WTF Farmville is a resource hog???!!!!!

DriedFrogPills · Sep 11, 2010

Ok so my wife got me to do some harvesting and planting for her on farmville. This is the first time i have played it. My system is not a dog by any means. (see sys specs) What i want to know is why does this program run like arse? is it because Zynga are using comps playing farmville like a botnet? because i am pretty sure Farmville should not cripple my i7860 @3.8ghz backed up with 4g ram

DaMulta · Sep 11, 2010

bad coding is bad coding

ktr · Sep 11, 2010

Is Farmville a flash game?

DriedFrogPills · Sep 11, 2010

yep its flash based just checked that

Phxprovost · Sep 11, 2010

DriedFrogPills said:
is it because Zynga are using comps playing farmville like a botnet?

After the past couple articles I've read about Zynga, that wouldn't surprise me at all

Mussels · Sep 11, 2010

flash is flash is flash.

try enabling hardare GPU support in flash, otherwise... you're screwed. poorly coded games aint gunna run well.

ktr · Sep 11, 2010

DriedFrogPills said:
yep its flash based just checked that

Well...there is your problem.

You can try the beta version of Flash, which has hardware acceleration.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Mussels · Sep 11, 2010

ktr said:
Well...there is your problem.

You can try the beta version of Flash, which has hardware acceleration.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

its no longer beta (even your link says that), flash 10.1 has been official for a while now.

DriedFrogPills · Sep 11, 2010

already running that version of Flash. I still like the botnet theory

PVTCaboose1337 · Sep 11, 2010

Farmville sounds uhh... http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus-faceboo/

Bot net theory now has more traction.

ktr · Sep 11, 2010

Mussels said:
its no longer beta (even your link says that), flash 10.1 has been official for a while now.

Lol, didn't bother reading it. I use Chrome anyways, which already has flash preinstalled.

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