to the main page,as it does
when you pick a game and its even slow whilst playing games.Can anybody enlighten me as to whether its a local or national phenomena and if its nationwide what is likely to be causing it?It seems particularly prevalent on version 12.

[dmac]

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[grecian]

As regards GamesNets, I've only really seen that on the few very old remaining GamesNets with the one-screen small boxes line-up (i.e. the ones that still have things like Caveman Capers, Countdown, and original Ant and Dec on them). There's only two or three of those that I know of in London (all in very back-of-beyond pubs) and they're all grindingly slow. Not seen the problem on anything more recent on GamesNet - the last version I remember being difficult was the one that produced the 'red screen of death', which was quite a while ago now.

I agree with DMAC that certain ItBoxes seem to exhibit the problem - it's always the same ones so I presume certain ones have a sub-standard processor compared to the average - generally they start OK but slow as you play more games.

[Weyland]

They're all PC based, and they all run some version of Windows. So if they get turned off at the wall a lot, or get left on, then they'll gradually get slower due to things like page file fragmentation. Windows machines really need to be shut down properly at least once a week.

And if they're constantly having new games copied onto them, and having old ones deleted, the hard drive will probably be totally fragmented, which will futher slow down the virtual memory, and make loading things slower.

Landlords! Take care of your machines!

[aaamusements.co.uk]

They're all PC based, and they all run some version of Windows. So if they get turned off at the wall a lot, or get left on, then they'll gradually get slower due to things like page file fragmentation. Windows machines really need to be shut down properly at least once a week.

And if they're constantly having new games copied onto them, and having old ones deleted, the hard drive will probably be totally fragmented, which will futher slow down the virtual memory, and make loading things slower.

Landlords! Take care of your machines!

This is why Leisure Link always told landlords to leave Itbox machines on 24/7 - that and so that they could remotely monitor/automatically update.

What a waste of electricity!

[Weyland]

This is why Leisure Link always told landlords to leave Itbox machines on 24/7 - that and so that they could remotely monitor/automatically update.

A PC should always be properly rebooted (not just turned off at the wall) at least once a week, any server techie will tell them that.

If they want it on constantly so they can access it, then they should tell the landlords to wait while it reboots. Or they could do it remotely. It wouldn't be offline more than a few minutes.